I'm as tired of Warhol as you are. Trust me. The only issue: a lot of his work is pretty amazing and a chance to see more obscure film projects always draws me in.

Through 06.26.09, MoMA has a film series running called The West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention by Andy Warhol that features screenings of three of Warhol's little seen films in the Western vein as he roadtripped from New York to LA to go to a gallery opening. As any diehard Warhol fan knows: he wasn't fond of flying.

In June 1963 Andy Warhol acquired his first silent 16mm Bolex movie camera. Three months later, the artist and a few friends embarked on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles to attend the opening of The Ferus Gallery's exhibition devoted to his silk-screened Elvis canvases. For his first trip to California, Warhol brought along the Bolex and documented the exhibition in what he called a "home movie," Elvis at Ferus (1963). He also shot footage for Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of (1963), a feature-length avant-garde adventure that follows Taylor Mead as Tarzan through Hollywood. Immersed in the fan culture of popular cinema, pulp novels, and gossip magazines, Warhol conflated the tawdry images and iconography of Hollywood into his experimental films, using parodies of celebrities, the exaggeration of their tragic public moments, and riotously altered archetypes of the commercial film industry.

The West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention by Andy Warhol provides an unexpected context for the reconsideration of a selection of Warhol's films that were inspired by and shot in California and Arizona. The films for this exhibition are all directed by Andy Warhol, from the U.S., and drawn from The Museum of Modern Art's collection.

Read the full press release here, where you'll also find the schedule of screenings.

The West: Myth, Character, and Reinvention by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
MoMA
Through 06.25.09