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...Andy Warhol once said that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, and that certainly was true for Terry Waite. But now Warhol's dead too, and it didn't even take a quarter of an hour for people to start misspelling his name. The collective consciousness seems to be suffering a peculiar kind of amnesia, unable to remember anything except what's in front...
...just wanted to have some innocent fun. It was the '60s and the spirit of adventure was in the air. I had managed to funnel some of the profits from a bustling amyl nitrate trade into real estate, and one of my tenants was a young artist named Andy Warhol...
...destined to become the painter most identified with the big vogue of the early '80s, "appropriation": the copying and scavenging of images and stylistic packages, or even of whole works, from other art and the mass media. Works like Footmen, 1986, are palimpsests: some grainy silkscreens a la Warhol, a head roughly quoted from a 17th century Spanish painting, a figure leaning over a railroad bridge, a scrawled yellow outline of a girl in hot pants. They suggest narrative but deliver none...
...class is also intended to demonstrate that portraits are not limited to paintings alone, he said. In addition to the standard oil paintings, the exhibit features sculptures, coins, drawings, prints, and photographs. The works include a 12th century B.C. gold death mask, Andy Warhol's "Marilyn," Walt Whitman's death mask, and a Kennedy half dollar...
...course, he had to be revived. In Reagan's America, you cannot keep a good courtier down. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroiding, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent. And the public that liked Upstairs, Downstairs is going to like him -- a thought that may not have been too far from the Whitney Museum's calculations when it planned the retrospective of his work that opened there...