Fall arts: Two Warhol exhibits and the (E)merge Art Fair kick off the season
The season begins with a burst of Andy Warhol, as two shows in two major museums explore very different aspects of the pop pioneer.
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art called "Warhol: Headlines" arrives in the late afterglow of the Rupert Murdoch scandal and explores the artist's fascination with tabloid media, celebrity and appropriation (Sept. 25). Billed as the first comprehensive exhibition to explore Warhol's use of headlines and newspapers, the show will include some of the source materials on which he based his images, allowing viewers to analyze the road from cheap scandal sheet to high art, via the ironies of pop and the subtle improvements of an artist who was uncommonly good at tweaking the ordinary into something visually compelling.
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