MoMA PRESENTS ANDY WARHOL’S INFLUENTIAL EARLY FILM-BASED WORKS ON A LARGE SCALE IN BOTH A GALLERY AND A CINEMATIC SETTING

The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor

 Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, on view at MoMA from December 19, 2010, to March 21, 2011, focuses on the artist’s cinematic portraits and non-narrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol’s Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult of celebrity, comprising a visual almanac of the 1960s downtown avant-garde scene. Included in the exhibition are such Warhol ―Superstars‖ as Edie Sedgwick, Nico, and Baby Jane Holzer; poet Allen Ginsberg; musician Lou Reed; actor Dennis Hopper; author Susan Sontag; and collector Ethel Scull, among others. Other early films included in the exhibition are Sleep (1963), Eat (1963), Blow Job (1963), and Kiss (1963–64). Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, MoMA PS1. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

WEB SITE:  Beginning December 14, members of the public are invited to create their own screen tests by visiting MoMA.org/screentests for guidelines adapted from Warhol’s own filming techniques. Users then submit their 90-second screen tests via a dedicated Flickr group on the site. Films will then appear on the site altered to simulate Warhol’s preferred projection speed. Beginning December 14, members of the public are invited to create their own screen tests by visiting MoMA.org/screentests for guidelines adapted from Warhol’s own filming techniques. Users then submit their 90-second screen tests via a dedicated Flickr group on the site. Films will then appear on the site altered to simulate Warhol’s preferred projection speed.  

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