YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

DAMIEN HIRST

Apparently fabricated in a perverse effort to one-up his own prodigious earnings at auction, artist Damien Hirst constructed one of the most memorable artworks of the aughts. “For the Love of God” , a platinum-and-diamond-encrusted skull, allegedly sold for the jaw-dropping price of nearly $100 million in 2007, seemed to some to symbolize the excessive expenditures of a decade — and the arbitrariness of contemporary art valuations. Turns out the “consortium” that purchased the piece included Hirst as a member.

COLLECTOR MUSEUMS

Prominent collectors, perhaps emboldened by the skyrocketing value of their holdings on paper during the ’00s, opted to build their own museums (or exhibition venues) in lieu of handing over control of their collections to existing institutions. Miami’s now robust scene owes much to this trend: the Rubell Family Collection, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation are all fantastic places to visit. In LA, philanthropist Eli Broad partnered with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to create the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, which opened in 2008.

COMMERCIAL CULTURE AS HIGH ART

Accessibility — in the sense of appealing to potential visitors with comfortable, popular content (as opposed to obscure, conceptual premises) — has become something of a mantra for museums in the 21st century. The effort to bridge pop culture and the museum may have culminated with the Brooklyn Museum’s 2002 tribute to Star Wars, complete with costume displays and Death Star graphics, but that institution wasn’t the only one to perpetuate the phenomenon. In 2000, the esteemed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum hosted an exhibition devoted to the work of fashion designer Giorgio Armani. And our own Tampa Museum of Art hosted a showcase of New York Yankees memorabilia in 2005.

Creativeloafing.com

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

The cast of Jersey Shore.

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

London (ANI): American socialite Paris Hilton has revealed that chief creative officer of Playboy, Hugh Hefner, can never get enough of the dancer’s pole she installed at her nightclub. Hilton, 28, also spoke about 83-year-old Hefner’s agility and stamina while performing on the pole. “That sees a lot of action at my parties,” the Mirror quoted her as telling Hello! Magazine. “You can’t get Hugh Hefner off it when he comes round - he has the endurance of someone in his twenties,” she added

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

Britney becomes a brunette again.

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«SEX IS MORE EXCITING ON THE SCREEN AND BETWEEN THE PAGES THAN BETWEEN THE SHEETS»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«We do not remember days. We remember moments».

-Cesare Pavese.

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGION

I never trust atheists or deeply religious people. But I always trust people with a deep awareness of all the past religions people no longer believe in. They always have the right attitude towards religions.

«OHHH ELIZABETH TAYLOR OHHH SHE'S SO GLAMOROUS» -ANDY WARHOL

One of the great stars I met was Elizabeth Taylor, then just married to her third husband, film producer Michael Todd. Not only was she a true beauty, she was also down to earth and fun. She'd been a movie star since the age of seven and knew how to behave like one. We dined at a restaurant on Sunset Strip called La Rue and she was dressed to the nines (as was I) in satin, mink stole and diamonds. I'd admired her since childhood. She deserved the accolades for her beauty, sheer star power and the epic quality of her lifestyle.Then I met Ava Gardner - dangerously gorgeous and a headline-making superstar who often downgraded herself by saying she couldn't act. Well, she could. She had true talent and that indispensable star power.
The public was more savvy then. Actors didn't become stars unless they truly had the real X factor. There were loads of Marlene Dietrich or Hedy Lamarr wannabes, but the real versions made it because they were truly exceptional

Joan Collins
The Daily Mail
Dec 29 2009

«I'M SO SPOILED FROM GOING AROUND WITH NINETEEN YEAR OLDS»

POP LIFE EXHIBITION

Pop Life argues that Andy Warhol’s most radical lesson is reflected in the work of artists of subsequent generations who not only reproduce everyday culture in their artworks but also strategically infiltrate this realm, appropriating the mechanisms of the market, the mass media and the omnipresence of advertising in order to reach an audience far beyond the confines of the art gallery. The conflation of culture and commerce is commonly regarded as a betrayal of the values of modern art; Pop Life, on the other hand, shows that for many artists who came after Warhol, the fusion of the two realms is the only possible means of interacting with the modern world.

Art Daily
Dec 28 2009

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.»

-Jeff Koons

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

More significant, perhaps, is the content. Fang and Yue helped found Cynical Realism, an art movement in the late '80s that served as an ironic, chiding response to Mao Zedong's edict that all art should glorify the state. Yue's iconic image, a self-portrait locked in a frenzied forced grin, is one of the most ubiquitous icons in Chinese art today; that, along with Fang's much-repeated bland, yawning figure, made it clear how they felt about such decrees. At his Pace opening, Zhang's new work ventured for the first time into installation and sculpture. Both there and in his painting, it's more personal, but no less marked by authoritarian rule. His project was to paint, from memory, some of the scores of family photos destroyed by the authorities during the Cultural Revolution in the late '60s and early '70s (family pictures were illegal; Zhang's parents were among the many intellectuals taken away for "re-education.

Toronto Star
Dec 12 2009

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:HUMANITIES DECLINE

Forty years of being condescending towards the general public mixed with publish or perish deconstruction trash. And we claim to be surprised of the ever growing humanities decline in colleges year after year? Fucking unbelievable!

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

«Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle»

-Camille Paglia

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

FROM PUBLISH OR PERISH TO PUBLISH....AND PERISH!

By reducing the number of professors who have tenure, a university can ensure higher-quality faculty. Once professors achieve tenure, typically done over a period of about seven years, they are no longer held as accountable for the work they do, nor are they held to the same standards and expectations. Because their jobs are no longer at stake, much of their incentive to work, publish and teach effectively disappears. This removal of incentives, when coupled with the process that professors go through to get tenured in the first place, has detrimental consequences for overall academic quality. While attempting to attain tenure over their first seven years, professors face an unfortunate emphasis on published work, especially in the number of articles that they produce. This leads to two unfortunate circumstances. The first has been referred to as “publish or perish,” in which academics are pushed into publishing numerous new works in order to sustain their careers. This raises the likelihood that new work will be of decreasing scholarly value, as the priority of publishing begins to trump the inherent value of the work itself. A closely related problem has been referred to humorously as the “least publishable unit.” This phenomenon involves an academic minimizing the amount of new information in each publication in order to spread his or her work into as many releases as possible and to increase both the volume of his or her published work and reputation—often deemed an academic’s most-cherished possession.Of course, these are extremes. Most professors genuinely love their disciplines and teaching, and actually resorting to these methods is likely the exception, rather than the rule. But inherent defects remain in the system. In order to gain tenure, academics are often encouraged to publish the highest volume of information, sometimes disregarding the quality of the work; after gaining tenure, their motivation to work is removed because of guaranteed jobs and salaries.

Studentlife
Dec 2 2009

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TV

MTV now: trash TV for bratty 14 year old girls....

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

Sir Peter Blake.

BOY GEORGE

Imagine for a moment if, say, Robbie Williams had dragged a female escort across the floor of his house before handcuffing her to a wall and beating her with a chain. His career would be over, permanently. His reputation would be plunged to a level only a couple of rungs higher than that of Gary Glitter. He would be shunned.Compare this with what's happened to Boy George. Many gay people reacted to his incarceration with shock and disgust, throwing parties and club nights in his honour, as if he were a martyr, an Oscar Wilde figure. The justice system reacted by allowing him to serve just four months of his 15-month sentence. The publicly funded BBC reacted by inviting the star, after his release, to appear on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, (where O'Dowd laughed and joked about his time in prison). And Ross, as ever asking the questions the public would like to pose, probed him about everything other than his despicable crime. Boy George had been forgiven. And not just because he has a good line in hats, quips and pathos-drenched lyrics. Not just because he is an apparently cuddly "out" gay man who once said he preferred a cup of tea to sex. But for the simple reason that his victim was male.

The Guardian
Dec 24 2009

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

Paris Hilton says Lady GaGa is her style icon.

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«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: REALITY CHECK

Tiger Woods wife is a model. He cheated on her. And you still have all these 50 year old women who think plastic surgery will make their husbands faithful? ...

PISS CHIC

«These are the Piss paintings, the oxydations. And then these nice older women were asking me how I'd done them and I didn't have the heart to tell them what they really were because their noses were right against them».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 7 1986

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: LOOK YOUR BEST EVERYWHERE!

IS A TERRORIST THREATENING TO BLOW UP YOUR PLANE? HOW TO LOOK 5 POUNDS SLIMMER WHEN BEATING HIM TO THE GROUND!

Copyright by IVAN

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

« A girl`s got to use what she`s given and I`m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don`t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It`s meant to make guys think: `I don`t know if this is sexy or just weird.

Lady Gaga

«ATHELETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACES AND THEY'RE YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACES»

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

Madonna buys horse ranch.

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YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«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»

K-Fed gains movie role.

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«I'M SO SPOILED FROM GOING AROUND WITH NINETEEN YEAR OLDS»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

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

-Salvador Dali

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS

I like the word game every other country is now playing with China bcause they want to protect their economic interests. So now that the famous chinese dissident has been condamned to 11 years in jail, leaders of countries present in China «deplores» the situation instead of «condamning» it.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:DOUCHEBAGS: LOOKING LIKE GAY ROUGH TRADE FETISH, BUT FUCKING PUSSY LIKE CRAZY

ELTON JOHN

«Left at 8:00 to go to Madison Square Garden to see Elton John. He came out like an angel in a halo with a red wig plus a tommy hawk wig. And oh God is he fat»

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Sept 13 1986

«CHRISTMAS GIFT!

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

Paris Hilton opens her Christmas presents already.

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«I GUESS I'VE BEEN INFLUENCED BY EVERYBODY. BUT THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S POP»

Lady Gaga soaks up our ancient heritage of Pop Music; myriads of memory-lane transfers can be spotted, if you look close enough. Gaga is a Mediterranean squishy-sponge, a mirror to her heroes, on her freshman effort The Fame. The gallery of influences read like The Book of Who's Who. The oval portraits of David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, The B-52s, Madonna, Queen, Abba, Blondie, The Village People and Andy Warhol are ragbag pop-ups on your ipod, as you crank up tu Gaga, and gyrate or flip-flop intimately in your garbage dump of a cozy flat

Newsblaze
Dec 14 2009

JOYEUX NOEL À TOUS!

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

HollywoodLife is among the deluge of celebrity and entertainment sites on the Web, plenty of which have a healthy head start in terms of online audiences. According to comScore, an Internet data analysis firm, HollywoodLife.com had 637,000 unique visitors in September; compare that to 19 million for OMG.com, 12 million for the digital version of People magazine and 8.9 million for TMZ.com that same month

LoHo.com
Dec 29 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS TIGER WOODS SEX SCANDAL GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING BEAUTIFUL AND VICE VERSA....

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

“Women see celebrities as mirrors of their own lives, so when they're looking at celebrities, in many cases, not all, they are evaluating the situation and relating it to something in their own lives or comparing it. It enhances your life... It's helping women. Of course it's healthy.”

-Bonnie Fuller
Globe & Mail
Dec 20 2009

«I THINK AMERICAN WOMEN ARE ALL SO BEAUTIFUL, I LIKE THE WAY THEY LOOK, THEY'RE TERRIFIC»

WOMEN IN REVOLT

This revolutionary power shift isn't due to social programs or social engineering. It's about economics. Some call it "womenomics" because women already account for 80 per cent of all purchasing decisions.
More formidably, women may soon be the primary breadwinners. It's a trend that began more than 30 years ago as women flooded into colleges, universities and trade schools.

-Vancouver Sun
Dec 16 2009

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

No. 5 (1948) by Jackson Pollock: Sold in 2006 for approximately US$140 million

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) by Gustav Klimt: Sold in 2006 for approximately US$135 million

Garçon à la Pipe (1905) by Pablo Picasso: Sold in 2004 for approximately US$104 million

Eight Elvises (1963) by Andy Warhol: Sold in 2009 for approximately US$100 million

Triptych (1976) by Francis Bacon: Sold in 2008 for US$86.3 million


-EYE WEEKLY
Dec 22 2009

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

A worldwide study of sexual preferences revealed that females feel more secure if they have a mate in reserve. It seems you have the best of both worlds. The older male is established and able to offer you security and thus provide for any children you may have with him, but you should be aware that male fertility and the condition of sperm decline with age. The younger male, on the other hand, is likely to have a higher sperm count. He excites you more sexually, but as yet he cannot provide for you or your future children. However, the "sexy son hypothesis" states that sons born of sexy strangers will mature to become sexy men themselves, thus providing granny with plenty of grandchildren. Some Darwinists might say your optimal strategy would be to pair-bond with the older male but surreptitiously allow the younger, sexy male to fertilise you. But be careful, most men consider being cuckolded the greatest of betrayals.

Good luck

The Guardian
Dec 4 2009

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

«DRAGS ARE AMBULATORY ARCHIVES OF IDEAL MOVIESTAR WOMANHOOD»

CNS: Was there something specific that made you decide to want to write the book?

RuPaul: I was surprised that people didn't know certain tricks. I was really the first to introduce lace-front wigs to a whole generation of people and now you see them on Beyoncé, Tyra, and Mary J. I wanted to put all the questions that I get from all over the world, the hair, the make-up, the outfits, all in one place as a reference for everyone to have. That's where the book really came from.

-Ru Paul

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. »

-Richard Avedon

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

The most significant cultural development of the first decade of the 21st century was...iTunes. Or the Kindle. Or YouTube. Or blogging. Or Amazon's customer reviews. Take your pick -- but whatever you choose, don't make it a work of creative art.
Yes, important art continued to be created in the new millennium, but the big culture-related news of the Decade Without a Name is that it will likely be remembered less for its art than for the inventions that put the art into circulation. Every journalist who covers the world of art and culture is a trend-monger, always looking for the Next Big Thing like a pig snuffling for truffles. But never before has it been so difficult to point to any sharply defined stylistic tendencies in Western culture.

-Wall Street Journal
Dec 21 2009

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WOMEN

Never compliment a woman for her intelligence unless she's very good-looking. She will be mad at you otherwise.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

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

-Truman Capote

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

Jessia Simpson denies her affair with Tiger Woods.

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«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

FROM PUBLISH OR PERISH TO PUBLISH ...AND PERISH!

With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature is bleaker than ever before.According to the Modern Language Association’s forecast of job listings, released Thursday, faculty positions will decline 37 percent, the biggest drop since the group began tracking its job listings 35 years ago.The projection, based on a comparison between the number of jobs listed in October 2008 and October 2009, follows a 26 percent drop the previous year.“Students thinking of going to graduate school in English should understand that right now their chance of landing a job that provides them a livable wage is 50-60 percent,” said Rosemary Feal, executive director of the M.L.A., the world’s largest association of scholars and professors of language and literature. “What I often hear from grad students is, ‘I had no clue it was this bad.’ They need to go into it with their eyes wide open.”

-New York Times
Dec 17 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

The art critic Hilton Kramer once said that Abstract Expressionism was the last gasp of European Modernism. Nowadays it's Jeff Koons and Perez Hilton who respectively symbolize the last gasp of Pop Art and Celebrity Gossip culture no longer able to reinvent themselves.

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

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Age denial comes in many forms ... and Botox is one of them. Yeah, yeah, I know that beauty is only skin deep. I know all about inner beauty. I know how the cosmetic industry and society in general are telling me as a woman I'm never enough and I shouldn't buy into it, and I'm good enough, and special enough and gosh darn it people like me and blah blah blah. I wanted fake, I wanted superficial, and I wanted it now!

-Salon
Dec 18 2009

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Giotto

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Artists are like everybody else.»

-Damien Hirst

«YES, I LOVE TEXAS»

Some local news stories go nationwide and cause a national alarm, and some simply go nationwide and then sink underwater unnoticed. But on the very rare occasion, a news story goes nationwide and is received with a double take and a "come again?".That's what happened when Houston became the biggest city in the US last week to elect an openly gay mayor, Annise Parker. Yes, that would be Houston, Texas – the largest city in a state that's assumed worldwide to be nothing but a hot bed of gun-toting, Bible-thumping rightwing reactionaries. Obviously, it's time for the rest of the world to start taking a more complex view, and start thinking of Texas as more than the home of George W Bush. The election inadvertently revealed the dirty little secret that native (and liberal) Texans like myself have known and been trying to publicise for a long time, which is that Texas is far from a conservative monolith. On the contrary; not only do all the major cities in Texas vote consistently for Democrats, but some rural areas on the Texas-Mexican border have been marginal to consistently "blue" for some time now.

The Guardian
Dec 15 2009

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

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

Paris Hilton show off her piglet.

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YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE AMERICAN/FRENCH DIVIDE EXPLAINED

America: not enough self awareness. France: too much self awareness.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The difference between a bad and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.»

-William Blake

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT;EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF»

WARHOL & THE JEWS: IVAN KARP , IRVING BLUM, HENRY GELDZAHLER, LEO CASTELLI, ETC

The Vogels began collecting at a particularly auspicious time—at precisely the moment when New York became the capital of the art world and when the son of a Russian Jewish garment worker from Harlem and the daughter of an Orthodox shopkeeper from Elmira, New York, could easily befriend the people who were shaping culture in New York, many of whom were Jewish émigrés from Europe or upstarts from Brooklyn. These tastemakers grew up as part of a generation that was encouraged, thanks to New Deal programs that subsidized artists, to take art seriously, and they became adults in the wake of World War II, just as New York was replacing Paris and Berlin as the global hub for art and ideas. And, while not explicitly Jewish, the American avant garde was to a great extent shaped by Jewish collectors, dealers, artists, and critics—not least by curators at the Jewish Museum, who mounted a series of influential shows for New York School artists like Jasper Johns starting in the late 1950s. “If you were collecting, what you were valuing was, to a great extent, what Jewish critics told you to value—abstract art, color,” said Catherine Soussloff, a professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

-Tablet magazine
Dec 16 2009

ART GIANT

To compare the artistic insight of jeff Koons to the one of Andy Warhol is like comparing Georges Braque to Pablo Picasso in term of scope. We're not talking about the same thing here...

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

WARHOL & BACON: BLUE CHIP ART DEFINED

Gay artists with obsessions....

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Prices for blue chip and contemporary art will rise. In a down market, sellers are reluctant to part with material, which has the effect of boosting prices for the great works that do come up for sale. Older paintings, like Warhol and Francis Bacon, will do especially well, but don't look for stratospheric prices for the art darlings of the past eight years: the jury, and buyers, remain out. Museum acquisitions from far-flung players will contribute to the trend, notably new venues in the Persian Gulf, some of which have formed partnerships with Western institutions like the Guggenheim and the Louvre.

-Forbes
Dec 16 2009

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space. The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture. Technology, like Kubrick's rogue computer, HAL, is the companionable servant turned ruthless master. The ironically self-referential or overtly politicized and jargon-ridden paradigms of higher education, far from helping the young to cope or develop, have worsened their vertigo and free fall. Today's students require not subversion of rationalist assumptions—the childhood legacy of intellectuals born in Europe between the two World Wars—but the most basic introduction to structure and chronology. Without that, they are riding the tail of a comet in a media starscape of explosive but evanescent images.The extraordinary technological aptitude of the young comes partly from their now-instinctive ability to absorb information from the flickering TV screen, which evolved into the glassy monitor of the omnipresent personal computer. Television is reality for them: nothing exists unless it can be filmed or until it is rehashed onscreen by talking heads.

-Camille Paglia
The magic of images

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

Madonna replaced by model for Louis Vuitton campaign.

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«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Warhol now the ultimate «Money on the wall». How wonderfully ironic!

«I HAVE A BUSINESS TO KEEP GOING. I MEAN THE PORNO PICTURES ARE FOR A SHOW. THEY'RE WORK».

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MUSEUM BOUTIQUE

Every time I see all those old bored ladies working in museum stores I can't help thinking: Do they realize the number of times their husbands cheated on them last week?

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

She has made friends with Madonna, been interviewed by Barbara Walters and met the Queen of England at the annual Royal Variety Performance. The Monster Ball has sold out many dates. This is all happening not because Gaga is cute or takes off her clothes but because (to use one of her favourite words) she is a monster -- a monster talent, that is, with a serious brain.
During nearly two hours of conversation, she not only reiterates her assertion of total originality but also finesses it until it's both a philosophical stance about how constructing a persona from pop-cultural sources can be an expression of a person's truth -- à la those drag queens Gaga sincerely admires -- and a bit of a feminist act."I'm getting the sense that you're a little bit of a feminist, like I am, which is good," she said. "I find that men get away with saying a lot in this business, and that women get away with saying very little... In my opinion, women need and want someone to look up to that they feel have the full sense of who they are, and says, 'I'm great.' "

-Winnipeg Free press
Dec 15 2009

«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them»

-Albert Einstein

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

Hugh Grant has confessed he was drunk when he  bought a painting of Elizabeth Taylor that later made him an £11million profit. The actor was lauded as an art connoisseur when he bought the work by Andy Warhol for £2million. And he was praised as a master of timing when he sold it six years later for £13million. But the star has now admitted that his windfall had little to do with an eye for art.

Daily Mail
Dec 12 2009

MODEL LIFE

«There was a crowd of models there that Barry Mc Kinley was taking photographs of, mostly male models, they were so good-looking. Why are there so many to chose from now? Because there's nobody in the army? Wouldn't it be great to do a whole movie of nothing but good-looking kids-the butcher-the baker-all models»

The Andy Warhol Diaries
April 30 1979

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: INTERRACIAL SEX

When having interracial sex just imagine what your partner is secretly thinking but can't say at loud to you. It will instantly make the sex hotter.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps».

-Tiger Woods

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: PHILOSOPHY BOOKS

All the philosophy books in the world have never helped against a headache.

HOW 25 YEARS CHANGE EVERYTHING

«And I really have only two collectors. Saatchi and Newhouse a little bit. Whereas Roy Lichtenstein and those people have fifteen or twenty I guess. I'm not just...a good painter».

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 19 1984

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like «Psychic Wins Lottery».

-Jay Leno

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:SEX

The smarter a woman is, the more she likes to be sexually dominated in bed.

AMERICAN DEFINITION ILLUSTRATED: CHICK MAGNET

QUESTION

He's the biggest influence on her work and yet nobody ask Lady Gaga to explain more in details how Warhol is an ispiration to her. Go figure.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARTS

Thirty years of overintellectualization in the arts to kill art criticism and end up with Larry Gagosian giving a party for Jeff Koons. How unbelivably boring the art world had become.

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

WHAT FEW PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO SEE

Warhol's paintings are emotional, nuanced, and painterly. His literary - rather than straightforwardly self-revealing - voice, in his books is one of the most memorable of the American century. Art that was really made in his image would be stark, reportorial and have a subtle conscience. But who is going to try to imitate the real Andy Warhol? It would be as hard as emulating Picasso. On the surface Warhol's art seems to deny uniqueness, but look at any one of his works and you will encounter a singular, hand-made, human object. Even his Brillo Boxes are hand painted, with slips and mistakes. Our failure to see the uniqueness of Warhol is part of our culture's frightening loss of sensitivity to real art and life - a loss that Warhol saw coming, and mourned.

Jonathan Jones
The Guardian
May 3 2007

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TOO DUMB

Of all the groups (straight men, straight women, and lesbians) gay men are the only ones too dumb to realize than a business partner is ten times more interesting to have than a sex partner.

GAY CULTURE WITHOUT YOUNG MALE SWAGGER IS NO GAY CULTURE

WOMEN IN REVOLT

This year in pop culture proved that 40 is the new 25.The cougar culture made its impact on television, movie, and the internet this past year. With the divorce rates, healthier trends, and changes in overall attitudes, women over 40 have found dating accessible, with a variety of men to choose from. Cougars, by definition, are women in their forties that date men who are at least ten years younger than them.

-The Examiner

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

We become moral when we are unhappy.

-Marcel Proust

«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»

Contactmusic.com reported today that Madonna's large biceps and tiny figure have led some to be concerned that she is obsessed with her body. Madonna, 51, just says this is "her job."“I do it for health reasons and for aesthetic reasons. If I have to go out on stage and jump around in a pair of hot pants, I better look good,"

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

Louise Nevelson in front of one of her sculpture

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TOY

if you have never been treated like a pure sex object by some 20 or 30 year old guy, you don't know anything about pleasure in life..

BUTCH

«A boy is butch if he weighs over 170 and he's an all american football type, a spilling-out masculine man. A butch person looks like-well, we don't have one at the office»

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Sept 7 1977

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SARAH PALIN

If liberals don't understand the advantage of her «perverted conservative elementary school teacher porn movie look» they will lose against her.

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

Depending on who you ask, either term can be described as an insult or a compliment. Australia's The Age spoke to 43-year-old supermodel Cindy Crawford about her thoughts on slang used to describe the mature woman. She did not mince words on the matter. "I don't want to be a cougar, I want to be a MILF," Crawford said. "I hate that word, 'cougar,' and what it represents. MILF (Mother I would like to f...) is a word I absolutely love." ..."Age can be daunting, but you can't stop it. I know 20-year-old guys don't look at me anymore. I don't feel it like I used to," Cindy admitted in an interview with British GQ. "I remember walking down streets in New York at the height of my modelling career, my hair up, and all the construction guys would go crazy. It's different now."

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

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

Bill O'Reilly: Let me be very bold and fresh again, do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

Sarah Palin: I believe that I am because I have common sense and I have I believe the values that I think are reflective of so many other American values, and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the uhm, the ah, a kind of spineless, spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite, Ivy league education and, and a fat resume that is based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. Americans are could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership, I'm not saying that that has to be me.

Source: The Huffington Post

«I LIKE BORING THINGS»

Tiger Woods sex scandal....Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Pop rhetorical quiz time! Why is it that gay men can classify themselves as bears and otters and all other manner of creatures and it seems cute and sexy, but female sexual animals are somehow just pathetic?

Salon
Dec 4 2009

THE «ALL AMERICAN» QUESTION

«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

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

Paris Hilton says she love her life.

Next!

«THE WORLD FASCINATES ME»

Front row at Chanel’s first fashion show in Shanghai, and the view is very different to the usual one of poker-faced editors in dark shades on the other side of the catwalk.Tonight, the entire audience is facing in the same direction, perched in a giant glass box on top of a barge moored on the edge of the Huangpu river, overlooking the extraordinary skyline of high-rises across the water in the booming financial district of Pudong. The night sky is alight with neon – translucent, surreal, glittering in a way that Karl Lagerfeld described earlier in the afternoon as “magical, with colours that look somehow different to Europe, and a kind of transparency about them”.Tallest of all is the Shanghai World Financial Centre, 100 gleaming glass storeys outlined in turquoise lights. Alongside is the Aurora skyscraper, where “Chanel” is flashing in black and white lights up its vertiginous walls. Other towers loom like 21st-century pastiches of Gotham City, with edges jagged as cartoon monster robots, or intersected with giant pink pearls.

The Telegraph
Dec 6 2009

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by David Salle

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

Did Warhol grasp the profundity of his innovations, or was he as vapid as his pose made him seem? Danto writes that Warhol had "a philosophical mind" -- a dubious claim: If he ever discussed ideas seriously, the evidence has yet to be revealed. A more plausible perspective comes from an article by critic Peter Schjeldahl, from which Scherman and Dalton quote at length. Some artists at the time did mull the issues that Pop art raised. "I don't see him doing that," Schjeldahl wrote of Warhol. "That's why we reach for the word 'genius' . . . He sees clearly. He just does it.

Washington Post
Dec 6 2009

«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEN

Lesbians feminists are right. Men are dumb, stupid, cocky, sex crazed pigs. That's why I have fun sleeping with them.

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot. »

-Bill Gates

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

Man cleavage -- plunging necklines slit open to reveal chest hair, pectoral muscles, maybe more -- is back.Until recently, male décolletage was an androgynous fashion affectation limited mainly to sporadic appearances on European runways. But the look, including deep V-necks and scoop-neck tops, hit the U.S. in full force at New York's September Fashion Week, turning up at shows by Duckie Brown, Michael Bastian and Yigal Azrouël.This time around, the styles were more blatantly sexual and the models had a more studly swagger. New York designer Mr. Bastian said his show's vibe was inspired in part by "Latin guys" he noticed wearing their shirts unbuttoned, as well as the unabashed machismo of Latin American men in general. "We wanted to go back to a more natural body, a more '70s body with the models, getting away from the super skinny," says Mr. Bastian.

Wall Street Journal
Dec 4 2009

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

Warhol's true faith, of course, was in the Factory—that "travesty of religion," Indiana calls it, in which "devotees 'confessed' to a godlike camera and were 'absolved' by inclusion in a community of dysfunction." Admirers of the Factory frequently invoke the precedent of the Renaissance atelier, but, as Indiana points out, the industrial hierarchy whose formal name was Andy Warhol Enterprises owes far more to the studio system of Irving Thalberg. Like Thalberg and Walt Disney, Warhol conjured a market for his own work through savvy farming of talent, business instinct, and relentless oversight. Like them, he wrapped an industrious creative culture in a cloak of casual glamour. Like them, Warhol benefited from the historical accident of film—the superstars were hardly the first artists and outcasts to embrace a subversive hedonism, simply the first to be captured doing so on celluloid. And like Thalberg and Disney, Warhol demonstrated a selfishness and self-absorption so severe, it seemed to those around him a serene charisma implying an ethical order. But Warhol sat idly by as his Factory superstars disappeared and despaired, as they drugged out, deteriorated, and died. And "there is no evidence," as Hickey notes, "to suggest that his overriding project was anything more profound than to make the art world safe for Andy Warhol."

Newweek
Dec 3 2009

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: À LA VALERIE SOLANAS: WOMYN STUDIES: HOW TO ACHIEVE «FEMYLE EMPORWERMYNT»

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS

A conservative is a sexually frustrated former liberal
A liberal is a financially frustrated former conservative.

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

Kyle Minogue works with Madonna producer.

Next!

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

«I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON»

The media might finally be tiring of the profane, misogynistic blogger Perez Hilton. On his Dec. 2 interview on "The View," the five female hosts of the show relentlessly fired at him from every angle, ranging from his exploitation of children to his infamous reputation of outing gays. This was especially surprising considering the way Hilton has been treated by the media elite in the past.For years, broadcast and cable networks and even newspapers have presented Hilton's offensive blog - dubbed a "tastemaker" by the LA Times - as harmless and entertaining. In 2007, ABC's Jake Tapper called it "snarky, amusing, cool and fishy," and, in 2009, CBS correspondent Erica Hill called Hilton's commentary "a little tongue-in-cheek, maybe some snide remarks here about some perhaps not so flattering moments."Yesterday, though, during his appearance on "The View," Hilton might have finally realized that his love affair with the media won't last forever.

Newsbuster.org
Dec 3 2009

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: NEW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

You can say someone is «white trash». But you will never hear «latino trash», «black trash» or «asian trash»...

«HE GOT A LOT FROM YOUNG PEOPLE AND AT WORK HE SURROUNDED HIMSELF WITH THEM» -CHRISTOPHER MAKOS

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent. »

Ruth Handler
Creator (with her husband) of the Barbie Doll.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SUCCESS: «THE SECRET» : I MEAN THE REAL ONE!

To succeed at the very top and have more energy for one's work, a swaggering straight jerk need to be pussy whipped and be secretly homophobic, a lesbian need to make a power trip mixed with misandry, a straight woman need to be jealous of younger more beautiful bitches and a fag need to realize he's over the hill before he turn 30.

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»