The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Perrin Lathrop

Institution
Fisk University Galleries
Grant Cycle
Spring 2018
Amount
$50,000
Type of Grant
Curatorial Research Fellowships
Website
www.fiskuniversitygalleries.org ↗

Scheduled for the  Fall 2020, Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, Tennessee will open Art from Africa of Our Time: African Modernism in America, 1947-1967, the first major exhibition to examine the New York-based Harmon Foundation’s promotion of modern African art during the age of decolonization, the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War. The exhibition, drawn primarily from Fisk University’s art collection, will secure Fisk’s place as a center for research on African modernism and engage students in all stages of its planning. The Fellowship will also activate the history exposed in the exhibition by inviting a Lagos, Nigeria-based contemporary artist to create a new work in response.

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1964

Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.