ON HOLIDAYS FOR ONE WEEK: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

DÉFINITION HAUTEMENT WARHOLIENNE DE L'EGOISME

«Un égoïste c'est quelqu'un qui ne pense pas à moi»

-Egoïste magazine motto

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER ON MUSCLES AND THE GAY QUESTION

Arnold Schwarzenegger is straight as a die. Why then he consented to this Blueboy interview? «Gays are like bodybuilders. Everyone stereotypes them and makes all kinds of assumptions about them. For a lot of years I've been categorized. I have suffered from being stereotyped so I feel for what it must be like to be gay. People meet me and they have already made up their minds about me because I'm a bodybuilder. It has hurt me». Arnold pauses and continues, «I respect gay men, communicate with them, associate with them»

Blueboy magazine
Nov/Dec 1977 p.45

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD

PHILOSOPHY 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«I truly believe that age -- if you're healthy -- age is just a number»

Playboy Founder Hugh Hefner
2006 interview

EDUCATION 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

«Youth is wasted on the young»

-Oscar Wilde

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

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

Gagosian – cracks in the empire?

As the year ended, the headlong expansion of super-gallerist Larry Gagosian suddenly hit a bump, when three of his star artists defected. In December it emerged that Jeff Koons was planning a show with arch-rival Zwirner in what looks like the prelude to an exit from Gagosian. Then in quick succession Damien Hirst and Yayoi Kusama bowed out too.

So what is happening here? Opinions vary but one element may be the bad publicity generated by a couple of lawsuits involving Gagosian, one over a Koons sculpture. Or it may be simply that with the top end of the market riding high, artists have got the upper hand and are abandoning any loyalty to their dealers.

-Financial Times

 Dec 28 2012

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

“Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.” 

-Camille Paglia

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SNOB

Les gens stupides sont les véritables snobs. Ce sont les seuls qui ne parlent qu'aux gens comme eux...

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

 Johnny Sins is the man, but I hate watching scenes with him (no homo)

i simply cant focus on the girl in his scenes. he fuks like a champ and handles his wang so well that i cant take my eyes off him. then i begin to mire his physique and how he looks pumped as fuk in all his scenes, and im checking out his arms and everything, then i realize that this is pretty homo. then i prematurely ejaculate and feel guilty because i effectively masturbated to a guy's forearm vascularity. then when i close my browser and go to clean up, i cant even remember who the girl was in the scene. all i can think about is johnny's shiny bald head and voluptuous biceps.

(strong no homo)

Comments posted on bodybuilding.com 

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS

Every time the left forget about the importance of the expression «tough love», it goes into decline.

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

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

 The $34-million price tag on Gerhard Richter’s “Abstraktes Bild (809-4)” set a record for the highest auction price ever paid for a work by a living artist. It also outdid Richter’s previous record of $22 million. The painting’s provenance also may have added to its star power: The primary-pigment beauty was previously owned by guitarist Eric Clapton, who, as it happens, paid just over $3 million for it in 2001.

-Art Info
 December 25 2012

ART TALK 101

«The world of the Abstract Expressionists was very macho.The painters who used to hang around the Cedar bar on University Place were all hard-driving, two fisted types who'd grab each other and say things like" I'll knock your fucking teeth out» and «I'll steal your girl».


-Andy Warhol
Popisms

ON HOLIDAY BREAK FOR SOME DAYS...

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ARTWORK BY MATISSE

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LUXURY

The real luxury is to never have to deal with stupid people.

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

Last february in New York City, Arnold appeared at The Whitney Museum in a live exhibition: ARTICULATE MUSCLE/THE BODY AS ART. A panel of distinguished art historians said their pieces. Colin Eisler, professor of fine arts at the institute of Fine Arts of New York University drew a comparaison between Michelangelo carving a body out of a piece of marble and the bodybuilder carving his own body. Much applause.When Eisler finally said bodybuilding «poses are the personification of 19 century-camp» he was booed. Someone shouted «Take your shirt off». Someone else threw a cushion at him.

Blueboy
Nov/dec 1977  p.91

«BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

This speech begins the same way the President began his speech this morning, but goes in a direction that President Obama, as well as every other national leader, has refused to go. Until, I hope, today.

"My Fellow Americans:

"I know there's not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that I do. Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter, and we'll tell them that we love them, and we'll remind each other how deeply we love one another.

“But while we will shed tears with you, and lead this nation in mourning—again—my duty as your President does not stop there.

“My sworn duty is to protect and defend American lives, and in the wake of yet another shooting tragedy, that is what I intend to do.

“I stand before you today, and face the grief-stricken parents of Newton, and the traumatized children who survived the killer’s rampage, and I make this vow to you: I will do everything in my power as President to stop gun violence in America.

“What does this mean?

“It means attacking the problem through our laws, our courts, our social services and our media.

“Make no mistake, this is a deep, festering problem that generations of politicians—including myself—have preferred not to confront head-on.  There is no one simple solution.  Our approach will be all-encompassing and thorough.  And our goal is clear: the end to gun violence in America.

“First, we will change the laws. We will enact smart and effective legislation that targets the most dangerous guns and keeps all guns out of the hands of the people most likely to use them to commit crimes. These laws will vastly improve criminal background checks to make it more difficult for criminals and the mentally ill to buy guns. We will push for a law that requires these checks for all gun sales. Right now, background checks only apply to sales by licensed gun dealers, who only account for 60 percent of all gun sales. That means 40 percent of all gun sales—via private parties and gun shows, for example—take place with no background check.  We will change that law.  And we will pass legislation outlawing the manufacture and distribution of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines outside of law enforcement.

“There are over 200 million guns in this country today.  The Second Amendment protects the lawful ownership and use of firearms, and that is a Constitutional right we hold dear. The vast majority of gun owners are law-abiding citizens.  The goal of our legislation is not to reduce the safe, legal ownership of guns, but gun violence.

“Secondly, we will ensure that in every court throughout this land, those who commit violent crimes with guns, as well as those whose guns are used through negligence to commit a crime, will face maximum, mandatory penalties.

“Third, we will increase our support for intervention programs targeting the mentally ill, domestic abusers, gangs and other underlying causes of gun violence.  In cases where there is inadequate funding or oversight, we will immediately fix it.   Since too many of these mass shootings involve long-simmering hostilities that burst out into mayhem, we will educate communities to identify the risk factors and create swift intervention procedures before violence erupts. To focus solely on guns as the problem will not solve our problem: America is not the only country with high rates of gun ownership. Switzerland, Canada and Israel all have a high percentage of gun ownership, but low or negligible amounts of gun-related homicide. Our homicide rate is the highest of any advanced democracy.

Finally, we will focus on the media.  We will use all forms of media to educate our young people away from violence, to stop its relentless glorification, and to teach ways to recognize and thwart violent behavior. While we hold the First Amendment and right to free expression as sacrosanct, we must strive to use the power of the media to solve, and not exacerbate, one of our country’s gravest problems.

-jewish journal.

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Michel Serres a développé une intéressante théorie qui demande de prendre conscience du rapport à la mémorisation dans les ruptures que sont le passage de l'oral à l'écrit, de l'écrit rare au livre reproductible, du livre à Internet. L'inconvénient de ces grandes classifications est qu'elles masquent les continuités et les persistances ou les archaïsmes. Mais elles ont l'avantage de proposer une structuration de nos connaissances pour comprendre les mouvements de l'histoire.

-Mediapart

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.»

-Boy George

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Keith Haring exhibition at Musée d'art moderne de Paris in 2013.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE ECONOMIC RISE OF NON WHITE COUNTRIES WITH NO JEWISH DIASPORA GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

SLEEP 2012 VERSION....

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

If there is a very, very hot young arabic guy in a gay place, don't cruise him directly. You will be «the unmanly, faggy white guy» to his eyes. Ignore him. Minutes later he will be on his knees giving you the best bj....

CAMILLE PAGLIA ET L'ART DE LA CONTRADICTION

J'aime bien Camille Paglia disant que son dernier ouvrage de petit format et de lecture accessible se veut
être une forme de protestation contre cette mode du livre grand format qu'on laisse négligemment traîner
sur la table pour faire bonne impression. Ce qui ne l'empêchait pas auparavant d'écrire un bref article pour l'ouvrage Tom of Finland XXXL, sorte de très gros «table book» gay par excellence.  On approuve. Façon de revendiquer pour elle consciemment ou non, le droit à la contradiction. Ce même droit de se contredire si cher aux grands artistes du passé (de Breton à Cocteau en passant par Dali).

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

ANDY WARHOL MAGAZINE WORK 1958

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

A Beyonce & Justin Timberlake duo in 2013?

-Next!

L'OBSESSION DE LA BEAUTÉ

Chez Warhol l'obsession de la beauté atteint des sommets. L'obsession de son look, sa peau imparfaite, ses perruques. L'obsession des beautés glamour. L'obsession de quelqu'un qui dit ne pas savoir ou s'arrête le naturel et ou commence l'artificiel. L'obsession enfin de quelqu'un qui affirme que tout est beau, et que si tout le monde n'est pas une beauté alors personne n'en est une.

«SOMETIMES THE PRESS MAKES CRIME SEEM SO GLAMOROUS»

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

HOW TO GET GOOD IDEAS

«Because I hate abstract expressionism. I hate it!»

-Andy Warhol
(when asked why he started Pop Art)

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE NURSES WILL BE PAID BY GOVERNMENTS TO PROVIDE SEXUAL SERVICES TO PAPY BOOMERS IN RETIREMENT HOMES

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE LADY GAGA WILL PAY HOMMAGE TO CLAES OLDENBERG BY DRESSING AS A SOFT HAMBURGER SCULPTURE

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Supreme moments in the history of civilization as in ancient Egypt,  Classical Athens
or Renaissance Florence were always accompanied by the worship of beauty»

-Camille Paglia

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

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

Madonna teenage photos auctioned.

-Next!

STILL THE SAME TODAY....

«The most publicly celebrated figure to emerge from pop art is Andy Warhol. Claes Oldenberg and Roy Lichtenstein may well have received more serious consideration from the official art world, but to the american public-at-large Andy Warhol is pop»

-Douglas Coplans
Andy Warhol
New York Graphic Society p.47
1978

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

«ANDY THOUGHT ABOUT JEWS A LOT» -BOB COLACELLO

I like when John Waters said in an interview with artist Deborah Kass that when he's in Hollywood people are talking to him in Yiddish, assuming everybody over there is jewish...

FRANCE VS USA

Les français se passionnent pour des actrices et acteurs américains tombés dans l'oubli depuis déjà 10 ou 20 ans aux États-Unis. Les américains eux, se passionnent pour des tendances littéraires et théoriques tombés dans l'oubli ou l'insignifiance depuis déjà 10 ou 20 ans en France....

«LA BEAUTÉ EST UN SIGNE D'INTELLIGENCE»

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

-Andy Warhol: How do you keep your good looks?

-Matt Dillon: I don't do anything. What good looks?

-Interview magazine
 December 1983 p.60

LES OPPOSITIONS SIMPLISTES

Après-midi de lecture.  Tiens, que je me suis dit en lisant un ouvrage sur les artistes Pop. Voilà une opposition bien factice que celle entre expressionnistes abstraits et artistes pop. Quand lit-on souvent Peter Blake dire de son art qu'il vise à créer «de la magie» , ou encore Jim Dine dire qu'il veut à travers le sien, exprimer «son paysage intérieur»....Et ce sans compter Rauschenberg qui a toujours dit vouloir travailler dans cet espace entre l'art et la vie.  

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD!

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«It is better to be looked over than overlooked.»

-Mae West

GEE....

Chuck Close recalls seeing a show of Warhol’s Heinz Ketchup and Brillo boxes in 1964, when he was a graduate student at Yale: “It was a mindblower.” Jeff Koons reveals, “Where I’ve been inspired and impressed by Andy is in the sense of economy, of getting more out of something than is put in.” Julian Schnabel says, “When we look at what people are doing now, over the past 20 years, I don’t know that I have seen anything that he didn’t do. He is a giant.” What would Andy say? Probably something like “Oh, gee. Oh, wow. I’m really, really up there now.”

-Bob Colacello
 Vanity Fair
October 2012

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

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

Damiel Craig wants Rihanna as James Bond Girl.

-Next!

DAMIEN HIRST

Why Damien Hirst will be the best investment 20 years from now: Roy Lichtenstein was once called the worst living artist, Warhol was said to be completely irrelevant in the 1980's, and Joseph Mugrabi owns about 100 of Hirst works.

«LAND REALLY IS THE BEST ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: HASARD

La hasard fait bien les choses. Alors que Camille Paglia plaide sans cesse pour que l'histoire de l'art
soit de retour en force à l'école, je feuilletais hier un livre sur les collectionneurs du Québec. Puis ce
propos du parolier Luc Plamondon créateur des fameux Starmania et Notre Dame de Paris rappelant
que c'est un cours d'histoire de l'art à l'école qui avait très tôt éveillé en lui le goût des arts. Aujourd'hui les beaux objets design et les oeuvres d'art du Québec des années 1940 et 1950 composent l'essentiel de sa collection. Cette première étincelle, l'étude de l'histoire de l'art la lui avait donnée...

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

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

Among the weird disclosures and weirder moments in Page Six's long profile of Nick Gruber, the 22-year-old former soldier/gay porn star/cocaine addict — and, the only detail that anyone, to the extent that they care about Nick Gruber, seems to care about — former boyfriend of Calvin Klein. Gruber says that Klein was a jealous and controlling lover (he bought Gruber an ostentatious, $250,000 Bentley sports car for his 21st birthday, then repeatedly criticized Gruber for wanting such a tacky car, then took it back when they broke up). When Klein suspected his much-younger lover of cheating, allegedly this happened:

"[Calvin] picked me up in his car, drove me down to the Holiday Inn in Chelsea, and we went downstairs in the basement of the hotel," he says, furrowing his brow.

According to Gruber, another man was waiting there with a lie detector. He said he was an ex-detective, and presented a business card bearing the name "Dr. Love." Gruber, indignant that Klein was accusing him of cheating, says he agreed to be hooked up to the machine and interrogated for about two hours.

"He made me take a lie-detector test," Gruber says in disbelief. "I passed it. And then, you know, things were much better. But I mean, what kind of partner would make you take a lie detector test? I was like, 'Did you ever cheat on me, Calvin?' I never cheated on him."

However, things weren't all bad!

"I made Calvin go to McDonald's and have a Big Mac, and he asked if they had it medium rare," he says with a laugh.

"He took a bite, and he was like, 'Ugh, what's this?' I'll never forget that story: medium rare for a Big Mac at McDonald's," Gruber adds, shaking his head.

-Jezebel

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

Est-ce que ça vous amuse de jouer avec l’imagerie sexy ?

François Sagat – Moi, c’est vraiment la base de mon activité. A force, c’est assez fatigant. Quand tu fais que ça, t’en as un peu marre. T’as envie de te rhabiller un petit peu. Mais là, aujourd’hui, pour Les Inrocks,ça m’amuse parce que c’est au second degré et que c’est avec une fille. C’est toujours plus marrant avec une fille…

Est-ce qu’à un moment dans ta vie, tu as choisi de devenir un sex-symbol ?

François Sagat – Sex-symbol, ça veut trop rien dire. Je le suis peut-être auprès de certains gays. Dans ma vie de tous les jours, je l’oublie assez facilement. En fait, quand j’étais adolescent, j’étais plutôt à l’inverse de cette imagerie sexy. J’étais chétif, j’avais des cheveux longs, on me disait : "Bonjour mademoiselle", quand j’entrais dans une boulangerie.

A ma grande surprise, quand j’ai commencé à me transformer physiquement, on s’est mis à me trouver sexy. Ça m’a sûrement permis de me prouver des trucs, de régler un problème.

-Les Inrocks

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

ANDY WARHOL MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION 1960

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«On ne peut pas vivre mal. C'est une contradiction»

-Eugène Ionesco.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: PLACES

The only places I can understand is the brothel, the gym and the library. Isn't it the same thing after all?

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ARTWORK BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE STUPIDITY OF POSITIVE THINKING

Every year millions of persons think they will survive cancer because they think they can. Millions won't.

«THE WORLD FASCINATES ME»

How can someone, male or female, being sexually turned on by a cock is absolutely beyond me.
Fascinating....

عضلات كبيرة

NELSON ROCKEFELLER

Rockefeller seemed interested in, and comfortable with, Andy in a way that few politicians ever were.
There was a lengthy receiving line, and the moment it ended, he sought Andy out, and putting his arm around him like an old friend, said: C'mon Andy, i'll take ya upstairs to see the Max Ernst bed. They're making a hell of a fuss over it, down here in Washington»

Bob Colacello
Holy Terror p.317

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY SEX

Warhol was so right. Sex is the biggest nothing of all. Too bad I wasn't born straight. Nothing more ridiculous and pathetic than grown up gay men trying to act like 16 year old all their lives.   What would we miss without the current gay culture? Absolutely nothing!

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. »


-Cioran

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: CELEB MAG: STYLE STEAL! HOW TO MOAN LIKE KOURTNEY, CHLOÉ AND KIM WHEN FAKING ORGASMS!

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE DECENCY LAWS REGARDING CLOTHING WILL BE BASED ON THE PERSON'S LOOK AND BODY SIZE ONLY.

GOSH....THAT WOULD BE SO FUN!

Somebody asked me what I would like the most a few days ago. Very simple: Creating characters and scenarios for pro wrestling and writing outrageous articles titles for Cosmopolitan magazine.

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

THE MONEY OBSESSION

«If you can count your money you know you ain't got any».

-Don King

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE END OF OPPOSITIONAL ART GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

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

Angelina Jolie thinks about stoping her acting career.

-Next!

MY THANK YOU

Just read this new book THANK YOU ANDY WARHOL by Catherine Johnson. I liked when Bob Colacello said that Warhol truly enjoyed TV more than art films, and plastic more than marble. But after reading the book I thought to the many thank you I would have to say to many artists. So here they are:

-Thank you Andy Warhol. When I discovered your work at 16 years old, I learned that art could be fun and unpretentious.

-Thank you Robert Rauschenberg for your absolutely beautiful, charming and witty presence in the wonderful movie about you, Man at Work.

-Thank you Keith Haring for reminding people how you needed to be back at Paradise Garage on the weekends. I understand so much. Thank you for your party of life. Thank you for your many beautiful records covers.

-Thank you Kenny Scharf for being so moving when talking about the last moments of Keith Haring.

-Thank you Jeff Koons for the fantastic work you did with the BMW art car. One of the best in the serie.

-Thank you B.B. King for this memorable duo with Ruth Brown when you both sang: Ain't nobody's business. So beautiful.

-Thank you Oscar Wilde. You were truly a genius.

-Thank you Divine for your gorgeous music videos and films. John Waters is right. You were indeed «the most beautiful woman in the world»!

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THE DALI INFLUENCE!

KEITH HARING

Quiconque n'a jamais lu le journal de Keith Haring ne peut pas comprendre à quel point cet artiste est encore aujourd'hui intellectuellement sous-estimé. De cette intelligence discrète et intuitive, toute en sensibilité.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«My dream as a child was to become a famous portrait painter»

-Karl Lagerfeld

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

First gay-friendly mosque opens in Paris

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: EDUCATION

Quand on invite les étudiants à protester contre la marchandisation de l'éducation dans sa classe de sociologie universitaire, alors on doit être cohérent. Bref on doit aussi leur dire qu'une vision non marchande de l'éducation signifie qu'ils n'ont pas à être dans cette même classe pour pouvoir développer une curiosité intellectuelle, lire les grands auteurs, découvrir les philosophes et artistes majeurs, en plus d'avoir une culture autodidacte riche. Les arts, la littérature ou quoi que ce soit dans un cadre universitaire, c'est la marchandisation de l'éducation. Assumez vous.