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Notebook #5: Andy Warhol, Ramsay MacDonald, Bill Ryder-Jones

Notebook #5: Andy Warhol, Ramsay MacDonald, Bill Ryder-Jones

A pop artist, a prime minister, a curly-mop singer-songwriter

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Feb 04, 2024
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Man of the cloth

Andy Warhol. Credit: Stephen Shore/303 Gallery

Where did Andy Warhol come from? The straight answer is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was born to working-class Slav immigrants from what is now Slovakia.

But where did Andy Warhol the artist come from? That question is answered convincingly in an absorbing new exhibition at the Dovecot …

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