Warhol Live, an exhibition that examines Warhol’s work through the lens of music and the performing arts, features over 640 works and objects including paintings, silkscreens, photographs, works on paper, illustrations, films, videos, album covers, and ephemera from Warhol’s personal archives.

The Warhol Live exhibition is organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, through an extensive period-by-period examination of Warhol’s life and work, Warhol Live offers viewers a glimpse into Warhol as producer, filmmaker, interviewer, publicist, glam rocker, and celebrity. Warhol Live explores the artist’s early fascination with Hollywood glamour and stardom to his iconic silkscreens and paintings of celebrity royalty, including Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Grace Jones, and Debbie Harry of Blondie.  

The exhibition is curated by Stephane Aquin, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Emma Lavigne, curator at the Musee naional d’art moderne/CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Matt Wrbican, archivist at The Warhol. Greg Pierce, assistant curator at The Warhol prepared the exhibition’s film and video programming.

Image: Debbie Harry, Rockbird, 1986, Reproduced by permission of Universal Music Group

Drawn to the Summit: A G-20 Exhibition of International Political Cartoons
September 18 – October 18, 2009

Delegates, protestors and journalists will invade Pittsburgh in September for the Pittsburgh G-20 summit. The cartoons in Drawn to the Summit highlight the work of the leading cartoonists from the G-20 nations and provide an alternative perspective on G-20 themes such as the global economy and its impact on the environment, human rights, world trade, etc. This exhibition offers a diversity of cartooning styles from around the world and highlights the important role editorial cartoons play in this global conversation.

In addition, the exhibition will include cartoons by local Pittsburgh artists commenting on what it is like to have their hometown hosting the world. The exhibition also features in-gallery online blog monitoring with daily commentaries and sketches by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers and others during the run of the G-20 summit.

This exhibition is funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation, co-presented by the ToonSeum and The Andy Warhol Museum and curated by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial cartoonist Rob Rogers and art historian Sylvia Rhor.

Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand   
October 17, 2009 - January 31, 2010

Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles-based street artist behind the red, white, and blue Obama campaign image that swept the globe, is the subject of an exciting new exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. The 20-year retrospective, the first solo show of the artist's work, explores the breadth of Fairey's career.

In 1989 the first Andre the Giant has a posse sticker was created and the OBEY GIANT project was born. Twenty years later, Shepard Fairey has a solo retrospective exhibition at The Warhol. Within that time, Fairey has gone from artsy prankster and skateboarders’ underground hero to worldwide cultural phenomenon for his murals, fine art prints, and street art poster campaigns. 

Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand is organized by The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

Supertrash      
October 18, 2009 – January 31, 201

SuperTrash showcases a selection of sensational movie memorabilia, giving viewers the opportunity to explore depths of meaning through an unpredictable fermenting of images, symbols, and designs. It is an art exhibition comprised of more than 200 carefully-chosen posters in varying format and scale from the 1930s through the 1980s, that mills together classic cinema, predatory grindhouse, and X-rated exploitation. The exhibition includes screenings of popular and obscure cinema.  SuperTrash is curated and designed by Jacques Boyreau and Greg Pierce.

Unnatural Rubber
October 18, 2009 – January 31, 2010

Commissioned by the LANXESS Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of synthetic rubber--and with it's U.S. headquarters in Pittsburgh--Unnatural Rubber is an art competition that challenged 15 of the world's leading contemporary artists, including Terence Koh, Agathe Snow and John Waters, to come up with an idea for a new work of art made primarily of synthetic rubber if given as much of the material as they needed.  Each artist was asked to submit a sketch of what they would do if they won the contest, and the winning entry was awarded a $75,000 cash prize and the necessary materials to make the drawing a reality.  The winning sculpture, created by Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev and all 15 drawings are included in this exhibition which fuses innovation and industry, technology and the arts, in a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the invention of synthetic rubber.

The artists represented in the exhibition includes Chakaia Booker (NYC), Robert Buck (NYC), Tom Burr (NYC), Paolo Canevari (Rome), Liz Craft (LA), Dario Escobar (Guatemala City), Michael Kalmbach (Berlin), Emiko Kasahara (Tokyo & NYC), Terence Koh (NYC), Agathe Snow (NYC), Marc Swanson (NYC), Tony Tasset (Chicago), Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev (NYC), Momoyo Torimitsu (NYC), John Waters (Baltimore).

http://www.unnaturalrubber.com/

Hank Willis Thomas and Ryan Alexiev – winning artists
http://hankwillisthomas.com/

Ludovica Gioscia: Papered Portraits
October 18, 2009 – January 31, 2010

London-based Italian artist Ludovica Gioscia creates intricate wall sculptures from wall paper that mimic the severed heads of monarchs from around the world. 

Marvels of Modernism

Twisted Pair: Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol