Andy Warhol's foray into digital art

Tech detective work on some old computer discs show Warhol was one of the first artists to work with digital technologies. Thanks to the curiosity of Cory Arcangel, a forgotten hoard of Warhol artworks have been retrieved from old Amiga discs by students who hacked into the defunct software. Read more...
Image: Andy2, 1985, a self-portrait created by Andy Warhol and recently retrieved from an Amiga computer floppy disc

China's Ministry of Culture rejects Warhol's Mao works

Andy Warhol's images of Chairman Mao won't be part of a traveling exhibition of his work when it goes to China. According to Bloomberg, the Mao works have been rejected by the Ministry of Culture. If mainland fans of Warhol want to see silkscreens of the great helmsman they will have to catch the Hong Kong leg of Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal. Read more...
Image: Andy Warhol's Mao

Campbell's launches a limited edition of Warhol-themed soup cans

Campbell's is launching a limited edition of Andy Warhol-themed tomato soup today. Priced at 75 cents each, the cans are intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the artist's first paintings of the familiar soup cans. The soup will come in a variety of intensely coloured cans meant to mimic Warhol's pop-art style.
Image: Campbell's limited-edition line of cans launched in honour of the 50th anniversary of the artist's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans

Ireland's 'bad bank' ventures into the art market

It's a long way from its core business (debt management/repayment plans), but Ireland's so-called bad bank is getting involved in the international art market. Created to buy risky loans from the country's beleaguered banks, the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) is placing a number of artworks on the market, including an Andy Warhol Dollar Sign, to recoup some of the debts of one of Ireland's biggest real estate investors during the Celtic Tiger property boom.

Image: Andy Warhol's Dollar Sign

$1k to $50m

50 years ago LA art dealer Irving Blum, a former furniture salesman who bought a stake in Ferus gallery, persuaded Andy Warhol to mount his first solo show there. He also had the foresight to buy Campbell's Soup Cans for $1,000. The work which eventually sold for $15 million has returned to LA MOCA for a tribute exhibition to the gallery and Blum as one of its directors who also championed Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella early in their careers.
Image: Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962