Sunday, March 31, 2013

«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEARNING HOW TO LIVE»

«Illusion is the first of all pleasures.»

-Oscar Wilde

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


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: GAY MEN

The most overrated group of all.

«ART IS TOO HARD»

Verra t-on bientôt la sortie du tunnel pour l'art abstrait? Il serait temps. Quand la plupart des oeuvres abstraites actuelles ressemblent à des oeuvres qu'on accroche aux murs des restaurants McDonald's, c'est qu'il serait grand temps de passer à autre chose.

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»


Saturday, March 30, 2013

WHEN ADVERTISING IS FUN....AND UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT

WHITES CAN WEAR DON ROBBIE CLOTHING BUT IT'S BETTER IF YOU'RE LATIN

-Interview magazine
 February 1975 p.6

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»


POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE CANADA WILL BECOME A PROVINCE OF CHINA CALLED «CHINADA»

«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEARNING HOW TO LIVE»

«Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone's else life».

-Steve Jobs


«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»


POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG: TEN HOTTEST THINGS TO DO TO A MAN WITHOUT DAMAGING YOUR GORGEOUS (AD SPACE) HAIR!

Friday, March 29, 2013

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG & DUMB

"Car la jeunesse sait ce qu'elle ne veut pas avant de savoir ce qu'elle veut."

-Jean Cocteau

LESBIANS! .......REMEMBERING LESBIAN FEMINISM À LA VALÉRIE SOLONAS.


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

«How can I know? I don't want to be pitied and I don't know how to be loved. I only know how to love»

-Keith Haring
Journals  p.241

Thursday, March 28, 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: INDEPENDENT VS CORPORATE BOOKSTORE EXPLAINED

A independent bookstore always have a huge judaica section next to the arts section.
A big corporation owned bookstore always have a huge raging bull dyke among its staff.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»


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

Kim Kardashian insists she doesn't weigh 200 pounds.

-Next!

«THESE KIDS, IF YOU SAW THEM ON THE STREET, YOU WOULD NEVER THINK THEY WERE GAY. THEY LOOK LIKE L.A KIDS»-ANDY WARHOL

A gay rapper in the closet always gives you the best sex...

«I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED»


«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

For a long time Warhol was considered «too popular» among art critics who preferred Jasper Johns or Robert Rauschenberg. The interesting question is of course the following. Why did it change for Warhol and not for Peter Blake?

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BEHAVIOUR

L'arrogance d'une personne est toujours inversement proportionnelle à sa stupidité.

Monday, March 25, 2013

«EVERYBODY CAN DO WHAT I DO»


LA PHILOSOPHIE WARHOL ET SON INFLUENCE SUR LE MONDE ACTUEL

«Acheter est plus américain que penser".



Si il y a une phrase que l'on entend souvent c'est bien la suivante: La littérature nous permet de réfléchir sur le monde. Tout le monde en conviendra. Mais pourquoi ne pense-t-on toujours qu'au seul roman littéraire comme ayant la capacité d'aiguiser notre compréhension du monde? Et ce dans un 21 unième siècle ou la culture de l'image et de l'instantanéité triomphe partout.

À travers l'histoire de l'art ce ne sont pas les leçons de plusieurs individus majeurs qui manquent et qui permettraient de mieux éclairer notre époque. Pour un, le cas de l'artiste Andy Warhol est exemplaire. Aucun autre artiste n'a en effet prédit avec autant de justesse le monde culturel dans lequel nous baignons. Et aucun artiste ne recoupe une aussi intéressante carrière brouillant sans cesse les frontières de la droite et de la gauche politique.

À travers Warhol de nombreux aspects du monde contemporain sont présents voire décuplés. À commencer par celui du marketing. Tout au long de sa carrière cet artiste gai dandy n'a jamais fait semblant de ne pas être intéressé par la chose. Il disait un jour sous forme de boutade qu'il ne comprenait pas comment certains avait pu le considérer artiste underground dans les années 1960 puisque tout ce qu'il avait toujours voulu c'était se faire remarquer. Des artistes ils disaient qu'il était important pour eux de se trouver une bonne gallerie afin que la classe dirigeante les remarque tout en ajoutant que si votre promotion n'était pas faite de la bonne manière on n'allait pas se rappeler de vous.  Et que dire de cette célèbre prédiction de Warhol faite en 1968 selon laquelle à l'avenir tout le monde serait «world famous for 15 minutes. Aujourd'hui le triomphe de YOU TUBE avec ses dizaines de milliers de vidéos téléchargés chaque jour de par le monde est la prophétie de Warhol devenue réalité.

L'analyse de ses fréquentations passées est aussi fort éclairante. Dans les années 60 les artistes et marginaux étaient légion dans l'entourage de la Factory. De même que les drag queens. Puis par la suite quand il s'est mis à exécuter ses portraits de stars ou de grand financiers un pan de la gauche y a vu là une forme de trahison. À quelqu'un qui lui demanda alors ce qu'il faisait puisqu'il ne peignait plus et ne faisait plus de films il répondit qu'il ne faisait qu'aller à des partys. Un peu comme Kim Kardashian aujourd'hui en quelque sorte. À un autre encore il répondit qu'il n'avait pas cesser de peindre puisqu'il se peignait les ongles chaque jour...

Côté cash il disait que faire de l'argent est le plus fascinant des arts ajoutant que s'il avait commencé comme artiste de l'art il s'était par la suite davantage intéressé à faire de l'argent. On ne sera guère surpris qu'à sa mort en 1987 sa fortune personnelle était évaluée à 600 millions. Mais il poussait aussi l'ironie plus loin. En entrevue il disait qu'il souhaitait de l'argent pour tout le monde puis dans une autre soutenait qu'il ne fallait pas que tout le monde en ait parce que sinon ça deviendrait trop compliqué et on ne saurait plus de qui être jaloux ou de qui dire du mal. Peut-on imaginer plus typique de notre époque? Répétons sous le mode du slogan infantile que les «riches s'enrichissent et les pauvres s'appauvrissent , mais courons ensuite lire le dernier magazine à potins pour savoir combien coutera la nouvelle Mansion de Céline Dion en Floride.

La question du sexe chez lui est toute aussi fascinate. Warhol était convaincu que quatre choses font que l'on tombe en amour. Le visage, le corps, l'argent et la célébrité. Il affirmait alors que tout ce qui comptait était d'avoir une combinaison équivalente de ces éléments pour que cela puisse fonctionner en amour. Cependant s'il y avait trop d'écarts entre les divers éléments cela n'allait pas marcher. Mieux encore il soutenait que l'amour et l'absence de sexe était très bien ou inversement mais que l'amour et le sexe ensemble était à éviter. Une tendance qui en 2013 semble manifestement prendre de l'ampleur avec les «sexless couples», les fuck friends et autre variantes.

De Warhol l'ex editeur du magazine Interview (de 1970 à 1983) Bob Colacello disait qu'ils se disputaient souvent ensemble au sujet de la politique Warhol se situant plus à gauche de ce dernier. Aujourd'hui encore Colacello imagine une autre divergence: «Andy aurait adoré ce qui se passe aujourd'hui, bien que moi je ne sois pas fou de cela...Je suis certain qu'Andy aimerait avoir Paris Hilton en couverture du magazine Interview mais je le lui déconseillerais. Il y a quelque chose de qui ne va pas dans notre culture quand les petites filles admirent quelqu'un dont la seule prétention à la célébrité est d'avoir fait un film porno. Il y a trop de personnes célèbres aujourd'hui qui n'ont pas vraiment accompli quelque chose d'important. C'est devenu hors de contrôle.»

Un autre élément révélateur du cas Warhol est certes le choix de sujet pour ses oeuvres. Bien sur les plus connues sont celles des années 1960. Celles qui de par leurs thèmes valent aujourd'hui à Warhol sa reconnaisance critque. Les séries telles «Most Wanted Man» ou encore «Dead and Disasters». Plus tard il devait pousser cette ironie en illustrant la faucille et le marteau symbole du communisme alors sur le déclin. Mais la plus grande leçon est ce que disait Warhol à propos du cinéaste Emile de Antonio lequel voyait dans ses oeuvres (dont sa préférée intitulée «Black Electric Chair») un fort commentaire social. Et Warhol d'ajouter. «That's funny» .Dans son ouvrage sur le monde de l'art Tom Wolfe avait déja moqué cette attitude si propre à un certain milieu artistique d'affecter une soi-disante révolte pour ne mieux qu'être récupéré par la suite. Aujourd'hui l'ironie entourant cette démarche est désormais à son apogée.

En ce 21 unième siècle l'omniprésence d'une certaine «Warhol attitude» est partout. À travers les visages de Marilyn aux couleurs criardes sur les robes de designer, à travers une collection de jeans Levi's inspiré par lui, à travers le culte de la célébrité instantanée hors du star systéme traditionel, etc. Or, dans tout cela son influence majeure reste le changement de perception du rôle de l'artiste envers les médias de masse. La position romantique de retrait né du mythe de Van Gogh, l'artiste génial et incompris a aujourd'hui disparu. Disparu au point ou nous sommes même passée à un autre extrême le marché de l'art connaissant une flambée des prix sans précédent. Et Warhol n'est pas étranger à cela lui-même qui est redevenu l'artiste dont les oeuvres sont les plus prisées. En 2006 son cèlèbre Mao était acheté aux enchères par un multi-millionaire de Hong Kong pour la modique somme de 17, 4 millions. Vivrait -il encore aujourd'hui l'artiste aux célèbres perruques argentées aurait sans doute ajouté: Gee, that's great».



Sunday, March 24, 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MULTICULTURALISM

The best way to kill any form of solidarity among workers.

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


«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEARNING HOW TO LIVE»

«When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.»

-Malcom Forbes

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

« I personally only like high-class escorts. I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. I think this is healthy. And for the way the rich live, this is possible. But the other world, I think they need porn. I also think it's much more difficult to perform in porn than to fake some emotion on the face as an actor. [...] I admire porn actors.»

-Karl Lagerfeld

Saturday, March 23, 2013

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»


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

Lindsay Lohan is still drinking.

-Next!

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»


POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE ZAHIA WILL SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF FRANCE AT THE 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»



The immersive experience that results seems fitting for an artist described in a telephone interview by the author Camille Paglia as “totally in the senses.” Ms. Paglia, who has contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog, delivered a passionate defense of Mr. Bowie as a major artist and as a counter against what she called the “word-drunk, word-centered, body-phobic” tendencies of postmodernism.
“He is a product of Surrealism, of Dada, of the Modernist arts,” she said. “He is body-based, always completely in the role he is playing. His tremendous physical virtuosity, his understanding of costume and how it is an imaginative projection of your body, is part of the biggest thing about him: he is so deeply emotional. I’m so happy with the return of David Bowie.”
-New York Times
 March 22 2013

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: L'ART DU JEU

Combien de personnes ont réellement saisi que la collaboration passée de Karl Lagerfeld avec Zahia n'était rien d'autre qu'un jeu pour lui.

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:GAY MEN

There is now the first generation of openly gay men entering old age.  And it's not a nice picture....

Friday, March 22, 2013

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS CHINA SILENCE ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN QUESTION GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

THE WARHOL ATTITUDE: SO BAD IT'S GOOD!


WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Everybody loves you when they are about to cum.”

-Madonna

Thursday, March 21, 2013

IMAGINARY DIARIES OF A POP ARTIST

March 20 2013

«Gee, I should really go to «black galleries» only. I mean, Jay Z and Beyonce are buying Rothko and Farrell Williams is buying some Keith Haring. Oh, what should I do? Maybe we should just put beautiful blacks on the cover of Interview. And, oh, why is Rihanna not buying my art?  I love her music though. She's really good-looking.  Some kid at the office told me Mughrabi wanted to sell some of my paintings. I hope he won't do like Saatchi did with Sandro Chia...

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


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ATHLETES

Athletes used to be less smart than rock stars and pop musicians. Now it's the reverse.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»


IN THE FUTURE PETER ANTON'S WORK WILL BE CONSIDERED «BLUE CHIP ART»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.»

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF


WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache. »

-Mae West

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: HAPPINESS

Happiness is simply a very deep awareness of the fragility of life.

Monday, March 18, 2013

OH! I'M SO JEALOUS!

« When you first start watching professional wrestling on TV you think you're seeing brute force without much thinking behind it. But then you watch for a while, or you go to a match and get up close, and you see all the effort the wrestlers put into getting an unusual name and outfit, all the physical work and what real gymnasts they are, and how hard they act «brute dumb» for the show they're in». 

-Andy Warhol
 America p.99

«I LIKE MONEY ON THE WALL»

Warhol best selling artist of 2012 with 329 millions.

SAUF EDIE SEDGWICK...

«Je trouve que les femmes sont toujours trop habillées et jamais assez élégantes»

-Coco Chanel.

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»


Sunday, March 17, 2013

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

Despite disbanding its authentication body last year, the Keith Haring Foundation has intervened over an exhibition that it says was full of fakes. The show, Haring Miami, featured nearly 200 works purporting to be by the late artist. It was held in the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District, and a good crowd attended the $250-a-head VIP opening. Within four days, however, only 10 works remained on the walls – the foundation had raced to court and obtained the withdrawal of 165 others. The organisers, Michael Rosen and Colored Thumb Productions, said in a lawyer’s statement that they had taken the works down “in an abundance of caution” and that: “Mr Rosen was assured by the owners of the disputed artwork that it was indeed authentic.”

In court, foundation director Julia Gruen said she recognised about 25 works that had previously been reviewed and rejected. Asked why the foundation was intervening despite abandoning authentication, its lawyer Michael Stout said: “The mission of a foundation is to use its resources for its charitable work, not providing authentication services for a small number of people. But when there are egregious violations, then it has to intervene, because otherwise fakes seep into the art market, and everyone suffers.”

-Financial Times

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

«A pumping bicep is like having a hard on»

-Arnold Schwarzenegger
 Blueboy magazine
 Dec 1978 p.42

«I THINK FLIRTING IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING»


HOLLYWOOD.....BACK THEN AND BACK AGAIN.

«But I love Hollywood now. Now it's really like Hollywood. This year I was out there and it was so exciting. It was like what I imagined Hollywood used to be like in the 30's»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 February 1976 p. 8

KARL LAGERFELD SUR SA PARTICIPATION DANS LE FILM «L'AMOUR» D'ANDY WARHOL

«C'était un film un peu bâclé, mais amusant»


Saturday, March 16, 2013

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


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY : POLITICAL CORRECTNESS PUSHED TO ITS ABSURD LIMITS.

To say there are no jews in Hollywood is like saying there are no gay fashion designers.....

Friday, March 15, 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LECTURE

Si vous êtes un homme gay de plus de 30 ans, lire n'est plus une option. C'est une obligation.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LAW

There should be a law preventing gay men from wearing chaps and leather after 40. It looks ridiculous.

NANCY REAGAN

Andy Warhol: You know, I always thought they should have a lottery where they invite one family to dinner every night because it's so exciting to be here»

Nancy Reagan: There are tours of course, Andy.


Interview magazine
December 1981

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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


«SEX IS MORE EXCITING ON THE SCREEN AND BETWEEN THE PAGES THAN BETWEEN THE SHEETS»

Andy Warhol: I think sex should stop at 22

Carole Bouquet: No! , I'm 21

Andy Warhol: It's fun for kids. After that it's work

-Interview magazine
 Nov 1978 p.22

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS CHINESE ETHNIC SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

العضلات هي العظمى


«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«I think I'd really love to design a church even though I don't really feel too strongly about organized religion. Or rather, I do feel strongly about opposing organized religion. But I 'd love to design a place for people to go and be quiet and reflect and think and feel totally comfortable- more like a shrine or a temple, I suppose».

-Keith Haring
 Journals p.270

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The Anti-Defamation League called on "Fashion Police" host Joan Rivers to apologize for a Holocaust reference she made on the show Rivers on the E! Entertainment Television program of Feb. 25, commenting on a dress worn by German-American supermodel Heidi Klum, said, “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens.”
The show has been shown at least four times on the E! network since it first aired. Rivers, who laughed at her own remark, has not spoken of it since.The ADL in a statement Wednesday called on Rivers, who is Jewish, to apologize for what it called a "vulgar and offensive" remark.

-Canadian Jewish News

«KIDS ARE THE ONES WHO FALL IN LOVE»


FASSBINDER & QUERELLE

«We went over to where Fassbinder was filming this movie called «Querelle» by Genet. Brad Davis is the star of it. I got my picture taken with Brad and I got his autograph on an ashtray for Jon. Met Fassbinder and he was wearing outrageous clothes, the leopard-skin jodhpurs, and one of the guys standing there said he thought Fassbinder had dressed up like that just for me because he usually wears just plain black leather. He looked like a circus trainer. And Brad Davis looks so strange, so delicate-looking. Much better than he did on the cover of Interview».


-Andy Warhol Diaries
March 2 1982

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

 “There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.”

-Chris Rock

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


Monday, March 11, 2013

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SODA BAN GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

WARHOL DE RETOUR AU SOMMET DU MARCHÉ DE L'ART: LE POURQUOI

1-Des zones obscures demeurent en ce qui a trait au marché de l'art chinois. Ce qui a pour effet d'atténuer l'enthousiasme de nombreux collectionneurs Occidentaux préférant se rabattre sur une valeur sûre telle Warhol.

2-À l'instar de Picasso, autre valeur sure du marché de l'art, on découvre à quel point la production de dessins de Warhol fut immense. Un atout de taille dans un monde de l'art hautement spéculatif à la recherche de critères  intrinsèques solides pour juger d'un artiste. Et ce, comme jamais auparavant.
Dali, Picasso et Warhol: tous les trois ont en leur temps soigneusement maîtrisé l'art du dessin.

3- Les nouveaux riches adorent Warhol. Ce petit côté cool, en apparence non conformiste et désormais parfaitement récupéré. «Je suis spécialiste des fonds de couverture, Je ne porte que du noir, du bleu et du gris, mais j'ai des Warhol aux murs et ma femme adore son coiffeur gay!»

4-Matisse fait trop Rockfeller. Je ne suis pas encore nonagénaire.

5-Warhol faisait de la «vraie» télé réalité 50 ans avant «la fausse» télé -réalité


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


BUYING ART IN THE AGE OF DAVID ZWIRNER & LARRY GAGOSIAN

«You have to see it like dollar bills up there. If you're not going to buy something that's valuable you should just paste dollar bills up there. Or buy a diamond.-buy anything. I like jewelry.»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 Sept 1976 p.12

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: THE 1%

if you never wished to have your own private elevator, you will never understand how the 1% think.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL


Sunday, March 10, 2013

LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURE EXPLAINED

«When I went there, it smelled like sex when you got off the plane. I don't know why»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 September 1976 p.10

«I THINK FLIRTING IS THE MOST INTERESTING THING»


BACK THEN

«Warhol was the most undervalued of the Pop artists»

-Vincent Fremont
 Art News
 January 2002 p.109

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»


POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE ZAHIA WILL BE ELECTED MISS FRANCE

Saturday, March 09, 2013

CULTURE 101 FOR THE YOUNG & DUMB

«Young people are very uncultivated, I'm sorry to report».

-Ivan Karp
 Interview magazine
 Nov 1972 p.32

BEST REALITY TV SHOW


«ANDY THOUGHT ABOUT JEWS A LOT» -BOB COLACELLO


Jewish Journal: Would you have made “Schindler’s List” without your own Jewish background?

Spielberg: I don’t think “Schindler’s List” would have compelled me to the extent that it did, had I not been part of a deeply Jewish Orthodox experience growing up. I was raised Orthodox, then became Conservative and eventually became Reform.
I don’t think “Schindler’s List” would have had the hold that it has had on me had my parents not been such good teachers, and had not my grandparents [immigrants from the Odessa region of Ukraine] risked frightening me to death with horrendous stories of what happened to their friends and relatives in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.
I grew up with all these scary stories as a little kid. And, indeed, learned to count by reading the numbers tattooed on the arm of a Hungarian survivor, in Cincinnati, in 1948 and ’49, when I was 2 to 3 years old. I think the book [“Schindler’s Ark”] by Thomas Keneally probably would not have come to my attention had I not been opened to it. Had I not been, it would not have somehow magically landed in my lap.

-Jewish Journal

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ADVICE

They always say young people should listen to old people. I never understood it. I mean young people are better -looking. Old people should listen to young people.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL


LE TEST DU TEMPS QUI PASSE

Le grand collectionneur Charles Saatchi disait un jour que seuls Pollock, Warhol, Judd et Hirst ne seraient pas des notes en bas de page des livres d'art de 2105....Les paris sont ouverts. Bien sur la valeur des oeuvres de Damien Hirst a beaucoup diminué ces derniers mois. Mais il a déja accompli l'essentiel. Sa célèbre vente aux enchères est désormais passée à l'histoire de l'art comme étant une rupture radicale avec la façon de faire précédente. L'élément clé des Picasso, Pollock et Warhol en leur temps...

Friday, March 08, 2013

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»

«Keith Haring never lost his initial certainty...that art is for everybody»

-Calvin Tomkins
 The New Yorker

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


IN THE FUTURE WOMEN MAGAZINES WILL WRITE:TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF FOR GOOD AND MINIMIZE YOUR FOREHEAD WRINKLES!

CELEBRITY CULTURE IN THE AGE OF TWITTER AND FACEBOOK

«At the same time, there's more media every day: cable TV, satelllite TV , new magazine starting up every minute. And with more media, they need more celebrity and more news to have something to talk about».

-Andy Warhol

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

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


PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CAR

How come BMW never asked John Chamberlain to create a model for its ART CAR serie?

BETTE DAVIS

«Bette Davis always disliked me but she's still the greatest actress in the world»

-Andy Warhol
 America p.66

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

COMMERCIAL ARTIST? NO, ADVERTISING ARTIST!

THIS WEEK: the cover drawing by Andy Warhol noted advertising artist.
OPERA NEWS Dec 1 1958 p.1

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MONEY


You really can see the class of the store you're shopping at by the way the cashier gives you back your change. The poor gives you the paper money and then the coins on top. The rich always do the opposite.


«ANYBODY CAN TAKE A GOOD PICTURE»

When I read about Camille Paglia and her praise of Rihana's «artistic atmospheric eroticism» , I immediately remembered how those Rihana pictures reminded of the kind of photos done by Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau or Brigitte Bardot for Playboy magazine in the 1960's.

INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

-Mark: Can you explain a little about this publication?

Andy: We're going to try to make a movement of it-like Rolling Stone but on movies.

Interview magazine
1969 Vol. 1 No.1


«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»


Monday, March 04, 2013

JERSEY SHORE AS SMART TV

Rien de bien nouveau là-dedans. La connerie est la décontraction de l'intelligence disait déjà Gainsbourg. Nul doute que Warhol aurait adoré cette série.

«SEX IS MORE EXCITING ON THE SCREEN AND BETWEEN THE PAGES THAN BETWEEN THE SHEETS»

«For many people fornication is immoral. Strangely enough it seems supremely moral to me to have sex
with a girl I met in the harbor at St-Tropez. Sex is beautiful. No one gets hurt».

-Roman Polanski
 Playboy magazine
 Dec 1971 p.108

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»


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

« In general, I feel that people like me. Or maybe sometimes it could be a mistake, but I don’t feel it, so it doesn’t matter! I am very lucky because I am doing the work that I dreamed of doing as a child.»

-Jean Paul Gaultier

Sunday, March 03, 2013

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE»


«QUI N'A VU UN BORDEL À CINQ HEURES DU MATIN NE PEUT S'IMAGINER VERS QUELLES LASSITUDES S'ACHEMINE NOTRE PLANÈTE» -CIORAN

11h30 PM: Out with Juan to bordello. Boring. And then bar. Boring.

-Keith Haring
Journals p.224

ANDY WARHOL AND THE SEX QUESTION

«I think only kids who are very young should have sex, and people who are not young should never get excited. After 25 you should look but never touch»

-Andy Warhol
 Forum magazine
 January 1981 p.20

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL


«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

Benoît XVI a toujours été attentif à la pensée vivante, notamment juive. On l’aurait cru enfermé dans la curie et dans ses références. Or, c’est sur un texte magnifique du grand rabbin Bernheim qu’il s’est appuyé pour motiver son opposition à la nouvelle filiation induite par le mariage homosexuel.
Ce pape nous a laissé des textes philosophiques remarquables, comme sa conférence de Ratisbonne. Il y explique que l’Europe est née de la confluence entre la spiritualité biblique et le questionnement grec. Cet héritage est aujourd’hui remis en question. La foi se déshellénise pour ne devenir qu’un vague message philanthropique. Quant à la raison elle-même, elle oublie le sens et se réduit à la méthode. L’Europe risque ainsi de perdre son âme.
Benoît XVI évoque, au début de cette conférence, la diffusion de la foi par l’épée dans l’Islam. Des musulmans ont protesté avec une violence qui lui donnait raison. D’autres ont choisi de lui répondre. Et c’est très bien, une querelle théologique vaut mieux qu’un dialoque interculturel qui ne serait que la mise en commun des fêtes, des cuisines et des musiques. Et puis il ne faut pas se tromper d’époque : le christianisme est en position de faiblesse. Il est persécuté en Orient et ridiculisé dans les sociétés occidentales. « Papus interruptus », a-t-on pu lire. Face à la grandeur de cette abdication, c’est pourtant la dérision qui est dérisoire

-Alain Finkielkraut

WONDERING...

How come nobody ever did a serious and very complete art interview with Madonna about her New York days in the 1980's when she started surrounded by Basquiat and Haring? Quite unbelievable...

Saturday, March 02, 2013

IT'S USELESS TO BE YOUNG WITHOUT SHOWING OFF


THE AGE QUESTION

«People look the way they' re supposed to look at any age. Gloria Swanson looks 40»

-Andy Warhol
  Interview magazine
  April 1981 p.25

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Picked up Jean Michel and he has people ringing his bell every fifteen seconds. It reminded me
of the old Factory. He says things like; «Listen man, why don't you call before you come over»
A guy he'd given fun drawings to once when he was needing a place to stay sold them now for a fortune-$5000 or something. So Jean Michel's finding out how you have to be a business.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
 October 8 1984

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