The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies
November 15, 2012–March 31, 2013 at
Whitney Museum of American Art
, New York
From Andy Warhol's commercial for Schrafft's restaurants to Sherman Price's film The Imp-Probable Mr. Weegee (1966, pictured), starring Weegee as a crazy photographer, footage of the moon landing, and George Kuchar's mock Hollywood melodrama Hold Me While I'm Naked, this exhibition brings together rarely seen films, advertisements, and political campaign messages that reflect the extravagant yet deadpan excess of Pop. Together they reveal the central role played by television and cinema in articulating the excitement, anxiety, and desire underlying both Pop art and popular culture in the 1960s.
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Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV and the Movies
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