10-05-2025 MY FAVES: art in pop and the battle of the fandoms
books of the week finished the book on the controversial artist andy warhol - on&by andy warhol. who was he - the peter pan of art, the demon of quaker america, hipster snob, or slavic businessman? all andy wanted to be - was a machine . you can't be too weird if you want to be on the cover of time , or if you are, you have to be weird in the way they want you to be weird, like a murderer, a cult leader, a communist rebel, or someone like that, which isn't really weird because anyone can see any of those characters on tv any night of the week. saul anton, warhol's dream , 2007 warhol would have settled right into the 21st century, with its ubiquitous cctv cameras - perpetually pointed and rolling, just like andy's - and time and space collapsing across razor-thin computer screens and skinny iphones. we can imagine his monosyllabic twitter feeds of 'wow', 'gee' and 'great' #nothingspecial; his all-night binges on youtube and instagram; or h...