By 1965, Andy Warhol had already revolutionized the art world with his depictions of soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, and Brillo boxes. His interests grew to include rock & roll — he started managing the Velvet Underground and eventually produced their debut, The Velvet Underground & Nico — and he began making even more films, which starred members of his retinue including Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, and Mary Woronov, among others. Seeing how he fascinated the world, Life magazine hired photojournalist Steve Schapiro to document Warhol’s cultural ascension. Ultimately, the magazine never published the story.
- 12/20/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
After years of estrangement, the two Velvet Underground musicians decided to make a record and filmed concert about their mentor Andy Warhol. Director Ed Lachman talks about how he captured the pair in action
Andy Warhol never goes away, but 35 years after his death, he is everywhere. There are The Andy Warhol Diaries and Andy Warhol’s America on TV, The Collaboration and Chasing Andy Warhol in theatres on either side of the Atlantic, while Christie’s is hoping to net a record-setting 200m (£152m) when it auctions a 1964 Marilyn screen print next month.
Whole forests have been flattened trying to unravel the Warhol enigma – Blake Gopnik’s 2020 biography thuds in at 976 pages. Yet in just 55 minutes, Lou Reed and John Cale’s 1990 album and film Songs for Drella get to the heart of a man obscured by his wig, shades and blank expression. Their song cycle starts with Smalltown, a...
Andy Warhol never goes away, but 35 years after his death, he is everywhere. There are The Andy Warhol Diaries and Andy Warhol’s America on TV, The Collaboration and Chasing Andy Warhol in theatres on either side of the Atlantic, while Christie’s is hoping to net a record-setting 200m (£152m) when it auctions a 1964 Marilyn screen print next month.
Whole forests have been flattened trying to unravel the Warhol enigma – Blake Gopnik’s 2020 biography thuds in at 976 pages. Yet in just 55 minutes, Lou Reed and John Cale’s 1990 album and film Songs for Drella get to the heart of a man obscured by his wig, shades and blank expression. Their song cycle starts with Smalltown, a...
- 4/14/2022
- by Alex Needham
- The Guardian - Film News
As art critic-cum-biographer Blake Gopnik lays out in this brilliantly granular, not un-critical 976 page hagiography, the man born Andrew Warhola branded “pop art” in many forms: painting, sculpture, photography, filmmaking, sound recording, TV broadcasting, magazine and book publishing, advertising, media appearances, persona creation. His influence still blares on all those fronts, but especially in pop music’s hydrant-flow of brand-building: the social media blitzing, the mixtape-dropping, the meme-embargoing, the cameos, the clothing lines, the media empires.
Gopnik shows Warhol as both tireless culture worker and pop oracle. As a precocious,...
Gopnik shows Warhol as both tireless culture worker and pop oracle. As a precocious,...
- 6/23/2020
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Here’s what Mike Scott of the Waterboys had to say.
What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?
I’ve been at home with my 6-year-old daughter. Our lockdown world has been bounded by our home and my studio, two streets away. It’s my new studio and I only just got it before the lockdown began, so I’ve been unpacking, setting up instruments and speakers,...
What are you doing with your unexpected time at home?
I’ve been at home with my 6-year-old daughter. Our lockdown world has been bounded by our home and my studio, two streets away. It’s my new studio and I only just got it before the lockdown began, so I’ve been unpacking, setting up instruments and speakers,...
- 4/7/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
In 1975, Lou Reed gave Andy Warhol a Basf C-90 cassette. One side was a mix of live Reed songs recorded at recent tour dates. The other was an apparently homemade demo of a dozen songs based on his friend and mentor’s newly-published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B & Back Again, published the same year. The idea, it seems, was to sketch out a kind of musical theater piece. The notion wasn’t new to Reed: The previous year, he’d tried unsuccessfully to enlist Warhol in...
- 12/19/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
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