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Where to study Warhol and his works

Tate Modern's ‘Andy Warhol' retrospective is temporarily closed, but the gallery's website offers, which, in true Warhol fashion, features 60 copies of a 19th-century reproduction of Leonardo's . In between these bookends, the show covers all the different phases of Warhol's multimedia career, including his films and his adoption of the band The Velvet Underground. The curators have even re-created his floating work, ().The accompanying catalogue by Gregor Muir and Yilmaz Dziewior includes a number of interesting essays. Also out this year are by Blake Gopnik (Allen Lane) and by Robert Shore (Laurence King).

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