Andy Warhol

  • Warhol in Three D

    The Whitney’s Warhol exhibit gave me a new perspective on his work.  Up until “Andy Warhol— From A to B and Back Again,” I had only considered his art in two-dimensions – in books, in magazines, and on stark white walls. The current Whitney exhibit got me to consider him in three. Two labels in

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  • I was always intimidated and self-conscious when I talked to her or was in her presence because she was like art. I mean, she was an object that had been very strongly, effectively created. (Robert Rauschenberg, Edie: An American Biography, 1982) George Plimpton did an excellent job editing all the interviews Jean Stein gathered for

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  • Factory Girl

    How different would Factory Girl have been if Andy Warhol were still alive? Would he have threatened to sue like Bob Dylan?  Or would have cursed it out like Lou Reed? He called it, “one of the most disgusting, foul things I’ve seen — by any illiterate retard — in a long time. There’s no

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  • What Would Andy Say?

    I liked to listen for NEW WAYS to say old things and OLD WAYS to say new things. : Andy Warhol (1980), Popism: The Warhol Sixties It’s natural to wonder what Andy Warhol would have thought about “social media” if he were alive today. He made his name selling Pop Art and using “new media.”

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