Word: warholism
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...Warhol created himself famously: He established a scene with his artwork and consumed '60s glamour with eccentricity. He patronized Studio 54 in New York City, an elite space where fame hung in the air--it was a democratizing agent that transformed everyone into a celebrity...
...Andy Warhol wrote a quotable quote. His words appeared free-standing, without explanation, in the catalog for his Oslo exhibition. His comment on fame--that everyone would achieve fleeting notoriety--became famous in its own right. Was this an ironic twist? Or maybe Warhol's point exactly...
...future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is: 'Everybody will be famous in fifteen minutes.'" About a decade later, Warhol flippantly revised his own aphorism...
...better or worse, we live in a world Andy Warhol made--where striking visuals and fluffy text create and feed desire. In 1978 Warhol said, "I never read; I only look at pictures." He taught the idea crowd that everything out there was tasty bullshit, allowing them to round out their relativism. Eat up, he said. And so giant Brillo boxes colonized art galleries, challenging the exaggerated intellects of art critics. Meaning was out of fashion...
...Warhol wasn't predicting the future; he was praying for it, creating it, living...