Current Exhibitions
3rd Floor Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm (Wednesday until 7 pm).
Admission varies by exhibition; see below for details.
MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image
April 27 through July 27, 2013
$5 ($3 Seniors & Students with a valid ID; Free for ASF Members)
Reproduction, including downloading of Warhol works is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image brings together two of the 20th century's most prolific and inventive printmakers – Norwegian Edvard Munch and American Andy Warhol. Co-curated by Dr. Patricia G. Berman and Pari Stave and organized in honor of the 150th anniversary of Munch's birth, the exhibition closely examines four graphic images produced by Munch at the turn of the century – The Scream, Madonna, The Brooch. Eva Mudocci, Self-Portrait – and later revisited by Andy Warhol in a little-known but extraordinary series of prints from 1984. Comprising over 30 original works from private and museum collections – some of which will be seen for the first time – the exhibition reveals remarkable affinities between the two artists: a preoccupation with themes of anxiety and alienation, ideal beauty, sex and mortality, and an ability to skillfully mine the iconic power of the image to craft their own mythic identities in self-portraits and in life.
A fully-illustrated catalogue, with an opening essay by Dr. Patricia G. Berman, a noted Munch scholar and Professor of Art History at Wellesley College and the University of Oslo, will be published by the ASF and distributed in the United States by D.A.P.
Audio Guide & Tours
Audio Guide
Through Saturday, July 27, 2013
Free (no cost except your minutes)
Learn more about MUNCH | WARHOL with your cellphone! Hear a brief introduction to the exhibition from ASF President Edward P. Gallagher, followed by engaging analyses of several exhibition highlights from co-curator Patricia G. Berman. Call 212.514.0013 to begin the audio tour.
Docent-Led Tours
Saturdays @ 1 pm, May 4 & 18, June 1 & 15, July 13 & 27, 2013
Free with price of exhibition admission
Visitors to MUNCH | WARHOL can participate in free, docent-led gallery tours that explore in greater detail the artwork in the exhibition. Available twice monthly, Saturday, May 4 through Saturday, July 27, 2013, these 35-minute public tours meet in the 3rd Floor Gallery elevator lobby.
Please note that tours are subject to last-minute changes and/or cancellation.
Exhibition-related Programs
The third installment of workshops with Pratt Institute art educators explores MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image. Using several printmaking techniques, we will, like Warhol, transform the images of Munch's Madonna, The Scream, and Self-Portrait with our own personal interpretations of the original works.
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MUNCH | WARHOL Symposium: Collectors, Curators, and ConnoisseursSaturday, April 27, 2:30 – 5:30pm |
MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image opens with an afternoon symposium that includes an introductory talk by exhibition co-curator and noted Munch scholar Dr. Patricia G. Berman and panels of collectors and curators in conversation about the prints of Munch and Warhol, with Pari Stave, Sally Epstein, Nelson Blitz, Jr., Elizabeth Prelinger, Mary Bartow, and Reva Wolf.
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Munch and the Moving ImageMay 1 through 17, 2013 |
In conjunction with the ASF exhibition MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image, Scandinavia House presents a small survey of films about Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, delving in to the iconoclast’s life, multifaceted artistic concerns, and discursive influence – in art and film – through the ages.
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Munch and Warhol: Contemporary ReflectionsSaturday, May 11, 3 pm |
An afternoon conversation with artists discussing Munch’s continuing influence on contemporary artists, with Francesco Clemente and Lisa Yuskavage, moderated by Robert Storr, Yale University School of Art.
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Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction:
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Exhibition co-curator Dr. Patricia G. Berman examines Warhol’s After Munch series – the intersection of two print makers, two personae, two ways of understanding print media, and two fundamentally different moments in mass media.
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Art AfterhoursTuesdays starting @ 6 pm, June 18 & July 9, 2013 |
Come early and stay late to celebrate MUNCH | WARHOL and to socialize with other Nordic art fans! A once-monthly art party with extended gallery hours featuring music by Nordic DJs and drinks.
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Portraits and Self-Portraits in the Art of Warhol
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Art historian Reva Wolf discusses the relationship between portraits and self-portraits, contextualizing and exploring Munch’s Self-Portrait by Warhol.
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After Munch and WarholThursday, July 18, 6:30 pm |
A panel discussion with curators and artists on the influence of Edvard Munch and Andy Warhol in contemporary art and printmaking.
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Munch’s Repetition
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Edvard Munch's lifelong use of repetition in his paintings and prints was as much about commerce as it was about neurotic preoccupation. This lecture will investigate how the artist's repeated visual motifs – such as The Scream, Madonna, and The Sick Child – changed and took on new meanings throughout his career.
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Click to learn more about MUNCH 150 – a celebration of Edvard Munch’s work and significance.
MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image was made possible by contributions from the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, The Bergesen Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Trond S. Jensen, Martin E. Segal, Kjersti and Bernt Reitan, Nelson Blitz, Jr. and Catherine Woodard, the Bård and Barbara Bunaes Family Fund, and Bente Svensen Frantz. Additional support has come from The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation’s generous grant for Scandinavia House cultural programs and exhibitions, as well as The F. Donald Kenney Fund for the Visual Arts and The Norwegian Centennial Cultural Fund of The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Transportation of artworks from Norway was provided by SAS Scandinavian Airlines. The exhibition’s companion catalogue has been made possible by a grant from the Fritt Ord Foundation.
Publications
MUNCH | WARHOL will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, available nationwide. Featuring an essay by Dr. Berman and Pari Stave’s interview with Roland Augustine, former co-director of Galleri Bellman, which commissioned the Warhol project. The catalogue is published by the ASF and distributed in the United States by D.A.P.
MUNCH | WARHOL and the Multiple Image was made possible by contributions from the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York, The Bergesen Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Trond S. Jensen, Martin E. Segal, Kjersti and Bernt Reitan, Nelson Blitz, Jr. and Catherine Woodard, the Bård and Barbara Bunaes Family Fund, and Bente Svensen Frantz. Additional support has come from The Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation’s generous grant for Scandinavia House cultural programs and exhibitions, as well as The F. Donald Kenney Fund for the Visual Arts and The Norwegian Centennial Cultural Fund of The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Transportation of artworks from Norway was provided by SAS Scandinavian Airlines. The exhibition’s companion catalogue has been made possible by a grant from the Fritt Ord Foundation.
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