“While the name Warhol has come to stand for many things — a masterful artist, a cutting-edge filmmaker, a perceptive social crit­ic — these days in the legal business, it’s come to stand for an estate that’s rife with conflict, confusion, and outright animosity.”

“ ‘Naked Lunch,’ ‘The Lost Weekend,’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ were written at the Chelsea. So was a lot of Beat poetry… Andy Warhol made ‘Chelsea Girls’ there. The woman who shot him, Valerie Solanas, lived there while he was shooting. So did Viva… Rock flowered there, and punk decays.”

"It is the texture, the atmosphere, the ideals, the notions of 'camp' which currently determines middle-class taste, directs its signs, and seems to nourish its simple-minded eagerness to grind the idea of 'alienation' into yet another hopelessly ironic cliche"

“The supreme package, blonde, glit­tering, gilded, beautiful beyond belief, high priestess, eternal virgin on the brink of rape, queen of films, queen of the universe, the last laugh at them all.”

Time and Again With Artist Mira Schor

An early review of “Songs for Drella” — a great album that pissed off more than a few Village Voice readers

As the counterculture heated up in the 1960s, the Heat took notice

"Warhol not only looks original, but surprisingly contemporary, like the most influential artist of the last few decades. He looks like he deserves his own museum."

Twenty-five years ago, the legal tumult following the artist’s death threatened everything he’d worked for