Word: warholism
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...large portraits of the late '60s and '70s. These big, light paintings are all a pleasure, each one as grippingly individual as the people who inhabit them. Among the sitters Neel painted during the later years of her life were recognized figures on the art scene, including Andy Warhol. The appearance of large numbers of art-world types reflects the growing recognition Neel received in the '60s, out of which came a 1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney...
...time when very little within the art world has caught the imagination of many people outside the art world, one of the current notable trends is the gradual marginalization of art--you know, pictures and stuff. There may not be another crowd-pleasing Warhol on the horizon, but museums must have their blockbusters, so they have been resorting more often lately to shows of easy-to-digest fashion or pop-music artifacts. The embarrassing "Rock Style" show that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City put on earlier this year stuffed both trends into one silly shopping...
...going to give you a quote," Essman says, explaining why Forever will succeed. "It's from Andy Warhol, and it goes something like this: 'Everybody is entitled to 15 minutes of fame.' That biography is going to be ours." What Warhol actually wrote was, "In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes." Essman got the quote wrong, but he got the sociology right. Many of us believe we have a right to be famous. None of Forever's clients, folks who were dishwashers or lawyers, actors or plumbers, has ever asked that a biography remain private...
...drawn to this particular event by the clever publicity campaign staged by its organizers. It is not every day that the disembodied head of Howard Zinn appears on a poster along with two young movie stars. I decided that any event associated with such an unusual tableau--Andy Warhol's vision of Mt. Rushmore?--was worth a casual inspection...
...white jacket with a white vest, white-striped shirt, white tie, white handkerchief, white slacks and black-trimmed white shoes. His reading glasses, with thick white frames, resembled two Chinese soupspoons with holes in the center, fused together. He looked as though he had raided the closet of Andy Warhol, Truman Capote or maybe Elton John. They are, after all, empty closets these days. One could hardly help asking onesself, "What is up with this...