Watch – The Andy Warhol Museum

Cassandra Jenkins

Matthew Newton — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 10:55:13 +0000

Many thanks to Cassandra Jenkins for recording this intimate solo Silver Home Studio Session, featuring two songs from her recent and critically praised album Overview on Phenomenal Nature. We’re fortunate that we’ll get to hear the album live, since she will be joining us, along with her band, for our inaugural Sound Series: Block Party on September 18, as we return to live, in-person performance on an outdoor stage on the North Shore.

Vieux Farka Touré

Matthew Newton — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 20:00:34 +0000

We feel very fortunate that guitarist and songwriter Vieux Farka Touré recorded this Silver Home Studio Session for us from his home city of Bamako, Mali. And we’re thrilled that he’ll be joining us for our inaugural Sound Series: Block Party on September 18, as we return to live, in-person performance on an outdoor stage on the North Shore. Vieux, accompanied by his dynamic band, will be part of a roster six artists, as we celebrate the return to communal performance experiences and the universal nature of live music.

Jose Diaz in Conversation with Artists from the Fantasy America Exhibition

Matthew Newton — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:59:47 +0000

Inspired by the exhibition Fantasy America, please join chief curator Jose Diaz in conversation with artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar and Chloe Wise. They will revisit Andy Warhol’s publication America, discuss their artistic practices, and reflect on contemporary life in the United States.

Wilsen

Matthew Newton — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:28:11 +0000

We’re so appreciative for this intimate session from home by Tamsin Wilson of Wilsen, featuring two songs, “Wearing” and “Wedding” from the band’s most recent album Ruiner on Secret City Records. This third album continues to demonstrate the band’s range from the more intricate and delicate acoustic tracks laden with striking imagery (such as the two songs in this session), to the wonderfully melodic dream-pop track, “Feeling Fancy”.

Ben Opie

Matthew Newton — Fri, 07 May 2021 04:01:35 +0000

The Pittsburgh-based composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ben Opie, was kind enough to take a moment at home to record this session for us, featuring two pieces of distinctly different tone and mood. The first, Yellow Phase, is from his suite Meditations on Quarantine, composed mostly during the earlier months of the COVID-19 lockdown. The second, Postupano Oro, is a traditional Balkan dance piece that is part of the repertoire of a trio he has been performing with that has been practicing Balkan dances in the park during the pandemic.

Marc Ribot

Matthew Newton — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:32:17 +0000

We’re fortunate that guitarist and composer, Marc Ribot, took some time to record two instrumental songs that demonstrate his genre-crossing sensibility: Winin’ Boy Blues by Jelly Roll Morton and Congo by Frantz Casseus. The latter is featured on a recent expanded reissue of Ribot’s out-of-print 1993 album of songs by Casseus, an early teacher and mentor. Since the late 1970s, Ribot has collaborated with a wide array of musicians including Tom Waits, Alison Krauss, and Elvis Costello.

Jessica Beck and Michael Hermann on Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat

Matthew Newton — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:50:23 +0000

On the occasion of the upcoming rotation Warhol and Basquiat in Focus: Works from the Permanent Collection, Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art, interviews Michael Hermann about his 2019 book Warhol on Basquiat: The Iconic Relationship Told in Andy Warhol’s Words and Pictures. Beck and Hermann discuss the research and planning that went into production of his publication, sharing the discoveries that came from research in the archives at The Andy Warhol Museum, pouring over Warhol’s contact sheets from Warhol’s late-career and cross-referencing the entries in his Diaries published in 1989. In their conversation, Beck and Hermann also take a close look at Warhol and Basquiat’s collaborative work Ten Punching Bags (Last Supper), 1985-1986, the connections to the death of Michael Stewart and Basquiat’s Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), 1983 and the production of Warhol’s oxidation portrait of Basquiat in 1982.

Jessica Beck and Franklin Sirmans in Conversation about Jean-Michel Basquiat

Matthew Newton — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:31:02 +0000

On the occasion of the upcoming rotation, Warhol and Basquiat in Focus: Works from the Permanent Collection, Jessica Beck, Milton Fine curator of art, interviews Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, about his longstanding interest, scholarship, and curatorial work on Jean Michel-Basquiat. Together over zoom, Beck and Sirmans discuss Basquiat’s legacy, the market frenzy around his work, his collaborations with Warhol, and the great influence that Basquiat had over Warhol’s late painting career. The conversation also covers a close look at objects from the rotation with discussion of Warhol and Basquiat’s collaborative work Ten Punching Bags (Last Supper), 1985–1986, and the connections to the death of Michael Stewart and Basquiat’s Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), 1983.

Hilton Als Reflects on Warhol, the AIDS crisis, and Jean Michel-Basquiat

Matthew Newton — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:37:06 +0000

Last November, acclaimed writer and critic Hilton Als spoke with Milton Fine Curator of Art Jessica Beck on his writing, research, and reflections on Andy Warhol. The lively conversation covered areas of Als’ research including his new book on the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, his ongoing Andy Warhol: The Series, and his previously published essays on Warhol’s relationship with Jean Michel-Basquiat.

KeiyaA

Matthew Newton — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:44:11 +0000

We’re grateful for this intimate and powerful Silver Home Studio Session graciously recorded by KeiyaA, a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York and raised in Chicago’s South Side. On her recently released debut album, Forever, Ya Girl, she uniquely blends her jazz training and background with R&B, funk, and hip-hop elements, as well as primary inspiration from African American poets such as Jayne Cortez and Ntozake Shange. Her album was on several “Best of 2020″ lists including the New York Times, Brooklyn Vegan, and The Guardian and has garnered fellow-artist fans such as Solange, Moses Sumney, and Jay-Z.