The Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA) has chosen Andy Warhol, the original pop culture icon, for its headline 2023 Adelaide Festival exhibition.
The exhibition poses the question: was Warhol the original influencer? In so doing, it cleverly talks to a younger audience for whom many of these celebrities are just names from the past. Probably best known beyond his art for the oft-quoted, and now scarily prescient, line ‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes’, the working-class boy from Pittsburgh has enjoyed far more than 15 minutes in the spotlight. And, no, it seems he never actually uttered the line anyway.
