And next of all of kings county reached 1 million people. Then at 8 00, on lectures in history and thats the real sort of interesting thing about country music, is that its the music of poor white people. People who are privileged to be white and ill talk about that in a second. But also people who are underprivileged. In terms of their class identity and economic opportunities. Dickinson College Professor cotton sigh letter on the emerging definitions of whiteness and blackness in colonial america and how it impacted the origins of country music. Then sunday afternoon at 4 00 on real america a cautious congress, budget cut backs and tangle of administrative problems on a new years horizon created evidence that the societys greatest enemies may be slowed or worse level off and fade. This is the climate, the land and unfinished tasks that face Lyndon Johnson on the 1st of december, 1966. The film, the president 1966, documents the final month of the year of president lindon b. Johnson. His meeting with mexicos president at a cooperative dam project, awarding the medal of honor to a marine who fought in vietnam and celebrating the holidays with his family at his texas ranch. And at 8 will okay, on the presidency, author of madam president , the secret presidency of edith wilson. Edith wilson was president Woodrow Wilsons second wife, and she buffered access to the president as he recovered from massive stroke in 1919. For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Andy warhol is one of the most prolific artists of the 20th century. And i thatgoes back to how he w able to tap into certain ideas of what it is to be human and this base understanding of american identity as well that remains to be part of our culture culture. He also tapped into technology in a really interesting way. He was always surrounding himself with a younger generation, younger ideas. He wasnt an artist that went stale at the later part of his career. He died in 87, even to the last part of his career, he was painting enormous canvass, a lot of work that wasnt shown during his lifetime. It wasnt as if he fell into a specific way of working and kept that way of working. He really expanded his practice, opened up to larger ideas and to technology. And i think, you know, thats why he has remain sewed contemporary. Warhol grew up in pittsburgh. He was born in pittsburgh in 1928. He was the youngest of three siblings, three boys. Julia, his mother, were immigrants. And he gree w up fairly religio. They were business enteen catholic. There was a lot of creativity in his house. Julia is known for her creativity. We have a lot of her drawings in the collection. She add spunky spirit about her and warhol did a film, mrs. Warhola, at one point in the 60s and kind of captured her humor. A lot of people would reference julias quick wit. He had an illness at an early age. And because of that, he spent a lot of time at home with his mother. I think thats why they had a special bond and where his Creative Energy started. We are on the 7th floor of the Warhol Museum for early years from pittsburgh. Years working at carnaghi tech, which is now carnaghi melon. He was there from 1944 to 1949. We will look at paintings he did for his senior year, just this canvas called nose picker one, why pick on me. It was originally titled the lord gave me my face but i can pick my nose. The reason why it is past meeting is it is a provocative. A young boy picking his nose. He submitted it to one of the most important shows of the dwlaer would have been at the carnaghi human. Of art. Style of exhibition and it was denied by the jury. Warhol didnt give up and that summer he showed it again with the different title of why pick on me for his student show at carnaghi tech. So it also has a little bit of biographical reference to it. Im fascinated by some of warhols fixations on his own body or bodies of others. He is known for talking about in the philosophies of andy warhol and how he didnt like his nose. How his family called him the rednosed warhola and he was referred to as spot as a young boy from his skin discoloring and it goes back to his biography and the person behind the work too. Warhol had a certain charisma about him throughout his entire life and i think that that also manifested here in pittsburgh. And i think he was considered to be a bit peculiar. Not like the average student at carnaghi tech. His drawings show that in the College Years that they are a bit surreal almost. That kind of show the body in darker ways. But he kind of did what he wanted to do. He was irreverent from the beginning and provocative from the beginning. He went up to new york with a fellow classmate, Phillip Pearl steen. They took the bus together. They lived in a little tiny apartment together and they both really tried to market themselves as commercial illustrators to get their foot into the door they did a lot of commercial design. So this is a really important period for warhol. Just when he gets to new york he is sort of formulating his own e identity and trying to break his way into the art world. There is also a moment when he starts focussing on his own image and wears wigs in 1956, toupeees. Then gets into the silver wig in the 60s. He also does elective Plastic Surgery and he gets his nose altered. But its as his career starts to transform, he is also thinking of his own image and his body in that place. So the photo next to me is an auto signed photograph and shows warhol going in with a black mark el to chisel out this perfect profile. So there it is again this fixation on beauty and transformation. In the 1960s he started honing this technique of using dr. Martins dye and doing a blotted line technique. So he is able to make multiples of everything. He would use glossy paper, ink it up and remove it and you would have almost a stamp. So he would make multiple versions of the drawing which made the fashion editors he was working with very happy. So warhol got his name in womens fashion with glamour magazine. Harpers bizarre. He did a lot of shoe illustrations. He did a lot of fashion and makeup and also flemming joff, a Leather Goods company. He got his name started in commercial design and illustration. Were standing in one of the strongest galleries in the museum. It showes the real strength of warhol at this moment and a really daring moment for him. He is still kind of figuring out what his signature style will be. One of those strongest works in his gallery right now is our brandnew acquisition from 1962, the do it yourself sailboat. So a one painting in a small series of works that warhol did based off of the paint by numbers box sets that you could get as every average american could buy. The painting that im standing next to make him want you is from a year earlier, from 1961 and part of this small collection of early paintings and warhols practice. And i particularly love this painting. It was taken from national enquirer, a dating ad in the back of national enquirer. A teeny tiny ad that blew up and transferred to the canvas through a projecting process. But for me its interesting because this is a moment when he is doing the crayon on the canvas. Which is kind of still playing with that idea of mark making. And in an abstract way. Also, when you see the whole piece together as one, it reads like an american flag. So you have this ideal of this male and female make him want you, and this stars center, and where he removed all of the original text with the ad and goes in straight with the crayon. A bit of play with gender politics there and warhol is being a gay artist in the 50s of doing painting called make him want you. It is provocative. And you wouldnt necessarily get that right away. It isnt all in the process. So this is the Screen Printing gallery. This is his Screen Printing paintings. This is from 1962, one of the earliest batches of the screen printed canvass. Im standing next to a really beautiful selection of Jacqueline Kennedy paintings that warhol made in 1964 and he made these just after the assassination of jfk. And they show in a really simple way this blur between death and smiling. There are moments of jackie when shes with jfk and this gold one here, just before the assassination. Then there are images from the funeral. So it really shows this idea of celebrity in the public eye and death and mourning in the public eye as well. This painting of Jacqueline Kennedy is also a part of wore halls fixation on beauty in the media and death in the media. So in 1962 he did the Marilyn Monroe canvassing which were done just after her suicide. Then he selects Jacqueline Kennedy when she is going through this very public loss. And part of that focus is that her face was everywhere. So warhol said the same thing about Marilyn Monroe when she passed that her face was all over the media and on the front page of all kind of newspapers. Same thing with Jacqueline Kennedy. The loss became very public. So warhol in a way is really sealing that moment in time and even when we look at them now they still have that very erie sense of mourning to them. Were in the next gallery here on the sixth floor of the museum. Were looking at an array of brilo boxes and campbells soup box that warhol made in 1964. These are iconic works for warhol. It is one of the first adventures he took or ventures that he took in sculpture. And they are fascinating because they play with this idea of the readymade. The idea that any object is already a sculpture in itself. And that this idea of the gallery giving it value. But warhols pieces are more provocative because they are not true brilo boxes. They arent the actual object taken and reimagined in the gallery space. They are handmade. He had them crafted bay carpenter. They are plywood boxes. Then he hand stencilled and screen printed he over top of them. The campbells one is really lovely because you can kind of see it almost in process on one side it is not completely finished. So all of this is hand done. And when warhol originally displayed these at the stable gallery, he did it in a way with the brilos, that they were stacked almost to the ceiling. Almost as if you were in the back stockroom at a Grocery Store or warehouse. But he played with the way that viewers could navigate the space and the idea of blocking a visitor from going certain ways around them. So really thinking of the ideas of really fascinating ideas of sculpture. Around this moment that warhol is making the brilo box answers doing scre s s and doing screen tests. This projection way he was working in high volume like with the brilo boxes, and ended up working almost in a factory style. So that idea ended up translate together name of his studio so he ended up calling his studio the factory. Eventually called the silver factory because it was literally covered in silver paint and silver aluminum foil. We are right now in a gallery that highlights warhols first f into film making. So im standing with two screen tests. His dushant screen test and billy name screen test. Billy name was a studio assistant with warhol. He was the one that famously covered the factory in silver and where he got this iconic silver name from. Billy name covered his own apartment in silver aluminum foil and spray hant and warhol thought it was super fascinated and asked him to come and dot same thi do the same thing to his studio. But the screen tests are extremely fascinating. Again a play with medium. The sa. But the screen tests are extremely fascinating. Again a play with medium. Warhol uses 16 mill meets of film. He uses one reel of film until it runs out. So they would sit there for approximately four minutes and were supposed to sit still in silence but it rarely worked. It is uncomfortable to face a camera for that long. There are all kind of things that people do to break out in that four minutes. But it is also way for him to create an underground world. Play with hollywood film answers warhol is making his own version of that. So were standing in our gallery of commissioned portraits that warhol started making in the 70s. This is dooebbie harry. Debbie harry is an iconic youthful woman strong fierce rocker woman that warhol was working with and doing portraits of and taking photographs of and really captured her in this really incredibly energetic iconic moment in her career. He has frozen that in time with these portraits of glamour. People would commission him to do their portrait for him. But he also did certain celebrities. Like mick jagger. That were Iconic Images of the youthful movement in new york and music and debbie harry. So warhol would make multiples, the ones we have left now often in the museum are the portraits that the sitter didnt want. So would he always make a variety so people could pick the color they wanted or the final results. Would he start with the polaroid. So he would take these beautiful polaroid answers turn them into silk screens and then into the large paintings. So were standing in a really amazing gallery in the museum that shows andy warhols skull paintinges from 1976. And theys enormous. They show scale in warhols work. They also show this late resurgence of painting in his practice. Sort of mop on paint and then screen print over top. So warhol gets back into really working with his hands and canvass in this period. But thinking of warhol and here he is doing the ultimate portrait of death of a skull. Like this and with many things he used a polaroid as the beginning source image so he has a polaroid of a skull. He turned it into a large screen and this beautiful screenprinted canvas. In 1968 warhol is shot multiple times by Valarie Solanas. Someone trying to be around the factory and in his films. She felt very dejected when he decided not to work on one of her films. She went in and attempted to take his life. He was shot multiple times. Nearly died. Survived. But really changed his work and his life in and the way that he worked physically in his studio. He went from a very opendoor policy to a closeddoor policy. Building more of a businessminded practice. But large paintings like this show his ability to still sort of gravitate towards very eye cannotic imagery. So the idea of death is very human and he captures it here in almost this portrait way. But the scale is great here. You feel kind of dwarfed under the skull and there is a hint of dark cynicism or humor. Almost looks as if the skull is smiling. Warhol died in 1987. Kind of very unexpectedly from complicatio complications following a routine gl routine gallbladder surgery. He is buried here in pittsburgh. You can visit andy warhols grave if you want. There is a 24hour webcam on his grave. It has the famous quote that warhol had wanted on his tombstone, the word, figurement. No name, no date, just figment. So we are in the archive study center here at the andy Warhol Museum. The archives is the heart of the museum. We have all of warhols personal collections, including decorative art objects, posters, photographs, clothing, scrap books, source material, everything you could imagine that this man collected. We also have the heart of the archives is the time capsule collection. Which is a set of 610 cardboard boxes that you can see covering the walls around you. So one of the earliest items that warhol collected as a young boy were movie star images. That he would send away for. Probably one of his favorites was this one from shirley temple, that she sent to him when he was still andy warhola. But it didnt stop there. We have celebrity photographs. Can you see the combination between this celebration of the celebrity and the constant collecting. Which you know as a young boy in pittsburgh, who was also very ill a lot of the times, this is kind of the perfect outlet for him to reach out to these people that were so glamorous and beautiful to him while he was still stuck at home. One of the strength of our archives is the deep amount of source material that we have for all of warhols projects. So in front of me you have the very famous marilyn source material which is a promotional still for one of her movies. And you can see the crop lines he added in himself. He also took his source materials from different, you know, different types of materials. So this is a book, the mergens of john f. Kennedy. Can you see this page where he was cut out jackies face for part of the jackie series. And then of course, the famous funeral scene of jackie in mourning. So in keeping with warhols fashion with celebrity and autographs, this is the autograph book from the factory itself that when people come by and visit warhol he would have them sign this. So you can see, we have Phyllis Diller on the left and aretha kit on the right. And just go through. And some people left lengthy little notes. Some people did their own little artwork. My favorite is the peter beard signature. Which is quite unlike any others in the book. Peter beard is a photographer. He was a good friend of warhols. Dea lot of wo dehe did a lot of work in africa. He discovered the model iman. He is a model in his own right. Even with the photography he would do a lot of these types of drawings on his photographs. And in addition to his hand print, we also have a fork thats afixed. And it is also signed, cheryl teeings, who he was dating at the times. One of the great things about having candid shots of warhol is that you kind of see the man at ease and he really lets his guard down. These are two really great photos of warhol with his friends he, mick jagger, jerry hall, and thats quinn in the background with her photograph. You can tell he is just loving every minute of this. It is such a break from the very kpoeds, very methodical image would he put out there. You asked for one of my favorite items. This is my favorite. It is rob lowe wrapped in a plush snake. We think it is probably i lewding to the Brooke Shields with the snake wrapped around her. This is snapshot and on the back it says, andy, thanks so much for all the fun. Dont forget i would love something from you. This is a trade. Call me from l. A. We have on the table some of the different processies that warhol did in his lifetime. Eventually would he get really big into photography. We have two of these big shot cameras, which were polaroid. An assortment of his other cameras. I have a sample film reel here. It is the film is i am man which is the film that Valarie S