The blog about the ongoing influence of Andy Warhol's philosophy in the 21 st century. From art to instant fame, sex, beauty, celebrity gossip obsession, business or fitness why we live in a Warholian world more than ever.
«Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? »
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Playboy: Would you classify sex among your wants wherever you go?
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Madonna's fashion line will include swimwear.
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«Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?»
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«I guess, it's kind of an inverted optimism. Because I am pessimistic, I always expect the worst. When it doesn't happen, I have a nice surprise»
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"Gays are the molecular opposites of blacks," Ann Coulter tells a room full of gay men (some of them black), because "everybody likes the gays moving in next door." And yet, the self-proclaimed right-wing Judy Garland explains, gay marriage "is not a civil right — you're not black."Welcome to Homocon 2010, a fundraiser for gay conservative organization GOProud, held in PayPal founder Peter Thiel's candlelit New York apartment on Saturday night. Tickets went for $2,500, and the attendees — from middle-aged millionaires in dark suits to twenty-somethings in T-shirts proclaiming FREEDOM IS FABULOUS — are laughing uproariously at Coulter's punch lines. Afterward they hug her, beg for photos, and thank her "for saying what needs to be said" and "for everything you do»
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The Jeff Koons Show is an Alison Chernick film about which Jerry Saltz (Senior Art Critic, New York magazine) says, “Chernick cracks through the façade of Koons’ enigmatic ebullience to reveal the phantasmagorical depth of a tremendously complex and creative emptiness.”
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« Like any religious convert I have discovered the internet terribly late. The more interested I got in the site, the more I thought it could be a useful outlet - showcase, whatever - for artists who don't have dealers. Let them deal directly with collectors. Scanning a website to see work by an artist halfway across the world is the lazy way to do it, but probably the only effective way. »
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Got to Fire Island and had lunch at an outdoor spot. We decided to call Calvin's and he said to come right over. And Calvin's house is right off Ocean Walk and there's 8000 boys around it, and a lot of girls too, and they 're all walking around wanting to be discovered for a jeans ad
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Paris Hilton turn to charity work.
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Le grand collectionneur Charles Saatchi disait un jour que seuls Pollock, Warhol, Judd et Hirst ne seraient pas des notes en bas de page des livres d'art de 2105....Les paris sont ouverts. Bien sur la valeur des oeuvres de Damien Hirst a beaucoup diminué ces derniers mois. Mais il a déja accompli l'essentiel. Sa célèbre vente aux enchères est désormais passée à l'histoire de l'art comme étant une rupture radicale avec la façon de faire précédente. L'élément clé des Picasso, Pollock et Warhol en leur temps...
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If you're a young 25 year old gay asian you're either the exotic sexual fetish of another 25 year old muscular blond in A & F or the youth fetish of a 60 year old white guy driving a BMW...
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«Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesnt matter»
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Madonna won't let her daughter dress slutty.
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Google approached Thiebaud to do their birthday-cake "Doodle," as they call their custom logos, because of his stature as a fine artist. The company's designers had worked with Jeff Koons and Shepard Fairey, but never with an old master such as Thiebaud. "Wayne Thiebaud is definitely the icing on the cake - pardon the pun - as far as working with guest artists. »
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Leave Britney alone! When Chris Crocker uploaded the video to YouTube with the now-famous rant, he probably knew it would get a lot of attention. More than 340,000 YouTube members have subscribed to Chris Crockers YouTube channel and almost 200,000,000 people have viewed his videos. Crocker has went on to do documentaries, he created a comic strip in 2007, was a guest on the 'Reality Remix Really Awards' show on Fox Reality channel, appeared in a Sierra Mist commercial and he was a guest on a program on Comedy Central.Chris Crocker reported that he has received death threats because he is openly and flamboyantly gay in the videos he post on youTube on his channel - 'ItsChrisCrocker'. To remain safe, maybe it is best if Crocker removed himself from the list of working celebrities - someone will be glad to take his place
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«I'm totally normal. I think it's obnoxious when people demand limos or bodyguards. I eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell. My parents always taught us to be humble. We're not spoiled»
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All that internet browsing has reduced our ability to concentrate on long-form reading, and the greatest victim has been the book. Carr is not merely talking about dumbing down. What he posits is more significant: that human culture has been built steadily over our literate history by deep and meditative reading, and the internet threatens to undo this process. Many of us, for instance, have read War and Peace in a calm and meditative state, and absorbed not only the words and information but also the ideas and significances, and transferred those into our long-term memory. As such, each of us carries part of the weight of human culture in our minds. Should we abandon the book, we would also abandon this collective knowledge, leaving it to be arbitrarily outsourced to Google searches and Wikipedia. Carr is also deeply wedded to the predominance of the single linear thought that is represented by the book – a closed form without hyperlinks, bright flashing adverts and email distractions. He recalls Steven Johnson's brilliant line in Everything Bad is Good For You that reading a book "understimulates the senses", and argues that this is a good thing. But what Johnson actually wrote in Everything Bad... pre-empts Carr. Johnson found that the human brain can deal with far more than a mere linear narrative and has a natural hunger for complex thought, from the intricate political and cultural references in The Simpsons to the expansiveness of networked computer games. Witness, also, the phenomenon of The Wire. It was not a book, but was frequently referred to as Dickensian, required an extended attention span, and has been committed to our culture as a 21st-century reference point. It could hardly be called shallow or easily forgotten.
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.Vous dites souvent qu’Yves Saint Laurent avait beaucoup de goût. Etait-il cultivé?
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«I'm very inspired by him. He was not a victim of his environment. He decided exactly who he wanted to be and he succeded»
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Justin Timberlake says he was scared to work on the Social Network
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I was telling her how we got hijacked by the male gay agenda, the idea of gay being a choice-less situation, and so on. The Feminism part went out the window. And lesbianism w/o feminism lacks a vitality I took for granted in the 70’s. It was a choice for me and when Jill said “every woman is a lesbian” it was that way in the seventies. We who got turned on to Feminism, straight, curly, or “born” lesbian, “came out” in droves.
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As the U.S. economy has transitioned from brawn to brain over the past three decades, a growing number of women have gone off to work. Men’s share of the labor force has declined from 70 percent in 1945 to less than 50 percent today, and in the country’s biggest cities, young, single, childless women—that is, the next generation—earn 8 percent more than their male peers. Women have matched or overtaken men as a percentage of students in college and graduate school, while men have retained their lead in alcoholism, suicide, homelessness, violence, and criminality.
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«Feminism should be a big tent. It should be open to everyone including conservative women»
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Angelina Jolie send letter to Jennifer Aniston.
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Jill Johnston, who chronicled feminism, lesbianism and upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s as a weekly columnist for the Village Voice, has died. She was 81. Her spouse, Ingrid Nyeboe, says Johnston died Saturday at Hartford Hospital from complications from a stroke she suffered earlier this month. The couple lived in Sharon in northwestern Connecticut. Johnston began as a Village Voice dance critic in 1959. Her website says she adopted a "daring, experimental" writing style in the late 1960s in writing her weekly cultural column, a style she said she later tried to undo. Her 1973 book, "Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution," challenged male-dominated society and has been described as a "bible for militant feminists."
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«Je me considère comme un pur produit de l'âge spatial, non seulement parce que je suis né l'année ou le premier homme a été envoyé dans l'espace mais également parce que j'ai grandi avec les dessins animés de Walt Disney»
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Love to see Christine O'Donell, Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter. «Wimmin will save the world» used to claim lesbian feminism of the 1970's . Now deal with that, stupid dykes...
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«When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.»
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«I admire porn... I admire porn actors....I personally only like high-class escorts. I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. I think this is healthy....And for the way the rich live, this is possible. But the other world, I think they need porn. I also think it’s much more difficult to perform in porn than to fake some emotion on the face as an actor.»
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Lindsay Lohan back in jail.
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It's no secret that artists can be pissy—so is it really so shocking that celebuspawn Jade Jagger admits Andy Warhol asked her to whizz on his photo paper? Jagger tells a German magazine (via the Sydney Morning Herald), "I spent a lot of time during the day at Andy's. I had my first glass of champagne with him. No wonder I peed on his photo base paper once! But he didn't freak out, he liked the effect and later asked me to do it again...
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Dans tous les débats qui ont suivi l'article de Camille Paglia peu élogieux à l'endroit de Lady Gaga dans le Sunday Times de Londres, pratiquement aucun ne s'est attardé à la question d'Andy Warhol, pourtant l'influence numéro un affichée des deux principales personnes concernées....
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«Everything is pathology, except for indifference. »
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«We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come to us for Easter in Marrakech. In september we would meet up in Venice. And every time I went to New York I would spend some time with him at the Factory, where we would have dinner together»
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Nowadays one could say of the possibility of a truly new art form appearing what Voltaire once said about God. To believe in it is impossible, not to believe in it is absurd.
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Viiny Guadagnino star of MTV's hit reality show ‘Jersey Shore,’ might be about to make his own Situation, Playgirl style. A rep for the magazine has confirmed that Playgirl wants Vinny to appear as the full frontal centerfold for an upcoming issue—and are offering $30,000 to sweeten the deal, according to PopCrunch.
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«Most people want to be cool and think that as soon as something is popular that means that it's sold out or it's dangerous. So they have to move on to the next thing that's unpopular and still cool. I don't find any conflict between the two things»
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«When I was young I thought I was a God»
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«Au Garage cela se passait vers dix heures du matin. La plupart des gens partaient vers six, sept ou huit heures, après quoi l'ambiance prenait un tour plus confidentiel et plus «hard». Keith en faisait partie. C'était un gars adorable et en même temps, il était au coeur de tout ça»
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«I was never my own type. So I completely missed my beauty all through my youth»
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Sept 23 2010
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Works by Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst will lead contemporary-art sales in London next month that may raise at least 49 million pounds ($76 million) and test a fragile market recovery, dealers said.
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Jersey Shore TV show is the best. Muscular young guys acting like scumbags and plastic bitchy catfighting babes wanting to get fucked...
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Man arrested outside Madonna's appartement.
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Dennis Hopper artwork to sell for 13 millions.
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«I've never been to an orgy honestly. If I was invited to one I'd be the guy they sent out for cold cuts. Anyway I wouldn't care too much for the sight of strange naked men. However I wouldn't mind emceeing an orgy»
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NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the "dark triad" persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs. The traits are the self-obsession of narcissism; the impulsive, thrill-seeking and callous behaviour of psychopaths; and the deceitful and exploitative nature of Machiavellianism. At their extreme, these traits would be highly detrimental for life in traditional human societies. People with these personalities risk being shunned by others and shut out of relationships, leaving them without a mate, hungry and vulnerable to predators. But being just slightly evil could have an upside: a prolific sex life, says Peter Jonason at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
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Among Hollywood starlettes, drug charges is now the new 21st century marketing move.
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Kim Kardashian not dating Chris Brown
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After spending his career, "writing about the pulsating, driving life force that is male sexuality", Roth, nearing 70, "provides a telling insight into what sex means for men". As he puts it in The Dying Animal: "Only when you f--- is everything that you dislike in life and everything by which you are defeated in life purely, if momentarily, revenged."
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«It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.»
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PARIS — When Karl Lagerfeld joined Chanel in the 1980s, he was so picky about the advertising photos on offer he was told to go shoot them himself. He took the bait, kicking off a love affair with the art form."Back in those days, press photos for fashion collections existed, but they would be shot either by beginners, or has-beens," he told AFP ahead of the opening of a major exhibition of his photography in Paris. «One season, in 1987, Chanel's image director showed me one, two press packs -- and at the third he said, 'If you are so difficult, why don't you do it yourself'," said the German fashion maestro, now in his late seventies. To begin with he was, he says, "an absolute beginner, like people who snap pictures with their mobile phones today".But the experiment took off -- and with it grew a passion for alternative and in some cases long-forgotten developing techniques, and their effects on grain, colour and texture, all on ample display in the Paris show.For six weeks starting Wednesday, the French capital's Maison Europeenne de la Photographie is exhibiting some 400 of Lagerfeld's images, shot around the world, "mostly with a basic little Fuji, that I can carry around with me."
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«Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done»
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A guy who knew about my website came talking to me a few days ago: «Hi, I'm everything you like: I'm young, cocky swaggering and dumb. Do you want to fuck me?» Gee, what a great way to introduce oneself!
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The perfect Feminist is Sarah Palin. She is beautiful, thin, even athletic, successful, happily married, a good mother and a grandmother. She’s got it all – everything those Suffragettes were fighting for back in 1920. Not only can she vote, she got voted for! And, she was a great Governor. She’s got everything those sixties Gloria Steinem’s wanted. But, the Gloria’s won’t admit it because Sarah thinks “right.” Liberals want tolerance, but only for themselves.
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TAMPA - In today's tough job market, more and more people are starting their own businesses. But how do you come up with that million dollar idea? Two young men in Tampa are going nationwide with an idea that's already made them millions. By now, you may have seen their bright green and orange trucks. Their business is called College Hunks Hauling Junk.They've sold franchises in 30 metropolitan areas in the U.S. Their goal is 50 by the end of the year. How did it all start?"We were sitting at home for summer vacation thinking about some ways to make extra money," says Hunks co-founder Nick Friedman.
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Thirty years of college publish or perish trash in the humanities and womyn studies have now resulted in a new conservative movement led by Sarah Palin and many others women in politics. Nice job really....
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I don't understand all that controversy about Silvio Berlusconi telling women they should marry a rich man. I mean isn't it what every jewish mother tell their daughters? ...
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«I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill».
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Now scientists have confirmed that being in the presence of a pretty woman really does scramble the male brain. A study has revealed that men who spend just a few minutes in the company of an attractive female perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function.Researchers suggest that men use up so much of their brain function - or 'cognitive resources' - trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks.Psychologists at Radboud University in The Netherlands carried out the study using 40 male students. Each performed a standard memory test, then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test.The results, published in the Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology , showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they were attracted to them, the worse their score.
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Fifty years later, the sexual revolution has killed the sex industry...
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PARIS — He's an uncontested master with a pen and sketchbook, on which he's been rattling off blockbuster ready-to-wear and haute couture collections for decades. But Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld is also gifted with a camera.
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Jersey Shore star to be next to pose for Playboy?
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«To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered»
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Friday sept 17 2010
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The work now on display at Versailles has been painstakingly produced by a team of assistants employed by Murakami’s studio and company, Kaikai Kiki, which he founded in 2001. But despite building a career on producing manga-inspired sculptures and comic-style prints in the factories of his company, the artist says he now plans to return to his first love: painting.“I am now nearly 50 years old, I have created my company, and created my world,” Murakami told us while preparing for his retrospective. “The works you see behind you are the production of a team of assistants. Now that the situation permits, it is the moment to do my own work by my own hand.” Although his work has been heavily influenced by manga, anime and videogames, Murakami studied painting for 11 years at the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo. In 1996 he set up the Hiropon Factory, a nod to Andy Warhol, and precursor of Kaikai Kiki.
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Paris Hilton adopts 20 bunnies.
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« So sweet for someone so famous. That was not my lasting impression.»
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city».
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Damien Hirst: How to have fun at the expenses of your buyers...
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The Menil Collection is preparing a comprehensive catalog of the drawings of Jasper Johns, a seminal figure in the 1950s American art world's move from abstract expressionism to an embrace of imagery from everyday life and popular culture.
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Schools try to develop artistic sense among kids by having entire groups of schoolchildren going to the museums. Of course it doesn't work 15 years later. Did they forget that one of the greatest artist, Robert Rauschenberg never saw a painting before he was 18?....
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«Oh, là, là, je veux ton amour...et je veux ta revenge»
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«By the time he was fifty one, Warhol was nothing less than an artfully designed conglomerate with a super-modern headquarters and a ruinously underpaid professional staff. He came to work everyday and functionned variously as corporate executive, avant-garde artist, society portrait-painter, author, filmmaker, television-host, nightclub owner, record producer, band manager, theatrical producer, magazine publisher, film actor, fashion maven and occasional model»
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Madonna spotted on New York subway.
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Sarah Palin: goyim
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«Chris and I took this adorable boy, Martin, back to the hotel. We got him to take his shirt off and then we got him to take his pants off, too, and he had the craziest sort of Op Art underwear on and we took pictures and he did the best poses and then we gave him the car to go home in. One thing I've learned from Chris is that you can tell anybody to do anything, they just do it. Especially models and actors.
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Britney Spears sued for sexual harrassment.
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“I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy»
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The average auction price for a Hirst work in 2008 was $831,000. So far in 2010 it is down to $136,000, a sum that does not even take into account the many lots that failed to find buyers. With prices down to 2002 levels, the artist’s work is outperforming the S&P 500, but is lagging well behind Artnet’s C50 contemporary art index, an industrial average of the 50 most traded post-war artists (see chart 2). The only Hirst pieces that are showing signs of recovery are butterfly paintings, particularly the wing-only works that evoke kaleidoscopes and stained-glass windows.
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«The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that. »
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It can't be easy being Lady Gaga. You have to contend with constant press speculation about your health and the chilling spectre of Penio, the Bulgarian Big Brother contestant who's announced plans to have a sex-change operation in order to look like her. So Lost in Showbiz is delighted to learn that the singer apparently has guidance from the hereafter to fall back on. "She's been saying that she's in touch with the spirit of Andy Warhol," a source recently claimed. "She sits and talks to him for hours, as if he's in the room with her. She says he tells her what to wear."
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How to get excited about a Julian Schnabel retrospective now, when the objective awfulness of his paintings, which were so rabidly devoured by the myopic ’80s art market, has been underscored by the passage of time, and, thankfully, eclipsed by a subsequent, much more engaging film career?
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