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![“Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again” Exhibition](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/andy-warhol-560x341.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
Few American artists are as ever-present and instantly recognizable as Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Through his carefully cultivated persona and willingness to experiment with non-traditional art-making techniques, Warhol understood the growing power of images in contemporary life and helped to expand the role of the artist in society. This exhibition—the first Warhol retrospective organized by a […]
![“Richard Prince: High Times” Exhibition](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/richard-prince-560x396.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
First there were the “dead” heads. (Nothing to do with the Grateful Dead.) Drawn with a Bic pen back in 1972 and ’73. Richard brought these heads with him to NYC when he moved there in 1974. There were about twenty of them. They were drawn from the heart. “They were probably the first things […]
![African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/african-american-portraits-560x599.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
This exhibition will present more than one hundred and fifty studio portraits of African Americans from the mid-twentieth century, part of an important recent acquisition by The Met. Produced by mostly unidentified makers, the photographs are a poignant, collective self portrait of the African American experience during the 1940s and 1950s—a time of war, middle-class […]
![“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” at The Met](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/met-exhibition-heavenly-bodies-catholic-imagination-fashion-whitney-bauck-fashion-theology-e1525884375263-560x537.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
The Costume Institute’s spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—will feature a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.
Serving as the cornerstone of the exhibition, papal robes and accessories from the Sistine Chapel sacristy, many […]
![“David Bowie is” Exhibition](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2018_David_Bowie_is_1_Album_cover_shoot_for_Aladdin_Sane_1973_v3_DRAFT_4_2000w-560x561.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
Organized with unprecedented access to David Bowie’s personal archive, this exhibition explores the creative process of an artist whose sustained reinventions, innovative collaborations, and bold characterizations revolutionized the way we see music, inspiring people to shape their own identities while challenging social traditions. David Bowie is has been touring globally for the past five years and is […]
![Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983](https://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/club57_acts_of_live_art_larry_ashton_cleared-560x374.jpg&w=80&h=80&zc=1&q=100)
The East Village of the 1970s and 1980s continues to thrive in the global public’s imagination. Located in the basement of a Polish Church at 57 St. Marks Place, Club 57 (1978–83) began as a no-budget venue for music and film exhibitions, and quickly took pride of place in a constellation of countercultural venues in […]