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April 2008
Sleep at the Hirshhorn
Andy Warhol's Sleep will be shown at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2008 from noon to 5:30 pm. (Callie Angell, the author of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, gave a talk at the Hirshhorn on April 3rd.)
The website for the HIrshhorn is at: http://hirshhorn.si.edu.
"Andy Warhol: The New Factory" at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca
The "Andy Warhol: The New Factory" exhibition opened at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma, Italy on March 16th and continues until July 6, 2008.
Details at: http://www.magnanirocca.it.
Andy Warhol on UbuWeb
UbuWeb is currently showing online the full length documentary Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror of the Sixties (1989) and Ronald Nameth's film of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable as well as numerous audio interviews with David Cronenberg, Amy Taubin and others on Warhol's art and films.
The Warhol's Cinema documentary is at:
http://www.ubu.com/film/warhol.html.The Ron Nameth film, Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the Velvet Underground (1966) is at:
http://www.ubuweb.com/film/nameth_velvet.html.The audio interviews are at:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/warhol.html.Also currently on the site are Jack Smith's films Flaming Creatures, Normal Love and Scotch Tape and Ron Rice's The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (starring Taylor Mead). A full list of film subjects appearing on the site including John Cage, William S. Burroughs, Banksy, Yoko Ono and others can be found at:
http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html.Andy Warhol exhibition planned for 2009 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
A major Warhol exhibition, "Le Grand Monde d'Andy Warhol," is being planned for 2009 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris.
Alain Cueff (curator):
"This exhibition sets out to deal with the issues surrounding portraits and faces in Andy Warhol’s work. It will focus on the portraits that he was commissioned to produce as from 1972. The people from the world of the jet set, fashion and art (artists, collectors and dealers) that passed in front of Warhol’s Polaroid lens gave the undertaking its legitimacy and broaden the compass of the sitters. Towards the end of the seventies, the portrait machine was working at full steam. It is estimated that between 1972 and 1987 (the year he died) Warhol painted between eight hundred and one thousand portraits. The exhibition Le Grand Monde d’Andy Warhol aims to bring to light the artistic ambition of this sometimes underestimated pantheon by giving it a genealogical and thematic context."
The exhibition will take place from March 16 to July 15, 2009.
Andy Warhol surpasses Pablo Picasso in sales
Andy Warhol is now no. 1 on the yearly artprice list of the ten top earning artists, surpassing the usual winner, Pablo Picasso. In 2007 public sales of Warhol's work reached $420 million whereas Picasso earned $319 million. Francis Bacon came in third and Mark Rothko fourth. The full list can be found at:
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/mason/2008/03/warhol_no_1_party_at_studio_54.html.New Andy Warhol book by Glenn O'Brien and Ron Galella due in May.
Warhol by Galella:That's Great! with a foreword by Glenn O'Brien and photographs by Gallela is to be published by Monacelli in May 2008. Details on the Amazon page here.
Nine pages of Andy Warhol's superstars in I.D. magazine
The April issue of U.K. fashion magazine, I.D., includes a nine page special feature on Andy Warhol's (and Paul Morrissey's) surviving superstars. The article, titled "Factory Revisted" was conceived by I.D. deputy editor Holly Shackleton (who also wrote some of the text) and includes more than 20 photographs by Billy Name, Anton Perich and Nat Finkelstein. Additional text/interviews were contributed by Sarah Hay, Matt Bochenski and Karen Leong.
Although a few oft-repeated claims that are more fiction than fact are included (Joe Dallesandro's crotch is not the crotch pictured on the Rolling Stones album, Sticky Fingers), the article includes some very interesting quotes and a rare interview with Ronald Tavel. (Tavel has recently added a fascinating "Update on 'Screen Test I'" to his website at http://ronald-tavel.com. (click on "Screenplays," then on "SCREEN TEST").
From the I.D. article:
Joe Dallesandro:
"I never looked at people for their sexual preference, and I didn't expect people to look at me and ask me what my sexual preference was. If I wasn't sharing that with you it means I wasn't interested in you, and it would be none of your business."
Holly Woodlawn [refering to the recent paintings of her by Sadie Lee]:
"I was born sixty years ago. When I was twenty I was beautiful and what we both [Sadie and Holly] tried to convey was that there's nothing wrong in growing old. My body might not work as well as it used to but my brain does and I am not afraid. When my boyfriend saw the paintings he said, 'you can't do this.' I said, 'I don't care what people think, this is who I am.'"
Bibbe Hansen:
"So many people that cruised through and/or wrote about the Factory actually came from quite middle class backgrounds and were easily horrified, I think. So much worse was going on in the shooting galleries, crash pads, and thieves' dens that I was living and playing in at that time - the Factory was quite calm and tame by comparison."
Jeremiah Newton:
"The beginning of Candy's illness was horrifying, she had a lump in her stomach. Candy said, 'Jeremiah, I'm pregnant!' I said, 'Dear that's not possible!' She went into hospital for investigative surgery but it was too late, the tumor was too far advanced. Candy was very angry, she wasn't ready to die..."
[Candy Darling died in March 1974. Her ashes were interred in Jeremiah Newton's family plot in upstate New York on October 27, 2007. A photograph of the gravestone (with an excerpt from the Edith Sitwell poem "Heart and Mind" on the reverse of the stone) can be found here.]
The April issue of I.D. magazine (which also includes an interview with Pete Burns) is available from most newstands or can be ordered online through their website at:
http://www.i-dmagazine.com.Andy Warhol in Grand Rapids
The "Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series" exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum opened on March 15 and continues until June 15, 2008.
ABC News has reported on the exhibition online under the heading "Andy Warhol's More Disturbing Works Go on View in Michigan." Their coverage can be found at:
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4474397&page=1.The website for the Grand Rapids Art Museum can be found at:
http://www.gramonline.org/home/page/Andy+Warhol.Auction history of Andy Warhol's Orange Marilyn
An online article by Ernst Beck tracing the auction history of Andy Warhol's Orange Marilyn which includes video footage of the auction of a Warhol Liz for $21 million can be found here.
"Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered" at The Jewish Museum
Andy Warhol's series of Jewish portraits can be seen at The Jewish Museum from March 16 through August 3, 2008 - the same museum that showed the series when it was first presented to the public in 1980. The website for the museum can be found at: http://www.thejewishmuseum.org.
Michael Musto to present Holly Woodlawn's new film at the New York Underground Film Festival.
The world premiere of Holly Woodlawn's latest film, East of the Tar Pits, will take place as part of the 15th (and final) New York Underground Film Festival on April 3rd at 10:30 pm. It will be presented by Michael Musto of the Village Voice. The venue for the festival will be The Courthouse on 195 Chrystie Street in New York - part of the Anthology Film Archives.
In addition to Holly Woodlawn, the film includes soap star Frank Messina and and ex-Robert Mapplethorpe model Robert Sherman.
Both Holly and the director of the film, Gary LeGault intend to be at the screening.
Gary LeGault:
"Holly is very excited about this and plans to be there as well as I do, myself... Right now, Holly is fashioning her gown for the opening night from six yards of delicately- embroidered sheer white, net fabric with a flesh colored sheath of chiffon beneath it."
Photos from the film can be found here.
Holly Woodlawn's superstar page is here.
The website for the New York Underground Film Festival can be found at:
http://www.nyuff.com/2008/.Although Holly's autobiography, A Low Life in High Heels: The Holly Woodlawn Story, is currently out of print, it can still be purchased through ABE Books here.
March 2008
Andy Warhol exhibition planned by the Hayward Gallery in London
A major Andy Warhol exhibition is being planned by the most user-friendly public gallery in London - The Hayward Gallery at the Southbank. The exhibition will run from October 2008 to January 2009 and will include footage from his films and TV shows alongside paintings, prints and installations.
The website for The Hayward Gallery can be found at:
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk.New Andy Warhol monograph to be published by The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art will be publishing a new monograph on Andy Warhol by Carolyn Lanchner on June 1, 2008.
Details on the Amazon page here.
The website for The Museum of Modern Art is at: http://www.moma.org.
Andy Warhol: Other Voices Other Rooms exh. catalogue to be available in March.
The catalogue for the Stedlijk Museum's Warhol show, "Andy Warhol: Other Voices Other Rooms" will be available in March from Amazon. (The exhibition is currently at the Moderna Museet Museum in Sweden.)
Details on the Amazon page here
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The ABE Books page for the publication is here.
The website for the Moderna Museet is at http://www.modernamuseet.se.
As reported last month, the classic Moderna Museet 1968 Warhol catalogue will be re-published in April. Details on the Amazon page here. The original catalogue can be found at ABE Books here.
Andy Warhol Superstar Jane Holzer in The New York Times
An article on Andy Warhol superstar Jane Holzer (and her art collection) appeared in the Women's Fashion 2008 section of The New York Times last month. It can be found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/02/24/style/t/index.html#pagewanted=6&pageName=24holzer1&.Andy Warhol's Three Self Portraits tops £11 million
Andy Warhol's Three Self Portraits (1986) was sold for approx. £11.4 million pounds/$22.6 million (est. £10-15 million) at the Sotheby's auction house in London on February 27, 2008.
Details at: http://itn.co.uk/news/d82ab018b938a281e82e37d8eb1ddb83.html.
Anthony D'Offay sells/donates art collection to England/Scotland
Anthony D'Offay has sold/donated a collection of 725 works of art (including works by Andy Warhol) to the U.K. in a deal negotiated by the National Galleries of Scotland and the Tate Gallery in London. D'Offay will receive £26.5 million for his "gift" - the price that he originally paid for the works in the collection, now estimated to be worth in excess of £100 million. Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery called the sale "an extraordinary act of philanthropy," adding "I don't know of anything equivalent anywhere else in the world. This represents most of Anthony's wealth."
Details at:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/entertainment/Art-dealer-says-39thanks39-with.3824055.jp.Daily Telegraph incorrectly attributes Che Guevara silkscreens to Warhol.
Nigel Reynolds, the arts correspondent for the Daily Telegraph incorrectly stated last month in an article titled "Fidel Castro: the cultural icon" in the Telegraph that "Warhol, the greatest image-maker of the 20th century, made silkscreen prints of Guevara and another Marxist, China's Chairman Mao (a copy sold two years ago for $17.6 million), but never Castro."
Although it is, of course, true that Warhol made silkscreens of Mao, he never made silkscreens of Che Guevara. The pop art image of Che that is often found on market stall t-shirts and posters was actually by Jim Fitzpatrick, but is often incorrectly attributed to Warhol.
Nigel Reynold's article can be found at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/19/wcastro1419.xml.I'm Not There at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in London
Todd Haynes' "wildly experimental" film on the Bob Dylan, featuring Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan, will be shown at this years B.F.I. London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in London. Other highlights include Esther Robinson's acclaimed documentary, A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory on March 31 and April 1.
Details at: http://www.bfi.org.uk/llgff/.
Andy Warhol and Pietro Psaier
A press release issued by John Nicholson Auctioneers and distributed by Pressport claims that Psaier and Warhol had a "bisexual relationship." According to the press release "in 1961 [Psaier] found his way to Soho, New York. Whilst working as a waiter in the Greenwich Village Gaslight Café in 1964 he met Andy Warhol and an extraordinary bisexual relationship blossomed between the two."
A copy of the press release can be found at:
http://www.pressport.co.uk/pressrelease_read.aspx?ID=4982.Andy Warhol Original Prints and Drawings at the London Print Fair in April.
The 23rd annual London Original Print Fair will take place at the Royal Academy of Art from April 23 - 27, 2008 and will include work by Warhol.
From the press release:
"Hilary and Georgie Gerrish in association with David Dawson have great pleasure in announcing a major exhibition of Andy Warhol’s prints and related drawings to be unveiled at this year’s London Original Print Fair. The show will include well-known sixties icons such as the Marilyns and the menacing Electric Chairs of the seventies alongside rare pieces from the eighties inspired by the masterpieces of Edvard Munch."
Entry to the exhibition is by ticket. Georgie Gerrish, one of the organizers of the exhibition, has been kind enough to offer to send an invite to Warholstars site users which will grant them free entry. If you are interested in attending, send an email to: georgiegerrish@hotmail.co.uk.
The website for the print fair can be found at:
http://www.londonprintfair.com.Jane Holzer and other 60s icons inspires Galliano's new collection for Dior.
On February 25th, Hilary Alexander reported in The Telegraph, "1960’s movie and style icons such as Jackie ‘O’, the model Verushka, Andy Warhol’s Baby Jane Holzer, “Mrs Robinson” of The Graduate fame, and Raquel Welch, were recreated on the catwalk in Paris today as Christian Dior turned the clock back to the 1960’s."
Details at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2008/02/25/efcdior125.xml.Baird Jones dies
Baird Jones, the promoter who recently presented films in conjunction with Warhol superstar Ivy Nicholson at club venues in New York was found dead in his New York apartment on Thursday, February 21, 2008. An autopsy performed on Saturday, February 23rd was inconclusive.
Obituary at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/nyregion/23jones.html?_r
=1&em&ex=1203915600&en=fa0f769d3e3f5ac5&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin.New York Post article at: http://www.nypost.com/seven/02242008/news/regionalnews/baird_still_a_mystery_99066.htm.
Dorothy Podber's death makes U.K. press
The Daily Telegraph in London printed an article last month on recently deceased Dorothy Podber - the woman who shot Warhol's Marilyns.
It can be found at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/db2202.xml.
February 2008
Dorothy Podber obituary in The New York Times
An obituary for Dorothy Podber appeared in The New York Times yesterday, February 19, 2008.
From the obituary:
"Ms. Podber was an artist in her own right and in the late ’50s and early ’60s helped to run the Nonagon Gallery in Manhattan, which showed the work of a young Yoko Ono and was known for jazz concerts by performers like Charles Mingus. But she became famous, or infamous, in the art world mostly as a muse and a co-conspirator of more prominent artists like Ray Johnson, with whom she staged impromptu happenings on Manhattan streets... In a 2006 interview with the writer Joy Bergmann, Ms. Podber said: “I’ve been bad all my life. Playing dirty tricks on people is my specialty.”
Certainly the most outrageous was her unsolicited contribution to a few of Warhol’s “Marilyn” silk-screen paintings. In the fall of 1964 Ms. Podber, a friend of the photographer and Warhol regular Billy Name, visited Warhol’s Factory on East 47th Street in Manhattan with her Great Dane (named Carmen Miranda or Yvonne De Carlo, depending on the account). Ms. Podber asked Warhol if she could shoot a stack of the “Marilyn” paintings; he apparently thought that she wanted to take pictures of them and consented.
But she produced a pistol and fired at them, penetrating three or four. One of them, “Shot Red Marilyn,” with a repaired bullet hole over the left eyebrow, sold for $4 million in 1989, at the time setting a record at auction for a Warhol work."
The full obituary can be found at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/arts/19podber.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin.Joy Bergmann's 2006 interview with Podber is at:
http://joybergmann.wordpress.com.Factory 2 in Cracow
Factory 2, a theatre piece about Andy Warhol's Factory directed by Krystian Lupa, opens at the Stary Theatre in Cracow on February 16 , 2008.
Details at: http://www.stary.pl/materialy_archiwum.php5?archiw=260.
Photos and press at: http://www.rp.pl/galeria/7,91938.html and http://www.eastnews.com.pl/news/biuletyn.php?idPozycji=13828&kiedy=2008-02-12 and
http://www.foto.kai.pl/?wp=display&did=2094.London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
The British Film Instiute's London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival will run from Thu 27 Mar to Thu 10 Apr 2008. They usually show at least some films of interest to Warhol afficianadoes but, unfortunately, the downloadable PDF calendar on their website is dated 2007 and there has been little press about the Festival so it's unclear what films are actually going to be shown this year.
Details (sort of) at: http://www.llgff.org.uk.
Dorothy Podber
Dorothy Podber, the woman shot Andy Warhol's Marilyns, died in her East Village home on Saturday, February 9, 2008 at the age of 75.
More information about Dorothy at:
http://joybergmann.wordpress.com.Penny Arcade in San Francisco
Penny Arcade, who appeared in Women in Revolt, will be doing several dates in San Francisco during February. On Wednesday February 13 she'll be one of the numerous performers in "Weimar New York" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. On February 15, 16 and 17th she'll be presenting "Not Quite the Best of Penny Arcade" at The Marsh on Valencia Street.
Details on the SF MOMA show at:
http://www.sfmoma.org/calendar/calendar_event.asp?eventid=1148&etype=2&func=repeat.Details on The Marsh show at: http://www.themarsh.org/pennyarcade.html.
Penny Arcade's website is at: http://www.pennyarcade.tv.
Andy Warhol Moderna Museet catalogue to be reprinted
The rare, but often discussed Moderna Museet catalogue of Andy Warhol's 1968 exhibition in Sweden, packed with photographs by Billy Name, Stephen Shore, Rudy Burckhardt, Eric Pollitzer and John D. Schiff, is being reprinted to coincide with the the Moderna Museet's exhibition "Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms" (in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam) which runs from February 9, 2008 to May 4, 2008.
Publication date is April 1, 2008. Details on the Amazon page here.
Copies of the original catalogue can be found on AbeBooks here.
The website for the Moderna Museet is at: http://www.modernamuseet.se.
VIVA to appear in new Paul Morrissey film
The Daily News has reported that Paul Morrissey is returning to filmmaking with a film which includes Andy Warhol superstar Viva as well as Geraldine Smith who appeared in Flesh and Bad. The yet-to-be titled fictional film apparently features a male model that Morrissey met through Bruce Weber as the reincarnation of Jesus.
Details at: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/01/29/2008-01-29
_paul_morrissey_makes_return_to_film.html.New Andy Warhol book by Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana's new book, Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World, is due to be published June 17, 2008 by Basic Books. Indiana's book apparently draws on the personal recollections of some of Andy Warhol's superstars to tell the story of Warhol's 32 Soup Cans unveiled at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in 1962 before there were any Andy Warhol superstars - before Warhol purchased a movie camera in 1963 and before he started the first Factory in 1964.
Andy Warhol in Grand Rapids
"Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series," an exhibition of more than 100 paintings and prints by Andy Warhol will take place at the Grand Rapids Art Museum from March 14 - June 15, 2008.
Details at: http://www.gramonline.org/home/page/Future+Exhibitions.
Edie Sedgwick musical in L.A.
Silver for Gold, a musical based on the life of Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, written by Bauhaus bassist and Love and Rockets co-founder David J., will be performed at the Met Theater in Hollywood from March 6 to 16, 2008.
David J:
"I sat down with John Cale and picked his brain, as well as Bibbe Hansen who knew Edie in her Factory days... I went through archives about Edie, and her drawings and films gave me a real insight... When I was writing it was if she was around as a spirit - it was very strange. I had never experienced anything like it. I felt a distinct presence, so I guess she was the archetypal muse... The play puts her life in mythic terms -- Edie is seen as Persephone and it chronicles her journey into the underworld, which is New York. Warhol is there as Hades and Bob Dylan is Orpheus." ("David J's 'Silver For Gold' set for LA premiere," NME, January 29, 2008)
Details on the Silver for Gold MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/silverforgold.
"Woo Who? May Wilson" at Pavel Zoubok
The Pavel Zoubok Gallery at 533 West 23rd Street in New York is hosting a May Wilson retrospective exhibition from February 15 - March 15, 2008 (opening reception on February 15, from 6 to 8 pm). It was under May Wilson's bed that Valerie Solanas stored the gun she used to shoot Andy Warhol.
During the 1960s Wilson's work was included in Martha Jackson's "New Media New Forms: In Painting and Sculpture" exhibition which featured the works of artists that were often referred to as "Neo-Dada" or "New Realists" before the term "Pop Art" was adopted in the United States.
Wilson was also the subject of the excellent 1969 documentary, Woo Who? May Wilson, from which the current exhibition takes its name. Distributor for the film is New Day Films at http://www.newday.com/films/Woo_Who_May_Wilson.html.
The exhibition at Pavel Zoubok is running in collaboration with the May Wilson exhibition at the Morris Museum in New Jersey. The website for Morris Museum is at http://www.morrismuseum.org.
The website for the Pavel Zoubok Gallery is at: http://www.pavelzoubok.com.
Glenn O'Brien returns to Interview
Glenn O'Brien has been appointed joint editorial director of Interview magazine after the resignation of Interview's editor in chief, Ingrid Sischy.
Ingrid Sischy:
"When I was first drafted as editor after Andy Warhol's death I thought I'd stay a few years, devote myself to helping the magazine find its post-Warhol life, and then get back to my writing. Although leaving the magazine and wonderful staff behind is difficult, it is the right decision and one that will allow the new owners to establish their own editorial stamp on the magazine. I am now more than ever, eager to get back to my writing and have several big projects in front of me that need my attention"
O'Brien will be sharing the position of editorial director with Fabien Baron, previously the creative director for French Vogue. O'Brien worked at Interview when Andy Warhol was still alive, serving as the managing editor and art director of the magazine during the early seventies and later writing the "Beat" column.
Bob Colacello [From Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up]:
"In the year or so (spring 1972 to summer 1973) that he [Glenn O'Brien] was managing editor and art director, Interview kept getting bigger and better... In addition to discovering Fran Lebowitz, Glenn had expanded the contributing-editors list to include bright young journalists like Lisa Robinson... and added a page of 'London Smalltalk,' which recorded the monthly doings of the Zandra Rhodes/David Hockney set... Glenn also started a Hollywood 'bureau' in the person of Susan Pile, Pat Hackett's closest friend, and a former Factory transcriber, who had moved to L.A. and gone into P.R." (BC138/9)
Details at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20080123.NYW164&show_article=1.
Andy Warhol on 20/20 on DVD
ABC News coverage/interviews of Andy Warhol was released on DVD last month. Details on the Amazon page here.
"Warhol Dead at 21" at the World of Wonder
The "Warhol Dead at 21" exhibition at the World of Wonder gallery on Hollywood Blvd. continues until February 22, 2008. The opening party was attended by Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn, James St. James, Stephen Saban and others. (See Ginger Coyote's Punk Globe gossip column at http://www.punkglobe.com/gossipfeb08.html).
Details and a video of the exhibition can be found at: http://worldofwonder.net/archives/storefront.wow.
John Giorno and Thomas Sokolowski in Saskatchewan
John Giorno and the Director of The Warhol museum, Thomas Sokolowski, will be speaking at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada in conjunction with their "Warhol: Larger Than Life" exhibition which runs from January 27, 2008 to April 20, 2008. Giorno will be reading his poetry at the gallery on February 7, 2008. Sokolowski's lecture will take place February 28, 2008.
Details at http://www.mackenzieartgallery.ca/Exhibitions/Upcoming_Exhibitions/48/.
Allen Midgette Revisited
An interesting eyewitness account of Allen Midgette's impersonation of Andy Warhol on a lecture tour in 1962 appears in the Deseret Morning News here: http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695240896,00.html.
January 2008
The Man with 800 Warhols
The Wall Street Journal has published an article on Jose Mugrabi and his sons who own 800 works by Andy Warhol - "the world's largest private stash of Andy Warhol's art." The article can be found at:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119940749725466431.html?mod=blog.Andy Warhol: Portraits and Landscapes at Timothy Taylor
An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Andy Warhol taken in New York, London and numerous other cities will open on January 17, 2008 at the Timothy Taylor gallery in London. The gallery has yet to post the details on their website but should have the information up soon. The gallery's website is at: http://www.timothytaylorgallery.com.
Warhol Sobre Warhol
The exhibition "Warhol Sobre Warhol" at the La Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid closes January 20, 2008. A site user writes "the catalogue for the Australian show is excellent and so is the one for the show in Madrid... it's mostly photos of Andy and the book has a silver cover and silver pages and looks great and has great essays in it. I got mine at the Strand."
Details of the exhibtion at: http://www.lacasaencendida.es.
Andy Warhol Live in Montreal
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will be hosting a Warhol exhibit, "Warhol Live," from September 25, 2008 to January 18, 2009. Details at: http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/expositions/exposition_122.html.
Happy New Year from Warholstars.
Brigid Berlin:
"It's all downhill starting with tomorrow. Because it's gonna be this time next year in like five minutes anyway. It was this time last year five minutes ago. I mean it goes so quick." (BB)
Factory People near completion
The three-episode three hour documentary on Andy Warhol's superstars, Andy Warhol's Factory People, which has been in production for the past three years, will be completed in three weeks. Interviewees include Billy Name, Brigid Berlin, UltraViolet, Taylor Mead, Mary Woronov, Bibbi Hansen, Geraldine Smith, Louis Waldon, Allen Midgette, David Croland, Holly Woodlawn, Gerard Malanga, Danny Fields, Victor Bockris, Jonas Mekas, Steven Bruce, Leee Black Childers, Nat Finkelstein, Bob Heide and Vincent Fremont. Photos from the interview sessions can be found in the Warholstars news archive at http://www.warholstars.org/news/May2005b.html.
The film, directed by Emmy Award winner Catherine O'Sullivan Shorr, is being produced by Planet Group Entertainment (PGE) in association with Zarafa Films and France Television. Patrick Nagle is the Executive Producer.
Details at the Planet Group Entertainment website at http://planetgroupentertainment.squarespace.com.
Andy Warhol film series at the Australian Cinematheque
The comprehensive series, which runs until the end of March 2008, includes more than 300 films by Andy Warhol (279 Screen Tests and 51 restored films on loan from The Museum of Modern Art in New York) plus a selection of Michel Auder's rarely screened Warhol-related films, Keeping Busy (1969), The Valerie Solanas Incident (1971) and Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol (1971–76). Other rarities include the documentaries Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror for the Sixties (1989), The Warhol Nation (1997), Absolut Warhola (2001) and Excavating Taylor Mead (2005).
The Warhol films to be screened in January 2008 include Harlot, Screen Test No 1 and No. 2, The Life of Juanita Castro, Horse, Poor Little Rich Girl, Restaurant, Kitchen, Beauty No. 2, Space, Outer and Inner Space and Lupe in addition to nurmerous Screen Tests. A full program for the film series can be found at: http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/andy_warhol/film_program.
The series is running in conjunction with the current Warhol exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia. Details and a downloadable audio tour of the exhibition can be found at: http://www.qag.qld.gov.au.
Save the Drill Hall
The Arts Council in England is withdrawing its funding from one of London's most acclaimed alternative performance venues - The Drill Hall. The Drill Hall was built in 1882 and during the early 1900s provided rehearsal space for Diaghilev's famous Ballet Russes with Nijinsky. The current management has produced some of the most innovative shows in London, focusing on gay, lesbian and transgender events. Artists who have performed there include Michelle Shocked, Neil Bartlett, Bloolips, The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Rhona Cameron, Lea Delaria, Lypsinka, Theatre of Black Women, Armistead Maupin, Out & Proud, Jackie Clune, and The Five Lesbian Brothers. In September 2007. Holly Woodlawn appeared there in conjunction with an exhibition of paintings of her by Sadie Lee.
The reason given by the Arts Council for the withdrawal of funding is "serious concerns over the sustainability" of the venue despite the fact that the current management team has successfully operated the Drill Hall since 1984. One has to ask why British taxes are going to support arts organizations which are sustainable without public money? Isn't the purpose of public grants to help organizations which would otherwise not be able to afford to exist? The money is there. The Arts Council received a larger than expected settlement from the government this year. But while the Arts Council has withdrawn funding completely from the Drill Hall, they have increased the money they give to larger organizations such as The Royal Opera House and the Royal Shakespeare Company who have considerably more funding resources available to them than the Drill Hall.
Emails supporting the Drill Hall and requesting that the Arts Council continue to fund the venue can be sent to the mayor's office at mayor@london.gov.uk.
The website for the Drill Hall is at: http://www.drillhall.co.uk.
An article on the funding cuts can be found at: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/funding/story/0,,2228648,00.html.
I Was Andy Warhol
Warhol star Allen Midgette is currently working on a book with the title of I Was Andy Warhol. An interview with Midgette recently appeared on the KUTV site at: http://www.kutv.com/content/blogs/feature/afreshlookonlife/story.aspx?
content_id=4d34642a-ee6f-459f-b8e9-dd21d242ef12.The Warholstars interview with Midgette is at: http://www.warholstars.org/andywarhol/interview/midgette/allen.html.
Get Warhol'd at the Sioux City Art Center
If you are one of the few who have yet to acheive their fifteen minutes of fame, here's your chance to have a Warhol style portrait of yourself hanging in a public gallery. As a fundraising venture the Sioux City Art Center in Iowa, founded in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project, is offering people the opportunity to have their photograph taken by a professional photographer and converted into a Pop Art print which will then be included in an exhibition scheduled for May 2008. (Alternatively, you can provide them with a photograph providing it meets their specifications).
The website for the Sioux City Art Center is at http://www.siouxcityartcenter.org.
The details and application for the Pop Art print are at http://www.siouxcityartcenter.org/development/getwarhold.pdf.
Kids Andy Warhol Party
The Bunch Family organization in Toronto will be hosting a Factory-style kids party on February 3, 2008 as part of the WinterCity Festival. Details at: http://www.bunchfamily.ca/fdp.htm.
Philip Johnson's apartment to be renovated
Philip Johnson's apartment in the Museum Tower buidling has been purchased by Amy and Michael Cosgrove (president of the Houston energy brokerage company, Amerex Brokers) who have hired architect François de Menil to oversee repairs to the apartment. Mrs. Cosgrove has said that she is trying to "make these repairs as minimal and touch-ups as respectful as possible.” The apartment includes signed Andy Warhol Cow Wallpaper in the powder room. (Josh Barbanel, "Celebrity Power Goes Only So Far," The New York Times (December 16, 2007))
Both Johnson and his long-time partner, David Whitney, died in 2005. Whitney's obituary appears at http://www.warholstars.org/news/june2005b.html.
Al Hansen and the Masque
An essay on Al Hansen and the L.A. punk club, the Masque, has appeared on the Al Hansen my space page at: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=292141749.
Hansen, a Fluxus artist, was the father of Warhol star Bibbe Hansen. During the 1960s Warhol contributed to Hansen's magazine Kiss, "the paper you read with one hand."
The website for Al Hansen can be found at: http://www.alhansen.net.
The Live at the Masque book is here.
Ron Mueck at The Warhol
An exhibition of the works of a personal favorite, Ron Mueck, is currently at The Warhol museum. The not-to-be-missed exhibition continues until March 30, 2008. Details at http://www.warhol.org/whats_on/exhibitions.asp.
Interview with Abigail Rosen
I have added to the site an interview with Abigail Rosen (now Abigail McGrath). Abigail was the first door person at Max's Kansas City and the woman in the afro in the bathtub with Viva in Andy Wahol's Tub Girls.
The interview is at: http://www.warholstars.org/articles/abigailrosen/abigailrosen.html.
Paul America
Ryan Hill, the nephew of Warhol star Paul America, is working on a book/film on his uncle and would like to hear from anyone who knew Paul or has any information about him. (He has confirmed that Paul died after being hit by a car while returning from a dental appointment on October 19, 1982 in Florida.)
Ryan Hill can be reached at: ryfilm@gmail.com.
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