7 February - 1 April 2002

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1980
POPism The Warhol '60s, a memoir dictated by Warhol to Pat Hackett is published.
A talk-show Andy Warhol's TV is shown on a cable channel and runs until 1982.
Warhol and Fred Hughes attend an audience with the Pope.
Ronald Reagan elected President.
John Lennon shot dead in New York.

1981
Warhol is engaged on several groups of works - Crosses, Dollar Signs, Guns, Knives - and a series based on American myths.

1982
For the Berlin Zeitgeist exhibition, Warhol creates pictures with motifs derived from Berlin. He travels to Paris, Zurich and China. He accepts more and more advertising commissions.

1984
Warhol creates the Rorschach paintings. He buys the Edison Building on East 33rd Street to house his studio, office and Interview magazine.
Ronald Reagan elected for second term.
AIDS virus identified.
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney published.

1985
Warhol paints Ads, based on advertising motifs and publishes America, a book of photographs. He exhibits the Collaboration Works, produced jointly with the young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

1986
Warhol produces the Camouflage pictures and re-workings of Leonardo's Last Supper. His television series appears on MTV as Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes.

1987
Warhol visits Milan for an exhibition of his Last Supper pictures. On 22 February Warhol dies unexpectedly in a New York hospital following a gall bladder operation. He is buried in Pittsburgh with only immediate family and friends present. More than 2000 mourners attend a memorial service in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York.