Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
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Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
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#2Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life.
"He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gay, he endeavoured to remain celibate throughout his life."
At Warhol's funeral a friend spoke of Warhol’s “secret piety”, which “inevitably changes our perception of an artist who fooled the world into believing his only obsessions were money, fame and glamour, and that he was cool to the point of callousness. Never take Andy at face value.”
https://catholicherald.co.uk/issues/february-9th-2018/andy-w...
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#3What’s a good introduction to Warhol?
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#4What’s a good introduction to Warhol?
I loved reading his Diaries.
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#5Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life. "He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gay, he e…
I never knew that. A while back I was surprised to find out that Marshall McLuhan, the media theorist and pop-intellectual who was big in the late 60s and 70s was also a devout Catholic. McLuhan's ruminations into how the internet or what he called "peer to peer electronic media" would affect us socially are more insightful than anything anyone is saying today, though at the time it was largely a bunch of cryptic gobbledeygook, because at the time only naive techno-utopians had any real concept of the internet, and we're only able to predict the upsides.
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#6Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life. "He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gay, he e…
This is only partially true; he was devoutly Catholic, but he also had numerous male sexual partners.
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#7What’s a good introduction to Warhol?
Look around for an exhibition of his work. It can make a big difference to see his prints and paintings at full size and in person. Also, he made so many different kinds of work that are so different than the iconic images that he’s most known for. (Silver Clouds is a personal fav.)
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#8tl;dr - "Neoliberalism is simply Warholism as a theory of governance."
But do read it. Searching for "prophecy" will bring no joy.
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#9Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life. "He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gay, he e…
Also little known fact I was schooled on recently while working on a film with a guy who was close friends with Warhol and was at a lot of silver factory parties... Warhol never did drugs! He would sit in the back and watch the crowd but rarely interact. I was severely reprimanded for suggesting Warhol did drugs in that conversation.
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#10Not mentioned at all in this article: Warhol was a devoted Catholic his entire life. "He attended Mass almost daily. Other days he would just slip into St Vincent Ferrer on Lexington Avenue, drop into the back pew and pray. He spent his Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters volunteering at a soup kitchen, and befriended the homeless and poor whom he served. He put his nephew through seminary. Though openly gay, he e…
Also little known fact I was schooled on recently while working on a film with a guy who was close friends with Warhol and was at a lot of silver factory parties... Warhol never did drugs! He would sit in the back and watch the crowd but rarely interact. I was severely reprimanded for suggesting Warhol did drugs in that conversation.
In the movie Take Your Pills, they mention Warhol taking a drug similar to Adderall. Wikipedia says it was Obetrol[1]. As an amphetamine I imagine it had a profound effect on him and his art.
Though it is fascinating that he never participated in parties. That is totally not the narrative I bought into with him. How good at fooling us he was.