Warhol on the Web (Sep/Oct 1999)

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Buenos Dias from Andy in Mexico
An exhibition of Andy’s work is under way just south of the border. 
The Palacio de Bellas Artes, a major cultural center and art museum in
Mexico City is preparing for a show featuring a selection of Andy’s works
from different eras in his creative history.  It will be the first
substantial exhibit of Warhol’s work in Mexico. 

A year-and-a-half ago, The Warhol packaged an overview of Andy’s work
for the Irish Museum of Modern Art.  This show is more easily traveled
than many of the enormous touring art exhibitions that require large amounts
of space and funding from host museums.   From last November
through this January, the same show, in a slightly modified version, was
on exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia. 

“When we put together this show together for Dublin,” explains Warhol
director Thomas Sokolowski, “it became very apparent to us that here was
a show that,  given our collection, enabled us to pick a number of
things for a really good,  strong Warhol mini-retrospective. 
We could have those works go out on tour for a long period of time without
hampering the installation of art at our own museum.” 

Not so in the case of larger touring situations, such as the mammoth,
multi-media Andy Warhol’s Factory, a world-touring show slated to land
at New York’s Guggenheim Museum in November of 2000.   The Mexico
City show will continue what is becoming a precedent for more easily-managed
and frequently-toured shows from the Warhol in the future. 
 

 E-Commerce
“Buying is much more American than thinking and I’m as American as they
come.”                                                   
–Andy Warhol 

So reads the first page of the Warhol
Museum’s new on-line store.  Yes, all of you home-shoppers can
now rest easy: The Warhol Museum Store is now easily accessible by way
of the Internet!  That’s right—with the help of Carnegie Museums’
first secure-buy on-line store, you can shop for all sorts of POP-chandise
without leaving the comfort of your floral-print, vinyl beanbag. 
Now, not everything in the actual Museum Store is available from the on-line
Store but, with a couple hundred items up to peruse and buy, including
Warhol Museum-brand products as well as Warhol Foundation for the Visual
Arts-licensed products, it offers the largest single-site collection of
purchasable Warhol items anywhere on the Web. 

Among the featured on-line-available items are posters, mugs, T-shirts,
mouse pads, stationery, and calendars bearing Warhol images, CDs of Andy’s
tape-recorded interviews, Velvet Underground CDs, lip-shaped Warhol Museum
Café pasta, books about Warhol and his associates, and, videotapes
of films by and about Andy. Oh yeah–Carnegie members can take advantage
of their ten percent discount on all on-line Store-purchased items.  
So waste no time—shop on-line! 

 

 

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