Closing soon is the #WarholFoundation funded exhibition "Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest", co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti and The Phillips Collection. The exhibition features paintings, prints, and works on paper across seven bodies of work, as well as ephemera that highlight Browne’s pioneering activism and influential teaching career. Browne was a founder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, an organization that fought for Black representation in New York museums; a founder of SoHo20, one of the first women’s art cooperatives in Manhattan; and a professor at Rutgers University (1971–92). ⁠ ⁠ The Foundation supports this exhibition for highlighting the work of an artist, activist, and educator, who addressed imbalances of power affecting people of color, especially women; and who many artists today see as having made their careers possible.⁠ .⁠ 1. Vivian Browne, New Yorkers No. 14, c.1966. Oil on paper, 23 ¼ x 17 ¾ inches. © Vivian Brown⁠ ⁠ 2. Vivian Browne, Wall Street Jump, 1969. Oil on canvas, 59 ¾ x 46 inches. © Vivian Brown⁠ ⁠ 3. Vivian Browne, Diversities, 1973. Acrylic on canvas, 54 ¾ x 54 ¾ inches. ⁠© Vivian Brown⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #VivianBrowne @cinycac #cincycac @PhillipsCollection #ThePhillipsCollection #WarholGrantee #AndyWarhol #Warhol #Philanthropy #Painting #Artist #Educator #Activist (fb)

#WarholWednesday “If anybody wants to know what those Summer days of ’66 were like in New York with us, all I can say is go see Chelsea Girls,” Warhol said in his book ‘Popsim’ which chronicled the 1960s. The film premiered at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque’s 41st Street Theatre on September 15, 1966. Billed as “an eight-hour epic film” it is comprised of eight segments, each one associated with a particular room in the Chelsea Hotel, although none of the sequences were filmed there. The idea was that all the characters were people who were around Warhol’s orbit and could have been staying in the same hotel. It was shown on two projectors so that different reels could be seen side-by-side simultaneously, similarly to his previous film ‘Outer and Inner Space’ starring Edie Sedgwick, which screened earlier that year. The film features many of Warhol’s ‘Superstars’ including Brigid Berlin, Nico, Ondine, International Velvet, Ingrid Superstar, and others, and shows them shooting drugs, fighting, tripping on acid, turning tricks, hanging out, drinking, smoking, and talking, among other scenarios. The film received mixed responses, from praise to disdain, but garnered so much attention it had to be moved to a larger theater in New York. It would then go on to be screened internationally, including Germany, London, and the Cannes Film Festival. A screening in Boston was raided by the vice squad and the film was seized for obscenity. Although Warhol would go on to make and produce a number of other films, none matched the critical and commercial success of Chelsea Girls. . 1., 4. & 6. Andy Warhol, Chelsea Girls, 1966. Film still. ©The Andy Warhol Museum. 2. Andy Warhol, Chelsea Girls, 1966. Movie poster, 29 ¼ x 22 ½ inches. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. 3. Andy Warhol, Chelsea Girls, 1966. Still of reels 7 and 8. ©The Andy Warhol Museum. 5. Andy Warhol, Chelsea Girls, 1966. Still of reels 1 and 2. ©The Andy Warhol Museum. 6. Andy Warhol, Chelsea Girls, 1966. Movie poster (London). ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. . . . #ChelseaGirls #AndyWarhol #Warhol #ArtHistory #FilmHistory #ExperimentalFilm #Undergroundfilm #Nico @TheWarholMuseum #WarholMuseum #WarholFoundation (fb)