**This post is dedicated to Nicole - a great friend and Warhol enthusiast**
Today we went to the Andy Warhol exhibit at the Seoul Museum of Art and I was pretty impressed. The exhibit was really large and had a lot of Warhol's work that I was unfamiliar with. We both especially liked a Jackie Kennedy silk screen that we hadn't seen before. I especially liked seeing his earlier works, magazine covers and fashion spreads, not because they were that special, but because I never saw them. Before today I only really knew the pop cultural CampbelIs, Brillo, and silk screen works of Warhol. I also didn't know that he created Interview Magazine!
We weren't the only ones who came out to see the exhibit. When we arrived at the museum it was packed and the line was wrapped around the curving entrance. We figured it was because entrance to the museum is supposed to be free on the fourth Sunday of every month, at least that's what the website said. We waited on line for almost an hour (during which we entertained ourselves by trying to figure out what percentage of the Korean women on line and in the area were wearing high heels, roughly 75%). When we finally got to the ticket counter we had to pay $12,000 won (about $9.50) each to get in. We still aren't sure why but we think it's because of the special exhibit.
The one disapointment at the museum (and it's not limited to this exhibit at this museum) was the horrible English translation. Reading the captions and quotes by Warhol was difficult and annoying. The Seoul museum of art should be able to afford a better translator/editor.
The Line:
In front of the banana
M in the lobby
The lobby
A woman in a really short skirt - seriously click on the pic to enlarge it. Those are not shorts!
Taking it back to 2007 at Nicole's "Whateva" holiday party. Good times with Warhol behind us.
I miss my Nicole!
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