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| Fright Wig Andy Warhol self portrait is on loan to the DIA |
On Friday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m., the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) auxiliary Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art (FMCA) continues its popular program “Fourth Friday for Friends” with a gallery talk on “Andy Warhol and the Celebrity Cult.”
Museum Admission to the DIA is FREE for DIA members and residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Otherwise museum admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors, $4 for ages 6–17.
A reception follows the talk, and both are FREE with museum admission but require a complimentary pass available at www.andywarholffff.eventbrite.com.
Warhol’s obsession with celebrity manifested itself in many ways and is most revealing in his self-portraits. Rebecca Hart, DIA associate curator of contemporary art, will discuss Warhol’s cult of celebrity and sense of mortality as expressed in his 1986 Self-Portrait. Made at a time when many of Warhol’s friends were dying of AIDS, this image was considered a harbinger of death. It presents Warhol as spectral: his neon blue head and a shock of hair appear as a disembodied, free-floating mask or skull.
This “fright wig” Self-Portrait is currently on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, while the DIA’s two iconic self-portraits are on loan to the Metropolitan Museum in New York as signature works in the exhibition Considering Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Hart’s talk will take place in front of Warhol’s Self-Portrait, 1986.
About Fourth Fridays for Friends
Fourth Fridays for Friends is sponsored by J.P. Morgan and is an opportunity to enjoy in-depth discussions about contemporary art, attend private receptions hosted by FMCA and delight in the DIA’s fabulous Friday Night Live performances.
About FMCA
FMCA, the DIA’s oldest auxiliary, supports and enhances the James Pearson Duffy Department of Contemporary Art by promoting a better understanding of modern and contemporary art and raising funds for the purchase of important new works of art in diverse mediums.
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