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Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work, The National Gallery, London, 2010 [Art Books & Ephemera. Art: © Bridget Riley]

Texts: Colin Wiggins, Michael Bracewell, Marla Prather

Exhibition: November 24, 2010 – May 22, 2011

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From: Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work, The National Gallery, London, 2010 [Art Books & Ephemera. Art: © Bridget Riley]

Texts: Colin Wiggins, Michael Bracewell, Marla Prather

Exhibition: November 24, 2010 – May 22, 2011

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THE WARHOL EFFECT AT THE MET When it comes to Warhol, it would seem that there’s very little new to be said. Since his death in 1987 there have been scores of museum and gallery exhibitions here and abroad, dissecting every imaginable aspect of his career. But Marla Prather, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Mark Rosenthal, an independent curator, have organized “Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years,” coming to the Met, Sept. 18 through Dec. 31, which they say will give a new twist to Warhol and his work. “There hasn’t been a show about the Warhol effect,” said Ms. Prather, who has spent nearly two years interviewing artists about Warhol’s influence on them and on contemporary art. The show will include about 45 works by Warhol — paintings, sculpture, photographs and films — and 100 works by roughly 50 other artists. “There are a lot of voices, which is the point,” Ms. Prather said in a telephone interview. “Some are obvious, others more nuanced.” The show will be divided into five sections dealing with themes from Warhol’s career. Among the artists included will be Sigmar Polke and Vija Celmins (whose work will speak to the use of everyday images); Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz and Chuck Close (portraiture); Robert Gober, David Hockney and Robert Mapplethorpe (sexual identity); Richard Prince, Louise Lawler and Christopher Wool (appropriation, abstraction and seriality); Polly Apfelbaum and Ryan Trecartin (the embrace of artistic partnerships through filmmaking and magazine publishing). Besides paintings, drawings and sculptures “Regarding Warhol” will also include album covers, magazines and excerpts from Warhol’s early films. “Warhol can be counted as one of the parents of reality television,” Ms. Prather said, “with his interested in unscripted films in real time. I think it will be quite a surprise to people. It’s a reflection of the diversity of the Warhol enterprise.”

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