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Greetings,

More than thirty years after his death, Andy Warhol remains one of the most famous yet enigmatic artists of his generation. When we hear his name, we may think of consumer brands such as Coca Cola or Brillo. Similarly, his fascination with celebrities is well documented in his famous images of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley among others. Warhol, a celebrity himself, frequently interacted with musicians, vocalists, and dancers. Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work is the first major exhibition to investigate the connections between the acclaimed illustrator, filmmaker, painter, printmaker, and sculptor and the performing arts of music and dance.

There are few cities more attuned to Warhol’s interdisciplinary interests than Nashville. It has been a special pleasure to pair this intelligent and entertaining exhibition with spectacular musical acts this summer. Please join us in July as we wrap up a dynamic Frist Fridays season that started in May with Same As It Ever Was, a Talking Heads tribute band, followed by the June performance that featured The Long Players and their rendition of the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album. We’ll continue to embrace the era and Warhol’s connections to the music world when DJ Ron Slomowicz arrives for a Studio 54 remix on July 29. Start planning your celebrity look-alike costumes now!

Throughout the summer and into the fall we will also continue to offer live music at the Frist Center on Thursday and Friday evenings. Public programs also include dance performances. Please check the listings inside for details or visit us at www.fristcenter.org.

Make plans now to join us in the coming months.

Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Director and CEO

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There are few cities more attuned to Warhol’s interdisciplinary interests than Nashville.

ON THE COvER: Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, 1979. Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 40 x 40 in. The Andy Warhol Museum,

Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution Dia Center for the Arts, 1997.1.10a. © 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the

visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

William R. FristChairman and President of the Board of Trustees

Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D.Executive Director and CEO

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Frist Center for the visual Arts exhibitions, programs, and events are generously funded in part by grants from the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Andy Warhol’s love for movies and their music is reflected in “Hollywood,” the first section of Warhol Live. On view are paintings of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, as well as cherished mementos, such as a postcard signed “To Andrew Worhola [sic], From Shirley Temple.” As fascinated with celebrity as he was with film, Warhol was particularly drawn to the subject of Elvis Presley. Triple Elvis is one of a series of paintings based on a publicity photo for the Western Flaming Star (1960). In it, Warhol notes with subtle irony the modern penchant for using celebrities in one field to bring their gloss to another. Warhol considered including a sound recording of a pistol shot in an exhibition of the series, but eventually decided against it.

Warhol Live is produced by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The exhibition doesn’t end here! Look for the b symbol on the enclosed calendar for related programming.

Andy Warhol. Triple Elvis, 1963. Silkscreen ink, silver paint and spray paint on linen; 82 x 71 in. virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis. Photo by Katherine Wetzel © virginia Museum of Fine Arts © 2011 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

focus on Triple Elvis in Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s WorkJune 24–september 11, 2011ingram Gallery

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Created in 1854 by Sister Hannah Cohoon at the Hancock Shaker village (or City of Peace as it was also known) in western Massachusetts, this simple yet striking watercolor is an example of what believers called a “Gift Drawing.” Such drawings are depictions of visions that the Shakers considered to be gifts from the spirit world. Written in ink below the tree, Sister Hannah recounts her divine visit:

I received a draft of a beautiful Tree…bearing ripe fruit. I saw it plainly…I have since learned that this tree grows in the Spirit Land. Afterwards the spirit show’d me plainly the branches, leaves and fruit….

Exhibition organized by Hancock Shaker village, Pittsfield, MA. Tour organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The exhibition doesn’t end here! Look for the N symbol on the enclosed calendar for related programming.

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Bob Jones university Museum & Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina, possesses one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the united States. This exhibition focuses on its Northern Renaissance pictures, which have been little studied since they were acquired in the mid-twentieth century. Twenty-eight fifteenth- and sixteenth-century paintings from Germany, France, the Lowlands, and Spain, including four that have recently undergone conservation, have been selected for this presentation. The fully illustrated catalogue, published by the Frist Center, sheds new light on the formation of this impressive collection and explores the context in which these complex and breathtakingly beautiful paintings were made.

The exhibition was organized by the Frist Center for the visual Arts and the Bob Jones university Museum & Gallery.

The exhibition doesn’t end here! Look for the s symbol on the enclosed calendar for related programming.

Attributed to Jan Gossaert. Madonna of the Fireplace, ca. 1500. Oil on panel, 33 x 22 1/8 in. Bob Jones Collection, 1952; Inv. no. P.52.28

A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery september 9, 2011–february 5, 2012upper-Level Galleries

The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue were made possible in part by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York.

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The roadside motel has been immortalized on the silver screen as a transitory place where identity and morality are often in question. In the installation Woman on the Run, Tracey Snelling makes a motel on the outskirts of an Arizona town the setting for a whodunit. She casts herself as a pretty blonde fleeing the crime scene and museum visitors as bystanders in search of the facts. using architecture, sculpture, video, and audio, Snelling playfully

heightens the campiness of classic film noir tropes as a way of critically examining the stereotypes they engender, especially in regard to women.

Organized by the Frist Center for the visual Arts with the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art.

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Presenting Sponsor:morgan Keegan

Tracy Snelling makes a motel on the outskirts of an Arizona town the setting for a whodunit.

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Joseph Alaimoulla AlbridgeJeanne AlvisDorothy BainesElizabeth BergerAdele BerkonJeannine BrahaneyMarilyn BrownJennifer BurnsBerdelle CampbellLucy ClineTeri CohenAshley ConnerGlenna CookLois Degler

Mary DemastusMae Helen DiamondAnn DoyleSibley EdwardsMorel Enoch-HarveyMarcia EricksonMancil EzellCary FreemanDon FusonKara GouldBob HainesPatti HarrisMarjorie HeadricksPatricia HickmanRobert Hilmer

Shirley HilmerBarbara HoffmanEvelyn JonesMimi KleinSally LevinePeggy LibbeyBob LoflinSylvia MartinRose Marie McKinneyMary MyersAnde NickellSusan O’NeillPam PalmerSuzanne PotterLena Prince

Irene RatnerBetty RichardsKim SchaferRuth SegersSusan SpurgeonMarie StarksJane StoneLem TanksleyLaurie ThompsonGloria WilhelmJudy Williamsvivian Wynn

10-Year Volunteer spotlight The Frist Center would like to express our sincere gratitude to the following volunteers who have provided ten years of service:

pLease Join us for tHe finaL frist fridaYs concert of 2011!

Frist FridaysJuly 29, 2011 Studio 54 Remix with DJ Ron Slomowicz

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spotlight: avant-GardeAll Frist Center members are invited to join the Avant-Garde!

Interested in having a more

in-depth and rewarding relationship

with the Frist Center? If so, then

join our Avant-Garde program.

As an Avant-Garde member you

will gain an insider’s appreciation

for the variety of exhibitions the

Frist Center offers, enjoy invitations

to social and educational events,

and have the unique opportunity

to mix and mingle with other

members who share your passion

for the visual arts and commitment

to the Frist Center.

aVant-Garde 2011 eVents caLendarFrist FridaysFriday, July 29 • 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.Avant-Garde will enjoy the Land Rover Nashville vIP Room during Frist Fridays in the Rechter Room.Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar will be provided.

ARTiniFriday, August 19 • 7: 00 p.m. Complete your evening with a private discussion with fellow Avant-Garde members and Lori Anne Parker, Ph.D., editor at the Frist Center, following an ARTini on the work of vesna Pavlovic.

Private Gallery TourThursday, September 22 • 7:00 p.m. Join Trinita Kennedy, associate curator at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation about the work of Tracey Snelling.

All Frist Center members may join the Avant-Garde by adding a $50 program fee to their membership dues.

Join the avant-Garde today! call 615.744.3255 for more information.

PicASSo ciRcle Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. BarkerJohn and Laura ChadwickR. Milton and Denice Johnson

RembRAnDT ciRcle Iris BuhlJoanne G. and Thomas H. CatoMartha R. IngramWill Kendrick and Emily verchotaEllen H. MartinMr. and Mrs. W. Paul RutledgeMr. and Mrs. James C. Seabury IIIMr. and Mrs. Nelson Severinghaus, Jr.Steve and Judy TurnerJay and Beverly Wallace

PReSiDenT’S ciRcle AnonymousMrs. Ann CarellJohn O. ColtonThe Rev. Canon Fred and Kathryn DettwillerFrank and Claire DrowotaRosalyn EltonDr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. EskindTom and Judy FosterBob and Julie GordonMr. and Mrs. Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam H. Hoover IIIMrs. Jack C. MasseyDianne and Tom TrueJonathan and Janet Weaver

DiRecToR’S ciRcle Irvin and Annie Laurie BerryPhil and Amberly BillingtonKaren and Pete BirdMr. and Mrs. Michael BrechnerAnn and Frank BumsteadMr. and Mrs. Sam E. ChristopherMs. Cheryl M. Coffin and Mr. Ralph E. TophamMr. and Mrs. Charles W. Cook, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Ben CundiffMarty and Betty DickensDee and Jerald DoochinGlenn and Ann EadenMr. and Mrs. Mark J. EddyMrs. Annette S. EskindMr. and Mrs. DeWitt EzellJill L. FachillaMr. and Mrs. Daniel C. FranceMr. and Mrs. Ray HarnessEllen W. HudsonMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. HulmeMr. and Mrs. Toshinari IshiiEllen and Kenneth JacobsMr. and Mrs. Clint JenningsMr. and Mrs. Randall L. KinnardMr. Neil B. KrugmanTrish and John LindlerPat and Dave MaloneDr. Michel A. McDonaldMr. and Mrs. F. Max MerrellAnne and Peter NeffDr. Harrell Odom and Mr. Barry CookJennifer and Eric PaisleyHal and Peggy PenningtonAdrienne and David PistonSusan and Gordon PostalRev. and Mrs. Tim TaylorByron and Aleta TraugerMs. Linda van AukenJim Womack and Anne HendersonMr. Matthew W. Wyatt and Mr. William B. Lyles

thank you to our circle members:

The Frist Center gratefully acknowledges all Circle Members who joined or renewed their support from March 1 to May 31, 2011. This support makes it possible for us to provide free admission to visitors eighteen and younger, as well as exhibition programs for seniors and families.

To inquire about Circle Level Membership, please contact us at 615.744.4902.

The listed Circle Members joined or renewed from March 1 to May 31, 2011. We make every attempt to list our donors’ names accurately and according

to their preferences. Please contact us at 615.744.4902 to alter future listings.

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The Connecting Cultures exhibition presents an exciting opportunity for education programs to create cultural connections throughout the city.

ARTFul TAleS, a new interactive family program, combines oral storytelling traditions with hands-on activities each month.

ARTiST’S FoRum PRoGRAm will feature various artists who guided participants in the creation of artworks for the Connecting Cultures exhibition. These artists will discuss their own artwork and their experiences with the project.

communiTy connecTionS are hands-on activities at different community partner organizations throughout the city once a month.

Please check the enclosed newsletter calendar and the Frist Center website for additional information.

Connecting Cultures is organized by the Frist Center for the visual Arts.

The exhibition doesn’t end here! Look for the u symbol on the enclosed calendar for related programming.

spotlight: education programsConnecting Cultures Programs

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A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & GalleryandTracey Snelling’s Woman on the Run

thursday, september 8, 20116:00–8:00 p.m.

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Our sister institution, the Birmingham Museum of Art, will offer the perfect complement to Warhol Live with Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, opening June 26, 2011.

This exhibition, on view in the BMA’s Jemison Galleries, was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and features approximately 175 works by 105 photographers. The exhibition includes images taken behind the scenes; snapshots of young musicians just starting their careers; photographs of live performances; images of the crowds and fans; portraits and conceptual images; and albums.

The exhibition will be on view at the Birmingham Museum of Art through Sept. 18, 2011. Tickets are $10.00. www.rockbma.com

WHO SHOT ROCK & ROLL:A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present Opens at the Birmingham Museum of Art June 26

Ian Dickson. The Ramones, 1977. Silver gelatin print. Ian Dickson/www.late20thcenturyboy

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currentThrough August 21Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection

Through September 11 Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work

Vesna Pavlovic:Projected Histories

openinGFrom September 9A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery

Tracey Snelling’s Woman on the Run

cominG soonopening october 7To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum

María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys

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The Frist Center for the visual Arts is supported in part by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Coffin of the Lady of the House, Weretwahset, Reinscribed for Bensuipet Containing Face Mask and Openwork Body Covering, New Kingdom (detail), ca. 1292–1190 BCE. Painted wood (fragments a, b); Cartonnage and wood (fragment c); and cartonnage (fragment d), 25 3/8 x 19 11/16 x 76 3/16 in. Place collected: Deir el-Medineh, Thebes, Egypt, Africa. Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.47Ea-b

vesna Pavlovic. Herzlich Willkom-men Im Hotel Hyatt, Belgrad, April, 1999, 1999. Color print, 30 x 45 in. Courtesy of the artist and G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, DC