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New York, USA / Andy Warhol · Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Collection lens: Andy Warhol · Jean-Michel Basquiat
Why it matters
MoMA brings painting, photography, film, design and performance into one modern-art narrative. It offers a strong institutional context for comparing Warhol’s serial logic with Basquiat’s layered use of writing, signs and figures.
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New York, USA / Medusa · Gorgon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Collection lens: Medusa · Gorgon
Why it matters
The Met’s Greek and Roman holdings show the Gorgon face travelling across ceramics, armour, jewellery and architectural ornament. Medusa emerges not only as a narrative character but as a protective image transformed over centuries.
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London, United Kingdom / Pop Art · Andy Warhol
Tate Modern
Collection lens: Pop Art · Andy Warhol
Why it matters
Tate Modern’s Pop Art resources explain the relationship between photography, print, repetition and consumer culture. They place Warhol beyond a single celebrity portrait within the wider network of post-war visual culture.
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Pittsburgh, USA / Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Museum
Collection lens: Andy Warhol
Why it matters
The Andy Warhol Museum preserves paintings alongside films, photographs, recordings and the personal archive. It is a key source for studying the full process through which an image was selected, transformed and circulated as a series.
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Los Angeles, USA / Basquiat · Warhol
The Broad
Collection lens: Basquiat · Warhol
Why it matters
Seeing Basquiat and Warhol within The Broad’s collection makes tensions between street language, celebrity, consumption and the art market visible. Their collaboration and distinct visual languages can be read side by side.
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Seattle, USA / Jimi Hendrix
Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP)
Collection lens: Jimi Hendrix
Why it matters
MoPOP’s Jimi Hendrix resources combine guitars, manuscripts, stage clothing and his Seattle connection. They reveal how musical innovation, stage persona and the photographic icon developed together.
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Los Angeles, USA / Amy Winehouse · Music history
GRAMMY Museum
Collection lens: Amy Winehouse · Music history
Why it matters
The GRAMMY Museum approaches music history through recording technology, performance, songwriting and stage identity. Artists such as Amy Winehouse show why voice, personal narrative and visual image cannot be separated.
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Cleveland, USA / Hendrix · Lennon · Winehouse
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Collection lens: Hendrix · Lennon · Winehouse
Why it matters
The Rock Hall combines instruments, costumes, posters, recordings and oral history with biography. Hendrix, Lennon and Winehouse appear not simply as famous faces but as makers who changed recording culture and public language.
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Florence, Italy / Medusa · Caravaggio
Gallerie degli Uffizi
Collection lens: Medusa · Caravaggio
Why it matters
Caravaggio’s Medusa at the Uffizi combines fear, motion and illusion on a convex shield. It shows how a mythological face forms a physical relationship with the painted surface and the viewer’s gaze.
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London, United Kingdom / Medusa · Ancient Greece
British Museum
Collection lens: Medusa · Ancient Greece
Why it matters
Gorgon objects at the British Museum allow comparison across periods, regions and uses. Coins, ceramics and amulets explain how a powerful face entered cultural memory through repetition.