LIVE from NYPL: Blake Gopnik with Deborah Solomon

The esteemed art critic and past Cullman Center fellow sheds light on Pop Art's most iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Blake Gopnik and Deborah Solomon discuss Blake’s new biography of Andy Warhol. With unprecedented access to Warhol’s archives, Gopnik follows the artist from his working-class Pittsburgh upbringing as the child of immigrants to his early career in commercial art, and his total immersion in the “performance” of being an artist, accompanied by global fame and stardom—and his attempted assassination.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Blake Gopnik is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has been staff art critic at the Globe and Mail, the Washington Post, and Newsweek, as well as critic-at-large for ArtnetNews.com. In 2015 he held a fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at City University of New York. He has a PhD in art history from Oxford University. He worked on Warhol during his Cullman Center Fellowship in 2017-2018.

Deborah Solomon is an art critic and biographer. She is also a longtime contributor to the New York Times. Her weekly interview column, “Questions For,” appeared in the New York Times Magazine from 2003 to 2011. She has also worked as an art critic for WNYC Public Radio. Her books include Jackson Pollock: A Biography (1987); Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell (1997); and American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (2013), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the PEN Award for Biography. In 2001, Ms. Solomon was awarded a grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in the field of biography. She is currently at work on a full-scale biography of the artist Jasper Johns.

Produced in partnership with The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.


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