ANDY WARHOL, Muhammad Ali, Debbie Harry, Ric Ocasek, Polacolor Type 108

The Art Museum recently received a gift of 153 photographs by the famed Pop artist Andy Warhol. A selection of those works will be on view beginning May 10 in Andy Warhol: Fame and Photography.

Made through the Photographic Legacy Program of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the gift to UKAM was part of an unprecedented project to distribute more than 28,000 Warhol photographs valued at more than $28 million to 183 universities and colleges throughout the country.

“I told them I didn’t believe in art, that I believed in photography,” Warhol wrote in his diaries, and his prodigious output of Polaroid and black-and-white photographs proves his point. The artist was known for cultivation of celebrity and the infamous edict that in the future, everyone will enjoy fifteen minutes of fame.

Subjects in the gift of work include portraits ranging from singer Debbie Harry and producer David Geffen to boxer Muhammad Ali; also included is a version of Warhol’s Last Supper and photographs made at the Kentucky Derby.