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unusual facts about Warhol



A, A Novel

Paul is Paul Morrissey, who had just joined the group and would eventually become the director of Warhol's later films.

Absolut Warhola

The film follows the filmmakers as they travel through eastern Slovakia to interview Warhol's surviving relatives, ethnic-Ruthenians living near the Polish border in Miková, and to visit the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

In one segment, Burns compares Warhol's portraits of such celebrities as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor with the icons of saints that Warhol saw in his boyhood Byzantine Catholic parish, where he spent many hours as a child.

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (originally Flesh for Frankenstein) is a 1973 Italian-French horror film directed by Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, Andrew Braunsberg, Louis Peraino, and Carlo Ponti.

Beauty No. 1

Beauty No. 1 is a precursor to Andy Warhol's better known follow up, Beauty No. 2 and was originally titled Beauty.

Blake Gopnik

In 2011 he was hired away by Tina Brown, the famous editrix, to be the art and design critic at Newsweek magazine and its Daily Beast Web site, where he wrote notable features on Warhol, Damien Hirst and the (still pending) collapse of the art market.

Bruno Bischofberger

In the 1980s, Bischofberger's gallery became known for showing works from the Italian, German, and American "Neo-Expressionist" painters such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, George Condo, and Jiri Georg Dokoupil; as well as showing Andy Warhol, Miquel Barceló, Peter Halley and Mike Bidlo.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

The museum's collection includes over 4,000 Warhol art works in all media - paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, and installation; the entire Andy Warhol Video Collection, 228 four minute Screen Tests, and 45 other films by Warhol; and extensive archives, most notably Warhol's Time Capsules.

Charles Lisanby

Charles came up with the title to Warhol’s book 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy and both artists frequently exchanged art and ideas into the early 1960s.

Decker Building

Union Square at the time was hardly an upscale neighborhood, but Paul Morrissey had found the loft, in this building, and Warhol agreed to move there.

Dikeou Collection

Vik Muniz’s “Last Supper” is a triptych photograph of chocolate syrup, which has been manipulated into a drawing of the “Last Supper”, inspired by the Warhol images of the same subject.

Eating Too Fast

Battcock had previously appeared in Warhol's films Batman Dracula (1964) and Horse (1965).

ESMoA

The Eva and Brian Sweeney Collection currently consists of about 500 works by artists such as Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Klimt, Khnopff, Alma-Tadema, Klee, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Doig, Zach Houston, Warhol, Close and Estes.

Exploding Plastic Inevitable

The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, sometimes simply called Plastic Inevitable or EPI, was a series of multimedia events organized by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warhol's Factory, especially Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga.

Fawni

Inspired by many great modern artists, such as Warhol, Basquiat, Rauschenberg, and Lichtenstein, as well as classical artists like Goya, Munch, Picasso, and most notably her father Paul Simon Hill, Fawni’s paintings are unique and striking, and always make an impression and a powerful statement.

Fred Herko

Herko was associated with a group of habitués to Warhol’s Silver Factory on 47th Street including Ondine, Rotten Rita, and Billy Name.

Gerard Malanga

In 1969, Malanga was one of the founding editors, along with Warhol and John Wilcock, of Interview magazine.

Klinton Spilsbury

Spilsbury told Warhol that he was a friend of actor Dennis Christopher and had fallen in love with him, and that he also had later fallen in love with actor Bud Cort.

Leanne Pooley

A profile of the artist known as Billy Apple who was at the forefront of both the POP and Conceptual art movements and who alongside the likes of Andy Warhol helped to redefine the meaning of the word artist.

Louise Lawler

Birdcalls (1972/2008) is an audio artwork that transforms the names of famous male artists into a bird song, parroting names such as Artschwager, Beuys, Ruscha and Warhol, a mockery of conditions of privilege and recognition given to male artists at that time.

Man Parrish

His nickname, Man, first appeared in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and his early live shows at Bronx hip-hop clubs were spectacles of lights, glitter, and pyrotechnics, which drew as much from the Warhol mystique as the Cold Crush Brothers.

Music for Chameleons

Warhol submitted reluctantly to Capote's demand for full creative and editorial control, though editor Brigid Berlin proved adept at winning the author over when changes were absolutely necessary.

Neophyte Phenotype

Producer = Noah23 (exec.), Orphan (also exec.), 3 Guts, Asterisk Autoharp, Cloev, Evan Gordon, Navigator, Ricky Bionix, Toyeone, Warhol

New Painting of Common Objects

It was curated by Walter Hopps, who had given Andy Warhol his first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles the previous year.

Patti D'Arbanville

She left him for periods of time to continue her modeling career in Paris and New York City, and was a part of Warhol's Factory scene.

Poole Pottery

Delphis is easily recognised: it is psychedelic, with vibrant colours and designs inspired by artists such as Mondrian, Warhol, Matisse and Pollock.

Racing Destruction Set

Koenig, Goldman and Warhol had all worked for the Intellivision game design team at Mattel during the early 1980s, where Koenig had programmed the Intellivision Motocross game.

Rainer Crone

The artist suggested a Red Self-Portrait, which had been recently acquired by Warhol's largest European dealer and Interview magazine co-owner Bruno Bischofberger and signed, dated and dedicated to "Bruno B."

Ronnie Cutrone

During that time, as Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and concepts, he hit upon the style the critics called "Post-Pop." And, along with Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga, danced onstage with the Velvet Underground and Nico as part of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable show.

Rose Art Museum

Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose Art Museum, came to Brandeis from the Museum of Modern Art, and with a small grant of $50,000 from collectors Leon Mnuchin and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, launched a collection with iconic works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Willem de Kooning and several others—21 works with a ceiling of $5,000 for any one piece bought with the grant.

Screen printing

Warhol is particularly identified with his 1962 depiction of actress Marilyn Monroe screen printed in garish colours.

Shot Marilyns

Dorothy Podber (1932–2008), a friend of Factory photographer Billy Name, saw the recently completed paintings stacked against one another at the studio and asked Warhol if she could shoot them.

Steven Parrino

Parrino used intentionally provocative subjects like abstract swastikas, rebel flags, and silhouettes of Russ Meyer starlets, Elvis Presley as rendered by Andy Warhol, the Hells Angels, Johnny Cash, and other works by Andy Warhol.

Sylvia Miles

Wayland Flowers and his puppet Madame first uttered the widely quoted line "Sylvia Miles and Andy Warhol would attend the opening of a sewer".

Tally Brown

Brown shared billing on "Silent Night, Bloody Night" with many actors from Warhol's "Factory" years: Mary Woronov, Ondine, Candy Darling, Kristen Steen, Lewis Love, director Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg.

Tate Etc.

Articles: Inner Visions by Söntgen; Out of the Blue by Wozencroft; Excremental Value by Miller; Dalí: Lights, Camera, ...Metamorphosis by Christie; Dalí by Jones, Montes Baquer, Disney, Mekas; A Study in Denim by Daniels; The Master Chameleon by Horn; Warhol by Williams; Hélio Oiticica by Katz, Veloso, Neto, Marepe, Yass; In the Mind’s Eye by Sacks; Dancing the White Darkness by Warner; We Are Here by Campany, Parr, Pavord etc..

The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol

The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol (ISBN 978-0-9706126-1-8) is a 1971 book by the British journalist John Wilcock.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The Philosophy was ghostwritten by Warhol's secretary Pat Hackett and Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello.

The Portrait Now

Varied subjects included self-portraits: Koons, Beltrami, Neel, Penck, less known figures and some famous names: Joseph Beuys by Warhol, Marlene Dietrich by Finer, President Mitterrand by Organ, Archbishop Desmond Tutu by Marisol, Seamus Heaney by Edwards, and 'The Smoking Man' a video portrait by Marty St.James.

The Suitcase Royale

Chronicles was shown at the Andy Warhol Memorial Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA in November 2007.

Warhola

John Warhola (1925–2010), brother of Andy Warhol and museum founder

James Warhola (born 1955), nephew of Andy Warhol and American artist

Washington Preparatory High School

Joel Wachs, class of 1957, Los Angeles city council member, 1971-2000, president of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York City

William Quigley

It was one of Warhol's last shows, "images of a child's world." with a striking catalog published by Swiss Dealer Bruno Bischofberger.


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