Good Fridays at the Warhol Museum (Fri., 4/23/21)

Warhol’s 1986 self-portrait combined rock-star flash with dark foreboding—notice the weary look. Andy died the next year, having produced an immense body of work. Much of it would go into the Warhol Museum. (Image © Andy Warhol Foundation)

Good Fridays at the Warhol is a weekly event at the museum in the high temple to Andy Warhol’s numerous talents. Half-price admission from 5 – 10 p.m. courtesy of UPMC Health Plan. The current featured exhibit is Fantasty America. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s 1985 book America, a love letter from Warhol to America based upon his cross country travels of the nation and included photographs he took and collected and encounters he had with the people he met. José Carlos Diaz, chief curator at The Warhol re-envisions this important Warhol work through a contemporary lens with participating New York-based, cross-disciplinary artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar, and Chloe Wise. The exhibit runs through August 30. 117 Sandusky St., North Shore.

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