By RUTH LA FERLA
October 26, 2006

IN 1968 Andy Warhol placed an advertisement in The Village Voice: “I’ll endorse with my name any of the following: clothing, AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK ’N’ ROLL RECORDS, anything, film and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!! love and kisses ANDY WARHOL. EL 5-9941.”

Warhol was not being coy. He was firming up his position as a sociocultural commercial institution, an artist who churned out silk-screen prints with assembly-line efficiency, a magazine publisher, a television personality, a filmmaker, social gadabout and self-styled prophet, who saw the erosion of the line between art and commerce. He was intent on turning his name and mystique into a brand.

“Being good in business,” he wrote in “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again),” newly republished by Harcourt, is “the most fascinating kind of art.”

But even the seer in Warhol could not have envisioned the degree to which he has become commercialized. In time for the holiday season, nearly 20 years after his death in February 1987, the marketing of Andy Warhol is in full flood. “We’re seeing Warhol energy peeking out from everywhere,” said Robert Lee Morris, the jewelry designer and a former member of the artist’s circle, who has brought out a line of jewelry with Warhol motifs like the dollar sign and the Brillo logo. “We are witnessing all the ways that his reach has extended into the moment.”

 

Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
A Warhol pendant by
Robert Lee Morris.

Warhol’s mercantile essence, both high and low, is distilled in carpets and coffee mugs, calendars and greeting cards, T-shirts, tote bags and a style of Levi’s wax-coated jeans called Warhol Factory X, for $185. To judge by all the merchandise, Warhol is being positioned as the next Hello Kitty. There will even be a Warhol Pez dispenser. Imagine his jaw popping open to disgorge a mint.
http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=10508

[SynthethicalY]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

“Being good in business,” he wrote in “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again),” newly republished by Harcourt, is “the most fascinating kind of art.”

I have that book. Quite interesting.

[demonrail666]

I love the fact that this thread is such a shambles.

 

[Torn Curtain]

 

Sorry for the crap quality.

From http://www.landyvision.com/Slideshow/source/184.htm

 

[phoenix]

andy would've loved that this thread is so long.

and that he's on the internet.

and his stuff still sells for horifically high prices.

[nicfit]

ok, click on the link to get a little archive (9mb) with bigger scans of theese pics:

 

 

http://www.badongo.com/file/3262863

Young Drella:

 

Get well:

 

Soup browsing:

 

[demonrail666]

Does anyone know if Gerard Malanga ever wrote a biography, or is planning to write one? Given his role at the factory, it could be a real eye opener.

 

[jico.]

 

[ALIEN ANAL]

my sig is an edited warhole piece

Friday, August 10 2007
6:30pm - 7:00pm
The Taylor Mead Show $6 starring Andy Warhol's favorite movie star and the Poet laureate of The Factory, Taylor Mead!

308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker | 212-614-0505
http://www.poetz.com/cgi-poetz/Calci...=BPC&Op=ShowIt

[nicfit]

 

Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews John Giorno

http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/openfram...3Di%26cod%3D42

 

John Giorno photographed by William Burroughs 1965

 

Plus: http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/COFALL2006GUIDE.pdf

[lungfish]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

Does anyone know if Gerard Malanga ever wrote a biography, or is planning to write one? Given his role at the factory, it could be a real eye opener.

Colacello's book is probably the closest you'll get to a good inside look at Warhol.

great thread.
Warhol.. what can one say..
so many facets of personality.

i'm glad i get to see the Campbells set whenever i want.
the perks of living in NYC.
except i'm sure nothing beats his museum in Pittsburgh.
definitely gotta go there one day.

Originally Posted by lungfish

Colacello's book is probably the closest you'll get to a good inside look at Warhol.

great thread.
Warhol.. what can one say..
so many facets of personality.

i'm glad i get to see the Campbells set whenever i want.
the perks of living in NYC.
except i'm sure nothing beats his museum in Pittsburgh.
definitely gotta go there one day.

Yeah, but Colacello's book isn't really much of an insight into Warhol's world in the sixties. In fact both him and Fred Hughes are pretty much the key figures of a mostly tedius phase for Warhol in general.

[Tokolosh]

ANDY WARHOL
Other Voices, Other Rooms

12 October 2007 – 13 January 2008 @ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Forty years after the first major European Warhol exhibition in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum has organised an exhibition to shed new light on the oeuvre of the celebrated Pop Art master. With film, photography, video and famous icons ranging from Marilyn Monroe, Mao and Campbell Soup Cans, Andy Warhol – Other Voices, Other Rooms is a window onto the artistic thinking of this trendsetting artist, revealing the ‘conceptual soul’ of his work.

In his art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) merged the public with the personal and glamour and stardom with everyday life. He also predicted that everyone would have their fifteen minutes of fame, virtually predicting the coming of Idols and YouTube. With 27 films, rarely screened video tapes and audio recordings of Warhol himself, and extraordinary archive material, this exhibition zooms in on the focus of Warhol’s work: voyeurism, the mundane, the individual and the eradication of distinctions between high and low culture.
Visitors literally receive a ‘red carpet welcome’ to the exhibition, treated to a barrage of paparazzi-style camera flashes as their entrance is photographed. Music by The Velvet Underground, the band Warhol launched from his famous Factory, accompanies visitors as they roam through a film landscape that includes Screen Tests, Sleep, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, Kitchen and Mrs. Warhol. These films were Warhol’s experiments – secluded behind the camera, he shows people’s behaviour in all types of situations, without intervening, using time and observation as his ingredients. This land-scape leads to the poetic installation Silver Clouds, which, in contrast to the films is dreamy and calm.
The heart of the exhibition is the Warhol Cosmos, which highlights the master’s thinking and way of working. In addition to famous icons, the Factory Diaries, in which Warhol captured his life in the sixties, seventies and eighties with an imperturbable eye for detail, and objects from the Time Capsules play a significant role. Once again, drawings, photos and rare archive material are presented alongside audio fragments of luminaries such as Edie Sedgwick, Mick Jagger and Man Ray.
The final section of the exhibition synchronously presents all the material that Warhol produced for television – which was the latest medium in his lifetime. Now, he projects his voyeurism onto everyone, stars and ordinary people alike, in the medium that seemed best suited to the job. Just as he did in his magazine Interview Warhol also had a keen eye for detail and trivia, with which he exercised a specific influence on the development of both media. In this section, the museum created The Studio Room, where visitors can take a Factory-like screen test.

The exhibition is curated by Eva Meyer-Hermann, the scenography is by Chezweitz & Roseapple, Berlin. The exhibition is co-produced with the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie museums of Pittsburgh, and is on view at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm from 9 February to 4 May 2008. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (NAi Publishers), the Andy Warhol Newspaper and a special issue of magazine Blend. The museum is offering various activities in The Andy Warhol Side Show – see www.stedelijk.nl for a complete range. Membership of the Andy Warhol Club provides unlimited free entrance to the exhibition and activities.

See also: www.andywarholclub.nl

There are rumors that Lou Reed might be attending the opening on Thursday 11 October, because he has his own opening at Gallery ‘Serieuze Zaken Studioos’ the day before, where his photos of New York will be exhibited.

Andy Warhol Superstar Ivy Nicholson and Baird Jones Invite you to a screening of
Phantom of the Opera (1925, starring Lon Chaney) (With subtitles, music and dancing continue during the screening.)

China Club, 268 W. 47th St (off 8th Ave)
Friday, Oct. 12, (2 Complimentary drink tickets 10 ­ 11:30 per guest)
Free admission for you and your guestsfrom 10 ­ 12 by saying that you are for "The Film Party" (ask for doorman Avi, no sneakers or jeans please)

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Phoebe Legere of the New York Underground Museum and Baird Jones invite you to a screening of Olympia (directed by Leni Riefenstahl)
(In German, with English subtitles, music and dancing continue during the screening.)

Taj, 48 West 21st St (off 5th Ave)
Saturday, Oct. 13, ( Complimentary champagne 10 ­ 11)
Free admission for you and your guestsfrom 10 ­ 12 by saying
that you are for "The Film Party" (ask for doorman Josh, no sneakers or jeans please)

[floatingslowly]

tell either Avi or Josh that I'm here for The Film Party.

please don't tell anyone, but I've got candy and popcorn down my pants.