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“Andy Warhol: The Last Decade” Continues its Tour in Fort Worth

FORT WORTH, TX- The first U.S. museum survey exhibition to explore the work that Andy Warhol produced during his final years continues its national tour at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth through May 16, 2010. “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade” reveals a mature artist in full command of his complex repertoire, mixing forms and media with audacious fluency. Created amidst the bustle of Warhol’s Pop celebrity, the works on view illustrate as never before the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. Warhol created more new series of paintings in the last decade of his life, in larger numbers and on a vastly larger scale, than during any other phase of his 40-year career. But far from a period of “Factory” production, it was a time of extraordinary artistic development for Warhol, during which a dramatic