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The reviews are in, and it's ★★★★★ for Andy Warhol: Revelation! Book your tickets today to experience the first exhibition to examine the iconic Pop artist's complex Catholic faith in relation to his century-defining artistic practice. ⁠

From The Money $how Book

Gavin Benjamin's Heads of State series ( @gavinbenjamin ) serves up images of Black wealth in a way not unlike W.E.B. Du Bois did at the 1900 Paris Exposition.

"Money is at the heart of much of our social discord. Disparity of wealth has always been a hallmark of America. From the plantation-owning founding fathers to the robber barons of the 19th century to the corporate raiders of the 1980s, the stories of the elite class have shaped American history. Less appreciated are the histories of how people of color have been prevented from building institutional and family wealth" MORE

Get the book: The Money $how: Cash, Labor, Capitalism & Collage by Ric @Kasini Kadour contrasts contemporary artwork against fragments of history and literature as a way of showing how collage can help us unpack ideas about money and think about it differently.

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Andy Warhol - original silver gelatin photographs - unique

Warhol Foundation Inc stamps - viewings in London

#1.

'Guns and knives' series

Unique silver gelatin photograph, c1981

Warhol Foundation ink stamp on reverse

Warhol copyright blind stamp front bottom right

Size: 5.1" x 3.5" (13cm x 9cm)

Condition: tiny crease to bottom left-hand corner, some residue on reverse; otherwise excellent.

With gallery certificate of authenticity and written provenance

(provenance on request)

#2.

'Death and disaster' series

Unique silver gelatin photograph, c1961

Warhol Foundation ink stamp on reverse

Date stamp on reverse

Warhol copyright blindstamp front bottom right

Size: 9.8" x 7" (25cm x 18cm)

Condition: tiny 1cm scatch to right hand side; otherwise excellent.

With gallery certificate of authenticity and written provenance

(provenance on request)

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Warhol’s parents immigrated to the U.S. in the early 20th century from present-day Slovakia. They lived in Pittsburgh’s Ruska Dolina neighborhood and retained their language and cultural traditions, in part due to the local Byzantine Catholic church. Raising a family during the Great Depression, Warhol’s parents nevertheless embraced young Andy’s creativity, spending money hard earned in factory and domestic work to purchase a camera and a projector for the budding artist. 

After moving to New York, Warhol shortened his last name and concealed his immigrant and working-class roots. A visible, openly gay fixture in the city’s cultural landscape, Warhol never abandoned the religious habits of Ruska Dolina, sustained by his mother Julia Warhola, who lived with him for nearly two decades. Warhol visited church regularly, financed his nephew’s studies for the priesthood, served meals to homeless people on holy days, and amassed a trove of religious objects and ephemera, some of which is on view in Andy Warhol: Revelation.

For almost two decades beginning in 1952, Julia Warhola managed Warhol’s New York home, cooking and cleaning, making donations to churches, and contributing to his commercial work with her award-winning penmanship. By 1971, in poor health, Julia returned to Pittsburgh, where she passed away the following year. Warhol kept his mother’s death to himself but confesses in his diaries, “At Christmas time I really think about my mother and if I did the right thing sending her back to Pittsburgh. I still feel so guilty.” In 1974, he created nine posthumous portraits of Julia based on a photograph by Edward Wallowitch, acclaimed photographer and one of Warhol’s first boyfriends. These images feature the same technique used in Warhol’s lucrative portrait commissions. 

Plan a trip to Andy Warhol: Revelation to experience Julia’s portrait in-person!

Drawing on the tradition of religious iconographers, Warhol elevated certain women to iconic status, revealing his public and private adoration. Unlike the subjects of his commissioned portraits, Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Julia Warhola did not sit for photo shoots with the artist. Instead, Warhol transformed images of Kennedy in mourning and of Monroe and Julia after their deaths. Just as Catholic art makes use of metaphor and allegory, Warhol transformed the lives of real women into metaphors for tragic beauty and the beauty of tragedy. In some ways, Kennedy and Monroe become opposing forces, reinforcing rigid biblical views of womanhood as well as conventional beauty norms.

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