«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Paris Hilton says she want to act only if Quentin Tarantino direct.

-Next!

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

A Quebec man was fined $40,000 after sharing pics and videos of himself having sex with an ex-girlfriend. He posted the files online, even after promising his girlfriend that he would never ever publish them.The 20-year-old woman said she felt betrayed and humiliated. Superior Court Justice Sylviane Borenstein added that the man's actions were vile.Police had to actually raid the man's apartment to get hold of the computer containing the nasty files. He has also been ordered to stay away from his ex and cannot even talk about her online. We say: if you make a dirty video just post it online and be done with it all. Stop pretending it's never going to see the light of day!

-BananaGuide
July 8 2009

«I HAVE SOCIAL DISEASE. I HAVE TO GO OUT EVERY NIGHT»

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Castlestone Asset Management’s Collection of Modern Art fund has picked up several new holdings, including pieces by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.The retail fund, which launched at the end of March, added to its portfolio, made up of works by post-war artists who are no longer producing.It aims to capitalise on a drop in the value of the asset class, following a 40% drop off in auction sale volumes since 2007.The acquisitions, which also included work by Keith Haring, Yves Klein and Arman, join a collection which includes Jean Michel Basquiat, Lucio Fontana, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning.Constanze Kubern, who advises Castlestone Management on the art market, says "We saw a good level of bidding activity for museum-quality pieces."It looks like there is still demand in the market, but like us, buyers are taking a more considered approach. We are very pleased with our acquisitions and will continue to seek high-quality Post-War art, but only at the right price."

Investment Week
July 9 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Whether you like me or not, I’m not going away anytime soon and I don’t care if you like me, I just care if you read my website.”

-Perez Hilton

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS BRITNEY SPEARS CONVERSION RUMOR GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

ART & THE FACEBOOK GENERATION

My daughter is 17 and I see her as a member of the Facebook generation. The web took off when she was a toddler and I remember taking her to the park and she pointed to the lake and said, "Click on that swan."I think she and her peers simply see digital technology as part of life, like my generation see the motor car or mains electricity.This has plusses and minuses: on one hand they are not impressed by the technology per se but by what you can do with it; on the other hand, like my young daughter in the park, they may have a one-click attitude to creativity.Digital communication encourages a superficial relationship with the real world: if a friendship is not working or a process is boring, an alternative is one click away.On Facebook, people are either friends or not, there are no subtle grades like in face-to-face relationships. I know from bitter experience that real satisfaction comes from achieving a result despite setbacks and long effort. The cyber-mediated world often confuses ideas and understanding with actual experiences and appreciation.We have a generation who can do well in a pub quiz, but may struggle with processes that need long experience and practised judgment; a generation who fully understand that anything can be art, but not what makes some art great.We need to understand that just because some programme gives us the ability, it does not give us any meaning.

Telegraph
July 4 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN DISCOVERING YOUR SUGAR DADDY GOT A VERY SMALL ONE!

Copyright by IVAN

«THEY ALWAYS HAD GREAT GIRL MODELS BUT NOW THE BOY MODELS ARE JUST AS GOOD“

FAME & TECHNOLOGY

With every new technology - from the rise of film, recorded music, talking pictures, transistor radios, FM radio, cable TV, and now the digital revolution - experts have predicted the death of celebrity. But each advance has generated celebrities bigger than the past. New technologies, as the work of German economist Peter Tschmuck has shown, open up new distribution channels and new markets that give birth to ever bigger stars.The first big star was Rudy Vallée, whose soft singing voice was amplified by the invention of the electric microphone. He inspired other crooners like Bing Crosby, whose 500 million records sold make him one of the top five selling artists of all time. Next came Frank Sinatra - a true mega-star whose scores of bobby-soxer followers helped solidify the notion of teen pop culture and who was one of the first to capitalize on tie-ins between radio, albums, and feature films. Then came Elvis Presley, the King who took teen culture to a whole new level - his hip-swiveling appearances on Ed Sullivan making national news - and sold more than a billion records over his career.

Richard Florida
The Atlantic
June 7 2009

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Frank Stella

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. »

-Elizabeth Taylor

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

In a new study from Northwestern University, 350 college-age men and women attended speed-dating events. In half of the games of romantical chairs, the guys went from girl to girl; in the other half, the girls went from guy to guy. Each pair got four minutes to chat, after which they evaluated their interest in each other. When it came to the events where men worked the room, everyone performed just as expected: The men were less selective than the women. But when the usual speed-dating routine was turned on its head and the women made the rounds, the guys were more selective and the ladies were less picky.

-Salon
July 8 2009

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF"

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: 15 MINUTES OF FAME

For 15 minutes Susan Boyle was as world famous as Michael Jackson.

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Tennant: "No, it'd be my diaries. I've kept them since 1977. There's no comment, or not very much. Today's entry might read: 'Met journalist from Scotland on Sunday who thought we'd be nostalgic.'"

Lowe: "So do you use secret symbols?"

Tennant: "Like for when I had sex? No. But my first editions would be next out of the house. Graham Greene, George Orwell, EM Forster, Evelyn Waugh – I've got A Handful Of Dust with a letter inside written by Waugh."

Lowe: "So are you going to bestow them on the British Library when you die? They could form The Neil Tennant Wing!"

Perhaps Alan Bennett's little entertainment would be called Shopping For A New Woofer, on account of the fact they met in a musical equipment emporium where Tennant, an ex-Smash Hits! journalist, was buying a £150 synthesiser. "This disco lad from Blackpool taught me about rhythm," he says. "I liked the Bee Gees, but had no idea how you did that stuff." Tennant had been writing songs for a while – "piano ballads" – including one about the Profumo affair which would later form the basis of their Dusty Springfield collaboration, Nothing Has Been Proved.

Tennant: "I was also struck by how funny Chris was."

Lowe: "And I was struck by how unlike any of his friends I was – the rest of them were pretentious Geordies.

Tennant: "Absolument!"

At this year's Brits, the Pet Shop Boys were honoured with a gong for Outstanding Contribution to Music presented by a gushing Brandon Flowers of the Killers.


-Scotsman
July 6 2009

«SHOPPING IS MORE AMERICAN THAN THINKING»

FAME IN THE 21st CENTURY

In the new wired world, we are constantly reminded of our own notoriety, or lack of same, compared to everyone else in the world. In the pre-Web world, not only were we not famous, we were also blissfully ignorant of the fact. Today, it seems that everyone should strive to have some small sliver of fame. Keeping up with the neighbors isn't about what's parked in your driveway, it's how many hits your blog gets. Social status is now measured in backlinks, hits and followers. My brother-in-law dealt my ego a devastating blow when he gave me a T-shirt that said "More people have read this T-shirt than my blog." But I'll get even. He won't be getting any link love in this column.

-Mediapost
July 2 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:CELEB MAG: IN THE FUTURE PARIS HILTON WILL PUBLISH« HEIRESS SEX 101»

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

The magazine was launched in 1913 by visionary publisher Condé Nast and editor Frank Crowinshield. From its inception, the magazine strove to engage its cosmopolitan and discerning audience with the vibrant modern culture that sparkled at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of modernism, the dawning of the Jazz Age, and the 1913 Armory Show that introduced avant-garde art to the American public, all marked the beginning of this sophisticated new era. Vanity Fair magazine became a cultural catalyst, introducing and providing commentary on contemporary artists, personalities and writers.

Art Daily

«DEATH MEANS A LOT OF MONEY, HONEY»

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- A Michael Jackson portrait by Andy Warhol that sold for $278,500 in May is being offered for a minimum of $800,000 by an East Hampton, New York, gallery, reflecting the booming market for Jackson items since the pop singer’s death on June 25.

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF ONLINE FAME

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

«Over the centuries it was artists, poets, and novelists who told us about the things they considered beautiful and they were the ones who left us examples. Peasants, masons, bakers or tailors also made things that they probably saw as beautiful, but only a very few of these artefacts remain."

-Umberto Eco

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It is as satisfying to me as coming is - you know, as having sex with a woman and coming.»

Arnold Scharzennegger
( «selling» bodybuilding in the 1970's)

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barbara Piasecka Johnson, the Johnson & Johnson heiress, is selling 200 paintings and works of art this week in the latest test of demand for Old Masters as the market adjusts to the financial crisis.Auction houses and dealers are joining forces to mount the U.K. capital’s first “Master Paintings Week” and offering a combined 83.5 million pounds ($136.3 million) of art.Johnson’s works may make at least 5.7 million pounds of the total as dealers said quality works have maintained their value. Old Master prices have not fluctuated as much as those for contemporary art in recent years, where the average auction price has fallen 76.2 percent since May 2008, London-based ArtTactic said in a report published in May.

«I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON»

Reading through his posts' comments, we noticed they seemed extra-virulent these days. Is that our imagination? Or does it reflect the aftereffects of his Black Eyed Peas kerfuffle? In other words, is PerezHilton.com so 3008, or is he merely 2000 and late?

-Entertainment Weekly
Juy 6 2009

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Florentijn Hoffman

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.»

-Camille Paglia

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«We have not the time to take our time. »

-Eugene Ionesco

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

The socialite was romantically linked to Ronaldo last month after they met at a Los Angeles nightclub and spent a night together at the home of Hilton's sister Nicky.Hilton later attempted to play down rumours of a romance with the Portuguese footballer, describing him as "just a friend".In a new interview with The People, the star explained: "I didn't want to start dating Ronaldo because I've got no intention of ending up becoming some kind of footballer's wife."People were saying we were the new Posh and Becks - in fact that's what people said I was going around saying - but it's not true. Posh and Becks are a beautiful and amazing couple but I would not want to be just a footballer's wife."She added: "Posh has managed to do so much more than just be classed as Becks's woman. But some girls just become known for being a footballer's girl. I wouldn't ever want to be pigeonholed like that."

Digitalspy
July 5 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:CELEB MAG: FLASHING HER NEW BOOBS AT BRAD ANGRY JEN CONFRONT HIM: «LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE MISSING»

WARHOLIAN DEFINITION

«A boy is butch if he weighs over 170 and he's an all american football type, a spilling-out masculine man. A butch person looks like-well, we don't have one at the office»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Oct 7 1977

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

It was the 17th-century writer Blaise Pascal who said, "Inside of every man there is a God-shaped vacuum that only God can fill." Of course, I happen to believe the French philosopher's premise is correct. That said, if God is not filling an individual's spiritual vacuum, the individual will seek to fill it with something or someone else. Pascal's premise helps to understand why some people are workaholics or obsessed with a hobby. It even might help to explain why some pursue alcohol, drugs or sex with wild abandon. It also helps to grasp how many people fixate on a celebrity as an object of worship.

BP News.net

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: GET A WARDROBE MALFUNCTION ON THE DANCE FLOOR AND GET A MAN!

Copyright by IVAN

«THEY ALWAYS HAD GREAT GIRL MODELS BUT NOW THE BOY MODELS ARE JUST AS GOOD“

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: CELEB MAG: IS LADY GAGA PLANNING A LESBIAN SEX TAPE WITH PARIS HILTON?

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.»

-Brigitte Bardot

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

I've always found minimalism a bit empty in the way it simultaneously rejects the seriousness and spiritual ambition of high modernist art, and yet is still abstract. Why be abstract if you don't believe in the pursuit of the absolute, which, as the art historian John Golding wrote, has driven abstract artists from Kandinsky to Rothko? A Donald Judd sculpture always in the end seems like a style-conscious arrangement. The reputation of such work is hugely inflated.

By contrast, the pop artists rejected modernism where it hurt. They dispensed with its urge to abstraction. Pop truly ended the introspective pursuits of modernist abstract art. They put art back in the world. And it has stayed there. The vitality of the best art for 50 years now has always come back to the social. This can produce triteness. But it also gives us art that matters.

The Guardian
July 1 2009