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Steve Schapiro, born Brooklyn, New York, United States 1934, died Chicago, Illinois, United States 2022, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, and others at a party, 1965, New York, gelatin-silver photograph, 31.5 x 47.1 cm (image), 40.0 x 49.9 cm (sheet); Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, © estate of Steve Schapiro

Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media


13 May 2023
Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) 3 Mar - 20 May 2023

It’s hard to get excited by another Andy Warhol retrospective. Since the artist’s death in 1987, there have been seemingly endless attempts to frame his place in twentieth-century art and aesthetics, mostly taking place in the US, and culminating in the Whitney Museum’s 2018 to 2019 retrospective. What could an antipodean showing possibly add?

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