Warhol in New York: a fresh experience for audiences old and new

His Marilyn Monroe paintings and oversize soup cans are cultural icons, but in an exhibition opening Monday, New York’s Whitney Museum hopes to paint a new, more complex picture of Andy Warhol. These days, few dare to tackle the king of pop art: he has already been the subject of hundreds of exhibitions and retrospectives. But under the guidance of chief curator Donna De Salvo — who worked with Warhol before his death in 1987 — the modern and contemporary art museum is doing just that. De Salvo believes America’s last Warhol retrospective — in 1989 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art — “changed much of our thinking about Warhol but also left much unanswered.” Now the Whitney, located on the banks of the Hudson River in the city’s Meatpacking