YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

WARHOL ET MAO

• Le musée d’art contemporain de Shanghai a officiellement ouvert dimanche une grande rétrospective Andy Warhol, amputée des célèbres portraits de Mao qui figurent pourtant dans l’exposition itinérante déjà passée par Singapour et Hong Kong
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Conçue pour le 25e anniversaire de sa mort, l’exposition «The Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal» rassemble plus de 300 oeuvres de l’artiste dont 10 portraits sérigraphiés et à l’acrylique du Grand Timonier.

Le musée Andy Warhol de Pittsburgh, en Pennsylvanie (est des Etats-Unis), a de longue date fait connaître leur retrait de l’événement, à Pékin et Shanghai. «Nous avons travaillé avec les conservateurs dans les deux institutions, à Pékin et Shanghai, et il y avait quelque inquiétude à les exposer en ce moment», a déclaré dimanche à l’AFP le directeur du musée américain, Eric Shiner. «Nous voulions présenter l’oeuvre d’Andy Warhol en Chine. Si ces peintures pouvaient poser un problème, nous les retirions», a-t-il expliqué en évoquant «une décision mutuelle».

Réalisés en 1972 et 1973, les portraits de Mao Tsé-toung marquaient le retour d’Andy Warhol à la peinture. Ils auraient été inspirés par la visite historique du président américain Richard Nixon en Chine en 1972 et sa rencontre avec le père de la Révolution culturelle.

-Libération

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

Kim Kardashian refuses baby gifts.

-Next

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

THE OTHER WARHOL LESSON...

«Of the things I learned from Andy, the most was about generosity and about humility»

-Keith Haring

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Beauty is the hardest drug of all»

-Bob Colacello
 Interview magazine
 July 1971 p.5

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE CELEB MAG WILL PUBLISH COMPARATIVE PICS OF FEMALE STARS IN XXX SCENES ASKING: WHO SUCK IT BEST?

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

«I think gay people have different eyes. I see beauty in everything, be it a man's body or a woman's body. Or even a McDonald's»

-David Lachapelle.
 Icon Magazine
 June 1997 p.43

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

ANDY WARHOL AND THE ROLLING STONES STICKY FINGERS ALBUM

«Youth want to know: just exactly whose crotch did Andy photograph for the cover of Sticky Fingers? An item appeared on Rolling Stones announcing that it was the Factory's own Joe Dallesandro but letters have been pouring in, and the phones won't stop ringing, and gals simply insist it is Jackie Curtis. By the way, who's that on the inside wearing Andy's own jockey shorts? 

-Interview magazine
 July 1971 p.32

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS CHINA'S TREATMENT OF ITS MUSLIM UIGHUR MINORITY GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«ATHLETES REALLY DO HAVE THE FAT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND THEY LOOK YOUNG IN THE RIGHT PLACE»

PALOMA PICASSO

It was a Paloma Picasso day. Went to breakfast at Tiffany's for her. The jewelry was pretty but I have the same stuff from the forties. It's copies from the forties. And Paloma did her little heart-shaped Elsa thing. It was expensive stuff-$27 000 for a bracelet.

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
October 14 1980

«EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL»

Haring initially contacted Castelbajac looking for one of the designer’s teddy bear coats to give toMadonna for her birthday, and after that they regularly met in Paris. “He was the one who taught me how to make chalk drawings in the street,” said Castelbajac, pulling a piece of white chalk from his pants pocket. (Later that evening, he would use it to draw a portrait of Haring on a wall with the title “French Keith.”) Castelbajac, who featured art by Haring in his fall 2002 collection, said he owns what he believes to be the artist’s last work, a sketch for the invitation to his fall 1990 fashion show. “I had asked him to draw the invitation, and he said he wasn’t sure if he would have the time. I was in Tokyo, and on the flight back, I saw that Keith had died. When I got to my office [in Paris], there was a tube package from New York, and inside it was the invitation,” he recalled.


-WWD
  April 23 2013

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE JEAN PAUL GAULTIER WILL DESIGN A COLLECTION INSPIRED BY THE SWISS GUARDS OF VATICAN CITY

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

AT 20, AN AGE WHEN MOST young men are interested in collecting music and girlfriends, paper scion Peter Brant began buying Andy Warhols. The first piece he picked up, in 1967, was a drawing of a Campbell’s soup can, which cost him $500. A few months later, he acquired a painting called for $5,000. “That was a lot of money back then,” says Brant, who was spending the earnings on a $10,000 gift from his grandfather that he had invested. “A Cadillac cost $3,500.”

Today, Warhol’s work fetches exponentially more, and Brant’s collection has become one of the most extensive in private hands, comprised of masterworks like and . Starting this month and running through the summer, the result of Brant’s 45 years of fascination with the artist will be on display at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, his museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. He and his wife, supermodel Stephanie Seymour, live across the street in a rambling stone estate with their children, Peter Jr., Harry and Lily. (Allison Brant, one of his five children from his first marriage to Sandra Brant, is the foundation’s director.)

-Wall Street Journal
 April 23 2013

«LA BEAUTÉ EST UN SIGNE D'INTELLIGENCE»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

 “A witty saying proves nothing.”

-Voltaire

NOTHING BEHIND IT

If you want to know everything about Andy Warhol just look at all the most important things in life: love, sex, money, time, death, work, fame. There's nothing behind it.

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Just what can you say about a society in which a picture is worth so much when so many are facing poverty? It boggles my mind that one of the four existing versions of Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" sold last year for $119.9 million. Such a vast sum of money could do so much to relieve suffering, but instead it was spent on a painting of suffering. As the prices of famous works of art rise, are we in some way going backwards in history?

There is something Medieval about the collecting habits of today's super-rich. It goes without saying that the rich have always been the most avid collectors of art, but frenzy at the top of the current art market that suggests that today's collectors are motivated less by the aesthetic value of their purchases than they are by a kind of religious fervor and supernatural faith in the transformative power of their purchases.

Blue chip works of art are now being bought and sold as relics.

Relics were bits and pieces of items that were directly connected to saints and their miraculous lives. During the medieval period splinters from the alleged true cross, finger bones of St. John the Baptist, and even alleged bits of Christ's foreskin -- the Holy Prepuce -- were avidly collected. Huge prices were paid, especially around the time of the crusades, and the market for relics was flooded with fakes. The situation got so bad that in 1287 the pope was given final authority in disputes over the authenticity of relics.

-Huffington Post

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE ADVERTISERS WILL BUY AD SPACE ON PORN STARS BODIES DURING SEX SCENES

«I LIKE THE OLD LOOK»

FASHION 101 FOR JEALOUS BITCHES

«Women dress for women. Men don't know anything...Flash some flesh that's enough. Women dress for other women»

-Camille Paglia

«PEOPLE NEED TO BE MADE MORE AWARE OF THE NEED TO WORK AT LEANING HOW TO LIVE BECAUSE LIFE IS SO QUICK AND SOMETIMES IT GOES AWAY TOO QUICKLY»

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” 

-Milan Kundera

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

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

Gianni Versace's Miami Mansion listed for $125 millions.

-Next!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE 95% OF THE BLUE CHIP ART MARKET WILL BE CONTROLLED BY WORLDWIDE CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS

WOMAN IN REVOLT

CANDY DARLING ON «WOMEN IN REVOLT»

«Very, very funny, although I'm not a good judge. I don't know an artistic success when I see it»

-Interview magazine
 September 1972 p.37

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

«You have to use the media or else, the media uses you»

-Keith Haring

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

The art market is talking of nothing else. This week the FBI swooped on New York’s swanky Helly Nahmad gallery (as well as on other locations in New York and elsewhere) as part of a $100m case against Russian-run illegal gambling rings.

Nahmad is one of 34 defendants charged by the NY district attorney with racketeering, money-laundering and other crimes. He is accused of being part of the “Nahmad-Trincher Organisation”, which the attorney called “a nationwide criminal enterprise” running high-stakes illegal gambling businesses. Nahmad is alleged to have financed the organisation, which laundered tens of millions of dollars. He has surrendered to authorities in Los Angeles and, if found guilty, could face up to 92 years in prison and a $2m-plus fine.

-Financial Times

 April 19 2013

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

«There's so much damn porn, I never get out of the house»

-Jack Nicholson

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

SUCCESS IN THE 21st CENTURY

«If a person isn't generally considered beautiful, they can still be a success if they have a few jokes in their pockets. And a lot of pockets».

-The philosophy of Andy Warhol

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

«The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness»

-Victor Hugo

IN THE FUTURE EVERYBODY WILL BE FAMOUS ONLINE FOR 15 MINUTES

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

«At the auction last night my Triple Elvis went for $135 000, so that's good. It was estimated at $70-$90 000.    But Thomas Ammann bid $440 000 for one of David Whitney's Rauschenberg».


-Andy Warhol Diaries
Nov 8 1983

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

First on Film: Le coucher de la Marie (1896) : Striptease performed by Louise Willy.

ANDY WARHOL & KEITH HARING FOR GRACE JONES

«EVERYTHING HAS ITS BEAUTY BUT NOT EVERYONE SEES IT»

When I cast models I love to show a variety of women. Beautiful sexy women with curves, ethnic women, androgynous women. I don’t want to have just one specific image of a woman in my shows, I want to present what really exists. And the same for men. I also like to show attitude.»

-Jean Paul Gaultier 

«THINGS SHOULD BE MORE SEXUAL»

«When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then the painting is finished»

-Renoir.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

CANDY DARLING ON HOLLYWOOD STARS

«I think the great movie stars were ideal people. That's what I like to see. You can drool over them. That's what missing today. There's no one to drool over»

-Candy Darling
 Interview magazine
 march 1972 p.37

MEMO TO CAMILLE PAGLIA: WE WANT TO HEAR YOU ON KIM KARDASHIAN

Barbra Streisand, Hillary, Taylor Swift, Catherine Deneuve, Jeanne Moreau, Paris Hilton, Rihanna.
People are waiting to read what you have to say about Kim Kardashian now!

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

NO SIZE QUEEN...

«The size of a cock doesn't really mean anything»

-Andy Warhol
 Forum magazine
 January 1981 p.22

TO CONTACT ME

yvan.petit@gmail.com

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART»

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

«I want people to be able to say about me what I said about Yves-that every day he lived to the fullest and his life (our life) was and always will be complete. I'm content every day. I do what I can, I accept what I can't.  I'm as happy as I can be and as compassionate and loving as I think I can be»

-Keith Haring
 Journals p.243

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

NEW YORK — Andy Warhol works are heading to auction. Many feature the celebrities of New York City's once iconic Studio 54 nightclub.
It features more than 215 paintings, drawings, photographs and prints. Estimates range from $1,500 to $70,000. It's the second online-only sale by Christie's International in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The foundation is selling its collection to raise money for its endowment. The highlights include a 1981 gelatin silver print of Warhol posing with Michael Jackson. It has a $15,000 to $20,000 estimate.

HIGHLY WARHOLIAN

While walking saw one guy with a t-shirt saying: «Too dumb for New York, too ugly for L.A».
Where was he from? Cleveland?

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: HAIRSTYLE AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Spiky hair: Hairstyle of gay twins or muscular straight guys dancing nude in gay bars.

ARTIST 101

The best sign of a true artist is always generosity.

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

In 2012, Sotheby's New York had a Haring show, and around that time secured a private sale, for an early 1980s tarp painting, for more than $2 million. And the Sotheby's expert says Haring's early 1980s graffiti-inspired drawings have doubled in value over the past year.

-Wall Street Journal

April 11 2013

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: CONFLIT DE CIVILISATION

Depuis cent ans l'occident a dissocié culture et religion. Puis il s'est imaginé que la culture ce n'était que le fauvisme, la dadaïsme, le surréalisme, l'expressionnisme abstrait, le cinéma de la nouvelle vague, l'arte povera, etc. Et ce sans jamais regarder derrière pour voir si le grand public suivait toujours. Pendant ce temps depuis 40 ans arrivaient massivement sur son territoire des gens pour qui toute la culture nécessaire pour vivre, c'est seulement ce que englobe la religion.

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE USE OF THE CONCEPT OF «TIKKUN OLAM» TO CRITICIZE CHINA ON HUMAN RIGHTS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«L'art pour l'art, l'art pour la foule sont également absurdes. Je propose l'art pour Dieu»

-Jean Cocteau.

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

FAGGY STRAIGHT GUYS

«I'm very confused. When I go to Europe, they all look gay and when I come back here, they all look gay again. But, I think, it's a fashionable attitude, because at night they all go back home to their wives. The are all married with children»

-AndyWarhol
 Blueboy magazine
 July 1978 p.27

REALITY TV IS...50 YEARS OLD.

«In 1963 he (Warhol) shot his first movie KISS. His later movies were EAT, about the painter Robert Indiana, who eats a mushroom for thirty minutes; SLEEP, about a man who sleeps for six hours;  and Empire a twelve hour epic that uses a stationary camera throughout.

-Blueboy magazine
 July 1978 p.25

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

«ANDY THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JEWS» -BOB COLACELLO

There is a tacit taboo on talking about the relationships connecting Jews and wealth, power and influence. It pushes buttons for some, and generally is not mentioned in polite society. That is, until now. The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is hosting “Loaded: Jews & Money,” a series of events, lectures and discussions that touch on various aspects of the subject. The series, which runs through May, is the latest of the Manovill Conversations, sponsored by the Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation. Organizers know the topic might make some people uncomfortable. They say, bring it on.“It’s a sensitive, emotional arena, and brings out all kinds of reactions,” said Barbara Lane, the JCC’s director of Arts & Ideas. “We wanted an environment to discuss some volatile issues in a reasoned and intelligent way.” The numbers are telling, though they aren’t the whole story. A 2008 Pew Forum Institute study found that Jews are the nation’s wealthiest religious group, with 46 percent earning $100,000 or more a year, compared with 18 percent of the overall population. As for mega-wealth, the most recent Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans included nearly 100 Jewish billionaires — a striking statistic for a group that represents less than 2 percent of the population. Then again, financial criminals such as Bernie Madoff and Jack Abramoff embarrassed many in the Jewish community.

Jweekly

April 11 2013

HOLLYWOOD

«One fascinating thing about Hollywood is that it's filled with these petite, fragile beauties in their seventies and eighties that you see at all the premieres and things. You can tell they were once really beautiful because they still have that glamour aura around them, and they still hold themselves together really well. But you can't figure out who they are, or what roles they had or how they live today».


-Andy Warhol
America

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

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

Christie's to open in Shangai.

-Next!

THE MOST TELLING ANSWER TO REALLY UNDERSTAND ANDY WARHOL..

«But I never understood this «mass» thing. If it's mass, it should be good, isn't it?. Or... if the masses like it, that's what's right, isn't it?»

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 May 1974 p.10

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: PROGRESS

You want to do something really progressive? Impose a minimum walking speed on sidewalks....

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

Adele buying Warhol art.

-Next

“I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED”

ANDRÉ LEON TALLEY

«On the first day of work, a hot Monday in august 1975 , André turned up in khaki safari shirt and Bermuda shorts, with matching knee socks, topped off  by a hunter's helmet from Abercrombie & Fitch , looking every inch the Kipling colonial in Kenya -except that André is black and as tall as a Harlem Globetrotter. We dubbed him André de Interview , because he often answered the phone with a festive «Bonjour»

-Bob Colacello
 Holy Terror  p.247

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE A MAGRITTE PAINTING WILL BEAT THE EDWARD MUNCH RECORD FOR AN ART AUCTION

«I HAVE SOCIAL DISEASE. I HAVE TO GO OUT EVERY NIGHT»

MTV

«Gee, I'm looking at MTV right now and they use my paintings a lot in videos. I just saw my Liz Taylor and I've seen my Joseph Beuys in another one.

-The Andy warhol Diaries
  July 11 1984

THE GHOST OF VALERIE SOLANAS....

Obama accused of sexism because he said a woman was good-looking. Is this a fucking joke?...He should have said: I apologize. She's not a good-looking woman. She's a good looking womyn.

YOUTH IS MADE TO SHOW OFF

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

Next time instead of going to an art gallery, go to a church when there is nobody but you.  How much has been lost by the current contemporary art world in term of «envergure artistique et intellectuelle» will then just strike you....

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

Fascinant de voir à quel point on a déjà oublié que Keith Haring faisait une série intitulée Les Dix Commandements en 1985 en plus de voir son oeuvre associée à des églises.

MADONNA SINGING FOR KEITH HARING PARTY OF LIFE

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS TELEPORTATION GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

HOW THE GAY MOVEMENT WENT FROM STONEWALL TO MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN TWO GENERATIONS

Fags are doing the hair and makeup of billionaire's women.

«EVERYBODY MUST HAVE A FANTASY»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I JUST THINK THAT IN THE THEATER, IN MOVIES, IN MAGAZINES, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE GORGEOUS»

-Helen Gurley Brown
 Former Cosmopolitan magazine editor

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

WHAT'S LEFT OF HOLLYWOOD.....

And that’s the great thing about horror movies. Even when they’re not remakes of a popular brand, they can still be made on the cheap and attract enough fans to earn money. People who love horror almost don’t care what the film is about or who the stars are, they care about the scares. Last year’s The Devil Inside costs only $1 million to produce and earned $100 million at the global box office. Sinister cost $3 million and brought in $77 million and House at the End of the Street cost $10 million and earned $40 million.

-Forbes
 April 5 2013

À LA LENNY BRUCE...

J'aime ça: straight
J'aime cela: gay

MY DEFINITION OF SEXINESS

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

– Where Are the Tech Collectors?: Though New York's tech and start-up sectors are flush with funds, very few of those well-heeled geeks are spending their money in galleries, a situation that has art dealers increasingly frustrated, particularly in areas like Chelsea and Soho, where the two industries share blocks. "If these are our next Rockefellers, Carnegies, Fricks, whatever you want to say in terms of our wealthy American elite, then why aren’t they supporting culture?" asked art adviser Sima Familant. "If these people are the new wealthy, and they’re not supporting institutions and the arts, then we’re going to have a really big problem at some point."

-New York Times

WARHOL...OU L'HISTOIRE TYPIQUE DE LA REVANCHE SUR L'ENFANCE....

THE SCULLS AND VOGEL COLLECTIONS: THE JEWISH ART OF BEING THE FIRST TO RECOGNIZE ARTISTIC TALENT

«This led to the inevitable comparison with the Sculls. (Dorothy Vogel): «You could say Bob Scull and Herbie are both descendants of Russian jewish tailors». «I don't see the significance» Herb protested. «I just thought it was funny-similar backgrounds».

-Interview magazine
 May 1974 p.19

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POST DESCARTES

I have something to sell, therefore I am.

«I NEVER READ. I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

Sex with a racist is always the hottest sex.

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG:IS THIS NEW COLLEAGUE LOOKING YOUNGER THAN YOU? HOW TO CORNER THAT BITCH UNDER A NEON LIGHT AT THE NEXT OFFICE PARTY

LE MARCHÉ DE L'ART ACTUEL

Pour expliquer l'effervescence du marché de l'art actuel il est de bon ton de mentionner son aspect désormais global. Lequel aurait pour effet de contribuer à ces prix parfois faramineux. En fait, c'est un autre aspect qui joue majoritairement. Soit la fin des« isme» en art. Par conséquent la fin de cette notion de rupture définissant tout un pan passé de l'histoire de l'art. La valeur intrinsèque d'une oeuvre, c'était la force de la rupture artistique. Celle -ci étant disparue, ne reste que la spéculation de type casino sur de jeunes artistes, ou la notion de blue chip art datant de cette même époque des ruptures artistiques. En gros avant 1980.  Avec quoi Jeff Koons ou Damien Hirst sont -ils en rupture de point de vue de l'histoire de l'art? C'est là la grande question.

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

WELL, THERE ARE PLENTY NOW...

«I can't understand why there isn't an half- hour Hollywood gossip program on every day».

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 May 1974 p.10

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

«You live only once, but if you do it right, once is enough»

-Mae West

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE NAKED PORN STARS WILL REPLACE RING GIRLS AT BOXING EVENTS

POURQUOI LA COTE DE KEITH HARING SUR LE MARCHÉ DE L'ART VA CONTINUER DE GRIMPER

Tout simplement parce que il se trouve étroitement lié aux éléments fondamentaux du Hip Hop à ses débuts. Les B-boys et le breakdancing, (qui a inspiré ses plus belles sculptures) les DJ,  (son amour pour la musique de Larry Levant et le mythique club Paradise Garage) de même que la culture du graffiti au sesns large. Une association aussi forte avec la genèse même des éléments fondateurs d'un mouvement musical désormais inscrit dans l'histoire ne peut être que la preuve d'une oeuvre qui traversera avec succès le test du temps qui passe.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

ARTWORK BY LUCAS CRANACH

YES, YES, YES!

New Hope is 90 gay. We went to a place called Ramona's and a drag queen served us and people were there drinking at 2 pm. Gay old guys. It was too gay for me. It drove me crazy»

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
 March 8 1986

FINALLY!

Finally a gay magazine (Mate)  telling it like it is: Gay men are three times more likely to end up lonely in old age, smoke more than heterosexuals, have more drugs problems than heterosexuals and more alcohol problems as well. When a gay man says he would have preferred to be straight, it's not always because of homophobia. Sometimes it's just because women are able to care about something else than cocks, muscles, the latest underwear fashion or irrelevant Hollywood gossip. You're an old queen without any artistic interest or passion for reading? ....Well, good luck!

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

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE PLASTIC SURGERY PROGRESS WILL PUSH FASHION TRENDS

LOOK ASIAN FOR SUMMER!

LOOK BLACK FOR FALL!

LOOK LATINO FOR WINTER!

LOOK WHITE FOR SPRING!

THE BODY OBSESSION

«I'm just starting to get a good body. I wish I'd started exercising when I was young. I could have had a good body all my life»

-Andy Warhol
 The Andy Warhol Diaries
 Dec 14 1981

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: COMMENT FONCTIONNE LE MONDE DE L'ART

Peter Blake affirmant que le collectionneur Charles Saatchi a une influence néfaste sur le monde de l'art. Ce dernier répliquant que Blake ne dirait pas la même chose si il lui avait acheté bon nombre de ses oeuvres...