The Editors – The Andy Warhol Museum

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.

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.