FEELING RIGHT AT HOME

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Watch Andy Warhol's films and videos and it's easy to imagine the late pop artist feeling right at home in the current age of reality TV and web video.This was a man who made an hour-long film of people's random activities at his New York art studio, shot "screen tests" of subjects instructed to simply gaze into his camera for a few minutes, without moving or even blinking, and videotaped his own mother sleeping."He somehow did foretell our complete obsession with putting ourselves in the limelight, reflecting ourselves back to the world in a kind of instantaneous way, all the things that the Internet, YouTube and 'American Idol' have made possible," said Sherri Geldin, director of the Wexner Center for the Arts.

-The Canadian Press
October 2 2008