Grand Rapids art museum is having an exhibition of Andy Warhol's silk screen art, called "Rapid Exposure". For those of you to young to remember Andy Warho, he was famous for multi -images of celebrities and soup cans in festive colors.
Growing up the seventy I remember Andy best for horror movies so violent they received an X-rating. Usually in movie houses so far away, it was a adventure to get there and back before your parent could catch on. In the late seventy he hung out with the sequin set of who's-who at club 54. Liza, Halstead and Andy in his famous bad wig were all there with white noses, discoing down with boogie fever. Making the papers while looking for rolling papers, all the while sex was in the hallways.
He passed away in 1986 giving us much more then 15 minutes of fame. He has a wonderful museum in Pittsburgh, PA his home town. Its a old warehouse where I suffered through my most embarrassing moment, in my life-but that story for much later.
It's worth the drive alone to see the "New" Grand Rapids Art Museum or GRAM (doesn't that sound sophisticated ) the only building in the world with a perfected environmental rating. "Rapid Exposure" runs until June 15.
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