The Grove Foundation for the Arts

is exhibiting:

a collection of related bodies of work that received limited exposure during Andy Warhol's lifetime due to social and sexual taboos, remaining largely unknown to the broader public. The private collection on display features 150 Polaroids, including works from the series Ladies and Gentlemen (1974-75), Torsos (1976–77), and Sex Parts (1978–80), as well as pieces from Querelle (1982). A custom-crafted Louis Vuitton Malle steamer trunk, designed specifically to display the Polaroids, underscores the exhibition's identity as a traveling collection. This one-of-a-kind trunk highlights the tensions and contradictions between cultural hierarchy and commercialism—illustrating the high-versus-low dialectic Warhol explored throughout his career, and that animates this exhibition.

To accompany the works, the Grove Foundation for the Arts presents a short documentary by Cicala Filmworks that further explores the "dialectical third"—the liminal space that becomes fertile ground for conversation, where art's meaning evolves and expands.