Andy Warhol: Outer and Inner Dichotomies Symposium Keynote Conversation

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Hear critic and Warhol biographer Wayne Koestenbaum converse with artist Francesco Vezzoli, whose fascination with celebrity rivals Warhol’s own, in the keynote presentation for our two-day Andy Warhol symposium.

Vezzoli, who lives and works in Milan, Italy, was just named one of Out Magazine's "Out 100 for 2008": read the story here on Out's web site. His intense and visually provocative work includes video installations, petit-point embroideries, and photography. It mixes heterogeneous languages and genres and brings together pop icons, auteur cinema, art history, and social and private issues. New York magazine describes the artist as "at the center of the art-celebrity-fashion nexus that is, controversially, defining the art world today."

Koestenbaum, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, is noted as an eloquent and exciting speaker. An accomplished poet, he is also the author of several works of nonfiction, including Andy Warhol (a biography for the Penguin Lives Series), Hotel Theory, and The Queen’s Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire, which was nominated for a 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Come back on Saturday for a dynamic daylong discussion of Warhol, his work, and his continuing influence among curators, critics, and members of Warhol’s circle. Click here for details.

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Andy Warhol
Big Torn Campbell's Soup Can (Pepper Pot), 1962
Casein and graphite on canvas, 71 5/8 x 52 in. (181.9 x 132.1 cm.).
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.