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

FEDERICO FELLINI TO ANDY WARHOL ABOUT HIS SO CALLED EXPENSIVE MOVIES

«It is a legend. I am the most cheap, the most economic director in the world. After you Andy. This is true. You laugh but it is true».

-Interview magazine

 April 1973 p.6 

TINKERBELLE & INTERVIEW MAGAZINE

«Eventually she had a renaissance at Interview magazine, where she had not written for years because of a general purge of the masthead. Andy Warhol, however, had regretted her getting away, and often nagged Bob Colacello, the executive director, «See, Tinkerbelle has a TV show now, and she's good.»
In the late seventies, through the intervention of editor Robert Hayes, Tinkerbelle's name was put back on the masthead, «between Liz Smith and Monique Van Vooren» as she told people.»

-Vanity Fair
 January 1987 p.88

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY & SHOW OFF

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

Justin Bieber arrives in Toronto to face charge.

-Next!

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE ACTIVIST INVESTORS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Corporate raiders a generation ago typically held their art purchases for at least a decade. Today, the average holding period for contemporary art is two years, according to a former Sotheby's specialist. That is enough time to reap a tidy profit on a rising-star artist but hardly enough for art history to rule on the artist's lasting merits.

Differing tactics abound, but taken together this group of hedge-fund collectors arguably influence the prices and popularity of the world's top artists—from mainstays like Claude Monet to newer hits like Jean-Michel Basquiat—to an extent unmatched by all but emirs and oligarchs.

-Wall Street Journal
 Jan 26 2014

JONAS MEKAS ON ANDY WARHOL

«He WAS the avant-garde».

PARADISE GARAGE

MADONNA AND KEITH HARING IN NEW YORK IN THE 1980'S

«He (Haring), Jean-Michel, Kenny and Madonna started a club together. She and Keith were best of friends because he generated that energy and Madonna then was really mostly a dancer. It was a
remarkable art club they created, with performances Saturdays mornings, science fiction movies, and one-day art shows. The Paradise Garage was where Madonna had her first performance. When she did «Like a Virgin», they created a pink satin bed tilted forward towards Diana Ross who was watching maybe 2-feet away»

Tony Shafrazi
Juxtapoz magazine
June 2010 p.58

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

In the fifties, there were the really good-looking people and then all the rest who weren't. Today, everybody is at least attractive. How did it happen? Is it because there's no wars to kill the beauties?

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
August 16 1982

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

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

Madonna made 125 millions in 2013.

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

GLENN O'BRIEN ON WARHOL

«I remember the day he died. I cried all morning and in the afternoon I suddenly realized, There's
nobody left whose opinion of my work I care about»

-Out magazine
 June 1999 p.83

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«I THINK CATHERINE DENEUVE IS SO GREAT»

«If you are an actress and people know you are a lesbian, many people in the audience
would not be be able to forget-when they watch you-that you like women even tough maybe you are kissing a man in the film. The filmmakers would say, «No, we cannot have her play the lover of this man. The public would not believe what they see»

-Catherine Deneuve
 The Advocate
 July 25 1995 p. 54

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: IS POPE FRANCIS DESCRIBING THE INTERNET AS A «GIFT FROM GOD» GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MUSCLES ARE GREAT» (ARNOLD BY ANDY WARHOL 1977)

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: STEREOTYPES

Of course the fact that so many gay men get along really well with women and lesbians with straight men doesn't mean anything.....Right?

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Yes, this is Frank Stella's second retrospective at MOMA. They have not even shown one of my pieces yet. In their eyes I don't exist.

Keith Haring Journals.
p.207 (1988)

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART» ( VOGUE MAGAZINE COVER BY SALVADOR DALI)

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

«Dans la relation sexuelle la haine est plus efficace que l'amour».

-Danny Laferrière

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: MUSEUMS

The best thing in museums are never paintings and sculptures. The best show is always watching all those bored 60 year old men watching the hot 20 year old babes in the room, while their wifes are commenting about the Renoir and Manet....

«I THINK THAT KIDS ARE REALLY BRIGHT WHO LEARNED FROM TV»

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

Beyonce and Madonna to perform at Grammy Awards.

-Next!

ANDY WARHOL ON HOLLYWOOD MOVIES

«Look at the box office figures. I like comedy not violence, but violence is making a lot of money. Comedy is what I really like. Comedy is the answer. »

-Andy Warhol
 Interview magazine
 Nov 1974 p.7

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

GOOD JOKE!

In May 1985, Andy Warhol was interviewed by the modernist art historian Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. Throughout the interview, Buchloh tries to situate Warhol’s work in relation to that of earlier avant-garde artists, to Duchamp, Man Ray, Matisse, Yves Klein, and Francis Picabia, among several others. Warhol eludes every such attempt on Buchloh’s part to create a modernist pedigree for his art. “No, well, I don’t know” Warhol would say or “No, well, I didn’t think that way.” When asked specifically about the artistic impact of meeting Duchamp in the 1960s, Warhol responds “No, I didn’t know him that well.” And, in a moment of terrifically unambiguous rejection, Warhol answers a question about the influence of Picabia on his drawings of the 1950s by telling Buchloh that “I didn’t even know who that person was” at the time. (1)

-Richard Meyer

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

Jeff Koons makes his first Yacht Design.

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

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«La beauté est un appui préférable à toutes les lettres de recommandation»

-Aristote

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already»

-Tommy Cooper.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LUCK

Straight guys will never realize enough how lucky they are. Not being gay is the best thing in the world if you are a guy. So many smart and  interesting women for whom life is more than cheap sex over and over.

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

«J'évite comme la peste les gens de ma génération»

-Karl Lagerfeld.

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

POST WARHOLPREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE LARRY FLYNT WILL MAKE A XXX PARODY OF ROB FORD CALLED «ROB DOES TOTONTO»

ANDY WARHOL ON MADONNA: «SHE'S VERY SHARP»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE & SEX

If you still confuse love and sex at 40, it's because you didn't have enough sexual partners during the last 20 years...

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

«J'aime trop l'amour pour beaucoup aimer les femmes».

-Jacques Brel

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

If your partner don't think sex is totally overrated, he won't be a good fuck.

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

«Les gens heureux n'ont pas besoin de se presser»

-Proverbe chinois.

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«GEE, THAT'S GREAT!»

Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor and  frat guy who refused to grow up versus the openly lesbian prime minister of Ontario. Take a seat! It's going to be a good show!

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

Jerry Springer was the star of of the Jerry Springer Show and was once mayor.  BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME. Rob Ford has now merged the two jobs perfectly!  «I just think entertainment is the best message» said Warhol. I want more! I want to see lesbian mud wrestling shows at Toronto City Hall!

«BAD TASTE MAKES THE DAY GOES BY FASTER»

«THRE SHOULD BE A COURSE IN FIRST GRADE ON LOVE.»

Fascinant de voir que la crise du manque de culture entrepreneuriale semble pour certains si difficile à expliquer. Elle est pourtant si simple. Trop de gens acceptent désormais l'idée qu'il n'est pas essentiel de chercher à être en amour.

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY:BUYING ART

Always buy art from gay artists out of the mainstream at their debut: Look at the top of the art market some 40 years later: Bacon, Warhol, Haring...

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

If you are an art enthusiast tempted to splash out on an apparent bargain, lured by the prospect that it could be a little-known work by a great painter, then you might want to think again. Art experts are warning of the rapid spread of a new con-trick infecting the market, which involves cheaply produced works in the style of great artists being sold by dealers who dishonestly suggest they are genuine.

The practice is known as “trapping” and is said to be increasingly popular on internet auction sites, as well as in auction houses, antiques shops and street markets. Unlike more traditional forgery, where well-known works are reproduced by sophisticated fraudsters in order to dupe experts, trapping is targeted at the more amateur buyers hoping to snare themselves a bargain.

-The Telegraph

 jan 12 2014

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

YOUNG AND DUMB OR YOUNG AND SMART

It's very easy to see if someone in his 20's is smart or dumb even before you talk to him. The smart ones are narcissistic in a playful and seductive way. The dumb ones are also narcissistic but in a completely self-centered sterile way.

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD & SAGGING

"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."

-Georges Burns

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WOMAN

A woman is someone who systematically overestimate gay men and underestimate straight guys.

«ART IS A SPIRITUAL QUEST» -CAMILLE PAGLIA

«Dieu a fait la nature et quand il a fini, il a trouvé que c'était très bien. Alors si Dieu trouvait très bien son oeuvre, c'est qu'elle était vraiment bien»

-Balthus.

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Damien Hirst collaborates with Disney for Charity.

«I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M NOT WORKING»

«No rest for artists»

-Ultra Violet.

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

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...

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

Madonna new boyfriend in his 20's.

Next!

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

BEST SEX TIP FOR WOMEN

«I asked Anita how the really glamourous women went to bed with men, what did they do, and she said the only one she really knew about was somebody out in Hollywood who, when the moment would come, would kneel down on the floor and pray to God to forgive her and then he guys would get turn off and ashamed of themselves and they'd give her jewels.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
March 15 1977

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

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

«I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.»

-Keith Haring

BEHIND THE FAME & GLAMOUR

«Went home lonely and despondent because nobody loves me and it's Easter and I cried».

-The Andy Warhol Diaries
 April 17 1981

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«I AM A GOOD CATHOLIC»

«Andy went to church every Sunday. A lot of his friends were Catholic. He may have related better to us Catholics becase we all have the same background: mass, priests, nuns, Catholic school, a sense of guilt. His religion was a very private part of his life».

Warhol by Makos

«SUCCESS IS WHAT SELLS»

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are»

-Quentin Crisp.

NOUVELLE TENDANCE DU MARCHÉ DE L'ART

Certains s'agitent beaucoup autour de cette nouvelle tendance qui consiste à voir le prix de certaines oeuvres être artificiellement gonflés en raison du fait qu'elles proviennent d'une grande collection privée. Il n'y pourtant là rien qui mérite de s'enthousiasmer ou de le déplorer. Un peu comme Pierre Bergé rappelant un jour avec justesse que cet élément de fétichisme jouait même pour lui en tant que grand bibliophile.  Savoureux d'ailleurs que cette nouvelle tendance au fétichisme de la provenance ait trouvé son plus grand élan lors de la vente passée de la collection Pierre Bergé /Yves Saint-Laurent.

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

BOB COLACELLO ON SELLING ANDY WARHOL

«What I did best for Andy I think, was sell him. I don't mean his paintings, but him. I explained him to the clients and ladies, to the press and my parents' friends. When they said he got Edie Sedgwick on drugs, I told them how he got Brigid Berlin off them. If they said he was evil, I said he went to church every Sunday.»

-Bob Colacello
 Vanity Fair
 July 1987 p.127

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

Kim Kardashian show off her new toned abs.

-Next!

«SHOPPING IS MORE AMERICAN THAN THINKING»

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

How unlike the popular notion of Andy Warhol the bedroom is! True, there is an enormous television set by the bed,  stacked with videotapes of old movies (Stage Door Canteen, My Man Godfrey, Grand Hotel, etc). But there is also a large bedside crucifix and a devotional book and a box of Teuscher chocolates truffles.

-John Richardson
 Vanity Fair
 July 1987 p.70

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

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

Madonna to attend  Hard Candy Fitness opening in Toronto.

-Next!

THE BEST WARHOL LESSON

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

-Keith Haring

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

ART 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.»

-Matisse

«I NEVER MET AN ANIMAL I DIDN'T LIKE»

«When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.» 

-Leonardo DiCaprio

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

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

Kanye West Yeezus Tour grosses 25 millions.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE CHINESE BILLIONAIRES BUYING MORE AND MORE WESTERN ART GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

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

THE SWISS WAY

«Slept late and then Thomas Ammann woke me up to do a portrait. A beautiful wife with a fat husband. I said she didn't need any makeup. She was easy to do because she was a raving beauty. Her husband tells her she's ugly-Thomas says that's how Swiss people treat their wives because they never want them to get too secure».

The Andy Warhol Diairies
Feb 11 1980

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: IN THE FUTURE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE WILL WRITE: «GET YOUR BEST SEX EVER....YES, YES, EVER!...UNTIL OUR NEXT ISSUE!»

CHRISTMAS IN HOLLIS

KEITH HARING AND RUN DMC

The good folks over at Adidas have linked up once again with the crew of Run DMC for another take on their classic Original Superstar 80s. This time around, Adidas and Run DMC also bring along street artist, Keith Haring, for an added bonus, concocting something amazing, sleek, and dope all in one package.

Today we bring you the first look at Adidas, Run DMC, and Keith Haring’s Superstar 80s, the “Christmas In Hollis” edition. Boasting an all black upper and white shell toe, the new design with the iconic artwork of Keith on the tongue label.

-Stupiddope.com

BASQUIAT & BOXING

First and foremost, Jean-Michel Basquiat was fiercely independent. Simply put, nobody told him what to do. He always marched to his own drum and as a result, had to be an extremely self-reliant man. Perhaps that is why he chose to do a painting symbolizing the first African-American heavyweight champion of the world Jack Johnson, who will always be remembered for living his life the way he preferred, regardless of the consequences.Very much like Johnson, Basquiat crashed through his field’s glass ceiling, becoming the first African-American to make a major impact on the world of international fine art. Johnson and Basquiat were also known ladies’ men with a particular penchant for white women; somewhat of a taboo in the early 1980s but behavior that could easily get a black man killed during the time of Jack Johnson in the earlier part of the twentieth century.

BONNE ANNÉE 2014!

TOUT CELA POUR ÇA?

Renaissance, romantisme, néo-classicisme, Impressionnisme, dadaïsme, surréalisme, expressionnisme allemand, expressionnisme abstrait, minimalisme, art conceptuel, pop art, trans avant-garde......Jeff Koons et le bébé de Kim Kardashian...