Lisa Shockley, left, Sarah Wood-Clark, center, and Ryan Schaub hang a print Thursday for the exhibit “Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends” at Union Station in Kansas City, Mo. The exhibit will run from Nov. 10 to Jan. 10, 2010.

Kansas City, Mo. ? The psychedelic image of Marilyn Monroe’s face dominating the front of Union Station is a bold announcement that something different is afoot.

Workers have installed the station’s first out-and-out art exhibit with a major collection of 84 pieces by Andy Warhol.

Station officials hope “Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends” will appeal to a broad audience.

“I encounter in people all the time an expectation that Union Station should be doing new and different things and testing boundaries,” said Christopher Leitch, director of the Kansas City Museum and the station’s project manager for the exhibit.

The exhibit features Warhol’s “unique interpretations of American consumerism, pop culture and an obsession with visual identity,” according to Lillian Lambrechts, senior curator for Bank of America.

The works span Warhol’s career. There’s the familiar, such as the Marilyn portrait and 10 Campbell’s soup cans. But the subjects also encompass a Birmingham, Ala., race riot, endangered species and portraits of Jews of the 20th century.

The exhibit is self-guided with printed programs and a recorded guide that can be downloaded. There is an opportunity at the end for a hands-on exercise in color.

Other Warhol exhibits currently at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence and at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita are composed of photographic works and are complementary to the Union Station exhibit.

The exhibit will coincide with the 10th anniversary, on Nov. 10, of Union Station’s reopening. Admission for those 13 and older is $12. For children 3-12 and for Union Station members, it is $8. Group rates also are available. Call 816-460-2020 for more information.