Saturday, July 18, 2015
7 – 8:30 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street New York, NY 10014.

Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater.

Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Sam Green, among others, intercuts actual television commercials with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol. Rarely screened, it is a key example of the artist’s radical experimentation with and dismantling of television as both a technological medium and an affective apparatus. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist Alex Bag and Bruce Jenkins, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-author of the forthcoming of second volume of the catalogue raisonné of Andy Warhol’s films, moderated by Claire K. Henry, senior curatorial assistant, The Andy Warhol Film Project.

Please Note this program takes place at the Whitney Museum Of American Art and is produced in conjunction with the Jewish Museum's exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. It is produced by the Whitney’s Education Department and The Andy Warhol Film Project.

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