«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Lady Gaga dumps boyfriend.

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«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«WHAT WE NEED IS HATRED. FROM IT OUR IDEAS ARE BORN» -JEAN GENET

«Because I hate abstract expressionism. I hate it!»

-Andy Warhol
(when asked why he started Pop Art)

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Madonna watches Prince Harry play Polo.

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PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LIVE...

I like the idea of people paying to watch a concert live then ending up watching the whole thing on screen because they're too far from the stage.

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I don't do drugs. I am drugs.»

-Salvador Dali

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Twenty- and 30-somethings falling in and out of love. Aging boomers growing out of and into their clothes. All part of a demographic formula that has kept People prospering while so many publications are reeling in these hard times.Most celebrity coverage skews young, but People has attained something unusual, attracting the young (18- to-34-year-olds are its biggest constituency, 38 percent of readership) while holding on to aging boomers (45 to 59 are second, 28 percent of readership).“We need to satisfy both,” Mr. Hackett said. There’s a good economic reason. “Compared to most, boomers remain economically sound,” he said.And so, People is having a boomer year: there have been 10 covers featuring boomers in the first five months of 2009, compared with 11 in all for 2007.While circulation at most celebrity magazines was down in the second half of 2008 — In Touch Weekly (down 29 percent, to 899,000); Life & Style Weekly (down 31 percent, to 472,000); Us Weekly ( down 1.3 percent, to 1.9 million) — People grew 2 percent to 3.7 million. The latest 2009 figures show the magazine’s readership up 1.2 percent.

-New York Times
May 22 2009

«I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD LIKE NEW YORK CITY AS FAR AS STREET LIFE GOES»

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Readers of celebrity gossip magazines primarily women seem to cycle through excitable idealisation of celebrity lives, which leads to self-loathing, which leads to resentment, which leads to an ugly thirst for stories about celebrity suffering.(Marina) Hyde suspects this is partly because actresses lie about what fantastic, happy mothers they are. "You always hear people like Catherine Zeta Jones saying `I get up in the night when the baby cries and I make all the food myself and I love ironing their clothes'. It's just not true. It's physically impossible to do all that and make two major motion pictures every year. Most people find it hard enough to hold down any sort of normal job."And they always make out that they look glamorous all the time and I think it's actually really unsisterly. I'd be tempted to say `God, it's a bloody nightmare! No, the nanny does everything', but they need to be someone who brings in $10 million a movie, someone who's an earth mother, someone who adores the simple things in live these extraordinary confections.

-Sunday Star Times
May 31 2009

AMERICAN DREAM

«Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.»

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Rosemarie Trockel

PAINTERS PAINTING

A studious film of the kind they don't make any more. In the early 70s, Emile de Antonio interrogated anybody who was anybody in the New York art world - from Robert Rauschenberg to dealer Leo Castelli - on what abstract art means. Everyone is prepared to take De Antonio's questions with total seriousness; a long way from the studied irony you'd expect if you asked the same thing today. As a result, De Antonio has put together a concise study of a postwar period when American painting eclipsed all comers, while helping to establish a chronology and a context for abstraction's evolution - from action painting to colour field, and so on.

-The Guardian
May 29 2009

BEST EVER SEX TIP FOR WOMEN!

«I asked Anita how the really glamourous women went to bed with men, what did they do, and she said the only one she really knew about was somebody out in Hollywood who, when the moment would come, would kneel down on the floor and pray to God to forgive her and then he guys would get turn off and ashamed of themselves and they'd give her jewels.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 15 1977

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF ONLINE FAME

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BEAUTY

Male beauty peak at 27. Female beauty at 32.

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Like all new movements, women's lib spawned a spectrum of philosophies from the bleak nihilism of "all men are rapists", to the shop floor battles for equal recognition for work of equal value. As the most cursory of glances at the latest pay and promotion statistics will confirm, the gender playing field is far from level even now. But, somewhere along the way, came a generation that believed feminism was just so yesterday.The freedom the new girls craved was the chance to behave just as badly as boys; not the battle for the political high ground so much as one for the lowest common denominator. At the tacky end was drinking the lads under the table and on to the bed. At the other, Spice Girls power - the wherewithal to spend the cost of two flights to New York on the kind of handbag that screams loadsamoney, little taste. Then came wholesale raunchification - not this time among ladettes who were generally strangers to joined-up thinking, but American college girls who made the personal graphically pornographic. This might be entirely their business but for the fact that they, and sites like Jezebel, chose to employ a feminist label for their wholly hedonistic lifestyles.

The Herald
May 30 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

In a blog written for GlobalGrind.com, republished by The Huffington Post, Russell Simmons explains his deep contempt with the fact that the California Supreme Court has decided to uphold Proposition 8. Simmons is not only bothered by the outcome of this, but he is also furious with how the civil rights of oppressed individuals have been either granted or denied based on the outcome of votes placed in a ballot box. Simmons explains: “If President Johnson had to take a vote, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed. If Congress took a vote in 1920, women may still not have the right to vote today. And if President Lincoln went to the polls, blacks would definitely have endured many more years of slavery. We trusted our government to make the right decision and protect the minority, and yesterday we, as a nation, failed.”Simmons then goes on to challenge those within the African American community who are opposed to gay rights. “As an African-American, I urge my own people to take a deep look at our own struggles and not wish them upon anyone else. Simply, civil rights for all is about being connected as humans, united, tolerant, loving and brave.”

Hip Hop DX
May 29 2009

«THE LESS SOMETHING HAS TO SAY, THE MORE PERFECT IT IS»

I ran into a model I fixed Paige with and gee, he's so good-looking. Paige said he was just an airhead but here is this beautiful boy with muscles and a chest and perfect teeth and from New Jersey and you could mold him into anything get him started reading or something.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 27 1985

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Education must strengthen and discipline the process of visual attention. Today's young have a modest, flexible, chameleonlike ability to handle or deflect the overwhelming pressure of sensory stimuli, but perhaps at a cost to their sense of personal identity. They lack the foolish, belligerent confidence of my own generation, with its egomaniacal quest for the individual voice. In this age dominated by science and technology, the humanities curriculum should be a dynamic fusion of literature, art, and intellectual history. Because most of my career has been spent at arts colleges, I have been able to experiment with a wide range of images in the classroom. The slide lecture, with its integration of word and picture, is an ideal format for engaging students who are citizens of the media age. Discourse on art works should be open to all humanities faculty. No specialist "owns" the history of art, which ultimately belongs to the general audience.

-Camille Paglia.

«FOOTBALL GAMES ARE REALLY THE BEST PLACES TO MEET MACHO GUYS»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Britney sued by paparazzi for foot injury.

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«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

The ultimate king of porn, Ron Jeremy, now thinks about a girl in his life after tasting around 4000 women under ‘ lights, camera and action ‘He now feels that love is the only factor which could turn his mind from his X rated profession which could be a disgusting thing for many people around. "Sex is a job. Don’t get me wrong, adult entertainment is a GREAT job which I still absolutely love," quoted by Ron according to Sun." I can’t think of anything better than perhaps becoming a rock star. I don’t get bored of it and I’m good at what I do.” Added by him "But sure, I want a family eventually. Of course I do. I will give up porn when the time is right." He concluded.Now Ron made his way to mainstream cinema with his new role in “one-eyed monster” and become one the very few pornstars who entered into mainstream. He said: "I’d love to be in a film with Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and Lindsay Lohan. That would be amazing. A dream," he said.

-Newspostonline.com
May 29 2009

«IF EVERYBODY'S NOT A BEAUTY THEN NOBODY IS»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A JEWISH WRITER WILL ASK:ARE SEX TAPES AS NEW HOLLYWOOD CAREER MOVE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Paris Hilton releasing another album.

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YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

SUSAN BOYLE & ANDY WARHOL'S BRILLO PADS BOXES!

Mr. Young said she has potential appeal for brands that are judged by appearance rather than content. "When we first saw her, we thought she shouldn't be up there. Then we heard her singing, and we overcame our prejudices. There's an element of surprise and a hidden talent that would be right for brands with an ugly exterior."

Here are a few possibilities:

Omo. The no-frills washing powder could espouse Susan's homely values. It's not fancy, but it outperforms the competition.

Asda's value products. The Walmart-owned supermarket chain, another honest, low-glamour brand, has recently shunned celebrities in its ads but could make an exception for the ultimate anti-celebrity.

Brillo pads. Mr. Arnold provides the strategy: "These things may not look sexy, but when they get to work, boy do they shine." There's good synergy, too, between the product and Ms. Boyle's coiffure.

Ad Age
May 27 2009

THE NEW SEX

Here's a modern parlour game to play with friends at a dinner party/round the water cooler/at the school gates. Two words. Choose one. Sex or sleep? The answers, according to a recent survey, will reveal that around 80 per cent of Britons, men included, would choose a good night's sleep over a night of passion.

-Daily Mail
May 29 2009

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

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Britney Spears has a little fun with her gay audience in a new (fake) ad for a fragrance called ‘Mo (”One spray and the gays will run your way!” she says). The spot is a promo for Logo’s NewNowNext awards show, which airs June 13th, MTV reports

名 变形;变质

In his hour-long documentary, Andy Warhol: Back in China, Makos also managed to climb the section of The Great Wall again to find the same graffiti he spotted with Warhol three decades ago."You see how China has transformed and yet remained the same," Makos said. "Transformation" also proved to be the term Makos used most on his latest trip to China.He spoke highly of the cultural atmosphere in the country, with a vibrancy and exuberance that Warhol would have approved of, compared with the scene in 1982 when there were basically "no lipstick, pop music, neon lights and nightclubs"."Beijing today has the same vital spirit as New York had in the 1970s", he said. "Young people here are very open minded ready to experiment in the arts, compared with the dominance of the traditional arts back in the 1980s," he said.

-China Today
May 27 2009

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

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I think being fascinated by others is just who we are; we're curious creatures. Hollywood is a lot like high school. Everyone was interested in what the head cheerleader was doing and what the captain of the football team was doing and if they were dating each other.»

-Perez Hilton
Time
May 28 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE US ARMY WILL ATTRACT MORE WOMEN IN ITS RANK BY OFFERING FREE BOOB JOB AND LIPOSUCTION

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Jesus Luz says Madonna is just a friend.

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«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Obamas are revamping the White House art collection, and to make room for modern works by African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and female artists, they’ll be doing away with many of 19th-century still lifes, pastorals, and portraits that are currently on view. The art world is paying close attention to the process, as the Obamas’ decisions could affect the markets for chosen works and artists. Last week the First Couple installed seven pieces on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in their private residence, including ones by African-American abstract artist Alma Thomas. The National Gallery of Art has also loaned the family works this year, by Jasper Johns, Richard Diebenkorn, and Edward Ruscha, as well as Robert Rauschenberg and Louise Nevelson.

Artinfo
May 26 2009

LIVING IN A POST WARHOL AGE

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

There is no doubt that any piece of art by legendary pop artist Keith Haring would go for thousands of dollars. But in my mind, I think that would equate to a larger than life wall sized canvas. However, given that I know little about the cost/value of art, I can see how I could be completely mistaken. And don't get me wrong - being a huge Keith Haring fan, I have purchased whatever I could afford that had his artwork all over it. Last week at the Phillips de Pury's Auction, Keith Haring's 22 year old wooden skateboard that he drew on with magic marker sold for $16,250

www.luxist.com
May 23 2009

GEE, PUSSY IS GREAT!

Met the Dowager of Aspen, the Grande Dame. Went to her house.Her name is (laughs) Pussy Paepcke. She's eighty-two and she's very beautiful. She looks like Katherine Hepburn.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 31 1984

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TIME

I like the idea of some woman who started buying anti-age cream at 20 and still buying it now at 70 without ever having made fun of the product's name. I mean all women buying these products now are born in the 20th century. Why don't they sell an «anti 21st century» cream?

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Next week, Abu Dhabi is holding a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the vast new museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel that will be one of the cornerstones of the Saadiyat Island cultural project. The five cultural institutions planned for the island, including a Guggenheim, are due to start opening from 2014. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s ruler, and Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president, will be at next week’s ceremony and will be able to admire some of the works of art that have been acquired for the future museum, which will be displayed at the Emirates Palace hotel. Intense secrecy has surrounded these first acquisitions but sources in Paris have confirmed that one of the main prizes is Mondrian’s “Composition avec bleu, rouge, jaune et noir” (1922), which sold for €21.7m at the Yves Saint Laurent sale in Paris in February. Other Louvre Abu Dhabi buys are said to include Limoges enamels, Gothic figures and tapestries. Also going to the Gulf is the top lot in the Yves Saint Laurent sale, Matisse’s “Les coucous, tapis bleu et rose” (1911), which made €35.9m. The same sources say it was bought by a member of the Qatari royal family.

-Financial Times
May 22 2009

"I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES"

FAME & GOSSIP IN THE 21st CENTURY

«Angelina Jolie is a black-widow spider, stealing hapless Brad from poor little Jennifer Aniston! – looms large. Of course, in my case it helps that I’ve been around a long time. I have tried to take the historical perspective. It’s just Liz-Eddie-Debbie dressed up for the new millennium. »

-Liz Smith

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Elizabeth Taylor joins Twitter.

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STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

JUST BE BEAUTIFUL AND SHUT THE F... UP!

«I was going to meet a Ford model that Paige invited for me. He was just back from Japan and he hated it there, and it was just like listening to an exact copy of every other model-from New Jersey, talk about motorcycles, modeling, eating and hating japan. But they're good-looking and that's enough»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 16 1985

GEE, THAT'S...

Andy was an idiot-savant. Money was all he cared for, and it came to him effortlessly while he courted celebrities and the rich. He was cold and ruthless yet gave the impression of great vulnerability. He was the great enabler, the impotent celebrity who made it on sex appeal (or sex repeal, as I called it). He played the primitive in a sophisticated age, and he did not have to try hard at the role. Andy was quite primitive to begin with. His 1976 interview of another tiny terror, Truman Capote—a man who hated the truth more than Bill Clinton—made Warhol’s magazine, a publication on whose masthead I was proud to be the only heterosexual. Fred Hughes, the magazine’s president, and Bob Colacello, its star writer, had a lot of laughs about that.
I hated the freaks and the druggies, but looking back, Andy was an original—however phony his originality. His fame will grow exponentially as we become more and more Warholesque in our admiration of the cheap and the glitzy. 
 
TAKI writing in The American Conservative
March 2007

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Jessica Biel would love to costar with Justin.

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«FOOTBALL GAMES ARE REALLY THE BEST PLACES TO MEET MACHO GUYS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BEAUTY

Every person who claim to be obsessed by beauty while being unable to recognize it in its many forms is a liar.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement. »

-Ronald Reagan.

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

INSPIRATION

«Andy was making underground films when I was making underground films,…And I was more inspired by him than by Hollywood. He created himself: He was an outsider, a Slovakian, Catholic, gay, an artist, poor; an outsider in his own family, a triple outsider like Kafka, with his nose pressed against the New York window. And, he became the ultimate insider, the center of his own world, and drew people to him. He became a huge example of the invention of an identity.»

-David Cronenberg.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Reportedly Paris Hilton and her boyfriend were invited by Elton John’s husband David Furnish to party on his friend’s yacht only to be kicked off after behaving inappropriately while on board.“As soon as Paris arrived she had her tongue down Doug’s throat. Everyone kept saying how inappropriate they were being but Paris didn’t care who was looking.” A source told British tabloids.“They got so worked up she dragged Doug below deck so they could have some private time,” continued the source. “David spotted them and the captain was furious. He kicked them off for unsociable behavior.”

-Theinsider.

THE EARLY MADONNA

Went to Radio City Music Hall for Madonna concert. And the show was so great. Just so simple and sexy and Madonna is so pretty. Now she's thinner and just so great. And afterwards we went downstairs where there was a private party, the level with the ladies' rooms. And Madonna came down with Jean-Michel-I guess he'd gone backstage. And she was fun. She said she was going to the Palladium and might go to Keith's dinner, and she was so sweet and nice. So we went and drove to Iso on 11th Street and Second and then Madonna did arrive, she came in a truck. And they sat her next to me, and she was just great. They were teasing her about her false eyelashes, saying they were bigger than Louise Nevelson's. And everyone was so thrilled, the waiters were on the floor. She was drawing cocks on Futura's pants.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
June 6 1985

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Britney in the Bahamas with her sons.

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«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

As Massachusetts celebrated five years of gay marriage this year, Connecticut, Vermont, Maine and Iowa came on board. New Hampshire is on the verge, as is New York, and although the gay marriage ban is likely to be upheld in court in California this week, even former opponents say it can't last.But it is not just marriage. There are two openly lesbian women on the reported short list to fill the forthcoming vacancy on the supreme court. President Obama has appointed more than 30 gay men and lesbians to senior posts within his administration.

Comedian Wanda Sykes, African American and a lesbian, was the guest speaker at the high-profile White House Correspondents Dinner in front of Barack and Michelle Obama earlier this month. And in popular culture, gay singer Adam Lambert came a close second in the American Idol contest last week, in which 100 million viewers voted - only months after former Idol star Clay Aiken came out of the closet. Ellen DeGeneres has not only revived her TV career since her sitcom was cancelled in 1998 after she came out, but she has become a "face of CoverGirl" make-up model. Hollywood's Jodie Foster and Kelly McGillis recently came out after years in the closet, though male stars are noticeably more reluctant.Meanwhile, cable TV channel MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, 36, is a success with her eponymous politics show and a leading voice urging Obama to honour his promise to repeal the ban on openly gay personnel in the military.She hailed not a single tipping point, but "a day-to-day struggle" resulting in enormous progress over the past four decades, based on "more and more people coming out". She has been out since she was 17.

-The Observer
May 23 2009

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

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

FRAMED close-ups of two elderly men hang in Castlestone Management's London meeting room. One of the men smiles and looks away; the other sullenly faces front.These large photographs by Chuck Close - bought for $25,000 each - are of artists Robert Rauschenberg, who died last year, and Jasper Johns, 79. They are part of a new Castlestone art fund.The fund is designed as an anti-inflation shelter at a time when recession-busting stimulus packages are flooding the global economy with cash. To Castlestone, which has about $660 million under management, scarce art - by dead artists or by big names in late career - is as good as gold.As long as the value of money falls, the value of real assets will rise, says the founder and joint chief executive officer, Angus Murray, 39.

-Bloomberg
May 23 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«A man is only as faithful as his options.»

-Chris Rock

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

And then there’s actor Dylan Vox: After a successful career in gay porn under the name “Brad Benton,” he’s managed to find work on the campy cable horror soap “The Lair” and in various independent feature films.
“I think people get hung up on where you came from as opposed to where you’re going,” notes Vox, 30, about his unusual entrée into show business. “Elisabeth Hasselbeck was on ‘Survivor,’ and like it or not, she actually has something to say, and it’s been intriguing for people to watch, but they never would have hired her for ‘The View’ if she hadn’t been on ‘Survivor’ first. The industry wasn’t open to her." For Vox, entering the world of adult entertainment wasn’t originally part of the Atlanta native’s game plan. But in 2001, when Vox was juggling competitive figure-skating alongside studying for an MBA, the prospect seemed much more attractive, not to mention more lucrative, than waiting tables. Falcon Studios, generally considered the MGM of gay adult moviemakers because of their big budgets and glossy production values, happened to be making a film in Colorado, where Vox was attending school and training on the ice.

MSNBC
May 22 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

A SUCCESS FROM NOTHING

Andy Warhol proved you could make a success from nothing. All you needed to do was say -- "this is art" -- a painting of a Campbell's soup can -- and if you said it with enough fey authority, it was so. You could take any hustler or addict, dress or undress them and call them underground "superstars." It was a sly counter-culture devolution of old-fashioned stardom, which Warhol himself worshipped. And he did supply us with those words by which we now all live -- "in the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes." It's too bad, really that he didn't live to see what the Internet has wrought.

-Liz Smith

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Kate Hudson goes brunette.

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«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: HOW TO GET GORGEOUS HAIR WHEN DEMONSTRATING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS ON THE STREET!

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Double X columnist Linda Hirshman, also a contributor to the New York Times and the Washington Post, referred to an hour-long television appearance by Tracie Egan, a Jezebel blogger who goes by the moniker "Slut Machine", and Maureen "Moe" Tkacik, in which the two young women refused to engage with a serious discussion about sexual politics and culture. Shrugging off a question about rape and sexual responsibility, Tkacik casually explained why she didn't report her own date rape to the police. "I had better things to do," she said. "Like drinking more."After the programme, presenter Lizz Winstead explained how shocked she had been by the behaviour of the young women. Writing on her Huffington Post blog, Winstead said: "They do not understand the influence they have over the women who read them, nor do they accept any responsibility as role models for young women who are coming of age searching for lifestyles to emulate."In last week's article for Double X, Hirshman singled out Egan and Tkacik as "a symptom of the weaknesses in the model of perfect egalitarian sexual freedom". The Jezebel website, she argued, is guilty of promoting the belief that modern-day feminism is simply "doing what feels good to you". In doing so, it uses the language of old-style feminism to betray the movement's ideals.

-The Obsever
May 19 2009

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I read that I was in bed with her, which is a ton of shit. I have met her and it went like this: 'How do you do?' 'Hello, how are you?' Now when anyone asks about my affair with Madonna I say no, wrong - it was the Pope. He swept me off my feet.”

-Johnny Depp

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Matuschka

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Masanobu Sato jerked himself raw last week at the 9th Annual Masturbate-a-thon, besting his world record of working it for 9 hours and 33 minutes. With toys in hand, this year he lasted an impressive 9 hours and 58 minutes. His secret? "I trained a lot in Japan from the time I won the 1st prize last year," he explained. "I swam twice a week, and gained about 5 kgs in muscle. That helped me a lot, too, in terms of stamina.

-BananaGuide

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Kris Allen wins American Idol finale.

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«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MARKETING

People having the most success selling things to women understand that their biggest sexual turn on is knowing they are looked at and desired.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Social psychologists have long agreed that humans evolved with the desire to worship and idolize those believed to be attractive and successful. This tendency gives humans the will to try to mimic success and improve their own lots in life. Evolutionary psychologists also agree that the best targets for gossip are familiar faces, as they help humans to sift through a large group, determine who can be relied upon, and decide whose lives are most important to track. In his book called "Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction," author Jake Halpern even mentions studies that say other animal groups admire their own celebrities. He cites one that revealed rhesus monkeys willing to give up their food just to ogle a dominant monkey. Other psychological explanations for celebrity news addiction are bountiful, but frequently occurring beliefs are that it has to do with issues of boredom, loneliness, identity confusion, and a dose of primal attraction.

-Associated content
May 18 2009

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

«I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.''

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A JEWISH MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: IS THE IDEA OF CHINA REPLACING THE US AS THE NEXT SUPERPOWER GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. »

-Pablo Picasso

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The online classifieds giant Craigslist will finally close down its erotic ads section after suffering months of pressure from law enforcement. The free "Internet red light district," as it's so poetically known, will reportedly be replaced with a new "adult" section that will be more heavily policed and subject to monetary charges. Should we feel righteous and celebratory, or wonder why the state has to monitor the collective libido? The move comes as a response to demands by a number of attorneys general across the country--including those of Illinois, Connecticut and Missouri--after the tragic killing of the young masseuse Julissa Brissman in a Boston hotel by a deranged 22-year-old medical student called Philip Markoff, who had contacted her through Craigslist.

Forbes
May 18 2009

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

At least one star hasn't taken offense to Eminem's attacks. Kardashian gets ripped in two songs, but is accepting of the abuse.
In "We Made You," Eminem raps, "Damn, I think Kim Kardashian's a man/She stomped him just 'cause he asked to put his hands/On her massive gluteus maximus again." He makes reference to the reality star's big booty again on the track "3 A.M."
After seeing the video for "We Made You," Kardashian said she was honored."I am a huge Eminem fan and find it flattering that he would rap about me," Kardashian blogged. "He's a bit harsh about some other celebrities, but you just have to let it go and have a sense of humor."

New York Daily News
May 19 2009

«MY IDEA OF A GOOD PICTURE IS ONE THAT'S IN FOCUS AND OF A FAMOUS PERSON»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.»

-Joan Crawford

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

She's so cutting edge and ahead of her time, isn't she? For her upcoming Greatest Hits album or something (honestly, who can keep up?) Madonna adds none other than Lil Wayne to her song "Revolver." This of course comes after 2008's great "Hard Candy" on which hip-hop gone pop stars Pharrell and Chad, Timbaland and Kanye West guest.Despite all their fantastic contributions to a really fun album, we couldn't help but noticing though that Ms. Donna was just a wee bit late (seven years, roughly) to the Timbaland/Neptunes party. (Cue Miranda Priestly. "A dance track with Timbaland? Groundbreaking.")
And now she's duct-taped Lil Wayne, who of course was last year's buzz, onto a Britney leftover.

hamptonroads.com

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE DESPERATE CELEBRITIES WILL TWITTER ABOUT THEIR MOST INTIMATE SEX LIVES DETAILS

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Pete Wentz has lost an $8000 jacket. Samantha Ronson is on the hunt for a serial killer. Kirstie Alley has a crush on Jamie Foxx. Lily Allen is at a zoo.Katy Perry has a "pinkberry addiction". Perez Hilton is drunk. Kim Kardashian is shopping for a new bikini. And Miley Cyrus is filming Hannah Montana.That's what celebs are Twittering about today.

-Next

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE IMPOSSIBILITY TO SOLVE THE QUESTION OF THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM WILL PUSH THE WORLD INTO WORLD WAR 3

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.»

- Cioran

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Paris Hilton has insisted that she never wanted the public to see the sex tape of her and former partner Rick Salomon.The video received an official DVD release as 1 Night In Paris in 2004 and Hilton reportedly settled a lawsuit with Salomon out of court a year later.Speaking on an upcoming documentary entitled Paris, Not France, Hilton said: "When I heard about it I thought: 'Yeah right. It's going to be a look-a-like. It's going to be a joke.'"But a couple of hours later it was all over online and then I saw it."She added: "It's the most intimate thing you can do and the whole f**king world is watching it and laughing at you."That's not what I wanted when I was a little girl. It's not what I planned. I always looked up to people like Princess Diana and all these women and now I can never be like that."Hilton has previously said that she had not seen the sex tape and denied claims that she was implicit in its release.

-Digital Spy
May 18 2009

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE NEW FEMINIST PC

Swagger & cockiness on a young black guy: sexy
Swagger & cockiness on a young white guy: sexist
Swagger & cockiness on a young black hip hop artist: sexist
Swagger & cockiness on a young white hip hop artist : sexy.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMEN MAG:OUR SEXIEST ISSUE EVER! YES YES, EVER...UNTIL OUR NEXT ISSUE!

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Michel De Broin

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Yes, him. The most influential person in reality television isn't merely the most galvanizing performer on America's top-rated program. He's not just the highest-paid primetime TV personality and a successful producer in two countries. And he's certainly not, as he described himself during a moment of humility before a recent taping of "American Idol," just "a judge on a bloody talent show." Cowell tops this list because only he knows the answer to the most tantalizing question in reality TV: What will Simon Cowell do next?His contract is up after next season of "Idol," and Cowell, 49, is not shy about his willingness to leave."The idea that for the next five years, I'd be doing exactly what I've been doing for the past five years ... the thought is just too depressing," Cowell says in his trailer before walking over to the "Idol" stage at CBS Television City. "I'd go nuts, bored out of my mind. You have to evolve, you have to change. I like the challenge of launching something new."

-The Hollywood Reporter
May 17 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:REALITY CHECK FOR GAY MEN

It's hotter never going to the gym and being 20 than going five times a week and being 50. There's a time for everything...

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

CONRAD BLACK BACK THEN

«U.S and Canadian Customs are the worst. Conrad Black had sent a limo for us, it took us to the Four Season Hotel and I had suite 2910 overlooking all of Canada.I got cleaned up and dressed and we went to Mr Black's office. It was a post -modern building, the kind with the big columns and there was an old-fashioned lady with her hair up at an old-fashioned switchboard. Mr black had read Popism the night before, he'd done his homework, and he reminded me of Peter Brant, but nicer. He was about thity-seven, and sort of heavy, very nice and a nice fortune-they have mines, and supermarkets and newspapers.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 20 1981

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Britney Spears has $10 million year.

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MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

There's a new celebrity war raging. Well, a celebrity news war.Us Weekly has launched an offensive against InTouch Weekly, using two full pages of their new issue to rip their rivals' bogus Brangelina gossip over the years.Us reproduced 21 InTouch covers dating back to 2005, then shreds the fake stories one by one, killing its celebrity gossip counterpart over their articles.Some of which are pretty great. At least three wedding reports and five accounts of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie splitting up, with some inventive Jennifer Aniston stories tossed in for good measure, made it into the collage of lies.InTouch fired back: "We are flattered that our competition pays so much attention to InTouch that they were willing to devote a 2-page spread to us."Mmm. They've got a point there, but come on, look at these headlines. After you've blatantly lied 17 times, doesn't the 18th fail to carry the same weight? All we know is somewhere, Star Magazine is celebrating for not being called out.

-thehollywoodgossip.com
May 14 2009

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

It's strange. I think that both "Girls Gone Wild" videos and abstinence-only education classes tell women that what's most valuable about them is their sexuality. Porn has all of this “barely legal” and “virgin porn” stuff, where the most fetishized woman is the virgin. It's the same thing with abstinence-only and the purity pushers: The most revered person in their world is the female virgin.The virginity movement tries to fight against porn, but not really in the ways that you would expect. They spend a lot of time talking about pop culture and TV, not talking about poor conditions for sex workers -- things that actually impact women's lives. Instead, they target consensual sexual encounters between adults and little old ladies selling vibrators at, you know, [sex toy] Tupperware parties. The purity movement needs porn, so they can point at it and say, “ Look, look see all this terrible stuff that is happening!” And then they don't actually do anything about it.

What do you think about the young woman who auctioned off her virginity?

I don't know why we're so surprised by it. This is going to sound terrible, but that's essentially the same thing the abstinence movement is saying: “Hold off until you can auction off your virginity to the person with the biggest ring.” It's really the same thing, only done in a more explicit and economically honest way.

Jessica Valenti
Salon
May 16 2009

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

Swimsuit supermodel Rachel Hunter is destined to become a hockey wife this summer.The curvy Kiwi will wed Los Angeles Kings forward Jarret Stoll – who is 13 years her junior – in August, joining a list of other well-ogled starlets such as Janet Jones Gretzky, Kim Alexis and Carol Alt who also hooked hockey hubbies. It will be the first marriage for Stoll, a native of Melville, Sask., who turns 27 next month and No.2 for the New Zealander, who hits 40 in September. Hunter's first catwalk down the aisle was at 21 when she said "I do" to wrinkled rocker Rod Stewart, then 45. The pair split nine years and two children later, officially divorcing in 2006.

Toronto Star
May 15 2009

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FAT

If the poor were skinny all the rich would want to become overweight to still «not be like them».

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

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Madonna not getting married.

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«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Eminem, while struggling with drug addiction and celebrity, found solace in an unexpected confidant, he revealed this week. The controversial rapper is "friends", it seems, with Sir Elton John."Me and him have had similar lives and stuff," Eminem explained in an interview with the Detroit Metro Times. "We became friends and I talk to him about things, career-wise."
Em and El didn't always seem so sympathetic, however. The artists' first meeting, at the 2001 Grammy awards, was spoiled by allegations of Eminem's homophobia. But flash forward eight years and Eminem calls Elton the musician he most looks to for support. "I talk to Elton a lot."

The Guardian
May 15 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAYS & LESBIANS

The strangest allies... Everything in lesbian culture is about eliminating hierarchies. Everything in gay culture is about emphasizing them.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.»

-George Carlin

«THE WORLD FASCINATES ME»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Western visitors to southern or Middle-Eastern countries are often perplexed, not only by open homosocial affection but also by the presence of a thriving homosexual "underworld". For if two men holding hands in public does not necessarily mean that they are romantically tied, it certainly opens the doors of possibility. In Pakistan, a popular drag queen hosts a TV show tackling serious current issues. Asked by a stunned French reporter whether she was advocating LGBTQ rights, she replied: "Darling, these categories do not apply in my culture." As much as it is hard to imagine a cross-dresser hosting a political show in France, it is easy to notice that for the reporter, visibility equals political statement. Categories are indeed different.

-The Guardian
May 13 2009

AMERICANS KIDS...NOW!

«I've been reading that all the kids today are really conservative and America's taken this big shift, with all the high school kids clean-cut and dating without sex, and all the college kids trying to get into fraternities and giving up drugs for beer. Maybe this sort of a good thing; the pendulum had swung too far and now it's moving a little back to make up. But then you also read about this really popular rock star who bites the heads off live chickens on stage. And you see Cyndi Lauper with her incredible hair and clothes and makeup being one of Ms's Women of the year, and you go to the clubs and see kids doing and wearing crazier things than ever before»

-Andy Warhol

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Mariah Carey is eating bad soup. Pete Wentz would like to be tortured. Heidi Montag is hanging out for Angels and Demons.
Perez Hilton has some new shoes. Samantha Ronson is hanging out for the final of Grey's Anatomy. Miley Cyrus is threatening to cut off Perez Hilton's ponytail. That's what celebs are Twittering about today.

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«WASTING MONEY PUTS YOU IN A REAL PARTY MOOD»

The art of the contemporary art boom will for ever be associated with the credit boom. Just as the values of that economic system are now discredited, so too will be the values of the art that went with it. In the future we will no longer have high regard for art that is mass-produced, or dictated over mobile phones to assistants in factory studios. We will be amazed that hedge-fund collectors paid $3 million for framed photographs of Marlboro adverts - works of art by Richard Prince, which were said to be the result of the important new artistic process of “rephotography”.We will not look at the shiny reflective surfaces of Jeff Koons' sculptures (or the immacutely smooth multicoloured surfaces of Murakami's paintings and sculptures) and think that this quality of fabrication makes them important. We will come to regard the art as the baubles of the bubble billionaires.Like all those packaged-up bundles of bad debts, contemporary art had no fundamental value. It was worth just what the market said it was worth.

-Times
May 13 2009

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES»

SUSAN SARANDON

«Had a lunch for Susan Sarandon to interview her. She was so great. She's a liberal, from a big family, an ex-hippie, and she talked her head off till 4:00. She's like Viva, but she's intelligent»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 30 1983

«MY IDEA OF A GOOD PICTURE IS ONE THAT'S IN FOCUS AND OF A FAMOUS PERSON»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Tom Cruise furious with his wife because she wants to focus on her career instead of having another baby.

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«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Beauty
 
I am as lovely as a dream in stone;
My breast on which each finds his death in turn
Inspires the poet with a love as lone
As everlasting clay, and as taciturn.
Swan-white of heart, as sphinx no mortal knows,
My throne is in the heaven's azure deep;
I hate all movement that disturbs my pose;
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.

Before my monumental attitudes,
Taken from the proudest plastic arts,
My poets pray in austere studious moods,

For I, to fold enchantment round their hearts,
Have pools of light where beauty flames and dies,
The placid mirrors of my luminous eyes.

Charles Baudelaire

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Over half of women polled in Sun Media’s Great Canadian Female Sex Survey said size does matter.The Sun Media-Leger Marketing survey polled 1,003 Canadian women above the age of 18, and 41% of those women said size matters a little and 13% said size matters a lot. Women who were dating, under the age of 45 and living in Quebec were more likely to pull out their measuring tape, so to speak. Sue Johanson, the grandmother of sexual education in Canada, said it is normal for women to feel this way. The former host of the Sunday Night Sex Show said, “They equate it with how sexy they are. They look at their partner when they have this humongous erection and they say, ‘oh wow I can really yank his crank.’”

Winnipeg Sun
May 14 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I've been things and seen places.»

-Mae West

«THE IDEA OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING MAKES IT MORE EXCITING»

«WASTING MONEY PUTS YOU IN A REAL PARTY MOOD»

Convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff turned his investment firm into his personal “piggy bank,” spending millions in client money to bankroll shopping sprees, real estate purchases and country club memberships for his family and close friends.
Madoff siphoned money from his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, to purchase real estate for his sons, hand out loans to his brother and drop $6 million to buy two yachts, according to a bankruptcy court filing by Irving Picard, the trustee liquidating Madoff Securities. For decades “BLMIS was Bernie Madoff and Bernie Madoff was BLIMS, each the alter ego of the other,” Picard said in the filing. Before he confessed to the fraud, not much was known about Madoff, who was described by many as an aloof, Oz-like character. His scheme -- one of the biggest in U.S. history, with losses likely in the tens of billions of dollars -- has remained one of the hardest to untangle.

Fox business news
May 9 2009

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Paris Hilton goes brunette

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«HOW CAN WE LET THIS KEEP HAPPENING?»

This country is so rich. And I think I see more homeless people on the streets every month. How can we let this keep happening?»

-Andy Warhol

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: YOUNG IN 2009

If you want to make sure the guy you want to fuck is as young as he looks like check if he wear a white belt...

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Vancouver wants to make gay athletes feel as welcome as possible at the 2010 Winter Games. A special PRIDE House, set aside at the Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre Hotel, is being created for queer competitors. 
Gay Whistler, a local organizer of gay ski events, said, "PRIDE House will be a haven where Olympic and Paralympic athletes, coaches, family, fans and allies (can) come out and be their authentic selves regardless of sexual identity. PRIDE House will be a hip lounge where guests can chill and watch the games, trade pins or just hang out and meet other 'kewl' open minded individuals."Something tells us there'll be more figure skaters than hockey players showing up at the venue, but we could be wrong.

-Banana Guide

SUSAN SONTAG

«Don't tell me that Andy Warhol thought the Shah of Iran was a good guy. He couldn't. He thought he was charming. He thought he was amusing. He thought it waws interesting to know a head of state. He thought it was glamourous. But he could not think he was a good guy. What he did think was «I don't have to worry about that question. That question is a boring question.» And it was not a boring question if you had feelings.»

Warhol
Victor Bockris

«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

K-Fed can't afford to live on $40 000 a month.

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«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES»

On Monday afternoon (May 11), Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle claimed her rightful place among the Hollywood glitterati when she appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Boyle discussed how her life has changed since her "Britain's Got Talent" rendition of "I Dreamed a Dream" transformed her overnight from an unknown to the celebrity topic du jour. What does the 48-year-old Boyle think of her newfound fame? "Pretty awesome!" she told Oprah, adding later, "It's like a dream come true."

MTV.com
May 11 2009

«ALL AMERICAN» :IT'S ABOUT SOFT PORN!

«People have come up to me and said« You must be the most American artist» and I've read others who think I'm un-American». Since all of us came from somewhere else-even the Indians came over from Asia a long time ago-I don't see where anybody can draw the line at being «more american» even though they always keep trying with ideas like «I must be more american because I'm blonde and blue-eyed and live in the Midwest or «We're more American than they are because we can speak english».

-Andy Warhol

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Tate Modern's big autumn show, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, which will look at the legacy of Andy Warhol's declaration that "good business is the best art". The exhibition, three years in the planning, will look at subsequent artists at their most self-aggrandising – from Jeff Koons to Tracey Emin.Tate Modern's chief curator Sheena Wagstaff said they wanted to pinpoint the moment in the 1980s when "a key aspect of late Warhol became a thrilling legacy for subsequent generations of artists". The show will explore how, after Warhol, artists have not only commented on the mass media culture of the last 30 years, but have been very much a part of it, infiltrating the cult of celebrity.

Guardian
May 12 2009

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING: IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC"

THE WWE may not be able to sign up Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue but they are looking at taking on the next best thing.
Gorgeous blonde Rachael Carr – who has been the body double for both – is currently training in Florida and hoping to win a full time contract on Raw or Smackdown. If the model and dancer is successful she would join Katie Lea and Layla to make a tasty trio of British babes in Vince McMahon’s federation.

-The Sun
May12 2009

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Sculpture by Duane Hanson

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Madonna ready to marry toy boy Jesus.

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«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Sotheby’s chief executive Bill Ruprecht said the company’s Impressionist sales last week were “the most profitable in New York since last spring”. This was largely thanks to the virtual elimination of risky guarantees made to owners regardless of whether or not a work sells. Losses on guarantees cost Sotheby’s $10 million in one sale last November, and last week, the company off-loaded the risk on the only guaranteed work in its sale – Picasso’s pipe-smoking musketeer – by enlisting an anonymous third party to guarantee a price before the picture was offered for sale.

-Telegraph
May 11 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LAZINESS

Only top models have the right to be lazy. And only if they're under 25...

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

FAME IN THE 21st CENTURY

Sure you have talent, but where has that got you? Famed celebrity publicist Max Clifford has come up with this list of the top 10 ways to become famous. The 11th is likely, 'Become an agent to the stars.'

1. Appear on a reality show
2. Enter a talent contest
3. Be abysmal on a talent show
4. Gain fame by association
5. Date a celebrity
6. Flaunt your body
7. Date a Royal Family member
8. Make a home-sex video
9. Be a success on MySpace
10. Be in the right place at the right time

-Winnipeg Sun
May 11 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE MAKEUP COMPANIES WILL HAVE PORN STARS SELLING THEIR NEW «CUM SHOT PROOF» PRODUCTS

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

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

Sasha Grey's role as an expensive call girl in Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience" represents a breakthrough of sorts. There was Traci Lords in "Cry-Baby," Nina Hartley in "Boogie Nights" and Katie Morgan in "Zach and Miri Make a Porno," but Grey is the first adult film actress to play the lead in a serious drama by an Oscar-winning director.

-Variety
May 8 2009

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

« My theory about creativity is that the more money one has, the more creative one can be.»

-Robert Mapplethorpe

SO MANY PEOPLE...

«So many people have such great bodies today that the sort of lumpy, sit-around -the-house flab that used to be «normal» now looks really bad».

-Andy Warhol

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WHY...?

if someone say boys need more male teachers so they can relate more to school it's sexist and attacked by the left
If someone say blacks need more black teachers so they can relate more to school it's progressive and praised by the left.

THE BEST REASON TO BE GAY

If men were smart there would be no fun reason left to be gay.

MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Paris Hilton sued over movie promotion.

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«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Education has failed to adjust to the massive transformation in Western culture since the rise of electronic media. The shift from the era of the printed book to that of television, with its immediacy and global reach, was prophesied by Marshall McLuhan in his revolutionary Understanding Media, which at its publication in 1964 spoke with visionary force to my generation of college students in the United States. But those of us who were in love with the dazzling, darting images of TV and movies, as well as with the surging rhythms of new rock music, had been given through public education a firm foundation in the word and the book. Decade by decade since the 1960s, popular culture, with its stunning commercial success, has gained strength until it now no longer is the brash alternative to organized religion or an effete literary establishment: it is the culture for American students, who outside urban centers have little exposure to the fine arts.

-Camille Paglia

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

Photo by Chocolat Poire.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY MEN & DATING

Thinking like straight women when talking about long term relationship, like straight guys when talking about sex, and like old fat angry lesbians when no longer having any success at getting laid.

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Susan Boyle set to become an Ophra singer.

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«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Here's a list of the top ten artists by total turnover for 2008. I expect that dead masters like Picasso and Monet would sell $100 million+ over 12 months, but what impresses me are the living artists like Hirst, Richter and Koons that are selling similar amounts.

PICASSO Pablo (1881-1973) $262,366,349 from 1764 lots sold at auction
BACON Francis (1909-1992) $256,208,073 from 100 lots sold
WARHOL Andy (1928-1987) $236,749,034 from 1164 lots sold
HIRST Damien (1965) $230,887,159 from 445 lots sold
MONET Claude (1840-1926) $174,695,716 from 25 lots sold
GIACOMETTI Alberto (1901-1966) $132,631,043 from 111 lots sold
RICHTER Gerhard (1932) $122,211,095 from 166 lots sold
DEGAS Edgar (1834-1917) $111,835,132 from 81 lots sold
FONTANA Lucio (1899-1968) $95,589,589 from 227 lots sold
KLEIN Yves (1928-1962) $91,868,098 from 59 lots sold

-Artnewsblog.com

SHOWING YOU HOW TO FAKE IT LIKE MEG RYAN

«It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, and how to look how you feel about it. When they show you how to kiss like James Dean or hook like jane Fonda or win like Rocky that's great".

-Andy Warhol

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. »

-Julian Schnabel

«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

The best part of having a painful breakup in the public eye is that you can use the paparazzi to help stalk your ex when you go through your "intense" phase.That's what Lindsay Lohan seems to be doing after her split with DJ Samantha Ronson, anyway. According to TMZ, Lilo pulled up to a Los Angeles restaurant where Ronson was reportedly eating on Tuesday and asked the paps outside who the celebrity DJ was dining with and if it was a woman. After hearing that SamRo was indeed inside with a galpal, Lindsay looked sad and drove away. A source told TMZ that afterwards Lohan wound up driving to Ronson's house and spending the night.

«MY IDEA OF A GOOD PICTURE IS ONE THAT'S IN FOCUS AND OF A FAMOUS PERSON»

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Stephen Marche has a strong hunch that women are closing their legs now that feminism has won them some real-world power. In an article for Esquire, he declares this nothing short of a "disaster for men."If a guy finds that a boner-kill, it's no wonder he isn't getting laid. You might ask: Wasn't it just yesterday that feminist or post-feminist or post-post-feminist females were supposedly slutting it up to the detriment of civil society? That women's looseness was being blamed for limp dicks, "Darwinist dating," male pigs and a return of medieval masculinity? Well, despite the article's headline -- "Where have all the loose women gone?" -- it seems Marche isn't talking about all women, but rather smart women. "Brilliant, funny, and powerful women are retreating from sex as never before," he writes. (Leaving, what, only stupid sluts?)
The only woman he successfully uses to illustrate this thesis isn't a real woman at all -- she's a TV character: "30 Rock's" Liz Lemon, played by Tina Fey. "The most complicated and intelligent woman in television comedy barely ever has sex," he writes.

Salon
May 8 2009

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

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Britney tour demands revealed.

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«IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE»

If you needed even more reason to love pizza, here it is. A Brooklyn pizza joint - South Brooklyn Pizza to be exact - features male go-go dancers once a week at a weekly “Fondle” party. The event started in February, but came to national attention after the New York Times wrote about it. The police are now promising to keep a close eye on the cummings and goings at the restaurant.“That [Times article] was the first I heard of [Fondle] night,” Captain Kenneth Corey of the 76th Precinct said. “We’re going to determine the legality of it. If they’re outside of it, then we’re going to take action.”South Brooklyn Pizza may be in violation of cabaret license regulations.“It doesn’t bother me,” said Omarr Stewart, who lives in the neighborhood. “I like to think of myself as a progressive.”“To each his own,” added Michael Rosario, who works at a neighboring restaurant.

-Banana Guide

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.»

-Sigmund Freud

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A JEWISH MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: IS MICHELLE OBAMA CHOICE OF «ETHNIC» DESIGNERS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

«How could Tennessee Williams choke on a bottlecap, do you think? How could that happen?»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 3 1983

WHAT MISS CALIFORNIA SHOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE (2)

«Gay people have a right to be miserable as everybody else! »

-Chris Rock

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Common sense is not so common. »

-Voltaire

«THERE IS NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES «RIGHT NOW» LIKE AMERICA DOES»

Beyoncé visited Warhol exhibition in Paris.

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