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From the Director

Happy New Year! As we begin 2012, I am thrilled to invite you to visit The Andy Warhol Museum to experience our amazing exhibitions and programs.

Our not-to-be-missed The Word of God series wraps up in February with an exhibition of religious artwork and reliquaries created by California-based artist Jeffrey Vallance, all currently on view at the museum.  Vallance’s process is based in his interactions with institutions, communities, politicians, religions, museums and pop-culture figures.  The Word of God series examines major world religions and their texts through contemporary art, and has already featured artists Sandow Birk, Helène Aylon, Chitra Ganesh, Max Gimblett and now Vallance.  We are proud of the success of the exhibition and our commitment to sparking community dialogue.

We’re also very excited to announce two upcoming exhibitions opening February 5^th:  Warhol and Cars: American Icons and About Face.  Warhol and Cars is the first exhibition to examine Warhol’s enduring fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society.  Organized by our colleagues at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey, the exhibition features more than 40 drawings, paintings, photographs and related archival material spanning Warhol’s career from 1946 to 1986.  As a special treat, an original BMW M-1 racing car hand-painted by Warhol will be on display in our entrance gallery.

About Face features the work of contemporary photographer Arne Svenson.   The exhibition is part of an ongoing partnership between The Warhol, the cognitive psychology department at the University of Victoria, British Colombia, and Wesley Spectrum Highland School, working to develop and pilot activities that use Warhol’s portraits and the practice of contemporary portrait artists to teach facial recognition skills to children with special needs. We are proud of this groundbreaking work, and hope that it leads to new ways of thinking about art, medicine and society at large.

I am also happy to report that beginning in March, over 300 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures from our collection will travel to Singapore for an exhibition titled Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal.  This important exhibition will be the largest retrospective of Warhol’s artwork in Asia to date.  Sponsored by BNY Mellon, the exhibition will then travel to Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tokyo through 2014.  We are very excited to share Warhol—and Pittsburgh—with the world!

Best wishes in 2012!  We hope to see you here soon.

Eric Shiner
Director
The Andy Warhol Museum

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of The Andy Warhol Museum is comprised of esteemed professionals in the local, regional and national community who lend their expertise to the continued growth and success of The Andy Warhol Museum. The Board’s function is to advise the director, to raise funds to support major Museum initiatives and exhibitions, and to recruit new board members from around the country to support the Museum’s mission.

Randy Dearth, Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Andy Warhol Museum