«MUSCLES ARE GREAT»

THE MONEY QUESTION

«His private diary was in the first instance a way of keeping account of his expenditure. He had a complicated relationship with money. He would keep 100 dollar bill in his boots»

-Bob Colacello.

«ONE THING I MISS IS THE TIME AMERICA HAD BIG DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE»

Romney vs Obama and still the 50 years old debate about less government intervention? Let's be clear here. Do you think that if any big company making military material is about to go bankrupt, that company will not be saved by the government? The rest is as Tom Wolfe once said like a train on the rails. Sometimes a little bit to the left, sometimes a little bit to the right but still basically always on the same track.

«I THINK CLOTHES WHEN THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFULLY DONE ARE REALLY LIKE WORKS OF ART»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Chez moi, la lecture est une maladie grave, une pathologie obsessionnelle !»

-Karl Lagerfeld

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ

Assis près du fleuve hier après-midi, je ne pouvais m'empêcher de me dire que rien ne me rend plus heureux que la proximité de l'eau...

«I LOVE ALL MUSIC. CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, OPERA, EVERYTHING»

ART 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

 «I don't say everything, but I paint everything.»

-Pablo Picasso

EDUCATION 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.»

-Kafka

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

BMW ART CAR BY JEFF KOONS

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

I agree with Camille Paglia that many feminists have underestimated the power of hormones in human behaviour and the creative power of sexual desire. I agree with her that many feminists have a Rousseau-ian view of human nature where they expect to be able to dress as they like, and go where they like, and drink as they like, and never come to harm. I agree that women who stay in abusive relationships are complicit in the violence. I even agree with her about the link between male obsession and achievement. I think it's quite possible that there is "no woman Mozart because there is no woman Jack the Ripper." And I absolutely agree about the damage postmodernism and its boring theories have done to culture and art.

"In the 21st century," she says in her brilliant new book, Glittering Images, "we are looking for meaning, not subverting it. The art world, mesmerised by the heroic annals of the old avant-garde, is living in the past." We are living, she says, "in the age of vertigo." We must, she says, "relearn how to see." And so, as you might expect, she shows us how. In a survey of artworks from ancient Egypt to contemporary America, she argues for the need to bring history and scholarship back into the teaching of art. "What I'm trying to show," she tells me, "is how it's possible to combine everything in one form of approach, to literature and art."

-The Independent

CE QUI FAIT QUE L'ON EST UN VRAI ARTISTE

On a dit beaucoup de choses au sujet de ce qui fait que Warhol se classe parmi les grands artistes. Or, ce n'est ni le prix de ses toiles, ni sa célébrité, ni son obsession du travail. C'est plutôt que comme tous les vrais artistes , il était prêt à tricher pour la beauté. Portraits de ses clients version chirurgie plastique, perruques argentées pour le look, et cette façon de dire sous forme de boutade qu'il ne savait pas quand l'artificiel commençait et ou le naturel s'arrêtait. 

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF

JERSEY SHORE?

I ran into a model I fixed Paige with and gee, he's so good-looking. Paige said he was just an airhead but here is this beautiful boy with muscles and a chest and perfect teeth and from New Jersey and you could mold him into anything get him started reading or something.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 27 1985

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.»

-Yves St-Laurent

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

MANOLO BLAHNIK IN SEX AND THE CITY: THAT IS SO PASSÉ!

I went to Manolo Blahnik's new shoe store on 65th and Madison, next to Kron's, really beautiful, one- of- a kind shoes.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
September 21 1979.

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING BEAUTIFUL AND VICE VERSA

ONLY IN AMERICA

Now some 20% of americans believe Obama is a muslim. Hey! He's not a muslim, he's a chinese spy.

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

– Dasha Zhukova Wins Leo Award: Russian art doyenne Dasha Zhukova has been honored with the 2012 Leo Award by Independent Curators International (ICI). Named after the late, renowned dealer Leo Castelli, the Leo recognizes the 31-year-old Zhukova's ambitious work to transform the city of Moscow into a hub of contemporary art and her various art projects including Art.sy, Garage Magazine, and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. Zhukova is in good company: Previous awardees include Chuck Close, John Waters, and Dorothy and Roy Lichtenstein. [Press Release]

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

Britney Spears made 58 millions last year.

-Next!

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ARTWORK BY PETER ANTON

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A NEW CHINA BORN RELIGION WILL CLAIM GOD HAS UPDATED HIS CHOICE AND REPLACED JEWS BY CHINESE PEOPLE.

LARRY GAGOSIAN

Gagosian and Castelli knew each other, played cards together and, at one point, owned a gallery together. (Ga­go­sian also represents Edward Ruscha, Serra, Cy Twombly and Warhol, all once in Castelli’s stable.) Castelli introduced Gagosian to one of his wealthiest customers, billionaire S.I. Newhouse. While Castelli rarely played in the so-called secondary market (for work previously sold), Gagosian often did, putting his own and others’ money at risk. That ­tactic helped put him on the fast track to riches. Come 1988, Gagosian bid $17 million on behalf of Newhouse for Johns’ “False Start” (1959) at a Sotheby’s auction. “Everybody is stunned, and for me the price is unexplainable,” a dealer told The New York Times the next day.

-Forbes
5/3/2012

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PEINTRE DE LA COUR

Le succès de Warhol comme portraitiste est facile à expliquer: Peindre les gens comme ceux-ci aimeraient se voir, et non comme ils sont en réalité. Comme disait Oscar Wilde, trop de sincérité dans la société mondaine est absolument fatal.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY MEN

If people were arrested for intellectual laziness, 99% of gay men would be behind bars.

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BEST HAIR

How can a woman's magazine have an article about «your best hair EVER» for 36 months in a row?.....

ARTISTIC FREEDOM

 To young people, Warhol represents artistic freedom.   It is a freedom to cross boundaries--to paint, to create a magazine like Interview, to express yourself through music, like that of the Velvet Underground." 

Another opinion is that Warhol is the successful model of the multi-media artist.  The photographer Cindy Sherman, a photographer, has made a film.  Gianni Versace, the fashion designer, designed books, and mounted installations. Musician Michael Stipe has become a successful film producer, and fashion designer Isaac Misrahi is beginning to focus on his acting career.

For performance artist Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. "D.J.Spooky that Subliminal Kid," Warhol  is the first true multi-media artist, and continues to inspire.  Miller performed at The Warhol in June, and in an interview on May 31 with Jordan Weeks, for Pittsburgh City Paper (vol. 10, no. 23), Miller theorized that now the issues surrounding digital media and the way different people control history make Warhol more relevant to him. "I’m fascinated by how Warhol was able to create a social milieu around his art that actually gave the art a different kind of life."    Even though, "the Warhol scene was operating in ‘50s and ‘60s America of ultra-conservative stuff, …he was able to slip in such subversive, strange things, that he’s now viewed as an establishment figure, which is really hilarious, you know?"

-Carnegie Museum

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15 MINUTES»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Fame might be the best aphrodisiac but I wasn't famous enough to excite anyone except the rare individual. Where I was younger and less celebrated I had more success. Youth boosts the appeal of even quite mediocre fame. In any event it's women who are more susceptible to the lure of power and money. Men like youth and beauty. Straight men might envy or compete with male sucesss but gay men seek out trophy boys».

-Edmund White

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

Lady Gaga defends Prince Harry.

-Next!

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A COSMETIC COMPANY WILL LAUNCH: QUADS SCULPTING GEL FOR STRAIGHT MEN» AND «THIGH SCULPTING GEL FOR GAY MEN»

BLACKS

Andy noted that blacks never came to his book signings, in any city, including New York. And one the single occasion when an ill-dressed youth said he couldn't afford to buy a book, Andy bought one for him, and then listed it in his expenses as «Book for poor kid -$7.95

-Bob Colacello
 Holy Terror

«THE WORLD FASCINATES ME»

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

«You live only once but if you do it right, once is enough» -Mae West.

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

Nothing is more sad than a bitter old man.

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

« ART IS TOO HARD»

Went to some art galleries this afternoon. You're a new artist trying to get collectors interested in your work? If you want to sell between $1000 and $5000 do something with ink and aluminium. Want to sell for more than $10 000 right away? Put some stuffed animals in your work.  

PETITE HISTOIRE D'UNE PASSION

La vie a parfois de ces hasards. Ma passion pour la philosophie de Warhol tient d'un coup de foudre à 17 ans. Puis au début des années 1990 une seconde passion est née pour les écrits de Camille Paglia.  Cette même Paglia qui tout en confessant une passion pour Warhol également, affirmait que seuls les juifs peuvent comprendre sa façon de penser. Comme Warhol entouré de Geldzahler, Blum, Castelli et Karp en quelque sorte….

Pour me contacter: yvan.petit@gmail.com

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF

HOW THE ART MARKET WORKS: THE WARHOL EXPLANATION

I went to Sotheby's to see how my drawings were going. Early 1962 drawings. Fred had been there bidding on them so that drove the price up, but some other guy got them. It's all dealers who put the stuff in and bid it up. It's their business. All the people who have the work just bid it up.

-The Andy Warhol diaries.
 May 10 1984

THE ART MARKET NOW

Overpriced: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Koons, Murakami, Johns, Basquiat, Twombly, Schnabel.

Underpriced: Rauschenberg, Wesselmann, Haring, Salle, Fischl, Gironella.
           

«IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES»

WHY JERSEY SHORE GUYS CAN FUCK LOTS OF BABES

Being rude is a categorically negative behavior by most standards, and to suggest otherwise–that is, to mount a defense of rudeness–would be a really strange thing to do. But psychology research is often at its best when it endorses positions that at first glance seem awfully strange.

And so it is with rudeness, because while most of us deplore it, research suggests that we also see it as a sign of power. A study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science indicated that the ruder someone acts, the more convinced observers become that he or she is powerful, and therefore does not have to respect the same rules the rest of us bow to.

-Forbes magazine

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

«DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WRITE ABOUT YOU. JUST MEASURE IT IN INCHES»

Justin Bieber Google search 24/8/2012: 701 000 000 results.

À LA BASE LE DESSIN.

«À l'exception d'une longue interruption entre 1963 et 1972 Andy Warhol a dessiné régulièrement toute sa vie. Le dessin est le seul moyen d'expression qui l'a occupé depuis le début de ses études d'art, dans les années 1940, jusqu'aux derniers mois précédent sa mort en 1987. Même si les apparences ont été souvent contraires et que l'on a pu dire bien autre chose, Warhol a été un artiste extraordinairement travailleur  et productif dans tous les domaines. Bien qu'il ait vendu de nombreux dessins, il a gardé dans sa collection personnelle des milliers de feuilles et de multiples carnets d'esquisse.»

-Andy Warhol
 Dessins 1942-1987
Editions de la Martinière p.9

«THERE SHOULD BE A COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE»

«Keith gave me a beautiful drawing. It's of a strange diaphanous creature blowing bubbles. On the back of it he wrote: For Brooke one of the sweetest people with lots of love and respect. I learned a lot about humility, honesty, generosity and sincerity from you. Love you always, Keith. As I said I wasn't very verbal when I was young. Now I'm twenty four and I learned to express my feelings more. I recently met Keith again and I said to him: you know, I never said this before, but I really care for you. I just like being with you. And he smiled and smiled»

-Brooke Shields on Keith Haring
 Musée Art contemporain Lyon p.136

«ANDY THOUGHT ABOUT JEWS A LOT» -BOB COLACELLO

«Marx antisémite? Il l'est à l'évidence, dans ce texte de jeunesse, la Question Juive, ou il mobilise tout son talent de pamphlétaire et tous ses dons de philosophe pour faire du juif concret, de son égoïsme, de son sens des affaires, l'emblème de la société bourgeoise. Antisémitisme éminemment moderne, Marx n'accusant pas le judaïsme de se préserver contre l'histoire, mais lui reprochant au contraire de faire l'histoire, et d'avoir atteint son apogée avec la perfection du capitalisme»

-Alain Finkielkraut
 Le juif imaginaire.

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF

LES VALEURS SURES EN ART

Alors qu'il est vrai que le marché de l'art est souvent  aujourd'hui conditionné davantage par des facteurs de mode que par la valeur intrinsèque d'une oeuvre, il est aussi vrai que la valeur d'un artiste donné reste conditionné par ....ses liens avec le monde la musique. Warhol avec les Rolling Stones, Haring avec le Break Dancing et le Paradise Garage,  Hirst avec Dave Stewart des Eurythmics, Picasso avec Eric Satie, ou encore Kehinde Wiley avec les icônes du Rap. Voilà aujourd'hui le gage le plus solide de la valeur d'un artiste qui sera durable.

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

WARHOL AS THE JOKER

A gay guy in a fright wig hangs out with a bored rich girl named “Baby Jane.” It’s not Andy Warhol and Jane Holzer but a story arc on the 1960s TV version of Batman. In two episodes that aired in March 1967, the Joker (Cesar Romero) takes up art and has an unwitting partner in “Baby Jane” Towser. That name can’t be a coincidence: Warhol superstar “Baby Jane” Holzer had already appeared in several Warhol films, notably Batman Dracula (1964), and been profiled by Tom Wolfe. One Batman episode’s title, “Pop Goes the Joker,” is a clear reference to the pop movement.

Despite that, there’s no pop art per se—unless you count a fight-scene title card that rips off Ed Ruscha’s 1962 OOF. It seems the Joker has traditionalist tastes in art (“I swear it on a stack of Blue Boys!”) and covets Renaissance paintings. To get them, he turns to the most monstrous of all cons—contemporary art, naturally. The result, credited to TV writer Stanford Sherman, is a time capsule of middlebrow views on the avant-garde. In a weird way, it can be read as an allegory of postmodernism.

-William Poundstone 

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ

Les plus belles oeuvres de Keith Haring sont de loin sa voiture rouge BMW, ses sculptures inspirées du break dancing et ses rares mais superbes masques africains.

«EVERYONE MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

How come a tribute painting to Gertrude Stein called «A jew is a jew is a jew» have not been made yet?

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: OLD FAG

There are no 70 year old woman putting her pussy in a glory hole hoping someone would touch it.....

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ARTWORK BY MAX ERNST

RÉVÉLATEUR....

Quand on nous dit que sur les trente artistes les plus prometteurs de moins de 30 ans, 20 sont des artistes chinois peu connus hors de la Chine, et que cette estimation est basée sur les seuls prix de vente de leurs oeuvres en Chine, les drapeaux rouges se doivent d'être levés.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

-You're someone who is associated with a lot of people's adolescent thoughts and fantasies.

-Yep, I've been laid just about everywhere. On the train, in the bedroom, on the stairs....(laughs)

-Tom Cruise
 Interview magazine
 May 1986 p.42

«I'M SO SPOILED FROM GOING AROUND WITH 19 YEAR OLDS»

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

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes now officially divorced.

-Next!

À LA LENNY BRUCE

Damien Hirst: goyim
Damien Hirst butterflies: jewish
Damien Hirst spin paintings: goyim
Damien Hirst shark: goyim
Damien Hirst 2008 sale at Sotheby's : jewish
Damien Hirst cover of the very first issue of Garage magazine: goyim
Damien Hirst dots paintings: jewish

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«A narcissist is someone better looking than you are»   -Gore Vidal

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly”  -Andy Warhol

DE LA BOITE DE SOUPE CAMPBELL...PARCE QUE ON EN MANGEAIT TOUS LES JOURS ENFANT À PITTSBURGH.

«n'importe quoi aussi laid que ce soit, aussi indifférent que ce soit deviendra beau et joli après 40 ans»

-Marcel Duchamp
 Entrevue 1967
Sur le danger de faire trop de ready made lesquels doivent au départ être choisis sans appréciation esthétique.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Jaber Lutfi

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

Aug 15 (Reuters) - A decade ago, the questions Annelien Bruins got from clients who wanted help building art collections were about how to find pieces they'd love.

Bruins, an art consultant and chief operating officer of Sarasota, Florida-based Tang Investments LLC, said buying art then was a "passion purchase." Nowadays, it's become more about love and money.

As investors grow frustrated with tepid returns of traditional asset classes, art has become an alluring option, and demand is outstripping supply in the high end of the market.

U.S. billionaire Leon Black, for example, paid an eye-popping $120 million for Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" in May, according to the Wall Street Journal.

ÉVOLUTION DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'ART

Avant on parlait des «meilleurs» artistes. Puis le critère objectif a disparu et on parlé des artistes «les plus importants.» Maintenant marché de l'art mondialisé oblige, l'argument vendeur est devenu celui des «artistes les plus influents».

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

ADVERTISING

«I agree with Andy Warhol about advertising as art»

-Camille Paglia

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Illusion is the first of all pleasures»  -Oscar Wilde

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE READERS OF THIS BLOG WILL NOT HAVE POSTED ONE SINGLE COMMENT OF APPRECIATION OR ENCOURAGEMENT.

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The spotlight turning back on Haring is a welcome antidote to the concerns of today’s art world, which seems so depressingly obsessed with wealth and power. Haring frequently said that “art is for everybody,” and he meant it. You could see that belief in action in his public works—such as his dynamic Crack Is Wack mural in Harlem River Park—and his crowded Pop Shop, where he sold Haring art that anyone could afford, on buttons, posters, T-shirts, and more. He worked more like a performance artist than a traditional painter, often creating enormous pieces in front of an audience, with a boom box blasting, and he had real faith in art’s ability to transform people’s lives. Anyone, any age, anywhere can understand a Haring. His pared-down, instantly recognizable iconography—from crawling babies to men bedding men—is vibrant with a profound sense of social engagement. Yet it also represents a moving personal and collective journey, especially when it comes to issues of self-acceptance, which were such a big part of the gay movement in the late 70s and early 80s. Perhaps this explains the work’s surprising, haunting beauty. Idealism shines out of every one of Haring’s bold, sure lines—even in one of his last finished paintings, titled Unfinished Painting, which has a vast passage of emptiness, as if to signify all the great work that his death meant he’d never have the chance to do.

-Ingrid Sischy on Keith Haring
 2008

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT BEING BEAUTIFUL AND VICE VERSA

POUR LE MEILLEUR COMME POUR LE PIRE

Trois expositions Warhol sont programmées d'ici l'automne à New York, dix aux Etats-Unis, vingt-quatre dans le monde. "Andy Warhol, grandeur et misère" ; "Les portraits de Warhol" ; "Warhol : 15 minutes d'éternité" ; "Warhol et les voitures"... Evénement new-yorkais, à partir du 17 septembre, le prestigieux Metropolitan Museum lui consacre, pour la première fois, une exposition. "Regarding Warhol : Sixty Artists, Fifty years", confrontera les chefs d'oeuvres du peintre aux tableaux, photographies, vidéos de ceux qu'il a influencés. Une expédition, à en croire Mark Rosenthal, à l'origine du projet."Depuis vingt ans, j'entendais répéter que Warhol était l'artiste le plus important de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Je n'ai jamais été un inconditionnel. J'ai travaillé sur d'autres artistes qui me semblaient au moins aussi grands. Alors j'ai décidé defaire une exposition pour remettre ça en cause. Cela m'a pris quatre ans... pourarriver à la conclusion qu'Andy Warhol est en tout cas l'artiste le plus influent des cinquante dernières années."

-Le Monde
23 aout 2012

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE KEHINDE WILEY PAINTINGS WILL SELL FOR AS MUCH AS WARHOL OR HIRST TODAY

« MY FAVORITE PLACE IS L.A »

À LA LENNY BRUCE

Warhol: goyim
Warhol shopping at the flea market: jewish
Warhol's Mao: jewish
Warhol's Marilyn : goyim
Warhol philosophy book: jewish
Warhol Party book: goyim
Warhol's wigs: jewish

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: OLD AND SAGGING VS YOUNG AND DUMB

Oscar Wilde avait mieux que quiconque compris ce dilemme lorsqu'il écrivait que les jeunes veulent être fidèles mais ne le peuvent pas, alors que les vieux voudraient eux être infidèles, mais ne le peuvent plus....

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST

August 21 2012

Oh, I don't know what to paint. What sells now? That art gallery owner wants me to do another serie of ten jews but for the 21st century. He says I should do portraits of Sergey Brin, Mark Zukenberg,
Michael Dell, Larry Ellison and Jacques Attali. Gee, I don't know. Who is Jacques Attali? And oh, Jen is getting married but I'm not invited.

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF»

BEN

J'aime bien l'art de Ben. J'aime surtout son constat selon lequel l'art dans la vie est impossible parce que la question de l'égo entre toujours en ligne de compte. Version moderne du constat que l'on pouvait déjà faire lorsque Lautréamont disait que la poésie sera faite par tous. En autant que ce soit moi qui le dise....

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Anish Kapoor

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: YOUNG AND DUMB

It's better to be hot young and dumb. Old and smart doesn't exist anymore.

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEN

Before gay men used to be much more interesting than straight men. Now it's totally the opposite.

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:GAY MEN

Bunch of 40 and 50 year old gay men dancing shirtless thinking they're still 20 year old. What a fucking turn off! Grow up!

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Claes Oldenburg.

MARCHÉ DE L'ART

La vente de Damien Hirst chez Sotheby's en 2008 n'est plus un évènement commercial. C'est désormais  partie intégrante de l'histoire de l'art. La cote de Damien Hirst ne tombera pas parce que l'image de Sotheby's serait beaucoup trop affectée. Ainsi va le marché de l'art.

WARHOL AND BASQUIAT

One commentator, after seeing the 1985 show at which the Basquiat-and-Warhol's paintings were publicly exhibited for the first time, griped, ''Everything . . . is infused with banality. Who is using whom here?''

Perhaps they were both using—or hoping to benefit from—each other. The godfather of Pop Art was "always seeking the advice and ideas of friends for possible subjects in his art," says Matt Wrbican, chief archivist at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. "Working with the younger artists such as Basquiat, [Francesco] Clemente, and Haring invigorated his work." What's more, in 1983 Basquiat inspired Warhol to paint "free-hand" with a brush—without using a silkscreen, stencil, or other device—for the first time in more than 20 years.

The younger artist got something out of the relationship too: a parental figure who helped to promote his career and enhance his star quality. But whether Warhol deterred the young painter—who died of a heroin overdose at age 27, in 1988—or helped him to develop his exceptional talent is another question.

-The Atlantic 

 July 25 2012

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FEMMES

Plus une femme est intelligente, plus elle ne veut qu'être belle et se taire. C'est là la vraie similitude entre elles et les hommes gays intelligents.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: YOUNG & DUMB

When a 18 year old tell me he wants to express himself I always answer: 18 year old is not the time to express oneself. It's time to read. 30 year old is time to express oneself.

PERSONALLY I LOVED PORNO AND I USED TO BUY LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME»

Gay men culture is about irony, camp and humor. Meanwhile gay porn have no humor at all while straight porn is full of outrageous, funny scenarios.  How come?

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

«I'M NOT MORE INTELLIGENT THAN I APPEAR»

«Did you know that only about half of americans are aware that judaism is an older religion than christinanity? That's right. Half of americans look at books called The Old testament and The New Testament and can't figure out which one comes first»

-Bill Maher

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ

La beauté de Jeanne Moreau: la retenue dans l'intelligence.

«IF EVERYBODY'S NOT A BEAUTY THEN NOBODY IS»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE BUSINESS CLASS FLIGHTS WILL HAVE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS OFFERING FREE BLOW JOBS TO MALE CUSTOMERS

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT»

COVERS

What happened to Interview magazine covers? Did they forget that the gorgeous 70's and 80's covers were all about size AND COLORS?

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE & SEX

Hate sex is better than sex without love.

«I LOVE EVERYBODY'S ART»

Artwork by Kehinde Wiley

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

LES NOUVEAUX MAÎTRES DE LA CULTURE (16/17) - Créée au sein d'un conglomérat contrôlé par l'armée, la société de ventes aux enchères connaît une ascension fulgurante. Elle compte concurrencer les grandes maisons occidentales, Christie's et Sotheby's.

Nul à Pékin ne peut ignorer la puissance du groupe Poly. Au rond-point de Dongsishitiao, l'un des plus fréquentés de la capitale, à la jonction entre la ville ancienne et les quartiers d'affaires de l'Est, Poly affiche sa superbe. D'un côté de la voie express, un bâtiment un peu daté, accueillant notamment un théâtre et un musée placés sous sa bannière. De l'autre, un superbe immeuble, dessiné par un architecte américain, qui abrite aujourd'hui les forces vives du groupe. Poly est une machine de guerre. Au sens propre du terme même car cet acteur majeur du monde de l'art chinois a étonnamment été créé par l'Armée populaire de libération (APL). La plus grande maison de ventes aux enchères chinoises contemporaine puise ses racines dans les forces armées les plus nombreuses au monde.

-Le Figaro

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ: VIDÉOS MUSICAUX

La beauté sous toutes ses formes mais toujours incandescente:

1-Kenny Scharf ému parlant du décès de Keith Haring

2-Les premières notes de Thriller avec Michael Jackson commençant à danser à la sortie du cinéma

3-Ruth Brown et B.B King chantant ensemble «Ain't nobody's business»

4-Steve Tyler et Joe Perry chantant «I'm a King Bee»

5-Tout Césaria Evora.

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

IN HOMMAGE TO WARHOL SAYING HE STARTED POP ART BECAUSE HE HATED ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

«What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born»

-Jean Genet

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SUCCESS

If you don't have 19 year old fans, you're not really a success.

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

«He may have said that he wanted to be a machine, but with regard to his work he only acted like one in the sense that he never stopped working»

-Gay Indiana
 Andy Warhol and the soup can that sold the world.

«PERSONALLY I LOVED PORNO AND USED TO BUY LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME»

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

Damien Hirst new girlfriend 25 years his junior.

-Next!

MARCHÉ DE L'ART

Quand un Jeff Koons de 1998 est évalué à 20 millions de dollards, on comprend que dans le monde de l'art, la valeur intrinsèque d'une oeuvre et sa place dans l'histoire de l'art n'a plus aucune importance....

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk 
about wine.»

-Fran Lebowitz

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST

August 13 2012

Gee, these young olympic athletes were so great. I love this new generation. They smoke  pot and then, win medals. How do they do that? And why are they all so good-looking? Went to the office. Worked on my Michael Phelps portrait. And oh, this lesbian writer who loves me so much Camille Paglia will have a new book out in october. Maybe I should do her portrait too. Read an article by a french art critic who said I killed the avant- garde forty years ago. What does that mean?I mean I just wanted to be famous so it was kind of avant- garde back then. Maybe I should just have more sex, so intellectuals would love me more.

THE SECRET OF BEING A REAL ARTIST

«I like the idea of things lasting longer than you last»

-Keith Haring

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.»


-Oscar Wilde

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

Le pénis de Mick Jagger est une légende à lui tout seul. On lui prête environ 4 000 partenairesdifférents, de Carla Bruni à Angelina Jolie en passant par David Bowie et Andy Warhol. Si son succès est reconnu, sa taille reste un mystère. Alors que Keith Richards, le guitariste des Rolling Stones, affirme dans son livre Life que Mick Jagger en a une toute petite, son ex, Jerry Hall,affirmait le contraire, en déclarant à la BBC 2 : « Mick est très bien doté. (…) Keith est simplement jaloux. » La question de la taille du sexe du leader des Stones tournait à la chamaillerie. Heureusement, Pete Townshend vient de clarifier la situation.

D’après le guitariste de The Who, non seulement l’engin est XXL, mais comme pour la liqueur d’échalote des Bronzés, « c’est goûtu, ça a du retour ». Il l’a déclaré hier en conférence de presse : « Ce dont je me souviens de la taille du pénis de Mick Jagger… Je me souviens que c’était énorme et extrêmement goûteux. » On ne saura pas si ces déclarations sont vraies ou simplement une manière d’attirer l’attention sur la prochaine tournée mondiale des Who, mais les propos de Townshendrejoignent plusieurs témoignages contraires à la position que défend Keith Richards. Mais pour ce qui est du goût, c’est un peu gros.

-France.fr

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MEN

Men are the real romantics. They just hide it better.

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

Keith Haring cover art lp

KENNY SCHARF ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HARING AND BASQUIAT

«I introduced Keith to Jean-Michel. I guess we became kind of known as the three...I wouldn't say musketeers....Each different from each other but very street oriented»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.»

-Karl Lagerfeld

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

ARTISTS

«The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.»

-Robert Hughes

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE ART MARKET CONFIDENCE INDEX GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»