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The Forum: Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

Andy Warhol

15/08/2019 GMT

Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

BBC World Service - The Forum, Andy Warhol: The prince of Pop Art

Exploring the life and work of artist Andy Warhol

Bridget Kendall explores pop artist  Andy Warhol with the gallery director Eric Shiner, art historian Professor Jean Wainwright and Andy Warhol’s nephew, the artist James Warhola.

"In the future everybody will be world-famous for fifteen minutes” is probably the best known quote attributed to Andy Warhol. Warhol was an American artist who became a superstar in the visual art movement known as Pop Art.  He crossed the boundaries between art and celebrity becoming famous for what we now call branding, but the private Warhol was a deeply religious man and to his close relatives was known simply as ‘Uncle Andy’. In a world where some of what he predicted has come true, we look back at the life and work of this iconic figure.

With Bridget Kendall to explore Andy Warhol are Eric Shiner the former Director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh USA and New York Director of London’s White Cube, Professor Jean Wainwright the British art historian and curator and a leading expert on Warhol and Andy Warhol’s nephew, the artist and illustrator James Warhola.

(Photo: Andy Warhol. Credit: Ullstein Bild/Getty Images)

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