The Andy Warhol Museum

“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.' ”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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"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