Andy Warhol’s One Minute of Skilled Wrestling Fame (1985)

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Andy Warhol did for artwork what the World Wrestling Fed­er­a­tion (WWF) did for wrestling. He made it a spec­ta­cle. He made it some­factor the “each­man” might take pleasure in. He infused it with celebri­ty. And, some would say, he low-cost­ened it too. Look­ing again, it makes per­fect sense that Warhol fre­quent­ed wrestling reveals at Madi­son Sq. Gar­den…

Andy Warhol Hosts Frank Zappa on His Cable TV Present, and Later Remembers, “I Hated Him Extra Than Ever” After the Present

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Had Andy Warhol lived to see the web–particularly social networking–he would have cherished it, although it could not have cherished him. Although Warhol did see the very start­nings of the PC rev­o­lu­tion, and made com­put­er artwork close to the top of his life on a Com­modore Ami­ga 1000, he was most­ly enam­ored, unsur­pris­ing­ly, of TV….