Collection Close-Ups – The Andy Warhol Museum https://www.warhol.org Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:27:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 D.S. Kinsel and Quaishawn Whitlock https://www.warhol.org/d-s-kinsel-and-quaishawn-whitlock/ https://www.warhol.org/d-s-kinsel-and-quaishawn-whitlock/#respond Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:21:51 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?p=11079 D.S. Kinsel is an award-winning artist, creative entrepreneur, and agitator based in Pittsburgh. He joins Quaishawn Whitlock, Artist Educator at The Warhol and frequent collaborator, for a dynamic conversation exploring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s artistic practice and legendary persona. They take a closer look at rarely exhibited objects from The Warhol’s collection, from tools and clothing Basquiat used in his studio to the poignant collaborative sculpture he created in response to the murder of Michael Stewart, a fellow Black artist, in 1984.

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Sarah Huny Young on Basquiat, the Black Body, and Truth-Telling in Art https://www.warhol.org/sarah-huny-young-on-basquiat-the-black-body-and-truth-telling-in-art/ https://www.warhol.org/sarah-huny-young-on-basquiat-the-black-body-and-truth-telling-in-art/#respond Thu, 17 Jun 2021 21:30:16 +0000 https://www.warhol.org/?p=10513 Sarah Huny Young is an award-winning visual artist and cultural producer based in Pittsburgh. She joins Petra Floyd, Artist Educator at The Warhol, for a critical conversation exploring Andy Warhol’s Polaroid photographs of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the groundbreaking young painter who became a close friend and collaborator to Warhol in the 1980s. Their conversation explores the complex relationship between Warhol and Basquiat, representations of the Black body, and the notion of truth-telling in art and artifacts.

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