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McNay Art Museum announces "Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune" to open in February 2012

SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Drawn from the rich collections of the Andy Warhol Museum in the artist’s hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune assembles over 150 objects in all media. Organized by the McNay’s Chief Curator and Curator of Art after 1945, René Paul Barilleaux, this exhibition looks simultaneously at Warhol’s lifelong obsession with both celebrity and disaster. Works included in this survey juxtapose icons of popular culture, legendary entertainers, art world luminaries, and world leaders, with images of suicides, automobile accidents, skulls, and an electric chair. Beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing through 1986, the year prior to Warhol’s death, the paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and films span the three prolific decades of the artist’s career. Source images for Warhol’s most notable works deepen appreciation of what inspired the artist