A significant Andy Warhol retrospective exhibition will be staged in Walsall and Wolverhampton in 2009. It comes as a result of Anthony d’Offay giving his £125m collection of 725 art works to the nation.
“Andy Warhol: posters and paintings” will be at Wolverhampton Art Gallery (28th Mar to 21st Sept 09), fitting in nicely with their final major survey show of pop art: “Supermarket Pop: Art & Consumerism” (until 28th Feb 09). And “Andy Warhol: drawings” will be at the New Art Gallery at Walsall (15th May to 5th July 09).
Sadly the photography shows resulting from Anthony d’Offay’s gift are scattered to the winds, from a West Midlands
by m8e
01 Feb 2009 at 13:35
I’ll have to mention this to my London girlfriend, Dr Jean Wainwright, who is the world’s foremost authority on Warhol. Anyway, hopefully these exhibitions will be a bit more engaging than the exhibition of Warhol’s films at Ikon Eastside last year, which had rendered the poor security man completely comatose when I went there – such that he would have made a fitting subject for a Warhol film himself.