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...lacking “some sort of spark,” opining “you just gave up and thought that that was being dead,” and correcting all of us who had naively confused being dead with, well…being dead. Eerily akin to Warhol??s “Car Crash” series, these images conflate simulated death with sexiness and transform the morbid into an overt spectacle...
...writing my dissertation; in fact, the paperwork’s going in this week. I’m writing about what I call performative realism in American independent cinema. I particularly focus on post-war realist films that straddle the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, of which Andy Warhol??s films are an example. People acting as themselves in his films often create a sense of uncertainty regarding their role as characters.The reason I call it performative realism is that one of my goals is to shift the focus to the study of performance. There are always...
Harris was the founder and CEO of Pseudo.com, an early 90s internet network that he predicted would take down CBS and NBC. While others were mastering the basics of HTML, Harris was instituting the first online chat rooms and becoming a multi-millionaire. Called the “Warhol?? of the internet world by New York Magazine, Harris commissioned his artist friends to do as they pleased in the Factory-esque office space of Pseudo. His unorthodox management style (which included dressing up as a clown when investors toured the office) eventually led to the company?...
...Whaam!” “Pow!” “Pop!” and there it was: art and fashion (and the philosophical ponderings of the intersection between the two) thrust upon me by a pair of kicks. With the conference celebrating Andy Warhol??s legacy at the Sackler this past weekend and Barack Obama’s image superimposed on t-shirts and posters across campus, this idea of art, popular culture, and fashion—that art is fashion and fashion is art—kept popping into my head. That...
...famous for 15 minutes.” By now Warhol has contradicted his own statement: his celebrity—and more importantly his artistic influence—has lasted for over 50 years.To commemorate what would have been his 80th year, and to help dismantle common simplifications of Warhol??s work, Harvard art professor Benjamin Buchloh has organized the conference “Andy, 80? Considering the Warhol Legacies on His 80th Birthday” to take place today and tomorrow in the Sackler Auditorium. The conference will present three speakers from in and outside Harvard who will...