Lisa Green reports from Williamstown. There’s something to fascinate everyone among the more than 500 objects at "Warhol by the Book," Williams College Museum of Art’s new exhibit that opened with a talk and reception on Friday, March 6. Showcasing Andy Warhol’s experimentation with the form and content of books from his student days in the 1940s to his death in 1987, the exhibit may be the largest ever presented at WCMA in sheer number of items, said Kathryn Price, curator of collections. The well-attended evening began with a discussion between Price and Matt Wrbican, chief archivist at The Andy Warhol Museum and curator of "Warhol by the Book," about the artist’s lifelong obsession with books. It was the first in a series of conversations that will touch on various aspects of Warhol’s astoundingly diverse output. Above, Kathryn Price and Matt Wrbican celebrate the completion of months of effort in curating the show.
The Williams College Libraries were represented by Katie Mash and Christine Menard, who is head of research services and library outreach; Darra Goldstein, professor of Russian and founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, who will be participating in the next Warhol conversation, and Linda Conway of Williamstown.
Local visitors Martin Zalud, Ian Backman, Domingos Goncalves and Lydia Reyburn; Jay Reeg, a board member of The Andy Warhol Museum and Warhol collector whose items are in the current show, with Eugene Heath, professor of philosophy at SUNY New Paltz and Reva Wolf, professor of art history at SUNY New Paltz, Warhol scholar, and author of Andy Warhol, Poetry, and Gossip in the 1960s.
Sarah Tefft, a student at MCLA, Diane Hart, WCMA senior museum registrar for collections and exhibitions, and Sara Farrell Okamura, an artist.
Tom Stefanik, Marty Keating and Michael Keating;Megan Kosinki, curatorial assistant at The Clark Art Institute and Sara Harrrison of Williamstown.
Diana Brooks, Katherine Myers, the museum's director of donor engagement, and Brian Walsh; Warhol's private book collection was recreated as he had them, with the spines facing in.
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
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Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
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