The Museum of New Zealand is called Te Papa Tongarewa (Our Place) and it is in Wellington. I am a Friend of Te Papa and therefore privy to special exhibitions before the common peasants get in to see them. And for free. Oh, we privileged people are so rare on this earth, sigh ....
There would have been well over a hundred exhibits, all to do with Warhol's friends, colleagues, celebrities and hangers-on. Most of the exhibits came from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (I knew there was a Pawnshop on the Corner in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (look it up, youngsters), but I didn't figure on an Andy Warhol museum. The Pittsburgh museum have obviously had to shut up shop while the exhibits are in Wellington because we've no doubt cleaned them out..... no, we haven't, I'm only joking - I spoke to the Pittsburgh curator and he assured me they still had loads of paintings, prints, etc at home.
I must say that the Queen looked quite attractive in the print Warhol did of her. It was interesting to see his pics of himself, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Sylvester Stallone, etc, and to read about Studio 54. I was a wee bit surprised to see that more often than not Warhol took other artists' pictures and turned them into screen prints. He even took a pic of a cow off a milk cartoon and screen printed that. When the world thought portraiture was dead, he revitalised it, but in a way that some critics definitely did not like.
10th Swim today for May!:
I was shopping in Kilbirnie today and banged in to my friend, J, in a charity shop. How fortunate. We decided to go for our 10th swim for May at Hataitai Beach. Both of us had our old ratty swim costumes in our car boots and we were a bit embarrassed. Still, it was quite nice in the water which was very flat. When we got out we slapped each other a High-Ten. Later in the afternoon, J sent me the below pic to commemorate the occasion
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