Andy Warhol, with Blingee.
The art: Andy Warhol, Red Liz, 1962.
The news: RIP Elizabeth Taylor. The Los Angeles Times obituary by Elaine Woo.
The art: Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
And may I add a little Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I mean, hell-o.
wnyc:
The countless Tweeters involved in the Empire Tweets Back event at MoMA today were all kinds of amazing. But I don’t know that any of us could beat this absolutely epic piece of information. — Carolina A. Miranda
wnyc:
I’ve been doing research for tomorrow’s Empire Tweets Back event at the Museum of Modern Art. In reading John Tauranac’s incredibly thorough book The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark, I discovered that the building installed an observatory bar as soon as…
In which I watch all eight hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire and Tweet about it in the company of a number of distinguished guests.
Letterhead used at Warhol’s final ‘Factory’ address: 19 East 32nd Street.
Andy Warhol Studio, c. late-1980s | Submitted by MPH Design
I used to live around the corner from this building and walked by it daily on my way to work. It used to be a ConEd switching station. If you peeked through the back windows, you could see the phrase, “I never wanted to be an artist, I wanted to be a tap dancer,” stencilled on one of the overhead beams. When the building was demolished to make way for high-priced condos, we picked up a brick from the construction site. We still have it.
