«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

In the audience sat the men of the Mugrabi family — the patriarch Jose and his sons, Alberto and David — New York art dealers for whom the evening was not so much a transitional moment as simply another high-stakes day at the office. The Mugrabis own what is believed to be one of the largest and most valuable private collections of art in the world. By their estimate, it includes more than 3,000 works. They have built the collection over the past 25 years, since Jose, an Israeli-born fabric merchant who raised the family in Colombia, moved his wife, Mary, and their two sons to America and got into the art business full time.

The core of their collection is a staggering 800 works by Andy Warhol — “easily the biggest Warhol collection in the world after ours,” says Tom Sokolowski, the director of the vast Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh — and roughly 100 each by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann and George Condo. At 69, Jose remains largely interested in artists with connections to the Pop movement.

New York Times
Feb 27 2009

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Big Movie years will come again, but never again will the Oscars provide a thrilling, once-a-year-only unmediated peek into the lives of Hollywood royalty.Back when the likes of Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway reigned over the event, the Oscars were the pinnacle of celebrity culture – not that such a concept had even been invented yet. Now we have armies of prying, sanctimonious celebrity magazine editors who revel in exposing stars’ foibles and creating insta-narratives out of their everyday ups and downs.We have thuggish teams of paparazzi to provide the anywhere-any-time photographic goods. We have obsessive, lightning-fast bloggers who live to express their instantly formed opinions on celebrities’ choices in fashion and romance. When don’t we see Hollywood unmediated? It just may be that the “celebrities without makeup” movement killed the Oscars. That unglorious historical march was begun by Bonnie Fuller, when she turned Us Weekly from an earnest Hollywood-publicist-approved profile magazine into the latest word on which Oscar-winning actress has cellulite, which up-and-comer holds a Starbucks with one hand while pushing a stroller with the other.

The Wrap
Feb 21 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: NASTY

Only women can match the level of nastiness between two gay men hating each other. It's because both gay men and women are masters at hypocrisy.

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.»

-Boy George

THE SWISS WAY

«Slept late and then Thomas Ammann woke me up to do a portrait. A beautiful wife with a fat husband. I said she didn't need any makeup. She was easy to do because she was a raving beauty. Her husband tells her she's ugly-Thomas says that's how Swiss people treat their wives because they never want them to get too secure».

The Andy Warhol Diairies
Feb 11 1980

“ONE THING I MISS IS THE TIME AMERICA HAD BIG DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

It looks like people are finally catching on: Porn sells! In their latest ads for their jeans, Rufskin Denim prominently features Johnny Hazzard—looking as delicious as ever—modeling their new Press-On Stretch denim jeans as if he's posing for a Rascal Video shoot. But Johnny's not the only triple-X stud featured in the campaign: Black Scorpion exclusive (and upcoming Men magazine cover stud) D.O. and RandyBlue's Leo Giamani both get dressed up—or down, as the case may be.
Now that gay porn stars are making the jump to modeling clothes, it can't be all that long before they're hawking detergents, breath fresheners and Preparation-H. We can see it now: "Hi, I'm Johnny Hazzard. I'm not a doctor, but I have given a lot of oral exams..."

Gaywired
Feb 19 2009

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

BRIGID BERLIN

The Andy Warhol Museum has just opened a delightful little exhibition titled "Breaking News: Brigid Berlin, A Retrospective."
This small retrospective of Warhol's closest friend and self-appointed social outcast, and the work she created from the 1960s to the present, includes her early Polaroids, handmade "trip books" and "black books," tape recordings, audio recordings and recent needlepoints that depict sensationalist covers of the New York Post, New York Daily News and Newsweek.Berlin, 69, is the daughter of Richard Berlin, who was the director of the Hearst empire for 52 years. She was raised in New York's elite social circles. Persecuted by her socialite mother who was overly concerned with what everyone else thought of her overweight daughter, Berlin came to shun the upper crust at an early age.

Pittburghlive.com
Feb 12 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«People say I use my billboard technique to make art. Baloney! I used my art technique to paint billboards.»

-James Rosenquist

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

GAY MEN JUST LOVE OLDER WOMEN WITH THEIR BOY TOYS.

John's got an older girlfriend now. So does Robyn Geddes. Forty year-olds who boss them around.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
July 31 1979

CANDY DARLING

She hung out with artists like Andy Warhol and crossed paths with musicians like David Bowie. The filmmaker Paul Morrissey put her in two of his movies. Lou Reed wrote the Velvet Underground song “Candy Says” with her in mind and included a verse about her in his “Walk on the Wild Side.”And she inspired Jeremiah Newton, now the film, television and video liaison at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, to begin assembling the only known archive of items associated with Candy Darling, including diaries, letters, photographs and her cremated remains. After providing the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh with part of the collection a year and a half ago, Mr. Newton delivered the rest of the items last week.

New York Times
Feb 25 2009

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.»

-Yves St-Laurent

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR”

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

What are your thoughts on slow-mo cum shots?

I like them! You just know someone’s gonna make a movie called Cumdog Millionaire, and it’ll be nothing but slow-mo come shots coming at ya in 3D with really hot Indian guys and Bollywood music. I would totally watch that!

-Margaret Cho

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

The world may be embroiled in a crippling credit crisis, but that didn't stop collectors from paying record prices at what Christie's is calling the "sale of the century." The auction house brought in $262 million in its first night of the three day sale of Yves Saint Laurent and partner Pierre Berge's 733-piece art collection. During the sale's first night, collectors acted as if they were dancing on the Titanic, paying record prices for Brancusi, Matisse and Mondrian. A three-foot Brancusi wooden sculpture went for $36,792,835 (realized price without fees). The most recent Brancusi record was for "Bird in Space" which sold for $27.4 million in 2005. Other sales records from the night:

HENRI MATISSE Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose: $45,264,579
PIET MONDRIAN Composition avec bleu, rouge, jaune et noir: $27,191,525

-The Huffington Post
Feb 23 2009

“I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART"

Artwork by Ed Ruscha

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Confirming their reputation for stylishness and modernity, Barack and Michelle Obama are searching for paintings by living artists to hang in their private quarters in the White House.The Sunday Times has learnt that the works that have caught their eye include paintings by Jasper Johns, best known for his iconic 1950s images of the American flag, and Ed Ruscha, one of the originators of pop art, which belong to the National Gallery in Washington. The final selection has not been made yet, but paintings by the late Robert Rauschenberg, a sometime lover of Jasper Johns who died aged 82 last year, are also under consideration.

The Times
Feb 21 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SCHOOL

Why are male high school dropouts always so good looking?

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

on where Brit can go hide from the paps: "Britney needs to go wherever OBAMA Bin Laden is hiding, because we can't find him."

-Joy Behar

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Sean Penn wins best actor Oscar for Milk.

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

A GOOD LOOKING SHOW

«Wendy Stark picked us up and we drove out to Venice. Went to the Ace Gallery for my Torso show. It was a beautiful sunny day, 100 degrees but dry. The show looked good-cocks, cunts, and assholes. They had 1,000 copies of Interview ready to be given away».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Sept 23 1978

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

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

The comments from David Nahmad, a Monaco-based dealer who is possibly the biggest in the world, come as art buyers reel from the collapse of the contemporary market...Mr Nahmad, who is reputed to have a £2bn collection of some 5,000 paintings, including 300 Picassos, told The Independent on Sunday: “There are a lot of embarrassed people who bought art that is now not worth what they paid for it. For the past three or four years it’s been a very, very thin market, with just two or three buyers pushing up prices by bidding against each other.“Unfortunately, a lot of people knew the game. So those people who did not know are realising it now. It’s almost a fraud. I would never advise my clients to buy contemporary art.”

Mr Nahmad and his family have made billions of dollars trading art. They specialise in the works of great modern artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Rothko. He added that he doesn’t think any artist since Francis Bacon had pushed art forward. The last notable artists were Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, he said. “There is the real art market, with real artists, and then there is the stupid art market which uses publicity to make some artists become very expensive. That doesn’t mean they are good. Damien Hirst’s diamond skull at $100m was a stupid thing; $100m is an offence. Hirst started with $10,000 – that’s OK. But $100m? That’s ridiculous.”

The Independent
Feb 22 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.»

-Jennifer Anniston

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART”

Photo: W magazine.

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Madonna will take Brazilian model Jesus Luz as her date to the Oscars, it has emerged. According to reports, the 50-year-old singer has been arranging matching outfits for the with the 22-year-old toy-boy, reports the Courier Mail.

WARHOL ET KEITH HARING

Si Warhol voulait faire de l'art dit sérieux en se servant d'un objet de la vie courante pour en faire de l'art, on peut dire que Keith Haring à l'inverse a fait lui de l'art une affaire courante.

COCKINESS FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS

In the 21st century the real question is not US vs China. It's 17 millions jews worldwide vs 1.5 billions muslims.

“ONE THING I MISS IS THE TIME AMERICA HAD BIG DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE" -ANDY WARHOL

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis.Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union.He said the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September marked a turning point in the functioning of the market system."We witnessed the collapse of the financial system," Soros said at a Columbia University dinner. "It was placed on life support, and it's still on life support. There's no sign that we are anywhere near a bottom."

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

The celebrities of yesteryear were flawed as well. There are no halos around the likes of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Marlon Brando. The difference may be that we have 24 hour access to celebrities of our time. If Colin Farrell is in bed with a married young starlet, we will know the minute the condom comes off...The time of the fashion icon with grace, mystery and majesty may be over. Audrey Hepburne may have had several interests but you would never be in her bedroom with night vision video recording the whole affair. Frank Sinatra may have slept with half of Hollywood but he did it his way and we never knew about it except for the rumor.s

-Papierdoll

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.»

-Bette Davis

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

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Rihanna shows her facial bruises.

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PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME"

The free sites are still wildly popular today. Alexa, a web information company that ranks the top global sites on the web by traffic, on Thursday had ranked YouPorn at #35 and RedTube at #49, both above CNN’s Web site, which was #50 and #72 Apple.com. (LINK) .The adult entertainment business was once grudgingly acknowledged as a pioneering industry that led the way for innovations later emulated by Hollywood – first to adopt video, and first to embrace the Internet, among other things. Now the adult industry is being hit hard by piracy, and what happens could be a harbinger for Hollywood.

The Wrap
Feb 12 2009

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: STUDYING

The only thing one really need to study is human nature...

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I modelled my looks on the town tramp.»

-Dolly Parton

“I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES"

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A JEWISH WRITER WILL ASK:ARE RISING OCEANS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

TEN JEWS

Ron Feldman came down and we looked down at the Ten Jews. It's really such a good idea to do that, they're going to sell".

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Feb 19 1980

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Next month Britney Spears will kick off her Circus tour with the Pussycat dolls and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. MTV reported that Perez was asked by the tour's director/ choreographer, Jamie King, to tape a video that will air at the beginning of each stop on the tour. "King told us that he had a dream about Perez and wanted us to be a part of the Circus," Hilton blogged on his site. "His dream is the video we shot last weekend, which is the opening video for the entire show. Britney was down with the idea and we, of course, said yes! We are thrilled to be a part of it!" Hilton will apparently be dressed as some sort of ‘ringleader’ for the video. This is certainly something for everyone to look forward to!

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.»

-Rita Hayworth

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Paris Hilton says she "loves" the Aussie pop princess and revealed Kylie Minogue was the inspiration behind her second album. She says, "I haven't met her but I love her. She's so hot." My whole album was really inspired by Kylie Minogue. I love her, I love her music and I wanted to do a dance album. I wrote every song on the album."
Hilton, 27, also denied rumors she is dating George Clooney, adding: "George is my neighbour but we live in a gated community so we don't really see anyone. The houses are so big, it's hard to see your neighbours."

“I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED”

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST: MODELS

Feb 15 2009

Worked till 8;00 on my 13 year old dad portrait and decided to watch TV after. And there was Edmund White talking about his book about Rimbaud. He said that when he was young he wanted to be like Rimbaud and have an older man like Verlaine leaving his wife for him. That's great. And oh, everybody is talking about that model who fell on the runway. They should have a show of only models falling on the runway one after another. Then Karl Lagerfeld could compare it to some Duchamp painting or «cubist statement.» That would be great art.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.»

-Truman Capote

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

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

A nude photograph of pop star Madonna, taken in 1979, has sold for $37,500 (£26,000), at an auction in New York.The explicit black and white picture was taken when Madonna was a dancer struggling to make ends meet. An unnamed buyer bought the picture, which had been expected to fetch $15,000 (£10,365), said Christie's.

BBC NEWS
Feb 15 2009

LA PHILOSOPHIE WARHOL ET L'ARGENT

La philosophie Warhol est on ne peut plus pertinente en temps de crise économique. Certes il disait que la Reine d'Angleterre ne pouvait s'acheter un meilleur Coca que le type au coin de la rue mais surtout il affirmait que les moments ou il se sentait le plus heureux étaient lorsque ne survenait pas de problèmes ne pouvant ëtre résolus par l'argent. Façon en quelque sorte de bien accorder à la chose l'importance qu'elle a tout en ne lui donnant pas celle qu'elle n'a pas...

“ MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR"

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Paris Hilton has begged Simon Cowell for a role on American Idol. The socialite and hotel heiress - whose new TV program Paris Hilton's British Best Friend is currently airing in the UK - is keen for the multi-millionaire music mogul to get her on one if his prime-time shows. She says, "I want Simon to know if he could get me on American Idol, or on one of his shows, I would be delighted." Hilton, 27, recently revealed how she is turning into an Anglophile since shooting her reality show in the UK.
She said, "London is my favorite city in the world. The girls in Los Angeles are such sl**s. "Every time I come to London, people say I've bought a property, but that's not true. I do love it though. London is hot!"

“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«In Western culture the most important thing is the concept. My position is more fragile. I don't have a Western history, my position isn't standing. It's floating.»

-Takashi Murakami

NEOLOGISMS

"There are dozens of Warhol shows, small and large, in several countries on several continents almost every year," says Joel Wachs, presidentof the board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, an organization created after Warhol's 1987 death to promote the arts. "Wherever you go around the world, when you say 'artist' someone will answer 'Warhol.'"Our lexicon has even adopted words like "Warholian " and "Warholesque" to describe contemporary artists, artists like Shepard Fairey who created the iconic (and controversial) President Barack Obama "Hope" campaign poster recently obtained by the Smithsonian.

Inside Bay Area
Jan 13 2009

“I ALWAYS THOUGHT COWBOYS LOOKED LIKE HUSTLERS. THAT'S NICE”

STRAIGHT MALE MODELS

«Saw the Christian Dior show and the Valentino show. With the male models, all the really straight-looking models are gay and all the really gay-looking models are straight. And Christopher and I decided that we should start telling people that despite how you look and talk, that we're not gay. Because then they don't know what to do with you».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
April 6 1981

WARHOL LIVE

"Most people would agree that Picasso was the most influential artist in the first part of the 20th century — and I would say that Warhol was the most influential in the second half," says Timothy Anglin Burgard, the curator in charge of the American art department at the de Young, who is overseeing the installation of "Warhol Live."Warhol's work, Burgard points out, is in "every major museum in the world" and, perhaps more important, "his ideas are everywhere. His thoughts and perceptions about mass production, the commercialization of art, the repetition of images in media and the very nature of fame and celebrity framed" modern American culture. Even though he is very much of a certain time and place, says Kristen Evangelista, associate curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, "his work appeals to people of all ages."

Mercury News
Jan 11 2009

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR”

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I got nasty habits; I take tea at three”

-Mick Jagger

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

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Last week, Olympic gold-winner swimmer Michael Phelps lost his Kellogg’s endorsement and was suspended for three months from competition by USA Swimming after his public apology for smoking pot at a college party.This week, it's Chris Brown who is learning there are repercussions to running afoul of the law. Wrigley has now suspended all advertisements featuring Chris Brown, the R&B star who was arrested and charged with the alleged domestic assault of his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, early Sunday morning following Clive Davis’ pre-Grammy party.Wrigley also canceled the popular commercial that played during the Grammys, which was to have featured performances by Rihanna and Chris Brown.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGION

Every religion die one day.

“I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.»

-Walt Disney

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Fascination with the famous seems to be a human phenomenon that goes as far back as recorded history. In ancient Greece and Rome, people created their gods as very human-like beings, complete with character flaws and drama. Through the Middle Ages, the celebrities were royalty and nobility. When Madame Tussaud opened her wax museum in 1835, it was a huge hit, with people lining up simply to look at the visages of famous people. Humans are captivated by those they see as glamorous. We build up myths about humanized images, or people, and then observe their every move, looking to expose every shred of humanity inside them.

Thecelebritycafe.
Feb 4 2009

MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

TOURIST INDUSTRY CYCLE EXPLAINED

«The New York Times had a story on AIDS. The tourist business in Haiti is down to nothing. Probably the tourists were only there secretly for the big cocks. Because Jean Michel is half Hatitian and he really does have the biggest one».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 29 1983

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART”

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY VS STRAIGHT: SNEAKERS

PUMA IS GAY
FILA IS STRAIGHT
ADIDAS IS BOTH

FAGGOTS AND LESBIANS

«I will never forgive Rupert for taking me to La Cage aux Folles on «Gay Night». I didn't know it until we got there and it was nothing but faggots and lesbians. And I thought that for $40 tickets we'd be in the orchestra, but we were way up in the balcony because it was a benefit so the tickets downstairs were over $100 or something. And these gays you know, they refuse Interviews and always pretend they don't know who you are, and then they go home and dish you....But this audience, this audience. I mean, they just jumped up and laughed and applauded every single gay line-I mean anytime anybody referred to anything, they clapped. And everyone had a mustache, eight out of ten people there».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
August 25 1983

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

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Barack Obama was sworn in on 20 January with a historic mandate for change. Extraordinary times call for bold actions and visionary ideas. Big government is back. Hopes are for an administration that is not only more progressive, but also smarter.
This could be good news for the arts—as long as they can build a convincing case that they serve the public interest. Long banished to the periphery of public affairs, arts policy is poised to make a comeback under various 21st-century guises: from economic stimulus programmes to “soft diplomacy” initiatives to digital-age intellectual property regulation. The opportunity to rethink government’s role comes at a time when it is readily acknowledged among arts professionals that cultural support in America is outdated in its assumptions, sclerotic in its methods, biased in its outcomes, and inefficient in its use of philanthropic and taxpayer dollars. It’s time to move on.

-The Art Newspaper

POP CULTURE NOW:«FUCK I HATE THAT NASTY LOW LIFE BITCH!

Such strong reactions are a function of the failing economy, the anonymity provided by the Internet, and the sense of community created by having one's feelings supported by others, says Dr. Jeff Gardere, a psychologist who has appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "The View." "We all look for diversions," Gardere says, "especially now in this very tough economy. We need things that take our mind off of our problem. We get into this hero worship or hero hating, villain hating, with a lot of these pop culture so-called icons. They can be so irrelevant whether we like them or hate them. We allow ourselves those types of emotions without feeling guilty about it."

Boston Globe
Feb 2 2009

PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.»

-Camille Paglia

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: ACT LIKE A TEENAGE BEVERLY HILLS BRAT AND LOOK RICHER INSTANTLY!

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE"

KAYNE WEST

American rapper Kanye West has revealed that he would not mind doing a porn scene even if it involved another guy.“I’m open to doing porn. Hell, I’ll even do bisexual scenes − myself, another man and a woman, or just me and two women,” the New York Daily News quoted him as saying.West had previously revealed that he took clothing tips from gay people, and said that he was inspired by their sense of dressing, though at times his intentions were taken incorrectly.He had also said in a video posted online that he took fashion tips from the Japanese people because they "know how to dress too".

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE ORIGINAL PEREZ HILTON DRAWINGS WILL BE SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S & CHRISTIES

“I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART"

Artwork by Nancy Spero

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is just love without jealousy.

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE”

Paris Hilton says she acts dumb on TV to get laughs, but in real life she’s “a strong person” who’s been through a lot. The 27-year-old heirhead told British morning show “GMTV” she kept up her dumb-blonde image for her Fox reality show “The Simple Life,” co-starring Nicole Richie.“For five seasons I was stuck doing this character,” she said. “It was kind of hard always having to play that character when it’s not who I am.” She admits she did it for the sake of entertainment. “I just say jokes but they think I’m serious, which I think is funny, and I think I kind of play up the image because . . . whatever . . . it’s just entertainment.”

“ MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.»

-Salvador Dali