ANDY WARHOL AND THE JEWS

«Why are they all so smart, Bob? Andy asked. Could it be something in their diet? Don't you wish you were jewish sometimes? Andy thought about jews a lot. He was fascinated by them, afraid of them, dying to be accepted by them-but he never mentionned that his mother's grandmother was jewish. Often, he seemed to think that almost everyone he met was jewish and hiding it. He regularly said things like: «Can you be jewish and named Cathy? «She had that good, plain, pretty look, so she must be jewish» «She was putting down kids and dogs trying to make me think she's not jewish». Part of it came out of his feeling of rejection by the jewish intellectuals of the art world. When Helen Frankenthaler suggested Kenneth Noland for the serie one night at Elaine's Andy's comment to me was: I never knew Kenneth Noland was jewish. So that's why he gets such good reviews»

-Bob Colacello
Holy Terror
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