«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»

Warhol Museum drops plan about opening branch in New York.

«I THINK MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD»

GOOD CATHOLIC BOY

«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

«I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART» ( THE WHITE ALBUM)

Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organized a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year, was responsible for the albums original sleeve design. It is the only sleeve of a Beatles studio album not to show the members of the band on the front. His design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake’s vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper, and consisted of a plain white sleeve with the band’s name discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album’s right side. The cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, “to create,” in Hamilton’s words, “the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.”

«Paul McCartney requested the design be as stark a contrast to Sgt Pepper’s day-glo explosion as    possible… he got it!»

-Richard Hamilton

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

THE MONEY OBSESSION

«His private diary was in the first instance a way of keeping account of his expenditure. He had a complicated relationship with money. He would keep 100 dollar bill in his boots»

-Bob Colacello.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”

-Pablo Picasso

«I REALLY DON'T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT BEAUTIES. WHAT I REALLY LIKE ARE TALKERS»

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

Global art market now reaches 51 billion euros.

-Next!

«I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON»

"Unshined shoes are the end of civilization»

-Diana Vreeland

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

KEITH HARING ON MADONNA

«I knew Madonna from before. We were in that scene in the lower East Village at the same time. She was just starting. She used to go out with Jellybean [Benitez, now a record producer], and I'd see her sing at the Fun House, where he was the OJ. Bur I met the others through Andy. He had a way of sort of making things happen around him. I don't go to those parties much anymore; I'm not leading the same glamorous life. I don't miss it a lot, but when it started happening, I was young and naive, and it was really exciting. It was like incredible to go, you know, to meet Michael Jackson backstage with Andy. When he brought me to Yoko' s apartment the first time, it was incredible. You can't believe that you're there. The ultimate one was a dinner at Yoko's. I brought Madonna and the artist Martin Burgoyne. Andy was already there. Bob Dylan was there. David Bowie was there. And Iggy Pop. Just sort of in the kitchen. At first you are more in awe of things like that, but you adapt really quickly.»

-Keith Haring

ATTRACTION

Never ask people why they are sexually attracted to you in the first place. It will never be what you think or hope for...

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

I JUST READ EVERYTHING

«The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.»

-Georges Carlin

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

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART»

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«I was sent to the Phillipines for six months and I met Imelda Marcos which was awful. I dressed her up as I was doing fittings, but they were ugly, terrible clothes, so I was dressing up very badly»

-Jean Paul Gaultier
Gay Times
January 1994 p.59

FAME OBSESSED

«What do you want? Ivan Karp asked Warhol, «You've got everything; you have crowds, hordes, young people, beautiful people, charming people, rich people, lovely people. Nobody seems to touch you. What do you want? «I want more fame» Andy said.

Warhol
Victor Bockris
p.497

«CHURCH IS A FUN PLACE TO GO»

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

It was only a matter of time.

Kanye West, rapper/fashion designer/husband to Kim Kardashian (seeAnnie Leibovitz and Kanye West Set Record Straight on Wedding Fiasco) apparently wants to add another title to his resume: curator.

With everyone from Miley Cyrus to James Franco styling themselves as a visual artist (see Miley Cyrus Takes Art Basel, Thanks to Jeffrey Deitch, and Why James Franco's Cindy Sherman Homage at Pace Is Not Just Bad But Offensive), and big shots like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jay Z (see From Hollywood to the Art World, the New Celebrity Collectors) continually scooping up pricey artworks with abandon, art collecting is the new trendy diversion for those with money and power.

- Artnews

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: JEWISH MAG: ARE «TOO BIG TO FAIL» ART AUCTIONS GOOD FOR THE JEWS?

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

THE FAME GAME

«When fans know you for more than three or four times, the magic is gone»

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
January 1980

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: DATING TIP: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION LINES WHEN SEEING A NAKED MAN FOR THE FIRST TIME!

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

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

«Elegance is maintenance»

-Diana Vreeland.

MADONNA REVIEWED IN THE EAST VILLAGE EYE.

«Art and show business have reduced the public to its genitalia as the only outlet left for excitement , and Madonna is the perfect sedative for a generation that has neither self confidence nor self esteem»

East Village Eye
May 1985 p.17

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

LADY GAGA ON ANDY WARHOl

«I'm very inspired by him. He was not a victim of his environment. He decided exactly who he wanted
to be and he succeeded».

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

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.»

-Bansky

YOUTH IS MADE TO BE COCKY AND SHOW OFF

«I'M A GOOD CATHOLIC»

«But I'm a Catholic. Being catholic is just being honest and serious and nice. Isn't everybody?»

-Andy Warhol
Interview magazine
April 1978

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

ARTHUR PAUL, PLAYBOY AND THE ART WORLD

Does he think illustration will ever attain the status of “fine art”? He is sure of it. “I often commissioned fine artists, and when I hired illustrators I always asked what they would do on their own,” he says. “At one time I commissioned famous artists, like [Andy] Warhol, [Robert] Rauschenberg, and [Salvador] Dali, to illustrate their interpretations of the Playmate. As for ‘fine’ or commercial art, if you think about it, the old masters were doing work whose purpose was to illustrate, and often they were commissioned to create work on very specific subjects. What makes anything fine art?”

Paul retired and left Playboy in 1982 only after he and Hefner had “turned the newsstand into a museum for the masses,” former editor Petersen points out. “The magazine was a gallery you could hold in your hand.”

A fine art, indeed.

www.palmspringslife.com

GO WEST!

«Andy Warhol may be better known for his cans of Campbell's Soup and his Marilyn Monroe,
but his penchant for making Pop Art out of America's national myths also drew him to the Wild West. One year before his death in 1987, Warhol produced Cowboys and Indians, a portfolio of 10 screen prints that includes George Custer, Annie Oakley, Teddy Roosevelt, John Wayne and Geronimo, as well as native america artifacts such as Hopi Kachina dolls, a Plains Indian shield and a Tlingit Northwest Coast mask»

Wild West magazine
June 2008 p.79

YOUTH WITHOUT COCKINESS IS NO YOUTH AT ALL

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

Louise Nevelson cearly collages at Pace gallery.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG: HAVE A WARDROBE MALFUNCTION AT YOUR NEXT JOB INTERVIEW AND GET A MAN!

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.»

-Serge Gainsbourg.