Exploring Popularity
Warhol, Johns, and Stella: Revisited
Andy Warhol, Green Pea Soup, 1968, color silkscreen on paper
“Andy Warhol’s MTV” screen print by Dr. Ethan Thompson
“Andy Warhol’s MTV” on view at Art Museum of South Texas
Each semester the Art Museum of South Texas enlists a TAMU-CC professor to respond to one of our current exhibitions. This interdisciplinary collaboration lends context and new insights to the artwork on display. The selected professor crafts a unique response to the work incorporating their own research, expertise, and interests.
In Exploring Popularity, Dr. Ethan Thompson responded to the exhibition Warhol, Johns, and Stella: Revisited, through research into the appearances of Andy Warhol on MTV. The resulting “Andy Warhol’s MTV” documentary and screen prints were displayed during two free community nights at AMST in November and December 2022.
DR. ETHAN THOMPSON
Professor of Media Arts (TAMU-CC)
Ethan Thompson is Professor of Media Arts at Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi, where he has taught courses in media history, criticism, and production since 2002. He is currently completing a book about MTV in the 1980s. Ethan has published five books as author or editor, including How to Watch Television, Parody and Taste in Postwar Television Culture, Satire TV, and Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Popular Memory. He also produced and directed the feature length documentary, TV Family.
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