ANDY WARHOL & THE INTERNET

Victor Bockris, who met Warhol in 1973, worked with him for six years and authored a biography, said the Internet would have been ideal for the artist. "He was a natural blogger." Well, Bockris says, amend that a bit: He would have gotten an acolyte -- someone "like me," he jokes -- to sit and listen and record his every thought and then post it for him.
"With no exaggeration, the Internet would have suited his voice very well," says Bob Colacello, the author of "Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up," who worked with Warhol for 13 years. "But I don't think he would have been a blogger -- first of all, he couldn't even type, and he evaded opinions. He wasn't a person who was going to sit around a dinner table and say why he was for Obama's health-care program. His idea of an opinion was 'she's a beauty,' 'he's a beauty,' " Colacello says. "I don't know what he would have blogged about."

Washington Post
August 16 2009