{"id":13454,"date":"2024-10-28T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13454"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:23:51","slug":"the-genesis-of-warhols-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/28\/the-genesis-of-warhols-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genesis of Warhol&#8217;s Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/10\/interview-curator-greg-pierce-warhol-museum-of-sex-exhibition\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=arts&amp;utm_term=10\/29\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curator Greg Pierce On How the Museum of Sex\u2019s Warhol Show Came to Be<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Warhol was a radical Queer filmmaker because he didn&#8217;t pretend to be anyone but who he was, even when he was playing the part of the great pretender.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/author\/christa-terry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Christa Terry<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andy Warhol, Blow Job (1964): 27 minutes of film in 2 minutes\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOMccj2WUNU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/person\/andy-warhol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Andy Warhol<\/a>\u2019s obsession with celebrity was one of the defining aspects of his career, and analyses of that career, not to mention of his life, often fixate on it\u2014he gets blamed for everything from our own celebrity obsessions to the narcissism that has become the ugly hallmark of the social media age. What\u2019s lost in that narrative is any attention that might otherwise be paid to his overtly political work and experiments in abstraction (his\u00a0<em>Piss<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Oxidation\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Cum\u00a0<\/em>series works were both more boring and more beautiful than you might imagine), not to mention any exploration into the person, particularly the queer person, behind the prints and the persona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his quest to edge as close as possible to fame and glamor, Warhol surrounded himself with celebrities and documented the comings and goings of The Factory crowd in photos and film. His portrait series, in particular, portrayed the faces of celebrity, capturing the vulnerability beneath fame\u2019s facade. But what lurked behind\u00a0<em>his<\/em>\u00a0facade? \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.museumofsex.com\/exhibitions\/looking-at-andy-looking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Looking at Andy Looking<\/a>,\u201d which opened at New York\u2019s Museum of Sex during Armory Week, offers some clue. Organized by the museum in partnership with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/07\/andy-warhol-museum-pop-district-blueprint-museum-recovery-audience-revenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh<\/a>, it considers both voyeuristic elements of Warhol\u2019s work and the complexities of identity and self-perception that can be gleaned therefrom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2024\/10\/interview-curator-greg-pierce-warhol-museum-of-sex-exhibition\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=arts&amp;utm_term=10\/29\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Observer<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Observer Curator Greg Pierce On How the Museum of Sex\u2019s Warhol Show Came to Be &#8220;Warhol was a radical Queer filmmaker because he didn&#8217;t pretend to be anyone but who he was, even when he was playing the part of the great pretender.&#8221; By\u00a0Christa Terry Andy Warhol\u2019s obsession with celebrity was one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}