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Contemporary artists revisit Warhol’s 1985 love letter to America Originally published in 1985, Warhol’s America features photographs both taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book, an idiosyncratic love letter to America, finds Warhol reflecting on everything from travel, beauty and fame to politics, technology and the American Dream. Three decades later, Fantasy America invites artists Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar and Chloe Wise to revisit this seminal publication and contribute their own art. All New York–based, they, like Warhol, are cross-disciplinary artists drawn to repetition, seriality and image appropriation in their work.Against the backdrop of nationwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 pandemic and the presidential election, these essays and artworks probe and challenge our perceptions of what America is and what it can become.

Commemorating Bey’s return to the city that helped support his development as a master of sculptural potteryThis volume commemorates Pittsburgh-born ceramic artist, sculptor and educator Sharif Bey’s (born 1974) return to his hometown for a momentous exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum. Bey creates complex sculptures inspired by modernism, functional pottery and Oceanic and African art. Incorporating references to childhood memories of Pittsburgh’s urban landscape, his work offers layered commentary on identity and home, probing the multiple interpretations of each concept. In the book, reproductions of Bey’s monumental ceramics are placed in dialogue with artworks by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, pulled from the museum’s permanent collection. Altogether, Homecoming celebrates community arts education and highlights, through multiple texts, Pittsburgh's enduring role as a crucible for artistic development—a key factor in Bey’s emergence as a mighty voice in contemporary art.