MANCHESTER, NH--If you have watched the Olympic coverage you cannot escape the ever-present image of Mao Zedong. Andy Warhol was fascinated by the media coverage of Mao three decades ago after President Nixon's visit to China. He used the images of Mao he found in the media to develop drawings, a collection of screen prints, Mao wallpaper, and a Xerox series of images.  All of these will be on view during the Currier Museum of Art's new exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27, 2008 through January 4, 2009.

Mao, 1972
Founding Collection, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
© 2008 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / ARS, New York

If you have watched the Olympic coverage you cannot escape the ever-present image of Mao Zedong. Andy Warhol was also fascinated by the media coverage of Mao three decades ago after President Nixon's visit to China. He used the images he found in the media to develop drawings, a collection of screen prints of Mao, Mao wallpaper, and a Xerox series of images. All of these will be on view during the Currier Museum of Art's new exhibition Andy Warhol: Pop Politics from September 27, 2008 through January 4, 2009.

Pop Politics displays together for the first time more than sixty of Warhol's paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs of political figures. The Currier Museum of Art (http://www.currier.org) in Manchester, NH is home to an internationally respected collection of European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs, and sculpture. New galleries showcase the collection of over 11,000 objects. To book a tour or get more information, visit www.currier.org or call 603-669-6144, ext. 108.

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