Warhol: A Life as Art
by Blake Gopnik (Allen Lane, £35)
In March, Tate Modern opens its first major Andy Warhol exhibition in nearly 20 years. It follows the Whitney’s monumental show last year, the first US retrospective since the one at MoMA in 1989 organised after Warhol’s unexpected death two years earlier. Given the global ubiquity of Warhol’s image and works-whether in galleries and auction rooms, or on funky stationery and Calvin Klein swimwear-the long gap may seem hard to believe. After Picasso, Warhol is the most famous and influential artist of the 20th century.