Word: warholism
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Generally, things made closer to the present fared much worse, and for quite a number of recent darlings of the market, such as Julian Schnabel and Andy / Warhol, the silence was funereal. The surprise, perhaps, is not that a Warhol made only $190,000; the prices of Old Silverwig's work have been going downhill like a runaway bobsled. The true mystery is who on earth could have actually wanted to own a 31-ft. pastiche of Leonardo's Last Supper overlaid with green camouflage patterns. Is some Christian fundamentalist group planning to open a restaurant...
When "the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the United States," as it describes itself, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 16, to whom will it be devoted? Mark Rothko? Jackson Pollock? No -- Andy Warhol. Housed in an industrial building that cost $12.3 million to renovate, the Andy Warhol Museum will display 500 Warhols on six floors and hold 2,500 more in its permanent collection. A theater will show Warhol films, and copies of Interview will be available in an archive...
...interact directly with the art-- and makes the process varied and worthwhile. All but one work (a Donatello relief) is contemporary, but the range is still incredible, Every conceivable medium is represented, as well as work by both relatively unknown and famous artists (a Mapplethorpe photograph and a Warhol Oxidation Painting--urine on canvas--are two notable examples...
...when it obtained a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a private donor began a purchase fund. Today, the program supports itself by reinvesting profits earned from rental in insurance and new purchases. The works, which include pieces by many big-name artists, such as Warhol, Rauschenberg and Miro, as well as newer, more up-and-coming artists, are purchased by the Museum from the artists themselves, or from galleries or publishers...
...dahling, shall we get a Rembrandt or a Van Gogh? They don't have them. We'll settle for a Warhol. It'll look perfect in the place of the passe Robert Doisneau...