"Transmitting Andy Warhol" is the first exhibition to explore Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) and his role in establishing new platforms to disseminate art, and his experimentation with new approaches to art reception that redefined artistic practice and distribution. The first solo exhibition of Warhol’s work in the north of England, "Transmitting Andy Warhol" rethinks Warhol’s pivotal role in re-defining the access to culture and art as we know it today. Highlights include the Marilyn Diptych, Dance Diagram and Do-it-Yourself paintings, and other loans from international collections and the ARTIST ROOMS collection. Also presented will be a spectacular evocation of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Warhol’s famed ‘total art’ environment which provided the framework for performances by the Velvet Underground.

The exhibition brings together more than 100 artworks and is the first solo exhibition of Andy Warhol’s (1928–1987) work in the north of England.