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

KIM KARDASHIAN

Or how teenage girls culture is now killing pop cuture....

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

PARFUM

Dans un grand magasin aujourd'hui un vendeur «mode» s'adresse à deux femmes qui passent devant le comptoir: «un nouveau parfum élégant comme vous mesdames» Les deux femmes continuent leur chemin en rigolant. Elles auraient du répondre: «et toi tu es hétéro! »

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

Jennifer Lopez buys 18 million Hamptons home.

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«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Andy Warhol cover album for Kenny Burell

AM I IN THE NEWS?

But being famous isn't all that important. If I weren't famous, I wouldn't have been shot for being Andy Warhol. Maybe I would have been shot for being in the Army. Or maybe I would be a fat schoolteacher. How do you ever know? A good reason to be famous, though, is so you can read all the big magazines and know everybody in all the stories. Page after page it's just all people you've met. I love that kind of reading experience and that's the best reason to be famous. I'm confused about who the news belongs to. I always have it in my head that if your name's in the news, then the news should be paying you. Because it's your news and they're taking it and selling it as their product. But then they always say that they're helping you, and that's true too, but still, if people didn't give the news their news, and if everybody kept their news to themselves, the news wouldn't have any news. So I guess you should pay each other.

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE IDEA OF GREECE GOING BANKRUPT GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

It's a shame Saatchi is not more forthcoming on these controversies, because they do not threaten his achievement. Behind these personal dramas Saatchi changed contemporary cultural history, three times. Between 1985 and 1992 he bought and exhibited Europe and America's leading contemporary artists, from Bruce Nauman and Cindy Sherman to Philip Guston and Sigmar Polke. All these artists already had huge reputations abroad. Charles was certainly not making any of their names. He was an importer, but that is no criticism: no other collector was doing it in Britain. London was nowhere near being a centre for contemporary art like Paris, New York or Berlin; Charles was one of the people who began to change all that.

-The Guardian
July 10 2011

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

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

Third White Cube gallery set to open in London.

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«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Julian Schnabel album cover for Red Hot Chili Peppers

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Modern man is consuming information at an increasingly rapid rate. A modern artist has to produce images quickly and efficiently enough to keep up with our changing world. However, the elements of chance, and magic, and spirit cannot be sacrifificed in this quest»

-Keith Haring
Journals p.89

AMERICA GOT TALENT!

A nation governed by reason should include in its constitution a provision against the supervision of beauty contests by women. Women dominate the executive direction and management of the Miss America contest, and they have of course, ruined it. When it began it was fairly simple: good-looking girls in bathing suit paraded before judges until one of them was declared winner. Today, partially in order to drag the proceedings out sufficiently long to justify a $60 000 TV fee and to turn the house over three times, the girls are judged in three categories; in bathing suits, in evening gowns, and for something called talent. The bondaries of this latter category can be stretched to accomodate the ability to break four balloons the width of the stage away with seven arrows. Contestants have been known to sing, dance, «recite» trampoline-tumble and even crochet.

-The Miss America Joke
Playboy magazine
September 1959

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

WHAT A FUCKING GREAT SLOGAN

The slogan of happy women magazine is really the best: we think, so you don't have to!

IN & OUT

OUT: chinese woman with Louis Vuitton bag
IN : chinese woman with little red bag by Karl Lagerfeld

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

ARTISTS EXPLAINED...

«Most artists know what they were born to do (and are prepared to do it) at a far earlier age than, say, the average future lawyer realizes his intentions. And most artists, particularly the precocious breed, have had difficult, isolated chilhoods-no doubt partially because of the creative sensibility that sets them apart. In youth, what happens to the potential artist is rather like what happens to the pearl-bearing oyster. An alien sand grain invades the oyster's shell and, once imbedded there, irrates the tenant to the point of obsession, painfully pesters the oyster until it produces a jewel. Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind: a valued tormentor»

-Truman Capote
Playboy magazine
December 1968 p.136

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

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

Did some drawings for guests, including the inevitable «this is for my 16 year old brother» drawing. If I could only meet all these 16 year old sons, brothers, nephews I'm always drawing for...

-Keith Haring
Journals p.128

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TIME

To fully live in he present is to be very aware that the present is already seconds ago...

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«J'aime les beautés à part»

-Jean Paul Gaultier

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

Cover of Madonna first ever album 1982

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: À LA LENNY BRUCE

DSK: jewish
DSK: fucking a maid: goyim
DSK fucking a maid in a Sofitel hotel: jewish
DSK calling it a mistake: goyim
DSK calling it a faute: jewish

«I GREW UP A CATHOLIC AND I DON'T FEEL ANY DEMONS»

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

Britney eating a pizza.

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«THEY ALWAYS HAD GREAT GIRLS MODELS BUT NOW THE BOYS MODELS ARE JUST AS GOOD»

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

Even positive stereotypes are still stereotypes, and one of the oldest ones in creation--often patronizingly used by white folk--is that black dick is the best shit on earth. It's supposedly bigger, hotter, livelier, and more do-able than any other appendage on the planet, even more welcome than a stick shift on a free Oprah giveaway car.But is it true? Is a black penis by necessity more alluring than a pasty white wee-wee? And if it isn't, doesn't the forced expectation result in shrieks of disappointment every time an African American man undresses? Someone please open up your trap and tell me the real deal on this culinary subject. I've never sampled such a thing--I mean let's pretend I've never sampled such a thing--and I'm anxious to hear your views on whether dark chocolate is always tastier than the white stuff. And what about Asians?

-Michael Musto
June 18 2009

TALKING STYLE OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS

Andy Warhol: Hi, Bianca
Bianca Jagger: Hello pussy
Halston: Hi pussy.

-Interview magazine
September 1979 p.40

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:CULTURAL INDUSTRY

The vitality of any cultural industry depends on the constant supply of hot 22 year old doe-eyed female students accepting
to be fucked by overweight 50 plus male artists with wild grey hair...

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

George Condo for Kanye West

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough»

-Gustave Flaubert

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

La question la plus intéressante en art aujourd'hui est de savoir qu'elle est au vingt et unième siècle la trascription visuelle du fameux «je peinds comme un barbare dans une époque barbare» de Karel Appel...

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

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
p.444

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG:IS VANITY FAIR NEW ESTABLISHMENT LIST GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."

-Mike Tyson

COMMENTS

When I started this blog, a good friend of mine told me I would have many comments of encouragement. I told him: You're wrong. I won't have any. I won! I like the idea that I can continue for one, five or 40 years and not a single person outside my close friends will see the passion behind it. This blog is not college publish or perish and I don't have anything to sell, so basically it doesn't exist. So wonderfully 21st century!

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: OUR ERA

Chinese woman buying Louis Vuitton...

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Roy Lichenstein

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE

If you're now over 30 and haven't found one passion in your life, you're in serious trouble.

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

Britney Spears not getting engaged.

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«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

KEITH HARING ON JULIAN SCHNABEL

«Julian Schnabel is not a genius. He's probably not even a great painter. I'm sure that he's interesting today in a limited capacity and he's very interesting for collectors and dealers, but in the long run, his contribution is slight...His own conviction of his «importance» makes him even more difficult to digest. His obnoxious insistence on his importance disgusts me to the point of nausea. If he again attemps to make one of his self-referential speeches at Andy's memorial on Wednesday, I promise I will do my best to end his speech as quickly as possible. Andy hated his speeches and would never have wanted him to speak at his memorial.

Keith Haring
Journals p.121

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Common sense is not so common»

-Voltaire.

RICHARD BERNSTEIN INTERVIEW MAGAZINE ET GRACE JONES

L'artiste Richard Bernstein est surtout connu pour avoir fait pendant plusieurs années la couverture du magazine Interview à ses belles heures. Les couvertures de ce magazine fin années 1970 jusqu'au milieu des années 1980 sont légendaires, accentuées de plus par le très large format d'alors. Les numéros de cette époque contenaient aussi plusieurs entrevues effectuées par Warhol lui-même. Mais Bernstein a aussi fait les pochettes de disque des premiers albums de Grace Jones, lesquelles témoignent aussi bien de l'époque disco que de l'art par ordinateur alors naissant comme phénomène.

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SELF ESTEEM

The results of our obsession with acceptance and self esteem in the last 30 years are in: an ever growing number of fat people who think it's nice to be fat, an epidemic of poor people who think it's wonderful to be poor and an epidemic of stupid and ignorant people who think it's cool to be stupid and ignorant. Maybe it's time to try something else....

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Cher Guevara by Scott King

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

WARHOLIAN SIGHT OF THE DAY

Just saw a girl with a t-shirt saying: my boobs are 19 year old and a half. What a great t-shirt!

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Damien Hirst for Red Hot Chilli Peppers album.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:MARKETING

I wonder what all those haute couture maison think of all the porn stars names now. Chanel Chavez, Dior encore...

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

Blake doesn't need to be this nice. He is, after all, a pioneer of Pop Art. It was he who designed the iconic cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band in 1967. He is one of the country's best-known artists, becoming a Royal Academician in 1981, as well as a knight of the realm, in 2002, and has always been popular with the public. What concerns him, he says, is making art as "democratic and accessible as pop music"; seeking an audience beyond the "culturati". With the characters he reproduces, often in collage – wrestlers, say, Robin Hood or Elvis – he is clearly reaching out to the mainstream. His HQ is a veritable visual treat. It's not so much a workplace, as a museum of antiquities. You name it; he's kept it, so within the complex of rooms in his converted builder's yard you'll find an amazing collection of amassed trinkets. From the moment you glimpse the waxwork of the boxer Sonny Liston at the entrance you realise you've entered a world of vaudevillian heroes and villains.


-The Independant
July 31 2008

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

FROM MATISSE TO LOUIS B. MAYER

In 1966, at the Leo Castelli gallery in New York, Andy bid adieu to art again with a show of Siver Pillows filled with helium, which were meant to «fly away». And when he moved from the original silver-foiled Factory on East 47th street to 33 Union Square West, no place was set aside to paint, and no Warhol paintings hung on Warhol's walls. The man who had wanted to be Matisse now wanted to be Louis B. Mayer.

Bob Colacello
Holy Terror p.59

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG:IS CHINA DOUBLING ITS NUMBER OF BILLIONAIRES SINCE LAST YEAR GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté has now 2.5 billion fortune.

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS STEVE JOBS NOT BEING JEWISH GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Jaber Lutfi

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

While listening to Jay-Z and Kanye West’s new album Watch The Throne, we couldn’t help but notice that Jay-Z made a number of references to famous artists including Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. However, this should come as no surprise. After all, Jay has made fine art into a hobby of his in recent years. In fact, not only has Jigga name-dropped famous modern and contemporary artists on his songs, but he’s also had them design his album art, featured their work in his music videos, and talked about his ever growing art collection in interviews. That’s why we put together Timeline: Jay-Z’s Obsession With Art detailing Hov’s growing tastes in high-brow culture.

-www.complex.com

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

Lady Gaga goes without makeup.

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«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

BUSINESS

The whole time I was in the hospital, the "staff" kept on doing things, so I realized I really did have a kinetic business, because it was going on without me. I liked realizing that, because I had by that time decided that "business" was the best art.

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. »

-Malcolm Forbes

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

Imagine a world of spots. Every time I do a painting a square is cut out. They regenerate. They’re all connected.
--Damien Hirst

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present “The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011” by Damien Hirst. The exhibition has been conceived to take place simultaneously across each of Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong. It will include loans from public institutions and private collections as well as from the artist. The exhibition will open in every city on January 12th and continue through February 18th, 2012. This is the first time Gagosian Gallery has dedicated all locations at once to a body of work by one artist.

-www.gagosian.com

ANDY WARHOL ON BOXING: «THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL YOUNG KIDS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

Love without sex is better than sex without love, but hate sex is hotter than love sex.

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOOK

Straight people can be cute enough to be «connaissance» but not cute enough to have sex. For gay people it's the opposite.

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

Beyonce celebrate 30th birthday in Italy.

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«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Louise Nevelson

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

When a person is the beauty of their day, and their looks are really in style, and then the times change and tastes change, and ten years go by, if they keep exactly their same look and don't change anything and if they take care of themselves, they'll still be a beauty.

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

In 1979 Interview launched its own advertising campaign. It was designed by George Fertitta of the Margeotes and Fertitta agency, which had been placing kirin beer and Godiva chocolate ads in Interview. They came up with a great tagline; Interview-we please some the people all the time.

-Bob Colacello
Holy Terror
Andy Warhol up close
P.396

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF!

ANDY WARHOL & PLAYBOY MAGAZINE

Andy Warhol, the king of Pop Art and perhaps the greatest artist of the 20th century, was a beloved Playboy contributor. He began his long partnership with Playboy when Art Paul hired him to create a piece for the October 1961 issue of Show Business Illustrated, Hefner’s short-lived, glossy entertainment mag. This work, The Night the Roxy Opened, is classic pre-Pop Warhol, displaying the blotted ink lines of his early-advertising art. Paul was so pleased with Warhol’s creation that he went on to commission the artist multiple times over the course of nearly 25 years. Perhaps among the more iconic of these later contributions are Double Torso and Rabbit Head Logo. Double Torso appeared in a landmark January 1967 pictorial titled “The Playmate as Fine Art” in which Art Paul asked eleven contemporary artists—Salvador Dali and Tom Wesselmann among them—to use the Playmate as their muse. The painting was one of only three “ultra violet” works Warhol made in the 1960s—viewers could only see the painting by viewing it under black light. Rabbit Head Logo appeared on the cover of the magazine in January 1986 and has become one of the most widely known and valuable pieces in the Playboy Collection. To my knowledge, it is one of only four Rabbit Head works Warhol created in his lifetime. Playboy still owns Rabbit Head Logo, but has sold both Double Torso and The Night the Roxy Opened.

Playboy.com
August 3 2011

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ETRE DE SON TEMPS...

Dire aujourd'hui d'un artiste occidental qu'il est de son temps, c'est dire qu'il explore les paradoxes du monde des communication actuel avec en toile de fond, l'effervescence baby boomer des années 60 et 70 devenue depuis la désillusion «papy boomer»..

ANDY WARHOL ON PRO WRESTLING: «IT'S EXCITMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The leftist press has been out to lunch on this for 25 years -- it's outrageous that this matter hasn't been vigorously pursued. Because these academics mouth leftist sentiments -- even though their lifestyles are ones of ostentatious materialism -- the alternative press has been afraid to appear to take the side of the conservatives who have justifiably been berating the politicization of the campus since the '80s. Come on, let's look at reality. What important, essential works have come out of American humanities departments in the last 30 or 40 years? The important book just isn't there. Where is the great American scholar that poststructuralism has produced? When Harold Bloom goes, he's the last of the line. These people aren't great scholars -- they have no deep erudition. They just do gimmicky manipulations of other people's research. The people at the top with the power positions and the huge salaries are flashes in the pan -- their work isn't going to last.

-Camille Paglia
1995

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART VS POLITICS

Art used to be more interesting than politics. Now it's the reverse. The mix of geopolitics and religion is ten times more interesting.

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF!

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«When I went to school, it was right after the Sixties and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in. Now students aren't even thinking in idealistic terms, or at least nowhere near as much. They certainly are not letting any of the philosophical issues of the day take up too much of their time as they study their business majors. The idealistic wind of the Sixties was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in forever»

-29 year old Steve Jobs
Playboy magazine
February 1985 p.50

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

Jennifer Aniston says she finds tabloids entertaining.

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«I GREW UP A CATHOLIC AND I DON'T FEEL ANY DEMONS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARTIST

Any true artist is always some kind of egomaniac workalcoolic...

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society.»

-Marcel Duchamp