Andy Warhol once famously said that everyone can be famous for 15 minutes. At the Dali Museum, he'll get his place in the spotlight for three and a half months.
Museum director Hank Hine says Warhol: Art. Fame. Mortality. will be a collection of paintings, drawings and photographs on loan from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. There will also be a "screen test room" where visitors can be filmed, a la Warhol's famed screen tests, and it can be then sent to everyone you know over social media.
Hine says there's a reason Warhol was selected to become the first artist other than Dali will be displayed at the museum.
"This one is singularly resonant, I think, because of their personal contact and the way Warhol really appropriated Dali's approach to the press, and his creating a persona for the public that was maybe quite different than the private person who made work in isolation", explained Hine.
Hine says the two artists had a lot of contact - including Dali being filmed in one of Warhol's screen tests. He hopes up to 50,000 additional visitors will attend the exhibition.