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*  SAMUEL DORSKY MUSEUM OF ART****
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*April 22, 2010

Contact:    Eric Gullickson 
                                                                                                           


                  (845) 257-3245


   Billy Name to offer talk on Andy Warhol and photography

*NEW PALTZ --* The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 
 at the State University of New York at 
New Paltz will host a gallery talk with photographer and Andy Warhol 
Factory denizen Billy Name at 3 p.m., Thursday, April 29, in the Sara 
Bedrick Gallery.

The talk is in association with the Dorsky Museum's current exhibition, 
"Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs," 
 which 
runs until Sept. 26. The exhibition focuses on Andy Warhol's exploration 
of the interconnections between private and public life as seen in a 
group of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs made by Warhol from 
1970 to 1986. The photographs were donated to The Dorsky Museum by The 
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., The Warhol 
Photographic Legacy Program.

The concept for the exhibition was developed by students in the 2009 
Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program and Museum Studies courses led 
by Art History Professor Reva Wolf, who has written extensively on Andy 
Warhol and art and popular culture, and Brian Wallace, curator of The 
Dorsky Museum.

Name, originally from Poughkeepsie and residing there now, lived in and 
documented Warhol's studio, the Factory, during the 1960s through his 
work as the "official" Factory photographer. In addition to his 
continued work as a photographer, Name has had numerous appearances in 
Warhol documentaries.

Name's work was also included in the Max's Kansas City exhibition in 
Copenhagen in 2004, the Andy Warhol birthday exhibit at the Shoreham 
Hotel in New York in August 2005 and the "Bande à part" exhibition in 
Paris in 2005.

The event is sponsored by the Student Association's student-run Art 
History Association.

Suggested admission to The Dorsky Museum is $5. For more event details, 
reservations, accessibility or directions, visit www.newpaltz.edu/museum 
 or call (845) 257-3844. The Dorsky 
Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.

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