Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'warhol’sjewstenportraitsreconsidered'
March 20, 2008
Nearly three decades ago, Andy Warhol's dealer made a list of 100 prominent 20th century Jews. Warhol created silkscreen paintings of ten of them. The show, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, premiered at The Jewish Museum in 1980. It was met with both admiration and criticism, and turned a pretty penny for the painter. Back then, The NY Times criticized, remarking, "the show is vulgar, it reeks of commercialism, and its contribution......
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