Playboy Redux Exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum

The Playboy Bunny is half a century old this year, and still looking as great as ever. 50 years back, in 1960, the first ever Playboy Club opened its doors in Chicago, Illinois. You’d have enjoyed it Buddy! Those pretty ladies with the rabbit ears, delivering your Tom Collins with a cheeky wink and a shake of that cotton tail. If you got really lucky, maybe sometime over the years you wandered in to the club at Union City, unwittingly soaking up the stage performance of a soon to be interstellar (and blonde) Deborah Harry. Yes, that’s her above; wasn’t she a doll?

There’s a celebration going on at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in honour of those who’ve worn the Bunny ears at one time or another over the last five decades. Curators Aaron Baker, Eric C. Shiner and Ned West have invited over 20 contemporary artists to reinterpret the iconic Bunnygirl for an exhibition go under the name of Playboy Redux: Contemporary Artists Interpret the Iconic Playboy Bunny.

Artists exhibiting include: Scott Anderson, Shag, Ain Cocke, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Chitra Ganesh, Ludovica Gioscia, Hiroki Otsuka, SEEN, O Zhang and Tim Biskup, who provided the wonderful diamond stained glass girl below.
The Exhibition runs until the 17th of June and for those of you lucky enough to be in the area, head over to WWW.WARHOL.ORG for the details.