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“Did I meet Warhol? Or did I imagine it? […] I fantasized about being one of the boys. […] It was a few months after visiting my brother Thomas in Amsterdam, traveling there as a wannabe Izod prep, when the family budget could only afford Le Tigre.” —Lyle Ashton Harris
With Black History Month behind us, and the final month of Warhol-mania upon us (Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again at the Whitney closes March 31, 2019), this lecture/almost-performance-art from Lyle Ashton Harris makes a remarkable segue. Since 2001, Dia’s Artists on Artists lecture series has highlighted the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers. On the occasion of the conservation and installation of the Warhol’s great Shadows series in the Calvin Klein headquarters in New York, Dia invited Harris to speak on Andy Warhol and his relationship to race and queerness. Born in New York in 1965, Harris’s work often encompasses many of the same elements as Warhol, particularly his use of pop culture as a lens through which to examine the intersection of personal and political elements. In this wide-ranging and multifaceted presentation, the brilliant, candid, and fierce Harris bounces from the artistic to the political and the personal to Warholian.
