Andy Warhol’s Factory: The Art, Inspiration and Appropriation of Andy Warhol
Stephen Shore Andy Warhol, Lou Reed 1965–67
The Children’s Museum in Kitchener is not the kind of venue where you would expect to see a blockbuster show about Andy Warhol. But until April 19, it becomes “Factory North” in homage to Warhol’s famous midtown Manhattan studio of the 1960s. Pop art, films, Polaroid photographs and other Warhol-related exhibits give both younger and older viewers a rich glimpse of the art star’s working process and its crossover into contemporary artmaking. In addition to an immersion into the iconic images of Warhol’s art—soup cans, Marilyns, flowers, etc.—the Kitchener show also hosts an archival find that features photos by contemporary photographer Stephen Shore. Titled The Velvet Years, the black and white photographs were taken by Shore as a teenager on a visit to the Factory to see Lou Reed in the band the Velvet Underground. It’s a show where the roots of current pop culture run deep. (10 King St W, Kitchener ON)
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Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can (Won Ton Soup) 1981 © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / SODRAC (2008) |
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