{"id":455082,"date":"2026-03-03T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455082\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:48:07","slug":"souped-up-andy-warhol-exhibition-pops-into-wolverhampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/455082\/","title":{"rendered":"Souped-up Andy Warhol exhibition pops into Wolverhampton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warhol has been described as one of the most influential post-war American artists and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His collection coming to Wolverhampton will include early drawings from his time as a commercial illustrator in the 1950s, and iconic painted screenprints and photographic works featuring Warhol&#8217;s artists, friends, filmmakers and celebrities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Images of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Warhol himself feature alongside icons of American consumerism, as well as symbols of the artist&#8217;s fascination with mortality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Chris Burden said, &#8220;Hosting an exhibition by world-renowned artist Andy Warhol here in our city is a testament to Wolverhampton&#8217;s growing reputation as a cultural destination, and I encourage everyone &#8211; especially our young people, who can visit free of charge &#8211; to come and be inspired by the strength and spirit of Warhol&#8217;s work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warhol has been described as one of the most influential post-war American artists and a leading figure in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-455082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}