Andy Warhol and the Art of Textiles
Get your tickets now for these special events, presented in conjunction with the TMC's 40th anniversary and our feature exhibition Artist Textiles: Picasso to Warhol, opening at the Textile Museum of Canada on May 2, organised and circulated by the Fashion and Textile Museum, UK.
Join us as New York-based art historian and critic Dr. Blake Gopnik, at work on the first comprehensive biography of Andy Warhol for HarperCollins, discusses the place that textiles had in the artist's works, life and career. The world of fabrics was central to Andy Warhol; from the beginning of his career, he knew textiles, collected them, was influenced by them, and even designed them. Textiles were an integral part of his lifelong exploration of the intersections of craft and art, high and low culture, the handmade and the mechanical, and art and commerce. Long-time art critic of the Globe and Mail, The Washington Post and Newsweek, Gopnik is now critic-at-large at Artnet News and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. .
A separate ticket is available including a private reception and fundraising dinner with the speaker, following the lecture. Both events take place at Victoria University, University of Toronto.
Location:
Lecture: Northrop Frye Hall
Dinner: Regent's Foyer
Victoria University at University of Toronto, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto
Lecture: General admission $25 / TMC members $20
Cocktail reception and dinner: $250
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