happy birthday AW.

today is andy warhol's bday...if u didnt know. :P

scene of the day

An intimate portrayal of the collaborative work of America's most celebrated artists, the late Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.

video cult(ure)

Andy Warhol's 1964 short film Blow Job. He's known for a lot more than Marilyn silk screens and Campbell soup cans....

celebrité

Andy Warhol. Elizabeth Peyton. Prow. Even Kehinde Wiley. What exactly is the connection between art, celebrity, and popular culture? How exactly do icons of popular culture become visual tools for contemporary artists? What I find even more interesting is that the process of capturing celebrity through photography and painting often reproduces imagery of pop culture icons while inadvertently making artists themselves apart of celebrity circles. The paparazzi aren't the only forces feeding into the mass public obsession with the stars...

You can check out Elizabeth Peyton's retrospective Live Forever at the New Museum in New York City, as well as Andy Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.