MARKING TIME: ANDY WARHOL’S VISION OF CELEBRATIONS, COMMEMORATIONS, AND ANNIVERSARIES
In Fall 2017, Reva Wolf taught a class on Andy Warhol in which students wrote essays for the catalogue of an exhibition she organized about Andy Warhol’s exploration of our culture’s obsession with marking time through commemorating births, deaths, and other kinds of anniversaries. The students also wrote the informative wall labels accompanying the works in the exhibition. Here, Professor Wolf and her students celebrate, on opening night: 
The exhibition catalogue is available at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and through the SUNY Press website, at https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6645-marking-time.aspx Marking Time was on view in Spring and Summer 2018 at the Dorsky Museum, and was part of “Warhol x 5,” a series of 2018 exhibitions organized by five university art museums in the region.
Drawing upon each others’ collections, in an enriching collaborative exchange, each museum focused on a distinct theme. The themes of the other four exhibitions were children (University at Albany), beauty (Vassar College), unidentified people (Bard College), and repetition and iteration (Purchase College).
The five institutions also collaborated on a symposium sponsored by the State University of New York Conversations in the Disciplines program and held at Vassar College and SUNY New Paltz:
Here are links to some of the press coverage of the “Warhol x 5” project:
https://www.chronogram.com/hudsonvalley/andy-warhol-exhibits-grace-hudson-valley/Content?oid=4239467
http://www.rollmagazine.com/andy-warhol-celebrated/
Professor Wolf spoke on this project at the 2019 College Art Association (CAA) annual conference in New York City, in a panel on the uses of university museums. Two of the students who contributed to the catalogue, Rebecca DuBois and Emily Finan, were in attendance and contributed to the discussion. Also in attendance was Einav Zamir Dembin, who had worked on an earlier student-faculty research project on Warhol:
ANDY WARHOL: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN 151 PHOTOGRAPHS
In 2009-10, Reva Wolf collaborated with the staff of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and students in a specially designed course on an exciting research project that culminated in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs, accompanied by a catalogue of the same name. 
The project was conceived in response to a gift of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs by Warhol that the Dorsky Museum received from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., through the Foundation’s Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. The exhibition was held from April through September, 2010. The two installation shots pictured here feature, on the back wall of the gallery, a statement from The Andy Warhol Diaries that reveals a lot about Warhol’s ability to see through–and make light of–categories: “I told them I didn’t believe in art, that I believed in photography.”
For the opening of the exhibition, attendees were encouraged to wear wigs, in homage to Warhol:
For the exhibition catalogue, each student selected one photograph or a thematically-related group of photographs to research. It was incredibly exciting for the students to have the opportunity to publish their findings in the catalogue, distributed by SUNY Press (and designed by a student majoring in art). Copies are available for purchase at: http://sunypress.edu/p-5145-andy-warhol.aspx. Here is the cover, and several copies as spotted on prominent display on a table at the Tate Modern bookstore in London in Spring 2011:
In April 2010, the photographer Billy Name, who lived at Warhol’s studio, the Factory, through much of the 1960s, gave a gallery talk about the exhibition, sponsored by the Dorsky Museum and the student-run Art History Association. Gerard Malanga, Warhol’s main painting assistant in the 1960s, came to the museum to hear Billy’s talk. The following pictures show Billy giving his talk and Billy, Reva, Gerard, and Dorsky Museum director, Sara Pasti:
In September 2010, a panel discussion on Warhol’s photographs was held in connection with the exhibition. Speakers included: Jenny Moore, project curator, Warhol Photographic Legacy Program; Neil Printz, co-author of the catalogue raisonné of Warhol’s paintings and sculpture; and Shelley Rice, photography historian, critic and arts professor at New York University (see Panel Discussion Flyer 2).
Although the exhibition Andy Warhol: Private and Public in 151 Photographs has ended, the student-authored catalogue lives on, inspiring, for example, the inclusion of one of the photographs–a picture of Warhol’s boyfriend Jon Gould with a statue of the dog Balto (whose identity was discovered by the student who wrote about this photograph)–in Thomas Kiedrowski’s guidebook, Andy Warhol’s New York City:
Support for the exhibition, catalogue, and panel discussion were provided by the Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience Award; Office of the Dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts; then Provost and current President Donald Christian, and Sandy Christian; Eugene Heath; Cynthia (’76) and Stephen Johnson; Sally and William B. Rhoads; Barbara (’87) and Robert Strangfeld; and an anonymous donor. The Friends of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and the State University of New York at New Paltz provide ongoing support for the Museum’s exhibitions and programs.