Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms


Beyond the familiar Campbell's Soup cans, Brillo boxes, silkscreened Marilyn Monroes, and floating silver mylar pillows--20 years after pop icon Andy Warhol's death, we are still picking through his incredibly prolific output to understand what his artistic legacy actually is. Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms, published on the occasion of the major exhibition by the same name at Amsterdam's renowned Stedelijk Museum, provides some new insight, digging into Warhol's lesser-known film, video, and audio tape works. Important--and just a little scandalous--films like Blow Job and Kiss, audio tapes of celebrities, friends, and anonymous hangers-on talking, and other marginalia are considered alongside a selection of key photographs, drawings, screen prints and spatial installations, such as the spectacular Silver Clouds.

Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann and with contributions by Geralyn Huxley, Greg Pierce, and Warhol Museum Archivist, Matt Wrbican, who is currently unpacking hundreds of never-before-seen Warhol Time Capsules in Pittsburgh, this volume brings readers up to date with the most recent developments in the way we see the late artist's oeuvre.