Queering Art History | A Lecture on Warhol

A gay man, a devout Catholic and the child of working-class Rusyn immigrants from the region of Austria-Hungary that is now northeast Slovakia, Andy Warhol had a complicated relationship with the art-historical canon and the New York City artworld. Join Kenneth Brummel, Curator, International Art and co-ordinating curator of Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, for a lecture on how Warhol queered art history in works such as Triple Elvis, 1963, a painting featured in Pop to Present.  

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Kenneth Brummel has over 15 years’ experience working at major art museums in Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States of America. In 2021–22, he was co-curator of Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, which in 2022 was named a top 10 international exhibition by The Wall Street Journal and the third-best exhibition in the world by The Washington Post. At Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, he is co-curator of The Robertson Gift: Paths through Modernity and coordinating curator of Pop to Present: American Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. A specialist of 19th- and 20th-century international art, Brummel has mounted exhibitions on a range of modern artists, including Vilhelm Hammershøi, Joan Mitchell and Jean Paul Riopelle, Anthony Caro, and Andy Warhol. His collaborative research in the field of technical art history has been covered in major magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine and Science. Brummel holds an MA in art history from The University of Chicago.