Friday, August 19, 2005
What Economic Impact, You Ask?
About 70 Andy Warhol prints will be on display at the Allentown Art Museum from June to September 2006 in an exhibit titled simply ''Andy Warhol,'' Geoff Gehman revealed in The Morning Call this week.
"Robert Mattison, the exhibit's guest curator, intends to turn the museum into a facsimile of the Factory, Warhol's assembly-line workshop, film studio and counter-culture den in New York. He imagines silver-painted walls, helium balloons from Warhol's ''Silver Clouds'' installation and a recorded soundtrack by the Velvet Underground and Nico," Gehman wrote.
But wait there's more!
"Warhol viewers will be able to ponder ''Andy Mouse,'' a 1985 acrylic of a Warhol-haired Mickey Mouse by Kutztown native Keith Haring, a Warhol art partner and protege. The Haring print will be exhibited in ''Pop Goes the Press,'' a concurrent show of '60s-'80s prints by Warhol contemporaries, including Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein, from the museum's collection," the article goes on to say.
On display at the museum only through this Sunday is "Linda McCartney's '60s — Portrait of an Era.'' The collection of images of rock 'icons had already attracted 34,000 visitors at the time of Gehman's story. The museum had only been expecting about14,000 visitors.
