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Time: August 18, 2012 to August 19, 2012
Location: Virginia MOCA
City/Town: Virginia Beach
Website or Map: http://www.virginiamoca.org/e…
Event Type: virginia beach events, virginia beach art, virginia moca, andy warhol
Organized By: VBnightlife.com
Latest Activity: Aug 18, 2012

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Andy Warhol: Portraits

May 26-August 19, 2012

The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Andy Warhol: Portraits, featuring original works from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. This notoriously private artist is revealed in the company he keeps. Including screenprints, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, and vintage family photos this exhibition explores the phenomenon that is Warhol’s work on a deeply personal level. Andy Warhol: Portraits includes more than 130 portraits produced by Warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s. This exhibition contains portraits of Warhol in his youth, a reproduction of Warhol's first celebrity…

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Fifteen Square Inches of Fame

May 26 to August 19, 2012

“In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes” - Andy Warhol In celebration of our upcoming Andy Warhol: Portraits exhibition, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) invites all artists living in Hampton Roads to participate in “Fifteen Square Inches of Fame.” The open exhibition will be presented in conjunction with Warhol’s Portraits, and will serve as the community’s artistic response to the life and work of Andy Warhol. Throughout his career, Warhol portrayed celebrities, friends, family, and public figures alike in his signature style, revolutionizing the conversations we have about art and American pop culture. This is a special opportunity for all vi…

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I Like Soup

May 26 to August 19

I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you use every day and never think about. I'm working on soups, and I've been doing some paintings of money. I just do it because I like it. - Andy Warhol, Time Magazine, May 11, 1962 As MOCA and the Hampton Roads community celebrates the Andy Warhol: Portraits exhibition, we wanted to take a moment to explore Warhol’s idea of a tin soup can and the many ways in which popular culture influences artists today. A plain, unused tin can was given to a selection of local, national and internationally recognized contemporary artists. They were asked to reinterpret the can and use it in the creation of their own art. Each original can is …

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I Like Soup