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“I’m starting to think of Andy Warhol’s impact like a meteor striking the earth,” says Mark Rosenthal, the organiser and guest curator of “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. “He created a new topography. And in that topography there are new rivers that form, many things change, to which people adapt. I’m coming to think that Warhol did change the world and had the greatest impact of any artist in the past 50 years.”It’s a thought-provoking statement, but “we’re prepared to argue it” says Marla Prather, the show’s co-curator and the Met’s curator of Modern and contemporary art. 

“In terms of how Warhol keeps returning to us in the larger cultural theatre of media, television, music, enterprise and even covers for your iPhone, ask yourself, ‘Is there anyone who’s had a bigger influence?’” Taking cues from other shows over the past decade that highlighted the influence of artistic giants such as Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso, the Met calls “Regarding Warhol” the first major exhibition to explore Warhol’s influence on his contemporaries and younger generations in depth. Alongside 45 works by Warhol such as Red Jackie, 1964, and Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962, the Met has brought together 100 works by around 60 other artists that Prather says have “reacted, reinterpreted and responded”, to Warhol’s work, including Alex Katz, Deborah Kass, Jeff Koons, Elizabeth Peyton, Hans Haacke, Chuck Close, Barbara Kruger, Anselm Kiefer, Ai Weiwei and Ryan Trecartin.Explaining the genesis of the exhibition, Rosenthal says: “I was struck by how often I read that Warhol is the most influential artist of the past 50 years. 

-The Art Newspaper