event Andy Warhol's Soap Opera
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Sat Nov 21
2 pm
Andy Warhol's Soap Opera at Woodland Pattern Book Center
In 1975, Andy Warhol wrote of his “great unfulfilled ambition” to have his own regular TV show. Warhol’s experiment in television started with Vivian’s Girls, a melodrama set in a boarding house filled with models and drag queens. As the cast grew, the idea evolved into Phoney and then Fight, the latter following a couple continuously berating each other. Warhol eventually abandoned the project, but these proto-shows are a rare glimpse into what might have been. Selections from Vivian’s Girls, Phoney, and Fight will be screened at Woodland Pattern Book Center, where the gallery is being converted into a “couch potato’s haven” for the complete TV viewing experience. Videos are on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum and are presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E Locust St, Milwaukee, WI
In 1975, Andy Warhol wrote of his “great unfulfilled ambition” to have his own regular TV show. Warhol’s experiment in television started with Vivian’s Girls, a melodrama set in a boarding house filled with models and drag queens. As the cast grew, the idea evolved into Phoney and then Fight, the latter following a couple continuously berating each other. Warhol eventually abandoned the project, but these proto-shows are a rare glimpse into what might have been. Selections from Vivian’s Girls, Phoney, and Fight will be screened at Woodland Pattern Book Center, where the gallery is being converted into a “couch potato’s haven” for the complete TV viewing experience. Videos are on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum and are presented by the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
