“The social success of the Shah in the galaxy of international despots is the end result of a careful campaign, premised on two vital ingredients: snobbery and cash”
Originally published November 14, 1977
“Apart from Robert Rauschenberg, trim as a biscuit in a light tan velvet suit, no prominent artists were present for the much touted Scull sale at the Parke-Bernet galleries last week”
Originally published October 25, 1973
“Dennis Hopper was followed into dinner by Peewee Herman, Debi Mazar, Ann Bass, John Richardson, Michael Chow, and John Waters, each receiving a commemorative Andy Warhol Museum watch from a volunteer who murmured, 'Here's your 15 minutes.' ”
Originally published May 24, 1994
“A Coke is a Coke,” Warhol once said, “and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”
Originally published May 24, 1994
“Since I was shot,” Warhol says, “everything is such a dream to me. I don’t know what anything is about. Like I don’t even know whether or not I’m really alive or — whether I died. It’s sad”
Originally published September 12, 1968
“Jackie Curtis and her bridal party sat nervously on the back of the roof, behind the chimneys and the pipes, waiting for the groom. He never appeared.”
Originally published July 31, 1969
How did people ever swallow the supposition that the real Warhol was a white-wigged idiot standing around saying, “Great”?
Originally published July 1, 1988
“Warhol has so arranged his discotheque that his patrons tend to feel that they have wandered into some evangelist's vision of Nineveh and that perhaps it is time to mend their ways.”
Originally published April 14, 1966
“It seems the Velvets are now back to where they once belonged, functioning as a genuine rock ‘n’ roll dance band ... The result can be positively exhilarating”
Originally published July 2, 1970
“The sophisticated audience that had turned out to put down the art that was not on display provided a chilling touch of surrealism worthy of Buñuel or Fellini”
Originally published October 14, 1965