Art of Fame: Blake Gopnik on Warhol

Blake Gopnik and Kate Taylor 

Art of Fame: Blake Gopnik on Warhol

Blake Gopnik and Kate Taylor 

3:30pm

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

45 mins

To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. Uncover the layers of one of the most influential artists of the ages, in this insightful and lively conversation with Blake Gopnik, the author who penned Warhol, Andy Warhol’s most definitive biography.

Interviewer: Kate Taylor

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To this day, mention the name “Andy Warhol” to almost anyone and you’ll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol’s name and dominated the public’s image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. Uncover the layers of one of the most influential artists of the ages, in this insightful and lively conversation with Blake Gopnik, the author who penned Warhol, Andy Warhol’s most definitive biography.

Interviewer: Kate Taylor

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Blake Gopnik
Blake Gopnik, one of North America’s leading arts writers, has served as art and design critic at Newsweek and as chief art critic at the Washington Post and Canada’s Globe and Mail. In 2017, he was a Cullman Center Fellow in residence at the New York Public Library and 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 and is a regular contributor to the New York Times.

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Kate Taylor 
Kate Taylor is an award-winning Toronto journalist, critic and novelist. She is a long-time staff writer in the Arts section of the Globe and Mail, where she currently serves as the visual art critic. She also writes about film and cultural policy.   Her 2003 novel Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen won the Commonwealth Prize for best first book (Canada/Caribbean region) and the Toronto Book Award. Her second novel, A Man in Uniform, was nominated for the Ontario Library Association’s Evergreen Awards – as was her most recent book, Serial Monogamy, which is now is available in paperback. 

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3:30pm

Wednesday, October 28

45 mins

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