CHRISTOPHER MAKOS

«He was a good exemple of the kind of exuberant, ambitious good looking guy who made the gay scene so attractive and influential in the late seventies. He loved to travel, go to parties, make money, meet new people get high and laugh. Above all he was audacious, intelligent but unintellectual and primitive. Andy loved to take photographs of Christopher having sex»

Warhol
Victor Bockris.

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

HI, PUSSY!

Met the Dowager of Aspen, the Grande Dame. Went to her house.Her name is (laughs) Pussy Paepcke. She's eighty-two and she's very beautiful. She looks like Katherine Hepburn.

The Andy Warhol Diaries
Dec 31 1984

WHAT 99% OF GAY MEN UNDERSTAND AND WHAT 99% OF FEMINISTS DON'T.

As for male/female relations, she says that they are far more complex than most feminists insist. ‘I wrote a date-rape essay in 1991 in which I called for women to stand up for themselves and learn how to handle men. But now you have this shibboleth, “No means no.” Well, no. Sometimes “No” means “Not yet”. Sometimes “No” means “Too soon”. Sometimes “No” means “Keep trying and maybe yes”. You can see it with the pigeons on the grass. The male pursues the female and she turns away, and turns away, and he looks a fool but he keeps on pursuing her. And maybe she’s testing his persistence; the strength of his genes… It’s a pattern in the animal kingdom — a courtship pattern…’ But for pointing such things out, Paglia adds, she has been ‘defamed, attacked and viciously maligned’ — so, no, she is not in the least surprised that wolf-whistling has now been designated a hate crime in Birmingham.

-Camille Paglia
The Spectator

«I NEVER READ, I JUST LOOK AT PICTURES»

DAMIEN HIRST ET LA CRITIQUE D'ART: 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.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG: HAVE YOUR BRAIN REMOVED, LOSE FIVE POUNDS AND GET A MAN!

Copyright by Ivan

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

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

Le marché mondial de l'art contemporain aux enchères a perdu un quart de son chiffre d'affaires entre juillet 2015 et juin 2016, une correction attendue après le boom de ces dernières années et une croissance de 1.370% depuis 2000, selon le bilan publié dimanche par Artprice.

«PERSONNE N'EN VEUT, C'EST LE MOMENT DE L'ACHETER»

«Andy était obsédé par l'argent. Mais il achetait, achetait. Il disait: «Allons faire du shopping. Nous allions surtout chiner du mobilier art déco à une époque ou personne encore ne s'y intéressait».

Clara Saint.
Warhol TV.

«YOU CAN'T GO ANYPLACE IN AMERICA WITHOUT SEEING BOYS AND GIRLS AND MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOOK LIKE THEY'VE BEEN PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THEIR ENTIRE LIVES»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: SEX

Only a woman living in Alice in Wonderland could say that sex should always include a verbal yes or no before the relationship! What a fucking dumb, and ignorant statement about sexuality and human nature. You know why gay men are always silent when they hear that kind of ridiculous affirmation? They are too busy laughing their ass off!

BUT, HE TOUCHED MY THIGH!

The US electoral campaign is almost over and nobody talked about the fact that neither Trump or Clinton promised to stop the selling of military equipment to Saudi Arabia. If that doesn't says it all.....

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

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

«Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle»

-Camille Paglia

«ART IS WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH»

Sortir de l'anonymat, c'est savoir sortir du lot. Très tôt, certains artistes montrent un sens de la mise en scène, ou de la polémique, qui détonne. Cela ne suffira jamais à faire monter seule leur cote, mais les plus chanceux attireront l'attention des connaisseurs. Un précieux accélérateur de carrière, pour ceux qui ne veulent pas s'en remettre qu'à leur talent.

En 1988, le jeune Damien Hirst, alors inconnu, a tapé dans l'œil du grand collectionneur Charles Saatchi avec une exposition organisée dans un hangar de Londres. Audacieux pour l'époque. Mais on peut aussi citer les œuvres colossales d'Anish Kapoor, le militantisme d'Ai Weiwei, ou le sens de la provocation de Maurizio Cattelan.

L'allemand Rudolf Stingel, lui, s'est fait connaître pour l'attention qu'il porte à ses expositions, comme lorsqu'il a entièrement recouvert les murs du Whitney Museum et du MCA de Chicago de contreplaqués d'aluminium, ou l'intérieur du Palazzo Grassi de François Pinault à Venise de tapis persans.

-Huffington Post (20 oct 2016)

WOMAN IN REVOLT

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

«A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.»

-Bette Davis

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: RELIGIONS

If everybody was keenly aware of the history of religions long gone, there would be far less religious fanaticism nowadays.

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

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears»

-Edgar Allen Poe

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

«The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.»

-Victor Hugo

«POP ART IS FOR EVERYONE) ARTWORK BY ROGELIO

THE BEAUTY OBSESSION

«Beauty is the hardest drug of all»

-Bob Colacello
 Interview magazine
 July 1971 p.5

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.

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART» ( ARTWORK BY MIRO)

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

«Donnez moi un musée, je le remplirai»

-Pablo Picasso

«MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS»

COMMONPLACE

«Warhol accepts rather than questions our popular habits and heroes.  By accepting their inevitability,

they are easier to deal with than if they are opposed....We accept the glorified legend in preference to the actuality of our immediate experiences,  so much so that the legend becomes commonplace and, finally, devoid of the very qualities which first interested us». 

Edward Lucie-Smith

Visual Arts in the 20th century

p 263. 

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

Zayn Malik now artistic director for Versace. Next!

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

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY

La meilleure preuve du déclin de l'Occident: des papy boomers gay traînant dans les bars à 60 ans....

«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?

«ANDY THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT JEWS»- BOB COLACELLO

Forget all those boring and repetitive articles about Trump: The subtext is much more interesting: Georges Soros vs David Horowitz and Front page magazine....

«I JUST THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS THE BEST MESSAGE»

À LA VALÉRIE SOLANAS!

Future Women's studies course: How to seduce your lesbian P.E teacher at your next «womyn» conference»!

«I THINK THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE TERRIFIC»

LIFE 101 FOR THE OLD AND SAGGING

«At 50 everyone has the face he deserves».

-George Orwell

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

Damien Hirst gallery wins architecture award.

Next!

«MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR»

INTERVIEW WITH A DOG

AW: Can he bark some more?

Sandy: woof, woof, woof, WOOF!

AW: make him talk some more

-Interview magazine
 July 1977 p.2

INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH: 1981

Edward Smith: Would you like to see your pictures on as many walls as possible, then?
Andy Warhol: Uh, no, I like them in closets.
Edward Smith: Why is it more of a pleasure to do 30 or 40 pictures than to do just one?
Andy Warhol: Then I can, uh, listen to my soundabout which looks just like the thing that I'm wearing now, and you can listen to opera and stuff like that.
Edward Smith: Does that mean you don't have to think when you're painting?
Andy Warhol: No, you can listen to really good music.
Edward Smith: So, what, painting is an excuse to listen to really good music?
Andy Warhol: Oh, yeah.


Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.
Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.
Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?
Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.
Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.

“I LOVE LOS ANGELES. I LOVE HOLLYWOOD. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. EVERYBODY'S PLASTIC"

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

"It's so long since I've had sex, I've forgotten who ties up whom."

-Joan Rivers

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART» ( ARTWORK BY MARCEL BARBEAU]

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

Dans les années 1980, pour tracer son sillage entre l'horlogerie suisse haut de gamme et les prix cassés du marché asiatique, Swatch a une idée révolutionnaire : inviter l'art… au poignet. En 1984, Kiki Picasso est la première à laisser son empreinte sur le plastique signature de Swatch. L'année suivante, c'est le mythique Keith Haring qui va cristalliser « l'esprit du temps branché » et l'unir à l'univers démocratique de la maison. Une centaine d'autres collaborations suivront, avec notamment Sam Francis, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jeremy Scott, Pierre et Gilles... Et cette année avec Chiachio & Giannone. 

-Le Point
30/9/2016

LIFE 101 FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. 

-Aristotle.

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

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

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

-Pablo Picasso

«I LIKE EVERYBODY'S ART» ( ARTWORK BYY JAMES ROSENQUIST)

«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

I am saying that the belief that you should die for making fun of a book or a prophet is much more mainstream in Islamic culture than it is in other cultures. In fact, death for leaving the religion, death for making fun of the religion, death by stoning for adultery, death in a number of countries for just for being gay. I have never come across a culture where “we kill you” is the answer to more issues, and I am an American. So that’s not bigotry; that’s just the way it is in the world. I know that liberals get their back up about this. But I find it very ironic because liberals are supposed to defend liberal principles. And certainly the First Amendment — I have said this before — liberals should own the First Amendment the way conservatives own the Second Amendment.

-Bill Maher

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: HIJAB, NIQAB AND BURQA

N'est -ce pas fascinant que l'on ne cesse d'être pour ou contre le port du hijab et autres qu'à partir des seuls points de vue féministe ou juridique, alors qu'il s'agit surtout de théologie et/ ou de démarche identitaire musulmane. Et ce qu'elle soit religieuse à divers degrés, politique ou culturelle au sens large.  Les historiens du futur n'en reviendront pas.

«ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS»

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: TIME

Why is watching any movie older than the year you were born so scary...?