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