Andy Warhol Empire, 1964
16mm film, black and white, silent, 8 hours 5 minutes at 16 frames per second
©2007 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.

The Eternal Now at the Model Arts & Niland Gallery in Sligo is an exhibition focusing on Warhol in the Silver Factory period between 1963 - 1968 with an emphasis on the film works. The program will feature rare screenings of Empire (in all it's 8 hour 5 minute glory) and Sleep as well as the Screen Tests , Kiss and music and films resulting from his collaboration with the Velvet Underground. Also on exhibition will be screenprints from the electric chair and photo booth series and the silver cloud sculptures alongside photographs from the factory by Billy Name, Stephen Shore and Nat Finkelstein. This for me is the definitive Warhol period and one whose influence is strongly felt in contemporary art particularly for those of us working in ´new media´ art. Highly recommended.