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Warhol:The Textiles
Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain
‘In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,’ said Andy Warhol.The remark could not have been more prescient, with the rise of social media, fromTikTok toTwitter, meaning anyone can be a star. Best known for his Pop Art portraits of Marilyn Monroe, a Coca-cola bottle and can of Campbell’s soup, Warhol lived his life in the media glare so one’s first thought is what more can there be to say? Plenty. Before his meteoric rise to fame in the early 1960s,Warhol was a successful commercial artist. Over 30 of these designs feature, with motifs from ice cream sundaes to acrobatic clowns. Authors Geoffrey Rayner and Richard Chamberlain have also curated the accompanying exhibition, Andy Warhol: The Textiles at London’s Fashion andTextile Museum until 10 September, gathering a previously untapped seam of designs. Yale University Press London, hardback, £30