PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ARGENT

Salvador Dali avait l'habitude de dire qu'il se revendiquait de la monarchie non pas au sens politique mais bien métaphysique. Dans un sens, cela nous rappelle Schopenhauer disant que l'argent c'est le bonheur dans l'abstrait et que quiconque ne pouvant plus trouver de bonheur dans les choses concrètes se dévoue alors entièrement à ce dernier. À quand une déclaration commune de Koons, Murakami et Hirst pour affirmer haut et fort la dimension métaphysique de leurs cotes sur le marché de l'art...

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE DAMIEN HIRST WILL BE ASKED TO CREATE THE GOOGLE LOGO FOR ONE DAY

ARTSY BEHAVIOUR 101

At first, Andy Warhol, for exemple would go out to dinner and wouldn't know one end of that long
lineup of silverware on the table from the other, and so he would sit there at some five or six-course
dinner at the Burden's or wherever without touching a morsel, not the crème sénégalaise, nor the lobster
cardinal, nor the veal Valdostana, nor the salad Grant Street nor the fresh pear halves Harry & David-
until finally the lady seated to his left would say «But, Mr Warhol you haven't touch a thing!» Whereupon
Andy would say «Oh, I only eat candy». Warhol learned fast, howver, and he soon knew how to take
whatever he wanted. The bohemian, by definition was one who did things the bourgeois didn't dare do.
True enough, said Warhol, and he added an inspired refinement: nothing is more bourgeois than to be
afraid to look bourgeois»

-Tom Wolfe
The painted word
p.85

ANDY WARHOL: GAY, ARTISTIC, AND OBSESSED WITH FAME AND BEAUTY....

«I think there's some truth in all stereotypes: they aren't just lies or libels.»

-Camille Paglia

«I THINK CATHERINE DENEUVE IS SO GREAT»

«I know here in America you are very strong about publicly pushing women to openly say that they are gay
,but I don't agree. I think that is wrong. I think it is very shocking»

-Catherine Deneuve
The Advocate
July 25 1995 p.54

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JEFF KOONS SUR MICHAEL JACKSON

«J'ai du respect pour son Thriller, mais en tant que produit, ce disque n'avait rien de particulièrement remarquable.
L'art, ce n'était pas son disque, mais lui, c'est lui qui était le vrai thriller, l'homme qui ne connaît pas la peur»

-Jeff Koons
Art Press
Oct 1990 p.20

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«I think I'm just wired that way. I kind of assume everything I do is going to appeal to the gay audience.
I'm just a big queen»

-Madonna
Out magazine
April 2006
p.77

THE BEST BUSINESS LESSON DAMIEN HIRST TOOK FROM WARHOL

«I don't have any more ideas so now I do personal appearances»

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
May 1977 p.10

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THE FAME OBSESSION

«Liz, Imelda, Gala-those were the three portraits that Andy always wanted and never got.
He wanted them for different reasons:Gala was art history, Imelda meant money and power and with Elizabeth Taylor
he was chasing the stars, as he had been since the age of eight.

-Bob Colacello
Holy Terror
p.329

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

We haven't had sex with anyone on this entire trip. I'm kind of proud of that in a funny way. Not even the safest sex. I only miss it sometimes. But I've always enjoyed fantasy almost as much as reality. Masturbation will never go out of style»

-Keith Haring
Journals
p. 149

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

Madonna planning men's fragrance.

-Next!

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«For those to whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not reconized as such and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide or murder»

Marshall McLuhan

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE UPCOMING BRANGELINA MARRIAGE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

BOB COLACELLO ON STUDIO 54

«It wasn't gay or straight, uptown or downtown. It was everything....Some people say, «I lost my heart in San Francisco. «Well, I lost my liver in Studio 54. And half my brain»

-Premiere
August 1998
p.70

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MADONNA AND THE ROXY

«In this heady milieu, painters and sculptors, the Andy Warhol crowd among them, rubbed shoulders with drag queens or punk stars like Malcom Mc Laren or with The Ramones and The New York Dolls, while Truman Capote might be found swapping anectodes with Freddy Mercury of Queen, or David Byrne of the Talking Heads. «It was a very special time that has not been duplicated since» recalls Vito Bruno, manager of the Roxy. «We were all very much anti-Studio 54. They were elitist, while we believed that it was what's in your bones rather than what's on your bones that gave you entry: kids with sparkle, rubbing shoulders with Warhol and Mick Jagger»

Andrew Norton
Madonna p.92

THE ART OF FAKE

«If someone faked my art, I couldn't identify it»

-Andy Warhol

QUESTION

How come BMW never invited John Chamberlain to create his own Art Car version?

PERFECT EXEMPLE

«Andy Warhol is a perfect exemple of the minimum requirement to create an image of timeless and monumental quality»

-Keith Haring
Journals
p.121

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

Jean Paul Gaultier back to design for Madonna's World Tour.

-Next!

CALVIN KLEIN

Then Calvin Klein invited us to see his new appartment on 66th and Central Park West. Diana Ross went in a limo. The place is beautiful, a duplex, with a gym and modernized windows and he did it himself, all white and he has a stairway like Halston's. wooden with no banister, and it looks like a work of art, and it's very scary. And everything's in order and he collects the same things I do. Stieglitz's pictures of Georgia O'Keeffe. And Indian rugs and blonde tortoiseshell.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
February 6 1982

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY NOW...

-I look bored and I wear expensive clothes
-I look stoned and I wear expensive clothes
-I look helpless and I wear expensive clothes
-I look clueless and I wear expensive clothes
-I look blasé and I wear expensive clothes

STATEMENT

Both Warhol and drag queen Divine understood the essential: The white wig as the most glamorous fame statement.

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

Madonna dancing in the video «Like a prayer». The peak of her beauty...

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«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

J'aime bien la dernière entrevue de Karl Lagerfeld affirmant que si vous évoluez dans le monde de la mode mais ne vous intéressez pas à ce qui se passe dans le monde la musique, vaudrait mieux pour vous vous recyclez et passer à autre chose...

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«Warhol's death coincided with a boom in the art market, and his work did well at auctions in 1988 and 1989.
However, with the bust in 1990, sales dropped dramatically, and by May 1993, the Warhol market was pronounced
all but dead when 16 paintings came up for auction and only two found buyers. Yet in 1996 Warhol's status
was propelled upwards by a single sale that harked back to his first solo show. In 1962 Irving Blum, a Los Angeles dealer
, had exhibited 32 hand-painted canvases depicting tins of soup, then acquired the entire series for $1000 paying Warhol in ten monthly instalments. Blum held on to the paintings until 1996 when he sold «32 Cambell's Soup Cans» to the Museum of Modern Art in New York for $15 millions. In addition to setting a new benchmark price, the sale signalled Warhol's canonisation»

-The Economist
November 26 2009

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

Joyeux weekend de Pâques à tous!

LIVING IN AMERICA

«In America you either need money or style to live really well. Everything's here,
and you can tap into it either by buying it or by convincing people to let you have it
for free because you're great to look at and they want you around»

-Andy Warhol
America

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

If you never had hate sex you don't know what great sex is all about...

SIGNE DES TEMPS

Aucune meilleure illustration du vide culturel dans lequel dans baignons que de regarder des photos de mode contemporaine pour les marques de luxe. L'ennui total et l'absence d'imagination vertigineuse. Faut-il s'en étonner quand on sait que en Chine à défaut de pouvoir s'offrir le produit de luxe en question, on s'achéte la boîte seulement que on laisse traîner à la vue des visiteurs. Misère. Aujourd'hui les marques de luxe sont le nouveau statement de la vulgarité. «Gee, that's great» aurait dit l'autre....

WHY THE WARHOL LEGACY IS SO LONG LASTING

«Great art can be made out of love for religion as well as rebellion against it. But a totally secularized society with contempt for religion sinks into materialism and self absoption and gradually goes slack, without leaving an artistic legacy»

-Camille Paglia

BEST TITLE EVER!

Camille Paglia on the cover of the Advocate magazine: «Attack of the 50-foot lesbian»!

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Gay men want to show themselves, and to provoque, and they are curious about all the new things-hysterically wanting something different all the time. They are more in touch with new fashion, and even in creating new fashion themselves. Gay men are a rejected minority. So they rebel against convention, and they have a unique sensibility that is more close to that of a woman. They want to affirm themselves and express themselves by their clothes. Or they want to look like a big macho. And they are a lot of my customers, a very big part, and I'm proud of that»

-Jean Paul Gaultier
Gay Times
January 1994 p61