NPR
The National Gallery of Art opened its first Andy Warhol exhibit Sunday, with “Headlines,” a series of paintings that uses tabloids to describe culture.
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- The original New York Post headline from 1985 was about photos of Madonna in Playboy.
Exhibit curator Molly Donovan tells NPR that “for Warhol, the media — its impact, how it operated — was a preoccupation.”
“I think Warhol was trying to get the consumers of the news to think about the truth in the news overall,” Donovan says. “The news is a product that we buy, as consumers.”
Warhol created the paintings by projecting a tabloid image onto a canvas, then tracing it. The artist, who died in 1987, believed the media reflected its subjects and so loved the name, New York Daily Mirror.
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