Word: warholism
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...Stockholm's classy Moderna Museet knocked itself blue putting on a giant show celebrating American Popinjay Andy Warhol, 36. This earned the supreme tribute--an appearance by the artist himself, with his clownish protegee, Viva, in tow. "I was going to send someone that looked like me," said Warhol. "It worked once before...
...staff debated hundreds of titles and settled on "Fifteen Minutes," recalling pop-culture icon Andy Warhol's famous saying, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes...
...other show--at least of contemporary art--in town. Which isn't to say the Whitney has done the subject full justice. Its heart being where it is, the museum needed lots and lots of space to present a mass of trivia and threadbare junk from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., pointlessly documenting the pallid maestro's effect on advertising and fashion, under the title "The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion." So the Whitney's out-of-house curator, Jane Livingston, found the space for Diebenkorn whittled down to one floor and a small entry gallery of the museum...
...fundraisers. Perhaps you could say that the absence of having a monarchy results in the democratic right to create one's own idols in a monarch's stead. You can even dream of becoming a celebrity yourself. On the other hand, celebrities lack a sense of permanence--Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame is an apt description. And these celebrities have no real obligation to represent anyone except themselves...
House committee chair Sean R. Peirce '98 hinted that this year, however, the theme will be a "'60s Andy Warhol kind of thing...