Entries from April 2008

April 8, 2008

Reexamining Warhol’s Jews

The Jerusalem Post–April 8, 2008
For an artist by no means unfamiliar with controversy, the 1980 exhibit of Andy Warhol’s “Jewish Geniuses,” at the Jewish Museum in New York, a series of 10 portraits of famous Jews, proved particularly fraught.
“The way it exploits its Jewish subjects without showing the slightest grasp of their significance is offensive [...]