Andy Warhol - Tate Liverpool

Andy Warhol, Untitled (Marilyn), 1967

Transmitting Andy Warhol is at Tate Liverpool until 8 February 2015.
Oh, to be in Liverpool, now that Warhol is there! In the meantime, here is my Warhol Transmission.
This exhibition includes some great pieces - Marilyn Diptych (1962), Brillo Soap Pad Boxes (1964/8), Campbell's Soup (1968), Flowers (1964/5), 'Untitled (Electric Chairs)' (1971) and many more. But the exhibition also focuses on Warhol's use of, and interventions into, mass media - from illustrations for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, the publication of his magazine Interview and poster design to his use of silk screen printed versions of his paintings to make his art genuinely affordable and available to a wide public; the exhibition also includes an evocation of Warhol's involvement with The Velvet Underground and the multi-media events of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (EPI). (Scroll down to play a film of the EPI as well as screen tests for Edie Sdgewick, Lou Reed, Nico and Bob Dylan.)
Read reviews of the exhibition by Laura Cumming, and Karen Wright.
PS - see also blog entry below on the publication of a book of Billy Name's photographs of Warhol's Factory.

Andy Warhol, Untitled (Marilyn), 1967

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962

Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup, 1968

Andy Warhol, Three Brillo Soap Pad Boxes, 1964/8 (installation at Tate Liverpool)

Andy Warhol, Dance Diagram, 1962

Andy Warhol, Untitled (from Electric Chairs), 1971

Late Turner - Tate Britain

J.M.W. Turner, Norham Castle, Sunrise, c1845

Late Turner - Painting Set Free is at Tate Britain until 25 January 2015.
Mike Leigh's film Mr Turner has been released to ecstatic reviews (Observer, Guardian, Telegraph) and should make for an enjoyable complement to the Tate's equally well received exhibition of the artist's late work. The exhibition surveys Turner's paintings made between 1835 when the artist was 60 and 1851 when he died. Although his work was inevitably affected by the infirmity of old age - apparently exacerbated by the consumption of alcohol to counteract a hand tremor associated with the onset of Parkinson's disease which in turn led to diabetes (see Dorment) - Turner produced some astonishing work in this period ranging from the luminous ethereality of Norham Castle, Sunrise, c1845 (above) to the epic, classical myths and landscapes such as Ancient Rome; Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1839 (below).
Read reviews by Peter Conrad, Richard Dorment, Ben Luke  Karen Wright and Jonathan Jones.
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J.M.W. Turner, Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing With the Ashes of Germanicus, exhibited 1839

J.M.W. Turner, Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino, 1839

J.M.W. Turner, Peace – Burial at Sea, exhibited 1842

J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, exhibited 1842

J.M.W. Turner, Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – the Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis, exhibited 1843

J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844

J.M.W. Turner, A Disaster at Sea, c1845

J.M.W. Turner, Sunrise with Sea Monsters, c1845

J.M.W. Turner, The Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846