Andy Warhol
Times Does Warhol Doing Cuomo; Warhol Already Did Cuomo in 1985
Readers of the print edition of The New York Times—they're out there somewhere—were treated to a bit of creative whimsy in the art accompanying Danny Hakim's A1 story about former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's unwillingness to pose for an official portrait.
To illustrate the story, the paper used four imaginary portraits by illustrator Thomas Fuchs done in the signature styles of Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Robert Crumb. (The images can be seen here.)
And while readers should be thankful Mr. Fuchs didn't go for, say Francis Bacon or—shudder—Jake and Dinos Chapman, the illustrator needn't have bothered with the Warhol knockoff since Mr. Cuomo has already been portrayed by the artist for the September 1985 cover of Manhattan, Inc. read more »
Carrie Kania Makes Harper Perennial Clubhouse for Losers
Most of the people who came to Camilla Morton’s book party at the Diane von Furstenberg showroom last Thursday night appeared to be models or DJs or photographers. Giselle Bündchen arrived in skintight leather pants. A man with a waxed handlebar mustache wandered about wearing glasses. One young lady had on an American Apparel leotard and platform heels that resembled nothing so much as toaster ovens.
Thirty-seven-year-old publisher Carrie Kania, who recently put out the American edition of Ms. Morton’s best-selling style book, A Year in High Heels, looked with excitement at her author’s fashionable friends, but spoke only to her colleagues from Harper Perennial, the small but proud paperback unit of HarperCollins that she has lovingly presided over since the fall of 2005. read more »
Tom Freston Takes Warhol's Old East Side Place Off the Market
Former Viacom chief executive Tom Freston has apparently taken his townhouse at 57 East 66th Street off the market, according to the Wall Street Journal. He had listed the former Andy Warhol home in the spring for $38.5 million, only to chop that asking price to $35 million.
Mr. Freston, according to a 2000 Observer article, bought the neoclassical townhouse for $6.5 million, moving there from a Tribeca penthouse after about $100,000 worth of renovations.
Warhol lived in the townhouse from 1974 (after paying $310,000 for it!) until his death in 1987.
Crosstown Bus
I was limping around the sticky town looking for a pair of Sperry topsiders because the cheap sneakers I had bought were giving me blisters. At Union Square, secretly eyeing Filene’s Basement, I decided to spend my limited disposable income on flowers instead of raiment, so I headed West to Chelsea Market.
On the crosstown bus I sat down next to a little fat woman who immediately asked me for change. I said if you want change, vote for Obama. I thought that was clever, but she was voting for McCain even though I pointed out that if he had been a decent pilot he might never have had to spend face time with the Viet Cong. read more »
Fashion Roundup: Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone's Vacation with Kate Moss; Eva Mendes' Topless Ad
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Marc Jacobs and boyfriend Lorenzo Martone—whom we still think are not married—vacationed in Ibiza with Kate Moss and her mom, Linda. Ms. Moss's daughter, Lila Grace, was on hand to snap the party photos. [Fashionologie via The Cut]
Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to create a resort 2008 and pre-spring 2009 collections of swimwear and other pieces featuring the artist's prints. [WWD]
Eva Mendes is pleased that her topless video ad for Calvin Klein has been banned in the U.S. (And yes, click through to see the titillating video.) [The Sun] read more »
Was Valerie Solanas The Genius Behind the Internet?
Today's Los Angeles Times features an op-ed by A.S. Hamrah about the 40th anniversary of Valerie Solanas' assassination attempt on Andy Warhol. (We stumbled upon this via The New York Times' Opinionator blog.)
Ms. Solanas, a playwright who formed a group called S.C.U.M. ("Society for Cutting Up Men") and wrote its manifesto (she is also widely credited as being the group's only member), shot Mr. Warhol in his office. After summarizing the details of the shooting, Mr. Hamrah describes Ms. Solanas' manifesto as "a mixture of social philosophy and fine shtick, her work has the rare virtue of seeming at the same time totally insane and totally right." read more »
Warhol, Porn and Vuitton
The most interesting thing about Takashi Murakami, whose paintings, sculptures and merchandise are the subject of “© Murakami” at the Brooklyn Museum, is that he’s above shame. To know shame is to realize there are standards of behavior that, when bent or broken, cause remorse or, at least, self-awareness of having done wrong. Shame is unknown in Mr. Murakami’s rarefied orbit: Art is an adjunct of capital. There’s no second thought given to this fact.
Andy Warhol is the starting point for Mr. Murakami’s cold embrace of heedless commercialism. read more »
Warhol Comes to the Jewish Museum This Spring
There's nothing like some colorful pop art to get you amped for spring. The Jewish Museum seems to know this. On March 16, the museum will unveil Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered, a follow up of sorts to Mr. Warhol's somewhat controversial 1980 series, Ten Portraits of the Twentieth Century, which includes images of Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir and Sigmund Freud, among others. Ten Portraits Reconsidered features the primary source material that the original exhibit was based on, like photographs, sketches, and one of only 200 published editions of the final silk-screen portfolio. More after the jump. read more »
Dorothy Podber, New York Art Scene's 'Wild Child,' Dead at 75
Dorothy Podber shot a bullet through a few of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe silk screen paintings, re-enacted the shower scene from Psycho with artist Ray Johnson on the streets of Manhattan, and ran an illegal abortion referral service from her apartment. Even Mr. Warhol called her "too scary." She was a "wild child," indeed, of the 1950's and 60's as The New York Times writes this morning. She died of "natural causes" in her apartment at 75. More on the Warhol shootings after the jump. read more »
New York Photographer Finds Warhol Self-Portrait?
A photographer may have discovered an experimental self-portrait drawn by Andy Warhol. While rummaging through some framed paintings and drawings at an estate sale this fall, New York photographer Addison Thompson saw a drawing that looked like a Warhol from the 1950s. He sent an image of the sketch to a famous artist and friend of Mr. Warhol, who said it looked like the real deal. But Mr. Thompson won't be able to confirm its authenticity until March, when he can present it to the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. read more »
Pop Goes Andy Warhol Endowment: $16.25 M. in 2007 Makes for $240 M. Stash
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has built a $240 million endowment, with its net gain from sales at $16.25 million last year, according to its 20th anniversary report on its finances and philanthropy. Mr. Warhol, who died at 58 in 1987, left all his possessions to the New York-based foundation “for the advancement of the visual arts.” President Joel Wachs declined to disclose the number of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings that remain with the foundation to The Art Newspaper, stating that the holdings are “proprietary information because we are in the business of selling them.” read more »
Zac Posen's Metaphysical Fashion: Outfits Within Outfits
Last night, at the Neue Galerie's 6th annual Winter Gala, Zac Posen talked to us about art. While a number of art-world folks are abuzz over the current, exploding art market, the 27-year old fashion phenom said he's not impressed with the way things are going.
"Nothing new has happened really since Andy Warhol," he told The Daily Transom, adding that Damien Hirst, the British creator of the infamous $100 million dollar diamond-encrusted skull, "is really a modern-day replica of Andy Warhol, you know, the whole idea of repetition."
"I'm not into chic safety or chic banality, just in creating art," added the designer, clad in his signature scarf, black boots and a stand-out plaid suit that was, of course, extremely well-tailored. "I feel on my artistic side I've been able to take more risks than anybody in the U.S." read more »
Andy Warhol Passes On His Fashion Jean
What is it with Andy Warhol and jeans already? A Madrid-based fashion label called Pepe Jeans London has just announced plans to create a collection of clothes and accessories inspired by the posthumous Prince of Pop. But this isn’t the first time a jean brand has been created with Mr. Warhol in mind.
Last winter, during what seemed like the final gasp of a Warhol-mania resurgence, Levi Strauss & Co. teamed up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to launch a clutch of cotton wares called Warhol Factory X Levi’s. Pepe, too, has joined forces with the painter’s foundation. Except their 250-piece men’s and women’s collection, which will debut in Florence next month, is to be called The Andy Warhol Collection by Pepe Jeans London—an umbrella title that will comprise two sub-lines, called, of course, Pop and Factory. Pop will draw from his iconic works, like the whole soup can situation. Factory, on the other hand, will be more ethereal, looking to the man and his milieu for inspiration.
According to WWD, the managing director of the Spanish label, Nish Soneji, thinks Mr. Warhol is an ideal fashion mascot. “Andy Warhol, being a contemporary icon, immersed in the same ethos, made it a natural pairing of a preeminent jeans brand with an iconic timeless artist.” read more »
Sara Vilkomerson’s Guide to This Week’s Movies: Hey, Look! It’s Billy Walsh!
So here’s something we don’t understand: There’s not a whole lot going on in TV-land (though we still support you, writers!), and yet people still aren’t going to the movies in the money-spending holiday-season droves that studios would like. The budget-busting Golden Compass was No. 1 this weekend, but its $26 million is not considered a good haul for what New Line spent on those fightin’ Polar Bears. (It’s doing much better overseas. read more »
Warhol's Elizabeth Taylor Painting Sells for $23.5 Million
Sarah Jessica Parker, Marc Jacobs and Elizabeth Hurley all showed up to the Christie's auction last night, witnessing Andy Warhol's "Liz" painting sell for $23.5 million, according to The New York Times. The 40-inch-square painting, one from a series of 13, originally belonged to Hugh Grant, and will now be passed on to an anonymous bidder. read more »
Speech! Speech! Michael Bloomberg Doles Out Art Awards.
Awards were given out at the Americans for the Arts 2007 National Arts Awards last night, and speeches were made. Sitting down for dinner in Cipriani 42nd Street's massive main hall, guests dressed in black-tie attire-Jeff Koons among them-were surrounded by billboard-sized cloth screens covered with images of Andy Warhol's iconic poppies. Warhol was the official featured artist of the evening.
Honorees included Wallis Annenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, Anna Deavere Smith, and, as a sort-of wrinkle-reducer, the musician John Legend.
Also on hand were Ronald Lauder, Jessye Norman, C. Terry Lewis, Mayor David Dinkins and Jeffrey Sachs. Yoko Ono was jet-lagged, but she made it, too.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived minutes before he was to go on stage, while people were picking at their first course. read more »
The Guggenheim Asks: Was Andy Warhol 'A Boring Fuck'?
Last week, many friends and patrons of the Guggenheim Museum found lurking in their stacks of mail an uncovered postcard sent from the Upper East Side institution.
The card’s label side seems innocent enough. “THE WORST OF WARHOL: A ROUNDTABLE,” it reads, just above a list of speakers' and moderators' names and all the pertinent event information for an upcoming museum talk on Tuesday, October 23. Flipping it over, however, reveals a threatening message seemingly scrawled in ballpoint pen that is, to be sure, not for the kiddies (or Warhol fans) of the house.
It reads: “Andy Warhol was a boring fuck and so were all of his boring fuck head friends and stupid shit for brains fans and I’m glad he died.”
The message is actually the creative handiwork of artist Richard Prince; it’s called Untitled (joke). But printed here, in black ink on a white background, it looks like anything but. read more »
Chelsea Girls Are Back ... in 16 MM!
Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s glittery Factory epic shows up at MoMA for week-long party. read more »
Barbara of Beekman Place
Factory Girl Is All About Andy
Madelyn Molly Turner
I Was a Male Warhol Bride! Pop Go Barneys' Windows
I Was a Male Warhol Bride! Pop Go Barneys’ Windows
All the Warhol Diarists, Cashing In 20 Years After Andy; Note To Self: Don't Die!
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," snapped a man approaching the table at which Mr. Scheips was seated. He was speaking to a woman spewing endless instructions into his ear. What about? read more »
"This is for Charlotte," the man said, thrusting a book Mr. Scheips' way. "Like, you know..." He thought for a second or more. "Like, 'Gone With the Wind,'" he said with triumph.
Quick! Buy the Andy Warhol Estate!
Joey Dallesandro, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey.
YOU know what they say about the early bird? His $50,000 is going to rent him a better Hamptons summer house than yours is. "What you're seeing [now] for $50,000 is better than what you see in April," says broker Angela Boyer-Stump of Hampton County Real Estate.[...] "I am currently in a bidding war over a $100,000 summer rental. I've never seen anything like it," says Boyer-Stump.
But we have. Here's Ms. Boyer-Stump, speaking to The New York Post in its February 26, 2005 issue:
"A lot of the good houses are gone, especially if somebody wants a tennis court," agrees Angela Boyer-Stump of Hamp-ton Country Real Estate in Bridgehampton. "Everybody is renting early, so it’s more competitive than in previous years."
The Hamptons just never let up!
The Warhol compound.
Well, it's still on the market--for sale by the same owner, Warhol film partner Paul Morrissey, for the same price, $50 million, they've been trying to sell it for for years now. But the listing has changed hands, and now it's being sold by our favorite Hamptons old-timer, Tina Fredericks, who sold Mr. Warhol the place 30 years ago. That's a tough break for Linda Stein of Prudential Douglas Elliman. Except it was unlikely to move at that price anyway, so maybe it's not such a big deal. read more »
- Tom McGeveranNeighborhood White Boy Stalks Billion-Footed Beast
Neighborhood White Boy Stalks Billion-Footed Beast
If you have to ask, he hasn’t done his job. read more »
