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2 days ago · Andy Warhol (1928-1987), was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor, and a major figure in the Pop Art movement. He also produced a significant body of film work, including the famous Chelsea Girls; characterised the epoch with the now-famous expression 'fifteen minutes of fame'; produced the first album by The Velvet Underground; and ...
1 day ago · The most legendary pop publication in the West was founded by Andy Warhol in New York in 1969, under the name Inter/View. It began as a fanzine in the strictest sense, focusing on friends of Andy Warhol, mostly filmmakers and artists. Warhold believed in fame (ephemeral) and repetition (eternal). His legend reflects that today.
3 days ago · The Andy Warhol art machine rolls on with the publication of the latest volume of the Pop artist’s catalogue raisonné, the last of four volumes dedicated to Warhol’s works of the 1970s (the ...
4 days ago · Stuart’s story requires a longer journey, back to April 11, 1796, when he received a letter from President George Washington. He was the pre-eminent U.S. portrait artist of his day.
5 days ago · Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987), magnified popular American culture in his art, and in so doing he himself became a paradigm of popular culture. "His pop sensibility embraced an anything-can-be-art approach, appropriating images, ideas and even innovation itself," according to curatorial signage at Andy Warhol Portfolios: A Life in Pop. This exhibition, on through September 8th,...
6 days ago · He published a book, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again), ghostwritten by someone else using recordings of Warhol as source material. Explicit homoerotic portraits drawn with a black ballpoint pen announce his overt homosexuality... drawn at a time of discrimination and prejudice against the LGBT+ community.
4 days ago · Moments after Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol’s sixth-floor office at 33 Union Square West on June 3, 1968, carrying two guns and a massive, paranoid grudge, their lives would be changed forever. She thought he was going to steal her manuscript, he ignored her calls.
