Daily Agenda Oct. 13: Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

Andy Warhol returned to painting more than 20 years after announcing he was done with the medium. Turns out Warhol was far from done—his last decade of life was more productive than any other period of his career. This varied, complex, and largely unknown body of work is the focus of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Andy Warhol: The Last Decade. The exhibit, which runs until January 3, is the first-ever U.S. museum survey of this Warhol period, and it’s a worthy introduction.A far cry from the Campbell’s soup cans and Marilyn Monroe prints Warhol is best known for, many of the 50 pieces here will likely be new to casual fans. Warhol, particularly in his last decade, was always impossible to pin down. The exhibit features numerous self-portraits, examples of Warhol’s Oxidation Paintings (more impolitely called “piss paintings” because they use a chemical process involving urine), and two imposing, 15-foot, floor-to-ceiling Rorschach paintings. (Read the rest of our review here.)