Keith Haring, Andy Mouse (1986) © Keith Haring Foundation
This weekend's visual art options include the debut of Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends at the Museum of Fine Arts, featuring more than 70 screen-prints by the pop master. Classics including Campbell’s Soup I (Cream of Mushroom), Flowers and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Superman and Muhammad Ali go on view, along with several lesser-known portfolios. The showcase spans Warhol’s career as a fine artist, from his heyday in the 1960s to the 1980s, when he produced the poignant Endangered Species series (included in the exhibit)—four years before his unexpected death of complications from gallbladder surgery in 1987. As a bonus, the show includes portraits of Warhol by Keith Haring, whose perversely Disney-esque Andy Mouse strikes the perfect irreverent note, and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends, May 16-Aug. 16, Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Petersburg, 727-896-2667, fine-arts.org.
Friday
6-9 p.m. – Opening reception for Reincarnate Metaphors: Girard Louis Drouillard at Salt Creek Artworks Galleries. Resident artists’ studios open during reception.
7-9:30 p.m. – Back In the Day Bazaar and Social at Tampa Street Market with special discounts, music, drinks and food provided by Loko Cuisine. Meet artist Anika Easter. $15.
This article appears in May 13-19, 2009.