GRACE JONES & ANDY WARHOL

Her apartment in New York still contains all the records of her past apparently: “It’s like a museum. My Warhols — the ones he did of me, a series of small hamburgers, and photographs and Polaroids, because we spent so much time together. Keith Haring, Mapplethorpes, a lot of Jean-Michel [Basquiat]. They all follow you around the room, like eyes.”We talk about Warhol’s legacy on the commercial art world of today. “What Andy did do was make it possible for artists to make money while they were still alive. This was his genius. But he was very generous with me. That whole lot just loved doing art, you know — it was more about that. Creating.»

The Times
Jan 23 2009