The largest ever travelling exhibition of the works of Andy Warhol will not feature the artist’s famous portraits of Chairman Mao when it reaches China next year, according to organisers.
“They said the Maos won’t work,” Eric Shiner, director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, said in an interview in Hong Kong. “This is disappointing because his imagery is so mainstream in Chinese contemporary art.”
Warhol, a monumentally overrated artist who bears ultimate responsibility for the glut of terrible “Pop Art” photos which constantly plague social media, created the portrait of Mao in 1972 after Richard Nixon’s historic trip to China.
