7 February - 1 April 2002

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1970
An extensive Warhol retrospective tours the USA and Europe, and is shown at the Tate Gallery, London. A hand-painted Campbell's Soup is auctioned for $60,000, setting a record for a living American artist. Gerard Malanga and Billy Name, both important Warhol associates, leave the Factory.
National Guard shoot student protestors at Kent State University.

1971
Warhol designs the cover for the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers. His play Pork is performed in New York and London. Increasingly weak and erratic, Warhol's mother Julia returns to Pittsburgh. Warhol undertakes an increasing number of society portraits.

1972
Coinciding with Nixon's visit to China, Warhol returns to painting with the Mao portraits.
Warhol supports the Democrat candidate Senator McGovern by creating a lurid silkscreen of his opponent, Richard Nixon. Warhol makes the films Heat and Women in Revolt.
Julia Warhola dies in Pittsburgh at the age of 80. Andy does not attend the funeral.
President Nixon re-elected.

1973
Warhol produces films Flesh for Frankenstein and Blood for Dracula.
USA agrees to withdraw from Vietnam.
Arab oil embargo leads to fuel shortages in USA.

1974
Warhol makes portraits of his mother, and works on portraits of art dealers.
He begins to assemble his Time Capsules, labelling and storing away boxes of everyday objects, documents, notes, and letters. By the end of his life, he has 610 of them.
Watergate affair forces Nixon's resignation.
Gerald Ford becomes President.

1975
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), written with Pat Hackett.
Warhol's links with the Iranian royal family lead to his invitation to a White House banquet in honour of the Shah.

1976
Warhol makes the Skulls series and Bad, his last film.
Jimmy Carter elected President.
Film Taxi Driver is released.

1977
Studio 54 night club opens in New York. Warhol becomes a regular. Warhol's folk-art collection is exhibited at the Museum of American Folk Art.
Punk rock is at its peak.
Elvis Presley dies.

1978
Warhol produces Oxidation and Shadows pictures, as well as portraits of Liza Minnelli, Muhammad Ali and Man Ray.

1979
Warhol creates the Retrospectives and Reversal series. A book of photographs, Andy Warhol's Exposures, is published.
The Shah of Iran is overthrown.
The US embassy in Tehran is seized and occupied.