«I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE ARTIFICIAL STOPS AND THE REAL STARTS».

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about. »

-Guy Laliberté
Cirque du Soleil founder

BRUNO BISCHOFBERGER

«In 1969 I was one of the founding partners of Interview magazine, with twenty-five percent interest. I maintained my stake until 1986, when I traded it with Andy for a group of paintings. In 1971, I published Andy‘s Electric Chairs portfolio, which was printed in Zurich. I was also the producer of L‘Amour, a Warhol movie which was shot mostly in Paris in 1970, though it was not edited and screened until 1972.»

-brunobischofberger.com

«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»

Paris Hilton to face drug charge.

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

DAY TWO
6 a.m.: A text from another young one. Late 20s with a peroxide blond faux-hawk, blue eyes, and the most perfect bubble butt possible on a white boy. Met him through CL. Our usual: He comes over, gets all coked up, and talks incessantly about Britney Spears. He eventually splays himself on the bed and serves up that perfect butt. I go down on him for what seemed like hours, lovin' every minute of it. (The coke always throws a wrench in the gears of sex.) He texts how much he misses our times together.
11 a.m.: At the Met. Enjoying the usual selection of hot-bodied, dickless Greek and Roman statuary.
11:35 a.m.: A security guard, an Italian Bear type, gives me a look and quick grab of his crotch. I stand there and let him go through the whole ceremony; stopping, looking back, eye contact, another series of crotch grabs — each more suggestive than the last. I give him a nod. He walks off. I know to follow.
11:45 a.m.: He has access to the employee elevator and we try a few men's rooms he knows of that are closed to the masses. We end up at urinals right off the Modern Art wing, stroking. He finally bends over and starts blowing me, but someone comes in and we have to go. I tell him I'm off to have lunch.
12:58 p.m.: Near the cafeteria, he finds me again. Tells me he has a fifteen-minute break and knows where we can go. Through the American wing and up to a floor of all offices. We find the men's room, and go into a stall. He crawls up on the seat and gives me some awesome head until he comes in his pants. It was good, but I needed longer to get off.

-New York Magazine
August 30 2010

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

FROM A CAMPBELL SOUP CAN TO LADY GAGA

“I spent every dollar I made on my music, my art. Every dollar,” GaGa insisted. “I don’t wait to get budgets from the label. I do it on my own. I don’t give a f**k about money. Unless it’s on the stage, I don’t want it in my hand.
“Pop music is commercial art the way Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans were commercial art. I don’t know why everyone is so against pop music. I love a good chorus – sue me. It’s that f***ing simple.

-Lady GaGa
Showbizspy.com
August 31 2010

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

«Andy was the pope of Pop and Reagan was the first pop president. A movie star as president was a Warhol fantasy come true. It wasn’t that Andy was politically aligned with Ronald Reagan, but the idea of someone who came out of a Hollywood star system and was “created” by Warner Brothers becoming president is very Warholian. They also both came from very poor families in obscure places in the middle of America. Both were mama’s boys. Their mothers’ lives both revolved entirely around their church (in Andy’s case it was the Eastern Rite Catholic Church and Reagan’s it was the Disciples of Christ). And both seemed so nice and harmless in a way. I think they were both underestimated. »

-Bob Colacello

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Jobs, and the preparation of students for them, should be front and center in the thinking of educators. The idea that college is a contemplative realm of humanistic inquiry, removed from vulgar material needs, is nonsense. The humanities have been gutted by four decades of pretentious postmodernist theory and insular identity politics. They bear little relationship to the liberal arts of broad perspective and profound erudition that I was lucky enough to experience in college in the 1960s.
Having taught in art schools for most of my four decades in the classroom, I am used to having students who work with their hands—ceramicists, weavers, woodworkers, metal smiths, jazz drummers. There is a calm, centered, Zen-like engagement with the physical world in their lives. In contrast, I see glib, cynical, neurotic elite-school graduates roiling everywhere in journalism and the media. They have been ill-served by their trendy, word-centered educations.

-Camille Paglia

«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

NEW YORK— Perhaps the could be faulted for not being sufficiently engaged with trends in new media art, but when it comes to the institution's own tech the Modern has tried to live up to its name — most recently with the introduction of an iPhone app. MoMA is now offering a free download that allows access to 32,000 works, a dictionary of art terms, artist bios, an event calendar, audio tours, and more.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”

-Gore Vidal

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

WOMEN IN REVOLT

As a proud lesbian feminist I have campaigned for years against the beauty industry and cosmetic surgery. I have never worn makeup, except once, as an experiment for these pages, and for years I even refused to wear a bra – until I had to dress up in vaguely smart clothing occasionally for work. But we all have an achilles heel, and mine is facial hair. I hate it, both on myself and other women. I have a particular terror of fuzz appearing on my face, and always carry one lone item of beauty equipment: tweezers. Luckily, I am not particularly afflicted, although in recent years I have noticed one long black hair that sprouts from my left cheek, another under my chin, and a few barely noticeable ones above my lip. The second they appear they are instantly torn asunder. My fear of the fuzz is hardly unusual. Even in the thick of the late 1970s women's movement, I remember a close friend – a fellow lesbian and hard-line feminist – confessing, "I'm so glad I discovered electrolysis before feminism!"

-The Guardian
August 20 2010

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: À LA VALÉRIE SOLANAS: HOW PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY INVENTED «MYNOPAUSE» AGAINST WOMYN.... ALL WIMMIN EVERYWHERE!

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

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

Madonna wants Lady GaGa for her upcoming tour.

-Next!

PICASSO

In the years after the Second World War, for instance, Picasso was so wealthy that he used to haul around a red-leather Hermès trunk stuffed full of millions of francs so that he would never be short of the cash to “buy a packet of cigarettes”.
He was frequently photographed leading a sun-soaked, playboy lifestyle on the white-sandy beaches of the Riviera (a part of the world which, incidentally, had never been a summertime holiday destination until Picasso and his smart friends started staying there during the hottest months of the year during the Twenties).In other words: by the final decades of his life, Picasso had become a brand. His name had developed into shorthand for ceaselessly inventive artistic genius, understood by people who would not recognise a Picasso in a gallery.

The Telegraph
April 27 2010

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

DIANA ROSS AND CHER

«Halston called inviting me to dinner for Diana Ross at his house. She was in the tightest black pants, like she was poured into them, and she's so skinny -they were so tight she could hardly sit down. She was sitting next to me and she talked the whole night, touching me, I guess she was on something. She said that she told Cher she wouldn't do her TV special, that Cher flew up to Vegas to see her last week about it, but she turned it down. She said: «That's not my scene right now». Diana uses the hip lines, she said, «I don't mind the girl, but...Weren't they best friends once?

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 27 1978

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMEN MAG: IN THE FUTURE DAVID HOCKNEY WILL PAINT «NATURE MORTE AU IPAD»

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Also in 1982, Bischofberger took Basquiat to meet Andy Warhol in his studio. Basquiat asked his dealer to take a Polaroid picture of him together with Warhol. Two hours later, he returned to Warhol’s studio bearing a still-wet oil painting: his interpretation of the double portrait. Said an impressed Warhol, "He works faster than I do!" The two would go on to form one of the most famous (and financially rewarding) partnerships in contemporary art, collaborating on paintings that filled two exhibitions — a relationship that Basquiat would soon end, however, due to some initial negative reviews. Eight years, 1,000 canvases and 2,000 drawings after his first exhibition, Jean Michel Basquiat died in his loft of an overdose. He was twenty-seven years old. Death rounded out the myth: the young, presumed genius, hyped and idolized but apparently always misunderstood, was dead before he could truly prove his talent.

-Culturekiosque
August 28 2010

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.»

-Voltaire

DYNASTY

C'est une toute petite lueur d'espoir, un léger vent d'optimisme qui s'abat sur la rentrée. Son nom : Dynasty - une référence non au feuilleton mais à l'idée de relève. Derrière cet intitulé se cache une exposition d'art très contemporain consacrée à la nouvelle scène française, qui s'étale au total sur 5.000 m2 dans les espaces du Palais de Tokyo et du musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris, pour l'occasion unis dans l'effort. C'est là que 40 jeunes artistes - ils ont tous moins de 35 ans - désencombrés de la lourde tradition française insufflent leur énergie créative. "En France, aujourd'hui, il existe une énergie incroyable", résume le directeur du Palais de Tokyo, Marc-Olivier Walher. Aussi, il y en a pour tous les goûts. On ne remarquera pas de nouvelle école à proprement parler, mais des expressions hétéroclites et ouvertes dans leurs genres sur le monde et l'époque.

-Le Point
27 aout 2010

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

WOMEN IN REVOLT

Preliminary findings from Teela Sanders and Kate Hardy of the University of Leeds show that nearly 90 percent of women who perform lap dances (a much raunchier affair than in the states) had completed at least one higher education course and 25 percent had undergrad degrees. Putting some weight behind the stereotype, they found that 14 percent were stripping to help pay their way through school. The Sun reports that "most said flexibility was the main attraction of the job" (ha).
The most controversial finding is that they feel empowered by their work. Sanders, whose research often focuses on sex work, says: "These young women do not buy the line that they are being exploited, because they are the ones making the money out of a three-minute dance and a bit of a chat." Ooh, them's fighting words! Let the inter-generational feminist debate begin once again.

-Salon
August 27 2010

«I HAVE SOCIAL DISEASE. I HAVE TO GO OUT EVERY NIGHT»

Studio 54 - If you could read my mind
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«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

PARIS — Top US art dealer Larry Gagosian, known for his eye for contemporary and modern works, is to open his first gallery in Paris in a new sign that the recently flagging Paris market is at last picking up. The influential 65-year-old, who has opened eight art galleries worldwide since setting up his first in Los Angeles in 1979, is to open a swish Paris dealership October 20 just off the prestigious Champs-Elysees avenue. Paris, said Serena Cattaneo, co-manager of the new gallery, "is a historic art capital"."It was an old dream of his and on top of that there's been a change in Paris. The city is on the way to re-establishing its place on the international art circuit thanks to its great museum shows," she told AFP. "Artists love coming to Paris and showing their works."Gagosian currently has four galleries in the United States, three of them in New York, one in Los Angeles, two in London, one in Rome and one in Greece, which opened last year.

TV HIT JERSEY SHORE EXPLAINED

«To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about”

-John Waters

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

"At the beginning I was doing performance art in handmade leather and leopard bikinis talking about oral sex and Andy Warhol and heavy metal. My mom was like, 'You've lost your mind.' I was doing drugs, I was really out of control. But I never got so far into it that I overdosed or anything."

-Lady GaGa

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

Behind the scenes - Cristiano Ronaldo Armani Jeans
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«OH, ART IS TOO HARD»

Mega-dealer Larry Gagosian is putting his personal collection on display in Abu Dhabi next month. Entitled “RSTW” (Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Twombley, Warhol, & Wool) and curated by Anne Baldassari, president of the Foundation Picasso, the exhibition explores not only American postwar art, but also the “collector behind the art dealer”, according to Tourism Development & Investment Company, the organizer of the show. “This ‘contemporary collection’ parallels the idea of Abu Dhabi as a place of accelerated progress, raising debates about the definition of contemporary in a space which is always in the process of becoming new.”

-The Art Newspaper
August 25 2010

DAVID BAILEY

Bailey has collected art, especially tribal masks, since the early 60s. He takes me round the art in his house. "Not many photographs here because it's too damp," he says, as we breeze through the living room's display of masks. "You're the first journalist I've let in. That's rubbish. That's rubbish. That's good. I got that from New Guinea when I spent four weeks with some cannibals. That's rubbish. That's rubbish. I've got truth-telling Tourette's, you see. That's a lovely mask from Benin. That's rubbish. That's an Arp, that's Irving Penn. That's by my favourite photographer, [Manuel] Bravo."
We wander into a bedroom. "That's a dead bear," he says pointing to the pelt on the bed. "That's a dead tiger. And that," he says, pointing to a doll from the second Austin Powers film, "is little me." Bailey clearly accepts Mike Myers's back-handed tribute. It's time to go. What will you do if the critics give your sculptures a pasting? "I don't mind if people don't like my things. I do it for myself nowadays. It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh. But I'm not going to cut off my ear."

-The Guardian
August 25 2010

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Love is a reciprocal torture.»

-Marcel Proust

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

Museum Directors, the Next Generation: "Many young directors see museums as modern-day 'town squares,' social places where members of the community may gather, drawn by art, perhaps, for conversation or music or whatever," writes Judy Dobrzynski. Curators, meanwhile, should get used to Twitter. "We are actively in the process of updating their job descriptions," says Walker director Olga Viso. [WSJ]

– The Moon Will Shine on the Acropolis: After security guards tasked with protecting the Acropolis during August's full moon tonight (the only time that ancient Greek ruins will be open to the public at night) threatened to strike over pay, the situation has been resolved. []

– Doing It For the Kids: Jeff Koons, working pro bono, completely transformed a room of the Advocate Hope Children's Hospital in Chicago with his heart. Children receiving a CT-scan can marvel at a miniature version of his "Hanging Heart" sculpture as they wait for the procedure. [York Daily Record via ]

ARTINFO
August 23 2010

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

Lady Gaga becomes the Twitter queen.

-Next!

«THE UNITED STATES HAS AN HABIT OF MAKING HEROES OUT OF ANYTHING AND ANYBODY WHICH IS SO GREAT» -ANDY WARHOL

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

The Situation has no problems when it comes to the compensation.One of the breakout stars of MTV’s smash hit Jersey Shore, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is busily, and effectively, turning his drama into dollar signs. Between his MTV salary, endorsement deals, his own branded products and other media opportunities, Sorrentino, 29, could earn as much as $5 million by the end of this year, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The abs-flaunting Sorrentino is raking in close to $60,000 per episode in salary, and between $15,000 and $50,000 per event for appearances. He also has endorsement deals with Vitaminwater, Reebok and an unnamed vodka brand; will front a clothing line with Dilligaf and a line of chewable supplements with GNC; has released his own fitness video; and has partnered with Gotham Books to write his autobiography.
Oh, and he also has a “GTL” app and a rap song on iTunes, and has been in talks regarding several big-screen projects.

People
August 23 2010

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«I LOVE ALLEN'S THINGS...HE'S SUCH A GREAT POET»

Allen Ginsberg, along with Marshall McLuhan and Norman O. Brown, was one of the central figures of my college years in the '60s. He had enormous influence on my intellectual development, and I would be proud to call him my guru. I was introduced to Ginsberg's masterpieces, "Howl" and "Kaddish," by a brilliant teacher, the poet Milton Kessler, whose fierily rabbinic recitations of those bardic lines are emblazoned in my psyche. Ginsberg's hallucinatory imagery, incantatory rhythms and jazz syncopations are the ultimate, operatic expression of 20th century sexual and political radicalism. I raptly studied and treasured the small, black-and-white City Lights Books editions of the two poems as if they were sacred texts from the Jerusalem that was then avant-garde San Francisco.

-Camille Paglia

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

Planet B-Boy trailer
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LEGENDARY BOXING PROMOTER DON KING ON THE FAME GAME

«I am not a celebrity to the extent of an athlete. I'm a celebrity that they can identity with and relate to that's beating the system by joining the system. You see, this is the big difference. You ain't seen too many businessman with the worldwide stature and celebrity that Don King has. And this is a unique and rare and wonderful situation».

-Don King
Interview magazine
October 1990

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

Jennifer Anniston rumored to be dating John Mayer once again.

-Next!

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist’s dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. There’s a squad of conservators out there to look after anything an artist decides is art.»

-Charles Saatchi

THE JEWISH ART OF RECOGNIZING ARTISTIC TALENT FIRST

Everything about the Fisher Collection, the tip of the iceberg of a major gift of 1,100 works to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by the founders of the Gap, signals its importance. The works on view in "Calder to Warhol" are big, expensive, seminal and, for the most part, corporate. They represent a coup for the San Francisco museum. Adding to its impressiveness is the depth of holdings by some of America's most important modern and contemporary artists. Not one Chuck Close but two rooms full. Two rooms of Warhols, early and late. Gerhart Richters of every type the chamelionlike artist has produced. A career survey of works by Philip Guston. An arcade of Calder mobiles dancing overhead.

-The Sacramento Bee
August 20 2010

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

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Ever dreamt of finding a sketch in the attic that turns out to be a da Vinci? Or picking up a watercolour for £10 at a car boot sale that is revealed to be worth thousands? Well it isn't just undiscovered old masters that could be a good investment.
Next month, graduate artists will be displaying the products of their hard graft in degree shows across the country and one of the exhibitors could make your own financial picture a lot brighter. Charles Saatchi is famed for spending tens of thousands buying up entire graduate art shows in the hope of catching his next Tracey Emin or Damien Hirst.

-The Telegraph
August 19 2010

DAVID LACHAPELLE ON MICHAEL JACKSON

«Everyone had a judgment about Michael Jackson, but I think Michael was a messenger and he was here to teach us. He was a really good friend of mine. When he was charged with pedophilia, he still lived his life with such dignity. Even when he was under the most horrible of times, he never lost it, he never freaked out. He just lived it out with dignity, and kindness, and talent.»

BACK THEN: THE END OF THE AVANT GARDE

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.»

-Gustave Flaubert

WOMEN IN REVOLT

When police raided the popular Mug and Mallet Bar in Ocean City, Md., earlier this summer after a report that 16-year-old Canadian pop sensation Justin Bieber was drinking inside, all they found was a 27-year-old lesbian look-alike named Katie, who sports a bowl cut on her petite frame. She says she gets mistaken for Bieber all the time.
Katie is what one might call a “Biebian” — defined by the Urban Dictionary as “a lesbian who looks like Justin Bieber.” Biebians have side-swept bangs, don hoodie/sneaker/ball cap ensembles and love Justin Bieber — just not in that way.

-National Post
August 20 2010

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«What I thought was interesting about the dilemma about trying to explain to people that this is a wonderful field driven by people who are generous and care about what they do and there are dealers who believe fervently in the work of the artists that they represent. If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff. You don’t see people who roared through huge amounts of money at Bear Sterns offering to go back and work at Bear Sterns for free, for the next couple of years, to get the firm back on it’s feet again. They’re not going to show up and go to work unless they’re being paid.»

Artist Chuck Close comparing Wall Street and the Art Market

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Warhols had become a shrewd investment, especially since 1995 when the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan had bought the artist's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for £24m

The Guardian
August 23 2010

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

-Artwork by Piero Di Cosimo

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TIME

Gay men used to be the most aware of time passing by. Now they are the least...

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. »

-Oscar Wilde

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Q- Oliver Stone once said that every gay man thinks they're a film critic, and Quentin Crisp said that he went to the movies "incessantly and reverently." Yet, as far as I know there's no particularly deep relationship between cinema and lesbian culture. How would you account for this?

A-I noticed this odd phenomenon while I was still in college. I had a community of response to film with gay men but virtually zero with lesbians. It's partly why my dating life was such a frustrating blank. My theory is that gay men, unlike lesbians, have an innate, hyper-acute visual sense. It's related to what I have speculated to be the genesis of much (but not all) male homosexuality: an artistic gene that ends up isolating sensitive young boys and interfering at a crucial moment with the harsh dynamics of schoolyard male bonding.

-Camille Paglia

«I ALWAYS THOUGHT COWBOYS LOOKED LIKE HUSTLERS. THAT'S NICE»

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

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.—The train wrecks that are the cast members of MTV’s reality show “Jersey Shore” have apparently unintentionally helped propel several adult industry companies into the mainstream spotlight.Initally, the 20-something inspired four porn parodies: Taryn It Up Entertainment’s Jersey Shore XXX: A Porn Parody, Zero Tolerance Entertainment’s Official Jersey Shore Parody, Grind House’s Jersey Shore XXX: A Black Parody, and a gay incarnation, Jersey Score, from Jet Set Men. But now, their forays into the world of adult are getting more attention. Just this week, photos of Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Deena Cortese and Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi trying on skimpy costumes at an adult store in Seaside Heights, N.J. were plastered across news websites and celebrity blogs. Snooki and her co-horts were followed by the paparazzi last weekend as they tried on outfits from Coquette and Hustler. Snooki even liked her baseball-themed Hustler costume so much she wore it home … giving photogs an ample view of her home plate as the breeze blew up her short skirt. (Other stars of the show have often been spotted sporting Hustler gear, too.)

-AVN
August 18 2010

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Jeff Koons

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty. »

-Chris Rock

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

In an article published on Out magazine's website today, Cintra Wilson introduces us to Alex Beecroft and "Erastes," two straight, married female authors who write dirty stories starring men sticking it to other men. But they aren't doing it for the boys who like boys. These homo bodice rippers are meant for the types of suburban ladies who pick up those paperbacks with Fabio on the cover. The trend has become so popular that most of the major romance novel publishers have caught on and started lines of M/M romances for the demanding public. The phenomenon emerged from "slash fiction," a type of fan fiction that imagines two popular male fantasy or sci-fi characters in a romantic relationship. Think Spock and Kirk exploring each others' bodies rather than some planet in outer space. But just what is it about reading about two guys getting it on that has women so worked up? Wilson explains it as such:Since women are not equal to men in society, a straight romance narrative—the usual machinations that bring a brutish alpha male and a wasp-waisted young female beauty to the point of bodice-ripping penetration—can't deliver the same heady emotional frisson as a "bromance," which slashers and M/M authors alike view as a courtship between equals, which culminates in the emotional jackpot of a true love based on loyalty, trust, caring, and mutual respect.

-Gawker

«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»

Paris Hilton looking to open her own hotels.

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«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Marilyn Monroe's chest X-rays. Barbra Streisand's houndstooth cap from the film "What's Up, Doc?" Elvis Presley's empty prescription bottles. Alfred Hitchcock's driver's license. Who wants all this stuff? And why would they pay thousands of dollars for it? Hollywood memorabilia auctions have become big business around the globe, with a seemingly endless supply of celebrity relics — and celebrity collectors who will pay big bucks for them. In what's become almost routine around town, hundreds more items will be up for sale this weekend, when props and costumes from TV's "Lost" hit the auction block."This market is fun because it's probably the most accessible market that's sold at auction today," said appraiser Laura Woolley, president of The Collector's Lab. "You don't need to have a huge history of connoisseurship to get the visceral reaction to the ruby slippers, and you don't need to be told why they're important. These pieces just have an instant connection with people."

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Madonna celebrates 52nd birthday in London.

-Next!

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

In the new book, Furious Love, about the fervent, stormy romance between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton that has been optioned for film, the lovers have a quarrel about Judaism.In one scene, the joint biography by Sam Kashner, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and Nancy Schoenberger, an author, depicts Taylor and Burton having one of their usual, theatrical spats—over who was more “Jewish.”The authors write: Burton had referred to the Welsh as “the Jews of Britain”, a comment on their self-identity as the outsiders of the United Kingdom. [Note: Burton was Welsh]“You’re not Jewish at all,” he told Elizabeth in one of their very public fights, “If there’s any Jew in this family, it’s me!”“I am Jewish,” she answered, “and you can fuck off!” 
Taylor, the irreverent and dazzling actress was raised a Christian scientist, but converted to Judaism at age 27. Though some say the decision was motivated by marriage to her third husband, Mike Todd—born Avrom Goldbogen, the grandson of a Polish rabbi, according to Time Magazine—Taylor famously denied it, insisting she had always been interested in Judaism. In her book, Elizabeth Takes Off, Taylor tried to set the record straight, and according to Wikipedia wrote: “[Conversion to Judaism] had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.”

-Los Angeles jewish Journal
August 16 2010

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

It was only a matter of time before ‘Jersey Shore’s’ Mike ‘The Situation’ capitalized on his trademark abs he calls ‘The Situation’ with a workout video. As ‘Jersey Shore’ is now filming Season 3 in Seaside, NJ many of the cast members have branched out into their own projects such as Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino with the help of none-the-less his older brother and Chief Executive of his company Marc Sorrentino. In a recent interview Marc Sorrentino stated, “He’s got what people consider a great body, hence his name ‘The Situation’, so we decided what better way for people to get their own situation.”

-The Examiner

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

Today, researchers have issued an alert to women: Beware of the man who makes much less than you. Also: Beware of the man who makes much more than you. These are signs that he'll cheat, according to a study that finds a link between income disparity and infidelity. Study author Christin Munsch suggests this might have something to do with the masculine ego. "At one end of the spectrum, making less money than a female partner may threaten men's gender identity by calling into question the traditional notion of men as breadwinners," she said. There is also the issue of access: "At the other end of the spectrum, men who make a lot more money than their partners may be in jobs that offer more opportunities for cheating like long work hours, travel, and higher incomes that make cheating easier to conceal."

-Salon
August 16 2010

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE PAKISTAN FLOODS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Men’s professional sports are a fascination (obsession is more like it) to many millions of men, because they offer extreme competition, performance, and heroics. Women’s professional sports, however skilled and admirable, cannot compare in Promethean drama.Even women prefer watching male teams. Few women follow the sports pages and ESPN, but many enjoy attending live games—featuring male athletes. According to Sports Business Daily, 31 percent of the NFL’s “avid fans” are women.Nyad and the USC study authors demand that television cover women’s sports “fairly and equitably,” but the study never once mentions the word “attendance.” Shouldn’t fan interest in the games drive the media stories? Economist Mark Perry, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, looked at the numbers. For the 2009 season, the NBA got 92.3 percent of the total attendance for pro basketball (NBA plus WNBA), while the WNBA got only 7.7 percent of the total attendance (see chart below). But according to the USC study, the WNBA received 22.2 percent of the coverage. Perry’s conclusion: “So women’s pro basketball got a hugely disproportionate share of media coverage. Total attendance at NBA games was 12 times greater than attendance at the WNBA games, but media coverage was only 3.5 times greater for men than for women.”

Christina Hoff Sommers
The American
August 12 2010

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE EVERY FEMALE POP STAR WILL BE SLUTTY FOR 15 MINUTES

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

WOMEN IN REVOLT

What does it take these days to inspire women to self-hate? Not only to self-hate, but to take it to such industrial levels that they are manufacturing their own misogyny? Last week, it took a study by www.ukjobs.net, which interviewed 3,000 men and women, finding that three-quarters of men preferred to work for male bosses; two-thirds of women agreed. Their reasons were that men were more straight talking and reasonable, less bitchy, cliquey and prone to mood swings, and (this one made me laugh) less likely to feel threatened if others were good at their jobs. Yeah, that's what I've noticed about men too – they're so non-competitive.

-The Guardian
August 15 2010

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

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

"The new album is my absolute greatest work I've ever done, and I'm so excited about it," Gaga said of her still-untitled album. "The message, the melodies, the direction, the meaning, what it will mean to my fans and what it will mean to me in my own life — it's utter liberation. I'm on the quest to create the anthem for my generation for the next decade, so that's what I've done."While the singer has frequently worked with producers like RedOne ("Bad Romance" and "Just Dance"), Gaga plans to keep her sound fresh with a line of new producers on the forthcoming project. But she's keeping them a secret, saying, "I will never tell because as soon as I tell, everyone starts working with them.

MTV

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind."

-Camille Paglia

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe

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

Paris Hilton launches her tenth fragrance.

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«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

The art market always follows the money. These days that means courting new collectors from emerging economic superpowers. Auction houses aren't just wooing them with Warhols. They're also whipping up buzz about art from their native countries. And it's working.The value of pieces from Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the so-called BRIC countries, has skyrocketed in recent years, mirroring each country's economic growth. Auction houses have helped feed the frenzy by extracting BRIC art from their other categories, hosting specialized sales designed to spark the patriotism of the BRIC nouveau riche. Sotheby's (BID) has more than doubled its BRIC-oriented offerings in the past decade. Christie's, which says it has Chinese-speaking staff members at all its auction houses, has also significantly upped its collection. In April, Phillips de Pury held the first auction dedicated exclusively to art from all four BRIC nations, bringing in nearly $11 million. Another BRIC auction is scheduled for next April in London.

-Business Week
August 12 2010

«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

«I LOVE ALL MUSIC. CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, OPERA, EVERYTHING»

Traditionally it is no secret that visual art and sonic art have fused to inspire and create cultural art movements. A few examples are John Cage's influence of chance and electronic music in the Fluxus movement, the experimental rock of the Velvet Underground's influence on Pop art, Phillip Glass and Steve Reich's impact on the Minimalist movement to name a few. The anti-bourgeois, anti-war and anarchistic Dada movement in the early 1900's is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism. In this movement Kurt Schwitters developed what he called sound poems and composers such as Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Heusser and Albert Savinio wrote Dada music, while members of Les Six collaborated with members of the Dada movement and had their works performed at Dada gatherings.

-Huffington Post
August 11 2010

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

«OH, ART IS TOO HARD»

Paul Rusconi: I think fashion is art. The dialogue I am concerned with as an artist has more to do with the art and artists that I've been influenced by. I can't help but be affected by all the art that I've seen. Some paintings and sculptures have had long lasting retinal impressions forever etched in my mind. Warhol's White Mona Lisa paintings, his 'Blue Jackie' series, Sol Le Witt's 'Variations of a Cube' from the 60's... Some references sneak in to my work unconsciously and others are much more direct. I photographed a white Sol Le Witt sculpture from 1967. I was interested in the multitude of whites the sculpture emanated from its lightest areas to its shadows and used many variations of those whites to make the background colors for a series of 'White Kates (Moss)'. I think it's interesting when people call the work 'vapid' and 'empty'. Knowing what is under the surface - both literally and figuratively, I'm comfortable and confident that my job as the author of this work is thought out and complete. I've also used the color of Britney's Spears nail polish and lipstick in the work - so, there you have it...

-The Huffington Post

THE 1980'S

The Brooklyn show features clips from Andy Warhol's TV and copies of Interview magazine (which he founded), showing us that, good or bad, Andy's vision was big and complex. If Marcel Duchamp was the art world's Einstein, Warhol used his formula to make the bomb, and changed the art world forever.This doesn't mean, though, that all the work is good. For example the "black and white ads" series on view at Brooklyn is a return to some of his earlier work. (They are images of newspaper ads for soup, or for "99-cent steaks" or "$24.99 Pumas.") The works are hand-painted, we are often told. Why that would matter is the real question, since Warhol's great works were screened, not painted. Who cares if he painted them? I don't. This series is dry and lacks any energy; I've never liked them, and even in the show they still fall flat. Swiss art dealer Bruno Bischofberger once said that some of the paintings look as if they are waiting for Jean-Michel Basquiat to apply some colorful faces and words, and he's right. I do not subscribe to the view that every late picture is a great picture; in fact, much of the late work is tired, lifeless and mechanical-but the exceptional pieces here are some of Warhol's best.

New York Observer
August 10 2010

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The excellent Poynter EyeTrack studies, which looked at how people read print and digital newspapers, suggest that while online readers may navigate quickly to the content that interests them, they often read for longer than offline readers when they've found what they're looking for.It's a myth that we have all become Twitter-brained visual grazers with no appetite for prose. I'm with comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who said: "There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining them."

-PC WORLD
August 6 2010

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

PARADOXICAL NATURE

«One aspect of Andy's paradoxical nature was this constant conflict between convention and unconventionality; it was hard to predict when one would rise above the other. This was successfully resolved only in his paintings».

-Fred Hughes
(in Warhol by Bockris)

DISCONNECTING WALL STREET FROM MAIN STREET:BUSINESS AS USUAL

«Now it seems like nobody has big hopes for the future. We all seem to think it's going to be just like it is now only worse»

-Andy warhol
America.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

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

Snoop Dogg wants britney Spears duet.

-Next!

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

Men who scored the highest on the narcissism test were more likely to view women as conniving gold diggers, as teases who tempt men with sex and don't deliver, or as seductresses with plans to trick men and "get them under their thumb," Keiller said. "Narcissistic men hold overtly hostile, adversarial ideas about women," Keiller said. While narcissistic men also showed rancor toward gay men, their hostility toward them was no worse than that of other straight men. About the only group that escaped narcissistic men's anger were lesbians, possibly because straight men tend to eroticize them, Keiller said. Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of "The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement," said the study fits with other research on narcissists.

-Business Week
August 6 2010

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

Allamericanguys.com Male Model KC.
envoyé par Allamericanguys. - Les dernières bandes annonces en ligne.

JERRY HALL EXPLAINING THE WARHOL ATTITUDE

"I love what Andy used to say when people were saying mean things about him. He used to make himself feel better by saying, 'So what?' and I just say, 'So what?'" she explained to Tatler magazine.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Being a celebrity is very important to me. I love it»

-Sonia Rykiel

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

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ATLANTA — A new exhibition opening exclusively in Atlanta explores artist Salvador Dali's late work, including several major pieces that haven't been seen in the U.S. in half a century.Dali is best known as a surrealist, his melting watches an iconic image of that movement. But after about 10 years, his relationship with that group grew strained in the late 1930s for a variety reasons both artistic and political. "Salvador Dali: The Late Work," opening at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta on Saturday, focuses on the period from 1940 to 1983."It's become a really interesting area for investigation because you have Dali's career which spans almost all of the 20th century, but historically people have really only looked at the 1930s," said exhibition curator Elliott King. "It was almost like he died in 1940."

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS GROUND ZERO MOSQUE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I NEVER READ I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES«

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

The New York spring Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on May 4 totalled an astounding £335.6 million. The sale saw a new world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction with Pablo Picasso’s Nude, Green Leaves and Bust from the Collection of Mrs. Sidney F. Brody, which sold for US$106,482,500 (£70,278,450). The work is from Picasso’s celebrated 1932 series of paintings depicting his muse and mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter.
The May 11 sale of The Michael Crichton Collection of contemporary art was a ‘white glove’ (100 percent sold) sale with a total of US$231,907,000 (£157,696,760). Buyers proved their interest in iconic American works by Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Jasper Johns, among others. The sale was led by Jasper Johns’ Flag which set a new auction record of US$28,642,500 (£19,476,900).

Artsandcollections.com

JOAN COLLINS

«Watched Dynasty. Joan Collins is so good. And they took the bandages off the fairy son's face, and it's so funny, it's like the men are now doing all the old Bette Davis and Joan Crawford things-like when you «remove the bandages».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Feb 16 1983

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

JULIAN SCHNABEL NEW MOVIE

The trailer for Julian Schnabel’s Miral is out and it is great, great stuff. The story concerns a young Palestinian girl who becomes invested in political activism after she is awoken to the struggle of her people. The film addresses love, violence, and a daughter torn between her father's wishes and her newfound calling to fight for justice. It looks gorgeously shot and the music in the trailer is excellent.

GERARD MALANGA

By the time Gerard Malanga arrived at Andy Warhol's studio in 1963--accepting a job for $1.25 an hour to help with Warhol's large-scale silk-screen paintings--the 20-year-old was already an accomplished poet. By his own account, he had been encouraged by poets such as Daisy Aldan and W.H. Auden (the latter told Malanga he was the best American poet under 25 writing today), been "robbed" of a poetry award in a competition at Mount Holyoke College, and was studying with the poet Willard Maas at Wagner College on Staten Island.Since Malanga had experience working in a screen-printing shop, he decided to make some money on the side at the nascent Factory. Soon, his work evolved from printing and cleaning screens to pulling newspaper images of car crashes and other disasters--the source material for some of Warhol's best-known paintings of the period--to collaborating with Warhol as he experimented with his new movie camera, a 16-millimeter silent Bolex. As Warhol's Factory became a social hub as well as the site of production for the artist's paintings, its focus shifted from paintings to film, and the people who inhabited the studio became the subjects of hundreds of films. Malanga then became a filmmaker. From 1964 to 1966, Warhol and Malanga shot 472 Screen Tests.

-Huffington Post
August 4 2010

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

Cesaria Evora - Beio Roubado live
envoyé par popefucker. - Clip, interview et concert.

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

Lady GaGa scores 13 MTV Awards nominations.

-Next!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMYN STUDIES: HOW TO GAIN 50 POUNDS IN 3 MONTHS AND LOOK YOUR BEST AT YOUR NEXT WOMYN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL!

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

Michael Fitt Flexing in front of the camera! Part 2
envoyé par xxxcamwithhimxxx.

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

Jennifer Lopez to replace Ellen on American Idol

-Next!

«THERE SHOULD BE COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

«Women are sex objects, but that’s only a part of who they are. If women weren’t sex objects, then we’d never have a second generation. It’s that interaction between the two sexes that makes the world go 'round. It is the center of civilization. It’s why women wear lipstick. And it’s playing a game of semantics to take the notion that women are objects of desire, which they are, and to then infer that that is dehumanizing to them. Clearly it isn’t. Quite the contrary, it’s the essence of being human. It’s the attraction between the sexes. It’s the celebration of that sexuality. And I think we need more of that, to be honest with you. The notion that images of that kind are considered obscene while images of war and maiming and killing aren’t indicates how sick we are. That too is a reflection of our puritanical attitude towards sexuality. It indicates how sad and confused we are.»

-Hugh Hefner
Playboy Founder
New York magazine
August 2 2010

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

JERRY HALL ON MEN AND MICK JAGGER

Hall divorced Rolling Stars star Mick Jagger after spending 23 years together. She admits her priorities have changed since the pair split 11 years ago."I suppose, when you're younger, you're looking for an alpha male with lots of testosterone," Hall told the Daily Mail. "Mick was very, very charismatic and very funny, but he was also the eternal dissatisfied adolescent. He was so irreverent and loose. But I stopped looking for that in men - priorities change."

-Vogue
August 2 2010

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS CHELSEA CLINTON MARRIED TO HER JEWISH BANKER GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Madonna directing new film.

-Next!

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

William MacFarland was a product marketing manager for Campbell's at the time Andy Warhol turned their soup cans into a now-iconic work of art. In 1964, MacFarland took pen to paper to write this letter to the artist (full transcript below)—sent to 1342 Lexington Avenue, site of the first Factory. In it Warhol is told that MacFarland wishes he could afford one of his paintings, and then informs him that, "I have learned that you like Tomato Soup. I am taking the liberty of having a couple of cases of our Tomato Soup delivered to you at this address." Wonder if Warhol repaid him with a painting... [via NYMag]

Campbell SOUP Company CAMDEN 1, NEW JERSEY

May 19, 1964

Mr. A. Warhol
1342 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York


Dear Mr. Warhol:

I have followed your career for some time. Your work has evoked a great deal of interest here at Campbell Soup Company for obvious reasons. At one time I had hoped to be able to acquire one of your Campbell Soup label paintings - but I'm afraid you have gotten much too expensive for me.I did want to tell you, however, that we admired your work and I have since learned that you like Tomato Soup. I am taking the liberty of having a couple of cases of our Tomato Soup delivered to you at this address.

We wish you continued success and good fortune.

Cordially,


(Signed, 'William P. MacFarland')


William P. MacFarland
Product Marketing Manager

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

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

MARK COLVIN: So does the digital age make us all like that to a degree? Are we all now forced to be very public in that way?

STEPHEN FRY: Well, yes and no. It's not, you know, I hear the wings of Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame fluttering above us and I'm not sure that it does really mean that. Of course it gives everybody access. It gives everybody a printing press. But then people have had, you know, stencils and roneos and ways of reproducing ideas and if they wanted to go out and push them through everybody's letterbox they always could have done. But how you get read and noticed on the Internet is still a mystery. And in the end technology's always about talent. I'm very lucky in the time, a friend - or certainly a sort of affectionate acquaintance - of the English painter, David Hockney and David over the last three or four months has become unbelievably excited about the iPad and he paints every day using his fingers on the screen of an iPad. And he sends to some of his friends the works that he does. And so most days I get a David Hockney in my inbox. And they are stunningly beautiful. I'll show them to you if you like on my phone. I've got, I carry them with me because they are so lovely. Now the fact is the technology that produces - it's a piece of software called Brushes that you can run on your iPad - and it allows you, you know, to have this immense feel of oils or water colours and extraordinary precision that you can paint and draw with your fingers and colour. It's just marvellous what you can do. But you do have to be David Hockney. It's not good me having that any more than it's any good me having a sound studio with midi channels and keyboards and every voice and sound and software patch for every instrument in the world. It would be hopeless because I just don't have the talent to use it.

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