PIONEER PAPARAZZO RON GALELLA AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY CULTURE

Margaret Trudeau: Andy, do you like him? As a person?

Andy Warhol: Yes I do. He's really nice

MT: He harass me

AW: His torture is that he adores the person.


Interview magazine
March 1978 p.14

FRAN LEBOWITZ

«In the deluge of comments that descended on Sotheby's disposition of Andy Warhol's earthly possessions, perhaps the only unarguable point was made by Fran Lebowitz, the humorist, who had written a column for the artist's Interview magazine. Asked how he might be feeling about the event, she said: Andy must be furious that he's dead»

Warhol
Victor Bockris
p 611

ANDY WARHOL & STEVE JOBS

Warhol took Sean's spot in front of the computer, and Jobs showed him how to maneuver the mouse. Warhol didn't get it; he lifted and waved the mouse as if it were a conductor's baton. Jobs gently explained that th mouse worked when it was pushed along a surface. Warhol kept lifting it until Jobs placed his hand on Warhol's and guided it along the floor. Finally Warhol began drawing, staring at the «pencil» as it drew on the screen

-Playboy magazine
January 2012 p.86

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

Mel Gibson's ex wife get half of his 850 millions fortune in divorce settlement.

-Next!

JOYEUSE PAUSE DE NOEL À TOUS!

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

«Muscles are great. Everyone should have at least one they can show off».

-Andy Warhol


Warhol's fascination with muscles and bodybuilding was obvious early in the seventies. Mr Bodybuilding himself, Arnold Schwarzenneger later remembered of that era: «I became very good friend with Andy Warhol and used to hang out at the Studio in the 70's because he was a big believer in bodybuilding and (like other hip celebrities) helped get bodybuilding out of the dungeon to make it a hip activity to do".

ARCHIE

We wandered back to the front room, where there were now four patrons, and the same black hulk bouncing his balls to Thelma Houston's «Don't leave me this way». Andrea wanted to leave immediately, Bianca was tittering nervously, and Andy stood there, trying to look without us seeing him look. Then the dancer strutted his stuff to our side of the bar and started doing disco knee bends in front of Andy's face. That's when Archie gave his shaft a lick, and the bartender, in full leather, asked us to leave. It became one of the standards of our Abbott and Costello act. Archie getting us trrown out of the Anvil, the perfect Andy Warhol anectode,, in which the supposed decadent is revealed as an awkward innocent after all»

-Bob Colacello
Holy Terror

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Donnez moi un musée, je le remplirai»

-Pablo Picasso

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Mr. Hirst started the spot series in 1986. “At the time I was doing sort of collages that were a bit like Nicholas de Staël or Hans Hoffmann paintings and I was resolving a lot of formal problems with color,” he said. “What made me keep doing them is they always looked great. The idea was that it was an endless series. It’s a conceptual idea rather than reality.”
The earliest spot paintings were done directly on the wall, he added, “so they looked like a giant machine had painted them.”
“I was sort of trying to deny that there was an artist, so there was this kind of infinitely happy paintings,” Mr. Hirst said. But over the years his idea has gone through many transformations. He went through a phase where he wanted to make sure the viewer would know the paintings were man-made.

-New York Times
December 12 2011

GAY MEN & LESBIANS EXPLAINED

Everything lesbian feminists are fighting for ideologically, gay men are destroying it by their behaviour.

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE POSSIBILITY OF TIME TRAVELING GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

GEORGE CONDO ON HIS KANYE WEST RECORD

.“I really like that idea of a Shakespearian thing,” West told Condo about this painting of a severed head wearing a crown. The piece’s two contrasting styles -- “cubism and classicism forged together in a single painting” — dovetail, Condo says, with West’s music, with its “layers of different styles happening simultaneously.” What did Kanye see in the picture that made him like it? “His tragedy was a kind of exile that Kanye imposed upon himself,” Condo says. “He was free from exile by having the cathartic moment in the image. He’s alive in the painting, you know what I mean? In a strange way it’s like, he opened his eyes.”

-New York Times
Nov 26 2010

WELL, IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE NOW....

«I'm going to stop painting. I want my paintings to sell for $25 000.»

-Andy Warhol
1963

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

Pablo Picasso

NEW ART

"They always say new art is bad for a while, and that's the risk—that's the pain you have to have for fame."

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Cover album by Jean Paul Goude

LIFE OF AN ARTIST

«Someone said my life had dominated me. I liked that idea»

-Andy Warhol

«ATHLETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THEY LOOK YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACE»

KEITH HARING

«My movement consist of only one person. There are several person whose work has similarities to certain aspects or features of what I'm doing, but nobody has all of them. Even Andy Warhol, who I am often compared to, is in fact a very, very different kind of artist. Andy has been a big influence as an exemple of both what to be and what not to be. I have learned a lot of things from Andy from about how to deal with people and how to deal with «the public's «image» of me.

-Keith Haring
Journals p.97

«FOOTBALL IS REALLY THE BEST PLACE TO MEET MACHO GUYS»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: LOOK GOOD 24/7: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN YOUR PLANE IS ABOUT TO CRASH!

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

NEW YORK CITY BOY

«I just love new York. I have to fly a lot, but I just can't wait to get back to New York. I think it's the best place in the world»

-Andy Warhol

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I get buzzed off the fact that Andy Warhol's heard of us, because he gets buzzed off the fact that Picasso had heard of him»

-Frankie Goes to Hollywwod
Welcome to the Pleasuredome album

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

FRENCH LESSON FOR HOLLYWOOD

Brunette is feminine only. Tom Cruise is not a brunette....

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I don't mess around with my subconscious.»

-Robert Rauschenberg

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

NEW SCENE

The nightlife is running me down. I can't even drag myself up on the pillow. And I'm still worried about getting arrested for leaving the Interviews up at Nenna's school. What if there was a naked picture in that issue? I'm afraid to look. They only arrest the publisher. I'm the publisher, Fred's the president. Oh, God. I don't want to think about it. What was Larry Flynt when they arrested him? The publisher? Why don't they arrest the president-or the editor? Bob could just write his «Out» column from jail. It would be a new scene for him to cover

The Andy Warhol Diaries
September 30 1977

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: CELEB MAG: KIM STILL FURIOUS AT KRIS: «I HAD TO USE A F#%$#! DILDO ON MY WEDDING NIGHT TO PLEASURE MYSELF»

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Grace Jones cover album by Richard Bernstein

ROY LICHENSTEIN

Decided to go up and see the Roy Lichenstein show at the Whitney, and I called Jon and asked him if he wanted to go. Walked up Madison. Saw the show and it was great, I was so jealous.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
November 22 1981

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE RISE OF «VISIBLE MINORITIES» GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

Portrait by Richard Phillips

WARHOLIAN SIGHT OF THE DAY

While walking today I was asked by a guy dressed as Santa Claus: «Spare change for Santa please». What a great line!

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”

-Madonna

ELEPHANT EARS

«The next afternoon Andy signed books at the Madison Avenue Bookshop. There was a long line of fans and pals, and it moved very slowly, because in addition to inscribing each book to each buyer personnally, Andy also did a drawing on the title page-a soupcan, banana, heart, or flower. When he found someone cute, he flipped through the book and scribbled something every fifty pages or so, little surprises to be found later. And for people he knew he sketched a stylized penis or vagina, though when someone asked what the latter was, he answered «elephant ears».

Holy Terror
Bob Colacello