Pop Art and Runways
It’s foggy and misty outside today. Just a little bit romantic. It’s “wrap yourself up in a blanket and watch a movie” weather. It’s “going down to a coffee shop and sipping on some hot cocoa as you watch the sprinkling outside” weather.
Instead of working today, I decided to “clean my room.” So I ended up uploading photos from the Yelp event this past Thursday. There was a party at the Contemporary Jewish Museum with the theme based on their latest exhibit “Warhol’s Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered.”
The event lasted from 6:30 to 8:30, so in that time, attendees had a chance to run through the special exhibit. Definitely not as exciting as the rest of Warhol’s work. You know, the stuff he’s famous for, but still interesting. Here’s the blurb from the museum website on the exhibit:
Andy Warhol’s extraordinary series, Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, portrays a pantheon of great Jewish thinkers, politicians, performers, musicians, and writers. Included in the series are such celebrated figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Brandeis, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, the Marx Brothers, Golda Meir, George Gershwin, Franz Kafka, and Gertrude Stein. This exhibition is the first time Warhol’s original paintings have been shown on the West Coast as part of a major exhibition about the series and the individuals it portrays.
First shown at The Jewish Museum, New York in 1980, Ten Portraits was met with both critical response and praise. While many were skeptical of the artist’s intentions, others applauded his new language of color, geometric shape, and sharp line. The series represents an important and influential body of work as well as an homage to these extraordinary figures of the twentieth century.
Pop artist, Jenny Wehrt, had some of her artwork on display at the party.
There was even a fashion show for a local boutique with Yelpers as models. RV and Keane were asked to model! I didn’t get good shots of the runway, but I took a few videos. I was using a camera that I rarely use [even though I spent $$ and time looking for it a few years ago!]. Of course, I caught up with some of the models later on.
It was so much fun! For those who want to check out the exhibit, it is running through January 25, 2009.
