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A never-before-seen look at the striking thematic parallels between KAWS and Andy Warhol, two of the most iconic artists of our time

As celebrated artists that draw from popular culture, KAWS and Andy Warhol are known for creating art that is approachable beyond the confines of the traditional art world. While at first glance, both artists’ works often appear celebratory and joyful, they share a number of dark common threads beneath the surface: tragedy as spectacle and meditations on death and dying. When these two bold bodies of work are juxtaposed, that connection is made explicit and powerful.

This book highlights the artistic intersection of KAWS and Warhol, featuring their takes on death and disaster, advertising, nostalgia, abstraction, skulls, and self-portraiture. Accompanying a major exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum that will travel internationally, it presents some of the most standout and analogous works from two of the most popular artists of all time.

This book charts the emergence of Marisol Escobar (1930–2016) and Andy Warhol (1928–87) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. Through essays, interviews, and prose, the book explores the artists’ parallel rise to success, the formation of their artistic personas, their savvy navigation of gallery relationships, and the blossoming of their early artistic practices from 1960 to 1968. The exhibition features key loans of Marisol’s work from major global collections, along with iconic works and rarely seen films and archival materials from The Andy Warhol Museum’s collection. By situating Marisol's work in dialogue with Warhol’s, this new collection of writing seeks to reclaim the importance of her art; reframe the strength, originality, and daring nature of her work; and reconsider her as one of the leading figures of the Pop era.

Originally published in 1985, Warhol’s America features photographs both taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book, an idiosyncratic love letter to America, finds Warhol reflecting on everything from travel, beauty, and fame to politics, technology, and the American Dream. Three decades later, Fantasy America invites artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar, and Chloe Wise to revisit this seminal publication and contribute their own art. All New York–based, they, like Warhol, are cross-disciplinary artists drawn to repetition, seriality, and image appropriation in their work.

Written by Matt Wrbican, the foremost authority on Warhol’s personal collection, A is for Archive features curated selections from this collection, shedding light on the artist’s work and motivations, as well as on his personality and private life. The volume is organized alphabetically, honoring Warhol’s own use of a whimsical alphabetical structure: “A is for Autograph” (a selection of signed objects, many of which influenced his most popular works), “F is for Fashion” (featuring his collections of cowboy boots, neckties, and jackets), “S is for Stamp” (works of art by Warhol and others relating to stamps and mailed items), and “Z is for Zombie” (a grouping of photographs and ephemera of Warhol in various disguises: drag, robot, zombie, clown).

Celebrating the first twenty-five years of The Andy Warhol Museum, The Warhol: 25 reflects upon the tremendous success and pioneering vision of the institution. Since opening in 1994, the museum has welcomed millions of visitors from around the world and now boasts a national and international community of countless supporters. This publication reflects the hard work and dedication, creativity and collaboration, and passion and care for the museum, for its collection, and for its mission by staff, board members, supporters, collaborators, and friends.

Published as a complement to Andy Warhol: Revelation, the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the Pop artist’s complex Catholic faith in relation to his artistic production, the essays in this catalogue consider how the artist elevated kitsch and mundane images from mass media, and transformed them into sacred high art.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby this catalogue documents the first museum exhibition of Shimoyama’s figurative paintings and sculptures. Multiple essays and an artist interview examine the complexities of race and sexuality presented in the work.

“Sound for Andy Warhol’s Kiss”, a limited-edition vinyl double LP, was recorded live in The Warhol theater on August 1 and 2, 2018. It includes the sound score by Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, Steve Gunn, and John Truscinski and features three sides of audio on clear vinyl, with a silkscreen still image from the film “Kiss” on the fourth side of the record, as well as an inserted booklet featuring work and essays from our “Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour” exhibition. Watch the live LP recording session excerpt

Andy Warhol’s 1966 movie The Chelsea Girls is the iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. This book is an in-depth, deluxe treatment of the film, featuring stills from the newly digitized film, previously unpublished transcripts and archival materials, and expanded information about each of the individual films that comprise The Chelsea Girls. The film’s alternation of sound between the left and right screens is reproduced in the publication’s complete, as-heard transcript printed directly alongside imagery from the corresponding reels on silver metallic paper to evoke an authentic experience of the film.

This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Adman: Warhol Before Pop. Essays by Warhol scholars and other experts in their fields provide surprising insights into the beginning of Warhol’s career, from his award‐winning work as a commercial illustrator through to his first, little‐known exhibitions.

Farhad Moshiri: Go West was produced to accompany the 2017 exhibition of the same name. Moshiri’s richly embellished paintings and sculptures explore the intersection of eastern and western popular culture, the tension between traditional craft and contemporary art practice, and the malleable nature of identity. The volume includes essays by contemporary art history scholars and is illustrated with full-color images of pieces in the exhibition as well as documentary photographs of the artist at work.

This catalogue was produced to accompany the 2016 exhibition Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body, the first comprehensive look at Warhol’s engagement with the body. Highlighting The Warhol’s permanent collection, and including rarely traveled loans, this exhibition broadly examines Warhol’s work, from student drawings to late paintings of the 1980s, revealing parallels between Warhol’s personal history and the treatment of the body as a subject in his work.

A collaborative project between National Gallery of Victoria, The Andy Warhol Museum, and Ai Weiwei, this volume is the first to explore the significant influence of Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei on art, life, and politics, focusing on the parallels and intersections between their practices. It was created to accompany the exhibition Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei.

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York, the first to explore the work of Philip Pearlstein, Andy Warhol, and Dorothy Cantor as students at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), and as young artists breaking into the New York art world in the early 1950s.

Halston and Warhol illuminate through their art and fashion a uniquely American point of view, one that matched high and low materials and deceptively simple forms with multistep processes. Both were outsiders, one from Pittsburgh and one from Iowa, whose New York careers challenged the status quo. For the first time, their lives and work are presented side by side in over 300 images with interviews and essays that explore their friendship and their art.

The first comprehensive book to accompany a major exhibition of Deborah Kass's work, in-depth essays trace the evolution of her art since the early 1960s and explore major themes and subjects of her work. Deeply concerned with the history of politics and art making, especially the place of women in a male-dominated world, her works engage critically with the art history canon.

This is an examination of Warhol’s fascination with the form and presence of the American automobile. Warhol’s relationship with cars, icons of American consumerism, likewise reveals the artist’s preoccupation with death, fame, and celebrity.

The first ever authorized DVD release of films by Andy Warhol. Features thirteen of his classic silent, black and white film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper, and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory in NYC, these screen tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (formerly of Luna and currently recording as Dean & Britta). Includes behind the scenes making of the new soundtrack, a video interview with Dean & Britta, and a 40-page booklet with liner notes and biographies of the screen test subjects.

Illustrated with almost 400 objects, from paintings to party invitations, this publication features highlights of the museum's collection as well as lively commentaries by the museum's staff and quotes from Warhol's own irreverent writings. Produced in celebration of the museum's ten-year anniversary, this book serves as both an introduction to and a handbook for the most extensive collection of Warhol's artwork anywhere in the world.

Moving easily between the literary, art, and musical worlds, Patti Smith presents an impressive body of visual art that expresses her views about violence, religion, war, and intolerance. Bringing together approximately sixty works spanning the past thirty years, this book collects early pieces as well as ones inspired by the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks.

An obsessive collector, Warhol culled antique stores, galleries, auction houses, and flea markets as part of his daily routine. He filled his New York City townhouse with art and objects that inspired and intrigued him, from Art Deco silver and Empire furniture to American folk art and twentieth century collectables. In a series of essays and images, the publication examines Warhol’s collecting as an artistic process and an expression of personality.

Filled with iconic images, humorous portraits, and still lifes, this publication portrays Warhol's trademark genius for transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. Illustrations, from 1942 until the artist’s death in 1987, are featured alongside previously unpublished drawings from Warhol’s personal collection.

Featuring more than 500 works, including paintings, clothing, photographs, window displays, films, and videos, this publication explores Warhol's impact on fashion and glamor and how the "Warhol style" influenced contemporary art.

This coloring and activity book provides children and their families information about Warhol's life and art. The illustrations were created by Kristoffer Smith, who began working at The Warhol when he was in high school. Following in Warhol's tradition of supporting and encouraging young artists, The Warhol is committed to fostering creative thinking and participation by all of our audiences.

Published in conjunction with the first major survey of Andy Warhol’s work in Australia, this illustrated volume explores the reality and mythology surrounding Warhol and his influence on generations of artists, writers, designers, and filmmakers. Featuring fourteen essays and interviews, this publication approaches its subject from a range of perspectives.

Beginning in the 1970s, Warhol collected and stored remnants of his life from the 1960s through to his death in 1987, resulting in his largest serial work, the Time Capsules—569 standard-sized cardboard boxes, 20 filing cabinets (two Time Capsules per cabinet), and a large steamer trunk. Time Capsule 21 documents the contents of one such box that contains a phenomenal amount of Warhol’s art from the 1950s to 1960s, as well as correspondence and documents that reveal details about Warhol’s life and work.

This e-publication accompanied the 2012 exhibition Factory Direct: Pittsburgh curated by The Warhol’s former director Eric Shiner and Natalie Settles. The exhibition featured fourteen artists invited to participate in a residency in a local business and make a new work of art based on the materials, processes, and/or history of their host institution.