THEWARHOLINFLUENCE.COM: February 2014

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

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

Keith Haring's artwork is among the most recognizable of the 20th century -- but the authenticity of roughly 80 paintings has been called into question ... and now, a group of art dealers is suing for $40 MILLION, claiming it's being falsely accused of peddling fakes.

The Miami-based dealers are suing the Keith Haring Foundation after it accused them of selling bogus Harings at an exhibit in March last year called "Haring Miami."

-TMZ

LIVING IN THE AGE OF CELEBRITY NEWS OVERDOSE

«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

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART» ( MEL RAMOS FOR THE 21st CENTURY)

PHILOSOPHY 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

«Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.»

-Goethe

POLITICS À LA BIANCA JAGGER

«People think that to be free and to have advanced ideas in politics, they have to become unattractive, which has nothing to do with it. You can revolutionize the world and it's not your looks it's your ideas.
But how your ideas make you look»

-Interview magazine
August 1972 p.8

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

CALVIN KLEIN

Got to Fire Island and had lunch at an outdoor spot. We decided to call Calvin's and he said to come right over. And Calvin's house is right off Ocean Walk and there's 8000 boys around it, and a lot of girls too, and they 're all walking around wanting to be discovered for a jeans ad

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
July 18 1982

RIGHT WING CHIC VS GAUCHE CAVIAR

«The thing I'm most opposed to is government funding of the arts. I don't want one cent of the money I earn to go to a ballet dancer in Ohio»

-Fran Lebowitz
Interview magazine
September 1981

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

ANDY WARHOL AND STEVE JOBS

Warhol took Sean's spot in front of the computer, and Jobs showed him how to maneuver the mouse. Warhol didn't get it; he lifted and waved the mouse as if it were a conductor's baton. Jobs gently explained that th mouse worked when it was pushed along a surface. Warhol kept lifting it until Jobs placed his hand on Warhol's and guided it along the floor. Finally Warhol began drawing, staring at the «pencil» as it drew on the screen

-Playboy magazine
January 2012 p.86

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: IN AND OUT

Out: fashion brand names
In : collecting like the Vogels

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE MALE PORN STARS WILL CALL THEMSELVES «CUM SHOT ARTISTS»

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

Nile Rodgers wants to work with Madonna again.

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«OLD MOVIES ARE THE REAL THING»

L'AVENIR DE DAMIEN HIRST: LA LEÇON WARHOL

Aujourd'hui Damien Hirst n'est plus la coqueluche du monde de l'art qu'il fut à ses débuts. Mais l'histoire nous apprend que comme tout le reste, cela ne sera que passager. De Warhol on a dit que toute sa production après les années 1960 ne présentait guère d'intérêt. Puis on a redécouvert d'abord la beauté de ses grands autoportraits sur fond noir. Ensuite ce fut ses portraits des années 1970, puis sa dernière période et ses collaborations avec Haring et Basquiat. Enfin aujourd'hui, c'est son immense production commerciale passée pour des magazines ou des pochettes d'albums que l'on redécouvre avec enthousiasme. Hirst suivra une courbe similaire. Les séries de papillons seront les premiers à être redécouverts pour leur valeur esthétique. Et comme Warhol ce sera ensuite sa création de pochettes d'albums de disque qui relança l'intérêt pour son oeuvre à l'avenir. L'association avec le monde de la musique ne ment jamais.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.»

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE RICH-POOR DIVIDE WILL BE ABOUT LIVING FOREVER OR STILL DYING

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

"With amazing candor and clarity, Eminem has shown the full spectrum of male emotions on his albums, from a cooing tenderness toward children to ranting arias of betrayal and revenge. We see in him the agonizing ambivalence that is one of the principal engines of obsessive art-making from Michelangelo to Picasso."

-Camille Paglia
The Sunday Times
Feb 16 2014

* Et dire qu'il y a encore des gens en France qui n'ont pas vu cela pour Orelsan à ses débuts
avec sa chanson Saint-Valentin. ...

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»

Madonna would like to work with Drake.

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

An Andy Warhol canvas of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong sold for £7.6 million tonight - more than 18 times the price paid last time it went to auction. It was last sold at auction in June 2000 for £421,500. Warhol's Mao series was a response to US president Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.

-The Guardian

Feb 13 2014

«OLD MOVIES ARE THE REAL THING»

«The wonderful thing about watching old movies is that it's not sick. They're not
nostalgia. Because nostalgia means a remake or an homage. Old movies are the real thing».

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
Sept 1974 p.8

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS THE RETURN OF PAINTERLY PAINTING GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

Kour Pour, a 26-year-old Los Angeles painter, is such a hot prospect in the art world that his first solo exhibition sold out even before the show opened last month in New York. Buyers snapped up all seven of Pour’s 8-foot-tall canvases, which depict Persian rugs and were priced at $15,000, according to Joel Mesler, co-owner of the Untitled Gallery, where the show runs through Feb. 23. Mesler says he received unsolicited offers from buyers willing to pay significantly more. “There’s a tremendous amount of speculation in the market right now, particularly for emerging artists,” says Todd Levin, director of the New York-based Levin Art Group, who has advised collectors for more than 25 years. “It is more ferocious than it’s ever been.”

-Bloomberg Business Week