Warhol: Headlines

This is the first exhibition to examine the headline theme in the art of Andy Warhol (1928–1987). It presents almost 80 works representing the full range of Warhol's practice—from paintings, drawings, prints, photography, and sculpture to film, video, and television—demonstrating the artist's career-long obsession with the tabloid news. Warhol's headline works also chart the great shift in mainstream media's technological means of delivering news: from a two-dimensional printed format to a time-based, electronic format. The headline motif proves at once fresh and familiar, and it encompasses Warhol's key subjects, including celebrity, death, disaster, and contemporary events.

The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in association with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Rome, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. The Terra Foundation for American Art is the foundation sponsor of the international tour of the exhibition. The exhibition in Washington is made possible by The Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

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KünstlerInnen: Andy Warhol