The Warhol works with curators, artists, and scholars to produce exhibition catalogues and scholarly publications that illuminate contemporary culture.
Publications
Marisol and Warhol Take New York
This book charts the emergence of Marisol Escobar (1930–2016) and Andy Warhol (1928–87) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. Through essays, interviews, and prose, the book explores the artists’ parallel rise to success, the formation of their artistic personas, their savvy navigation of gallery relationships, and the blossoming of their early artistic practices from 1960 to 1968. The exhibition features key loans of Marisol’s work from major global collections, along with iconic works and rarely seen films and archival materials from The Andy Warhol Museum’s collection. By situating Marisol's work in dialogue with Warhol’s, this new collection of writing seeks to reclaim the importance of her art; reframe the strength, originality, and daring nature of her work; and reconsider her as one of the leading figures of the Pop era.
Edited by Jessica Beck. Text by Angie Cruz, Jeffrey Deitch, Eleanor Friedberger, Jennifer Josten, Franklin Sirmans.
Published by The Andy Warhol Museum, 2021
Fantasy America
Originally published in 1985, Warhol’s America features photographs both taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book, an idiosyncratic love letter to America, finds Warhol reflecting on everything from travel, beauty, and fame to politics, technology, and the American Dream. Three decades later, Fantasy America invites artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar, and Chloe Wise to revisit this seminal publication and contribute their own art. All New York–based, they, like Warhol, are cross-disciplinary artists drawn to repetition, seriality, and image appropriation in their work.
Foreword by Alan Pelaez Lopez. Text by José Carlos Diaz, Jessica Lanay Moore.
Published by The Andy Warhol Museum, 2021
A is for Archive
Written by Matt Wrbican, the foremost authority on Warhol’s personal collection, A is for Archive features curated selections from this collection, shedding light on the artist’s work and motivations, as well as on his personality and private life. The volume is organized alphabetically, honoring Warhol’s own use of a whimsical alphabetical structure: “A is for Autograph” (a selection of signed objects, many of which influenced his most popular works), “F is for Fashion” (featuring his collections of cowboy boots, neckties, and jackets), “S is for Stamp” (works of art by Warhol and others relating to stamps and mailed items), and “Z is for Zombie” (a grouping of photographs and ephemera of Warhol in various disguises: drag, robot, zombie, clown).
Matt Wrbican; Edited by Abigail Franzen-Sheehan; With contributions by Blake Gopnik and Neil Printz
Published by The Andy Warhol Museum in partnership with Yale University Press, 2019
The Warhol: 25
Celebrating the first twenty-five years of The Andy Warhol Museum, The Warhol: 25 reflects upon the tremendous success and pioneering vision of the institution. Since opening in 1994, the museum has welcomed millions of visitors from around the world and now boasts a national and international community of countless supporters. This publication reflects the hard work and dedication, creativity and collaboration, and passion and care for the museum, for its collection, and for its mission by staff, board members, supporters, collaborators, and friends.
Contributions by Matt Wrbican, with a foreword by Patrick Moore
Softcover, 60 pages, 140+ illustrations
Published by The Andy Warhol Museum, 2019
Andy Warhol: Revelation
Published as a complement to Andy Warhol: Revelation, the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production, the essays in this catalogue consider how the artist elevated kitsch and mundane images from mass media, and transformed them into sacred high art.
Essays by José Carlos Diaz and Miranda Lash, with a foreword by Patrick Moore
Softcover, 96 pages, 70+ illustrations
Published by by The Andy Warhol Museum, 2019
Out of Print
Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby this catalogue documents the first museum exhibition of Shimoyama’s figurative paintings and sculptures. Multiple essays and an artist interview examine the complexities of race and sexuality presented in the work.
Jessica Beck, Alex Fialho, Rickey Laurentiis, Emily Colucci with Devan Shimoyama
Hardcover, 100 pages, 60+ illustrations
Published by The Andy Warhol Museum, 2018
Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls
Andy Warhol’s 1966 movie The Chelsea Girls is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. This book is an in-depth, deluxe treatment of the film, featuring stills from the newly digitized film, previously unpublished transcripts and archival materials, and expanded information about each of the individual films that comprise The Chelsea Girls. The film’s alternation of sound between the left and right screens is reproduced in the publication’s complete, as-heard transcript printed directly alongside imagery from the corresponding reels on silver metallic paper to evoke an authentic experience of the film.
Geralyn Huxley and Greg Pierce with Gus Van Sant, Rajendra Roy, Patrick Moore, and Signe Warner Watson
Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout
Publisher: D.A.P. and The Andy Warhol Museum, 2018
Adman: Warhol Before Pop
This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Adman: Warhol Before Pop. Essays by Warhol scholars and other experts in their fields provide surprising insights into the beginning of Warhol’s career, from his award‐winning work as a commercial illustrator through to his first, little‐known exhibitions.
Nicholas Chambers, Richard Meyer, Blake Gopnik, Brett Littman, Matt Wrbican, Nina Schleif, Tom Sokolowski, and Ellen Lupton
Hardcover, 248 pages, 150+ illustrations
Co-published by Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Andy Warhol Museum, 2017
Go West: Farhad Moshiri
Farhad Moshiri: Go West was produced to accompany the 2017 exhibition of the same name. Moshiri’s richly embellished paintings and sculptures explore the intersection of eastern and western popular culture, the tension between traditional craft and contemporary art practice, and the malleable nature of identity. The volume includes essays by contemporary art history scholars and is illustrated with full-color images of pieces in the exhibition as well as documentary photographs of the artist at work.
Mitra M. Abbaspour, Shiva Balaghi, and Jose Diaz
Limited edition hardcover (four versions), 132 pages, 68 illustrations
The Andy Warhol Museum, 2017
Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body
This catalogue was produced to accompany the 2016 exhibition Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, the first comprehensive look at Warhol’s engagement with the body. Highlighting The Warhol’s permanent collection, and including rarely traveled loans, this exhibition broadly examines Warhol’s work, from student drawings to late paintings of the 1980s, revealing parallels between Warhol’s personal history and the treatment of the body as a subject in his work.
Jessica Beck, James Boaden, Douglas Crimp, and John Giorno
Softcover, 84 pages, 42 illustrations
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2016
Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei
A collaborative project between National Gallery of Victoria, The Andy Warhol Museum, and Ai Weiwei, this volume is the first to explore the significant influence of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei on art, life, and politics, focusing on the parallels and intersections between their practices. It was created to accompany the exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei.
Max Delany and Eric Shiner, editors
328 Pages, 200+ Illustrations
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016
Out of Print
Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York
This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York, the first to explore the work of Philip Pearlstein, Andy Warhol, and Dorothy Cantor as students at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), and as young artists breaking into the New York art world in the early 1950s.
Jessica Beck and Philip Pearlstein
Softcover, 62 pages
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2015
Out of Print
Halston & Warhol: Silver & Suede
Halston and Warhol illuminate through their art and fashion a uniquely American point of view, one that matched high and low materials and deceptively simple forms with multistep processes. Both were outsiders, one from Pittsburgh and one from Iowa, whose New York careers challenged the status quo. For the first time, their lives and work are presented side by side in over 300 images with interviews and essays that explore their friendship and their art.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Lesley Frowick, Geralyn Huxley, and Valerie Steele
Hardcover, 240 pages, 310 illustrations
Publisher: Abrams, 2014
Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After
The first comprehensive book to accompany a major exhibition of Deborah Kass's work, in-depth essays trace the evolution of her art since the early 1960s and explore major themes and subjects of her work. Deeply concerned with the history of politics and art making, especially the place of women in a male-dominated world, her works engage critically with the art history canon.
Eric Shiner, with Robert Storr, Giselda Pollack, Lisa Liebmann, and Brooke Adams
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2012
Warhol and Cars
This is an examination of Warhol’s fascination with the form and presence of the American automobile. Warhol’s relationship with cars, icons of American consumerism, likewise reveals the artist’s preoccupation with death, fame, and celebrity.
Gail Stavitsky, Montclair Art Museum, and The Andy Warhol Museum
Softcover, 86 pages, 36 illustrations
Publisher: Montclair Art Museum, 2011
Andy Warhol: 365 Takes
Illustrated with almost 400 objects, from paintings to party invitations, this publication features highlights of the museum's collection as well as lively commentaries by the museum's staff and quotes from Warhol's own irreverent writings. Produced in celebration of the museum's ten-year anniversary, this book serves as both an introduction to and a handbook for the most extensive collection of Warhol's artwork anywhere in the world.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Hardcover, 744 pages, 365 illustrations
Publisher: Abrams, 2004
Out of Print
Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
Moving easily between the literary, art, and musical worlds, Patti Smith presents an impressive body of visual art that expresses her views about violence, religion, war, and intolerance. Bringing together approximately sixty works spanning the past thirty years, this book collects early pieces as well as ones inspired by the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks.
David Greenberg and John Smith, editor
Paperback, 80 pages, 50 illustrations
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2003
Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting
An obsessive collector, Warhol culled antique stores, galleries, auction houses, and flea markets as part of his daily routine. He filled his New York City townhouse with art and objects that inspired and intrigued him, from Art Deco silver and Empire furniture to American folk art and twentieth century collectables. In a series of essays and images, the publication examines Warhol’s collecting as an artistic process and an expression of personality.
John W. Smith, editor
Hardcover, 159 pages, 120 illustrations
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2002
Out of Print
Andy Warhol Drawings 1942–1987
Filled with iconic images, humorous portraits, and still lifes, this publication portrays Warhol's trademark genius for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Illustrations, from 1942 until the artist’s death in 1987, are featured alongside previously unpublished drawings from Warhol’s personal collection.
Mark Francis and Dieter Koepplin, organized by Offentliche Kunst-Sammlung and The Andy Warhol Museum
Softcover, 320 pages, 248 illustrations
Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Little Brown and Company, 1999
Out of Print
The Warhol Look
Featuring more than 500 works, including paintings, clothing, photographs, window displays, films, and videos, this publication explores Warhol's impact on fashion and glamor and how the "Warhol style" influenced contemporary art.
Mark Francis, Margery King, and The Andy Warhol Museum
Softcover, 304 pages, 380 illustrations
Publisher: Bulfinch Press/Little Brown and Company, 1997
The Warhol Coloring Book
This coloring and activity book provides children and their families information about Warhol's life and art. The illustrations were created by Kristoffer Smith, who began working at The Warhol when he was in high school. Following in Warhol's tradition of supporting and encouraging young artists, The Warhol is committed to fostering creative thinking and participation by all of our audiences.
Illustrated by Kristoffer Smith, texts by The Andy Warhol Museum education department
Paperback, 24 pages
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2010
Out of Print
Andy Warhol
Published in conjunction with the first major survey of Andy Warhol’s work in Australia, this illustrated volume explores the reality and mythology surrounding Warhol and his influence on generations of artists, writers, designers, and filmmakers. Featuring fourteen essays and interviews, this publication approaches its subject from a range of perspectives.
Queensland Art Gallery and The Andy Warhol Museum
Softcover, 320 pages
2007
Out of Print
Andy Warhol’s Time Capsule 21
Beginning in the 1970s, Warhol collected and stored remnants of his life from the 1960s through to his death in 1987, resulting in his largest serial work, the Time Capsules—569 standard-sized cardboard boxes, 20 filing cabinets (two Time Capsules per cabinet), and a large steamer trunk. Time Capsule 21 documents the contents of one such box that contains a phenomenal amount of Warhol’s art from the 1950s to 1960s, as well as correspondence and documents that reveal details about Warhol’s life and work.
John W. Smith, Mario Kramer, and Matt Wrbican, with an introduction by Thomas Sokolowski and Udo Kittelmann
Hardcover, 286 pages
Publisher: Dumont, 2004
Out of Print
Factory Direct: Pittsburgh
This e-publication accompanied the 2012 exhibition Factory Direct: Pittsburgh curated by The Warhol’s former director Eric Shiner and Natalie Settles. The exhibition featured fourteen artists invited to participate in a residency in a local business and make a new work of art based on the materials, processes, and/or history of their host institution.
Michael Oatman, Natalie Settles, and Eric Shiner
64 pages, 34 illustrations
Publisher: The Andy Warhol Museum, 2012
Out of Print
