Playboy's Warhols

Playboy's WarholsLast year, there was an ad in Artforum magazine announcing the first exhibition of Andy Warhol's drawings since his death in 1987. Of all the famous, and infamous, images that might have been displayed to represent the man's work, the one selected was Warhol's interpretation of the Playboy Rabbit Head, which appeared on the magazine's January 1986 cover. It was an appropriate choice. The image neatly characterizes the career of a commercial artist who appropriated cultural icons...