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...appearances, an eight-page spread in German Vogue, and the parallel rerelease of a prizewinning Schnabel film, Before Night Falls. Gushed a headline in the tabloid Bild Zeitung: MR. BIG SWEEPS BACK IN TRIUMPH. One of the best-known celebrity artists New York City has produced since Andy Warhol, Schnabel, now 52, shot to youthful fame in the late '70s with his signature "plate paintings," in which broken crockery is embedded on a painted canvas, then painted some more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided...
...arty. What the hell does that mean? It's not like we got a band together as some kind of conceptual abstract sound sculpture. We got together to make a pop band." Maybe, but they did gain notoriety through their own arty happenings. In the spirit of Andy Warhol's Factory, the band occupied the top floors of an abandoned Glasgow art-deco warehouse dubbed "the Chateau." They would host events, playing to a word-of-mouth crowd, while others used the space for art installations. "We were socializing with these people and they all had ideas and they...
...Even Warhol got sick of it. “My new line is ‘in 15 minutes everybody will be famous,’” he wrote in 1979. Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with...
...opening reception. I was confused. We’d been at the gallery for at least half an hour and my teacher had only talked about my drawing for three short minutes. Where was this 15 number coming from? My dad then explained about a man named Andy Warhol and an idea he had that everyone would be famous, world famous no less, for fifteen minutes...
...profiling dozens of students a semester, FM tries to fulfill its namesake proclamation by Andy Warhol that “in the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” For our editors’ issue, we figured we’d check back in with a few students cruelly relegated to comparative anonymity after appearing in FM to see what a difference we made, and whether they’d been up to anything since we last checked in. We hadn’t and they hadn’t. Perhaps FM should consider...