Word: warholism
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...AIDS. Gary Indiana's latest novel, Gone Tomorrow, recounts one version of this collision. As a memoir on the early 80s and a reflection on the advent of AIDS, Indiana tells the story of the Paul Grosvenor, the central player in a configuration of international characters reminiscent of Warhol's Factory. As a German avant-garde director, Paul orchestrates the drama both on and off film; his position is central to the novel's intricate and complex web. Gone Tomorrow is a remembrance of Paul, who somehow embodies much of Indiana's vision both...
...Koons' work is so overexposed that it loses nothing in reproduction and gains nothing in the original. It is pure stasis. Koons is the baby to Andy Warhol's Rosemary. There is no artist in whom self-advertisement and self-esteem are more ecstatically united than Koons: he makes even Julian Schnabel, who recently proclaimed himself to be the nearest thing America has to Picasso, look like a paragon of self-effacement. He has done for narcissism what Michael Milken did for the junk bond...
...Warhol challenged the accepted definition of art by experimenting with the border between originality and mass production. He used popular images of objects and celebrities and silk-screened them on to canvases, often varying color combinations. This exhibit contains some classic Warhol subjects, including Chairman Mao, Jackie Kennedy, and Marilyn Monroe. One corner of the exhibition space is devoted to a pile of Kellogg's Cornflakes packing box replicas. Carpenters made these wooden boxes to the exact dimensions of the actual ones; Warhol's assistants silk-screened the letters onto the pieces...
...most striking displays of Warhol's work is 10 images of popular characters from a 1981 portfolio entitled Myths. On one wall hang pictures of Mickey Mouse, Howdy Doody, Santa Claus, Greta Garbo, Dracula, Superman, Uncle Sam, the Wicked Witch of the West, Mammy and a self portrait called The Shadow. With this series, Warhol has drawn attention to Hollywood's ability to create icons that the entire country recognizes...
...participate in hands-on activities. The room features Keith Haring coloring books, black paper and chalk which visitors can use to create "subway drawings" like Haring's, and huge black and white plastic-covered photographs of Madonna and Batman which children can embellish with colored markers to create Warhol-esque images. It is Mickey Mouse, though, that is the unifying image of this exhibition. His presence here guarantees an unusually accessible and fun museum experience...