ANDY WOULD BE HAPPY

«Of more than 30 global art experts surveyed by the prestigious American magazine ARTnews to celebrate its 105 birthday not a single one picked (Damien) Hirst as an artist who would remain famous in the next century...Andy Warhol is the clear winner. Robert Storr the dean of the Yale School of Art who curated this year's Venice Bienale-where Emin represented Britain-said Warhol and John Cage «upset the applecart of certainties and beliefs that had driven art for a hundred years. Warhol took the mediating qualities of television, film and so on and examined how they filter out the intensity from content»

-THE INDEPENDANT
Nov 24 2007