1928–1987

Andy Warhol

Central figure of American Pop art who used silkscreen reproduction, celebrity and consumer imagery to question the boundary between high art and mass culture.

Exhibitions: Expansive Presentation of Andy Warhol, Los Angeles; Andy Warhol: Screen Tests, Sleep, Hong Kong, August 4, 2026 to October 4, 2026; Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now, New York, June 5, 2026 to January 10, 2027; Andy Warhol Family Album, New York, April 30, 2026 to October 19, 2026; Andy Warhol Family Album, April 30, 2026 to October 19, 2026; Ways of Seeing: Fourteen Artists, San Francisco, April 18, 2026 to December 31, 2027; Andy Warhol: Shadows, Beacon, December 1, 2023 to July 6, 2026; Great American Drawings, Chicago, March 18, 2006 to June 19, 2006.

News: Warhol Foundation Names New Board Chair, Members (Artforum, November 10, 2026). The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has named Franklin Sirmans as chair of the board. Three other board members have also been named: Cheryl Finley, Candice Hopkins, and Suzi Kwon Cohen. Since 2015, Sirmans has been the Sandra and Tony Tamer Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).…

News: Andy Warhol's Habibi Phase in Kuwait (Hyperallergic, November 9, 2026). Raed Yassin's exhibition “Warhol of Arabia” reimagines the pop artist's 1977 visit to the Gulf country and a bygone era in the Middle East.

News: Andy Warhol’s ‘Camouflage’ Portraits Inspired Piaget’s New Limited-Edition Watch (ARTnews, November 6, 2026). This is the second time the watchmaker has collaborated with the Warhol Foundation.

News: Piaget’s new Andy Warhol watch is a tribute in ornamental stone marquetry (Wallpaper*, November 5, 2026). The new watch sees the pop artist’s Camouflage series ‘deconstructed and reinterpreted through the contemporary lens of Piaget’

News: Skulls, bulls and someone peeing in her own eye: four great exhibitions to see for free (The Guardian, October 28, 2026). Andy Warhol’s skulls and Pierre Bonnard’s fruit have more in common than you might think. Plus: the world’s rudest cartoon character is up to dirty tricks again …

News: Dealer Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Selling Fake Warhols (Artforum, October 23, 2026). Leslie Roberts, a Miami art dealer, received a sentence of three years and ten months in federal prison on October 2 for selling forged Andy Warhol works. According to the Guardian, Roberts admitted to creating fraudulent invoices and authentication documents to trick buyers into purchasing the…

News: The 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Behind an Iconic Lichtenstein Billboard (Hyperallergic, October 15, 2026). Ahead of her memoir's release, we talk to Joan Kron about Andy Warhol, beating Sidney Janis to the punch, and why she calls herself a “renegade housewife” of Pop Art.

News: Jeffrey Archer: Novelist and Art Collector of Warhol And Hockney Dies Aged 86 (Artlyst, October 7, 2026).     Most people will remember Jeffrey Archer, who died on 5 October at the age of 86, as a bestselling novelist and disgraced Conservative deputy chairman. A smaller group will remember that, for a few years in the late 1990s, he owned one of the largest private collections of Andy Warhol…