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== Works == Warhol was a fan of "Business Art", as he stated in his book ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again''. "I went into business art. I wanted to be an art business man or a business artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," he said. His transformation into a mere business artist was a point of criticism.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news |last=Raymond |first=John |date=August 31, 1975 |title=Business Artist Gives the Business |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-the-philosophy/148668672/ |access-date=June 4, 2024 |work=The Atlanta Constitution |pages=12–C}}</ref> In hindsight, however, some critics have come to view Warhol's superficiality and commerciality as "the most brilliant mirror of our times", contending that "Warhol had captured something irresistible about the [[zeitgeist]] of American culture in the 1970s."<ref name="Lando-2008" /> In addition to his paintings and drawings, Warhol directed and produced films, managed the Velvet Underground, and authored numerous books, as well as producing works in such diverse media as audio, photography, sculpture, theater, fashion and performance art. His ability to blur the lines between art, commerce, and everyday life was central to his creative philosophy. ===Filmography=== {{Main|Andy Warhol filmography}} [[File:Empire Screenshot Warhol.jpg|thumb|Screenshot from the 1965 film [[Empire (1964 film)|''Empire'']]|alt= Grainy, black-and-white still frame of the illuminated Empire State Building against the night sky]] Warhol attended the 1962 premiere of the static composition by [[La Monte Young]] called ''[[Trio for Strings]]'' and subsequently created his famous series of static films. Filmmaker [[Jonas Mekas]], who accompanied Warhol to the premiere, claims Warhol's static films were directly inspired by that performance.<ref>{{cite book|first=Uwe |last=Husslein |title=Pop goes art: Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground |publisher=Wuppertal |year=1990 |oclc=165575494}}{{Page needed|date=August 2010}}</ref> Between 1963 and 1968, Warhol made more than 600 [[underground film]]s, including short black-and-white "[[Screen Tests|screen test]]" portraits of Factory visitors.<ref>Schaffner (1999), p. 73.</ref><ref name=":26" /> Many of his films premiered at the [[New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre]] in [[Greenwich Village]] and [[55th Street Playhouse]] in Midtown Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 18, 1968 |title=Warhol Theater |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tampa-times-the-new-andy-warhol-garr/159151180/ |work=The Tampa Times |pages=4–B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |date=May 6, 1969 |title=Film: Lonesome Warhol:Two Theaters Showing Latest, a Western |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/06/archives/film-lonesome-warholtwo-theaters-showing-latest-a-western.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> His early [[experimental film]]s were silent observations of very typical daily life. ''[[Sleep (1964 film)|Sleep]]'' (1964) monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giorno |first=John |date=September 3, 2020 |title=In a New Memoir, John Giorno Recalls the Night Andy Warhol Conceived of His Epic Anti-Film While Watching Him Sleep—Read an Excerpt |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/john-giorno-great-demon-kings-excerpt-1905632 |access-date=August 23, 2021 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref> ''[[Kiss (1964 film)|Kiss]]'' (1964) shows couples kissing.<ref name=":24">{{Cite news |last=Gruen |first=John |date=July 28, 1968 |title=The Mystery That Is Andy Warhol |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-the-mystery-that-i/157852964/ |work=Los Angeles Calendar |pages=44}}</ref> The film ''[[Eat (film)|Eat]]'' (1964) consists of an artist [[Robert Indiana]] eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.<ref name=":24" /> The 35-minute film ''[[Blow Job (1964 film)|Blow Job]]'' (1964) is one continuous shot of the face of [[DeVeren Bookwalter]] supposedly receiving [[oral sex]] from poet [[Willard Maas]], although the camera never tilts down to prove this.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Watson |first=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nJowwi8QvpwC&q=Willard%20Maas%20blow%20job%20warhol |title=Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties |date=October 21, 2003 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-679-42372-0 |pages=159 |language=en}}</ref> For these efforts, Mekas presented Warhol with the Independent Film Award of 1964, "the underground's answer to [[Academy Awards|Oscar]]."<ref name=":27">{{Cite news |last=McGrady |first=Mike |date=December 2, 1964 |title=The Underground Movie |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-andy-warhol-rec/158170848/ |work=Newsday |pages=38W}}</ref> ''[[Newsday]]''<nowiki/>'s [[Mike McGrady]] hailed Warhol as "the [[Cecil B. DeMille]] of the Off-Hollywood movie makers."<ref name=":27" /> ''[[Batman Dracula]]'' is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Warhol, without the permission of [[DC Comics]].<ref name=":25">{{Cite news |last=Travis |first=Ben |date=April 25, 2016 |title=Batman: 10 things you didn't know |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/04/18/batman-10-things-you-didnt-know/ |access-date=October 26, 2024 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the ''Batman'' series, Warhol's movie was an "homage" and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly [[campy]] Batman. The film was until recently thought to have been lost, until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the 2006 documentary ''[[Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis]]''.<ref name=":25" /> Warhol's 1965 film ''[[Empire (1964 film)|Empire]]'' is an eight-hour view of the [[Empire State Building]], and shortly after he released ''[[Vinyl (1965 film)|Vinyl]]'' (1965), an adaptation of [[Anthony Burgess]]' popular [[dystopia]]n novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Other films record improvised encounters between Factory regulars such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico and Jackie Curtis. The underground artist Jack Smith appears in the film ''Camp''. Warhol's most popular and critically successful film was ''[[Chelsea Girls]]'' (1966). It was the first underground film of the 1960s to reach widespread popularity and capture the attention of notable film critics.<ref name=":24" /> The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two [[16 mm]]-films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that "story" while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol's seminal silkscreen works of the early 1960s. The 1969 film ''[[Blue Movie]]''—in which Warhol superstars Viva and [[Louis Waldon]] make love in bed—was Warhol's last film as director.<ref name="Canby-1969">{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Movie Review – Blue Movie (1968) Screen: Andy Warhol's 'Blue Movie' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9507E5D91738E63ABC4A51DFB1668382679EDE |date=July 22, 1969 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 29, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Canby-1969-2">{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Warhol's Red Hot and 'Blue' Movie. D1. Print. (behind paywall) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/10/archives/warhols-red-hot-and-blue-movie-warhols-red-hot-and-blue-movie.html |date=August 10, 1969 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 29, 2015 }}</ref> It is a seminal film in the [[Golden Age of Porn]], and at the time it was controversial for its frank approach to a sexual encounter.<ref name="Comenas-2005">{{cite web |last=Comenas |first=Gary |title=Blue Movie (1968) |url=http://www.warholstars.org/andy-warhol-blue-movie.html |year=2005 |work=WarholStars.org |access-date=December 29, 2015 |archive-date=December 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230082332/http://www.warholstars.org/andy-warhol-blue-movie.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="IMDb-1972">{{cite web |title=Blue Movie (1969) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062745 |publisher=[[IMDb]] |date=February 10, 1972 |access-date=December 29, 2015 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310230836/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062745/ |url-status=live }}{{better source needed|date=April 2022}}</ref> ''Blue Movie'' was publicly screened in New York City in 2005, for the first time in more than 30 years.<ref name="WarholStars.org-2005">{{cite web|title=Blue Movie + Viva At NY Film Festival |url=http://www.warholstars.org/news/october2005.html |date=October 2005 |work=WarholStars.org |access-date=January 20, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027085125/https://www.warholstars.org/news/october2005.html |archive-date=October 27, 2015 }}</ref> [[File:Flesh (1968) Joe Dallesandro and Louis Waldon (1200 dpi).jpg|thumb|[[Joe Dallesandro]] in ''[[Flesh (1968 film)|Flesh]]'' (1968), directed by [[Paul Morrissey]]]] In the wake of the 1968 shooting, Warhol's assistant director, [[Paul Morrissey]], took over most of the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie [[exploitation film|exploitation]] fare with ''[[Flesh (1968 film)|Flesh]]'' (1968), ''[[Trash (1970 film)|Trash]]'' (1970) and ''[[Heat (1972 film)|Heat]]'' (1972). All of these films, including the later ''[[Andy Warhol's Dracula]]'' (1973) and ''[[Andy Warhol's Frankenstein]]'' (1974), were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. Joe Dallesandro starred in these latter films, which are now considered [[cult classics]]. The last Warhol-produced film, ''[[Andy Warhol's Bad|Bad]],'' starred [[Carroll Baker]] and was made without either Morrissey or Dallesandro.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Horne |first=Jed |date=September 27, 1976 |title=Andy Warhol Thinks Everybody and Everything Is 'Great' Except His Latest Movie—it's 'Bad' |url=https://people.com/archive/andy-warhol-thinks-everybody-and-everything-is-great-except-his-latest-movie-its-bad-vol-6-no-13/ |access-date=April 7, 2024 |website=People |language=en}}</ref> It was directed by Warhol's boyfriend Jed Johnson, who had assisted Morrissey on several films.<ref name=":2" /> Most of the films directed by Warhol were pulled out of circulation by Warhol and the people around him who ran his business. With assistance from Warhol in 1984, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art began to restore his films, which are occasionally shown at museums and film festivals.<ref name=":26">{{Cite web |title=Andy Warhol Film Project |url=https://whitney.org/research/andy-warhol-film-project |access-date=April 8, 2024 |website=whitney.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, the Andy Warhol Museum announced the launch of The Warhol TV, a streaming platform that allows users to watch free museum content and to rent a selection of Warhol's films from its collection.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ArtDependence |date=March 29, 2022 |title=The Warhol Museum Launches Warhol TV, an Online Streaming Platform |url=https://artdependence.com/articles/the-warhol-museum-launches-warhol-tv-an-online-streaming-platform/ |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=artdependence.com |language=en}}</ref> ===Music=== In 1965, Warhol adopted the band [[the Velvet Underground]], making them a crucial element of the ''[[Exploding Plastic Inevitable]]'' multimedia performance art show. Warhol, with Paul Morrissey, acted as the band's manager, introducing them to Nico (who would perform with the band at Warhol's request). While managing the Velvet Underground, Andy would have them dressed in all black to perform in front of movies that he was also presenting.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Please kill me : the uncensored oral history of punk |last2=McCain |first2=Gillian|isbn=978-0-8021-2536-1|edition= Twentieth anniversary |location=New York|oclc=955634990|last1 = McNeil|first1 = Legs|year = 2016 |publisher=Grove Press}}</ref> In 1966, he "produced" their first album ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]]'', as well as providing its album art. His actual participation in the album's production amounted to simply paying for the studio time.<ref name=":29">{{Cite web |date=March 10, 2017 |title=The Velvet Underground: How Andy Warhol Was Fired by His Own Art Project |url=https://consequence.net/2017/03/the-velvet-underground-how-andy-warhol-was-fired-by-his-own-art-project/ |access-date=November 9, 2024 |website=Consequence |language=en}}</ref> After the band's first album, Warhol and band leader [[Lou Reed]] started to disagree more about the direction the band should take, and Warhol was fired in 1967.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Furman |first=Ezra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZ1MDwAAQBAJ&dq=lou+reed+andy's+chest&pg=PA52 |title=Lou Reed's Transformer |date=April 19, 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-5013-2305-8 |pages=52–53 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |year=2023 |title=Lou Reed Papers: The Andy Warhol Era - The Hidden Corners of the Lou Reed Papers |url=https://libguides.nypl.org/c.php?g=1257488&p=9316474 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=New York Public Library}}</ref> In 1989, Reed and [[John Cale]] reunited for the first time since 1972 to write, perform, record and release the concept album ''[[Songs for Drella]]'', as a tribute to Warhol.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Evans |first=Paul |date=May 17, 1990 |title=Songs for Drella |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/songs-for-drella-252827/ |access-date=November 9, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In October 2019, an audio tape of publicly unknown music by Reed, based on Warhol's 1975 book, ''[[The Philosophy of Andy Warhol|The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again]]'', was reported to have been discovered in an archive at the [[Andy Warhol Museum]] in Pittsburgh.<ref name="Sisaro-2019">{{cite news |last=Sisaro |first=Ben |title=A Long-Lost Lou Reed Tape With a Surprise: Andy Warhol Lyrics – The cassette, discovered at the Andy Warhol Museum, finds the Velvet Underground musician performing snippets from his mentor's 1975 book. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/arts/music/lou-reed-andy-warhol-tape.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/arts/music/lou-reed-andy-warhol-tape.html |archive-date=January 1, 2022 |url-access=limited |date=October 30, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=October 30, 2019 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> Warhol designed many album covers for various artists beginning during his days as an illustrator in the 1950s. The album covers he designed include for ''[[I'm Still Swinging]]'' (1955) by [[Joe Newman (trumpeter)|The Joe Newman Octet]], ''[[Blue Lights, Vols. 1 & 2]]'' (1958) by [[Kenny Burrell]], ''This Is John Wallowitch!!!'' (1964) by [[John Wallowitch]], ''[[Sticky Fingers]]'' (1971) and ''[[Love You Live]]'' (1977) by [[The Rolling Stones]], ''[[The Academy in Peril]]'' (1972) by John Cale, ''[[Silk Electric]]'' (1982) by [[Diana Ross]], and ''[[Aretha (1986 album)|Aretha]]'' (1986) by [[Aretha Franklin]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Bego | first = Mark | title = Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul | publisher = Da Capo Press | year = 2001 | page = 250 | isbn = 978-0-306-80935-4 | oclc = 46488152}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Vaziri |first=Aidin |date=February 8, 2009 |title=Warhol's greatest album covers |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/warhol-s-greatest-album-covers-3251876.php |access-date=January 27, 2023 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref> In 1984, Warhol co-directed the music video "[[Hello Again (The Cars song)|Hello Again]]" by [[the Cars]], and he appeared in the video as a bartender.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=August 31, 1985 |title=Clips Receive an Artful Showcase |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT110 |magazine=Billboard |pages=52}}</ref>{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=560|ps=Entry date: Thursday, March 29, 1984}} In 1986, Warhol co-directed the music video "[[Misfit (Curiosity Killed the Cat song)|Misfit]]" by [[Curiosity Killed the Cat]] and he made a cameo in video.{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|ps=Entry date: Tuesday, July 9, 1986|p=741}}{{Sfn|Warhol|Hackett|1989|p=748|ps=Entry date: Tuesday, July 29, 1986}} ===Books and print=== [[File:Warhol autograph.jpg|thumb|upright|right|Warhol drawing and signature]] Beginning in the 1950s, Warhol produced several unbound portfolios of his work. In 1957, his bound book ''[[25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy]]'' was printed by Seymour Berlin.<ref name="auto"/> Berlin also printed some of Warhol's other self-published books, including ''Gold Book'' and ''Wild Raspberries.'' Warhol's book ''A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu'' marked his "transition from commercial to gallery artist".<ref name="Smith2">Smith, John W., Pamela Allara, and Andy Warhol. ''Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting''. Pittsburgh, PA: Andy Warhol Museum, 2002, p. 46. {{ISBN|978-0-9715688-0-8}}.</ref> (The title is a [[play on words]] by Warhol on the title of French author [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[À la recherche du temps perdu]]''.)<ref name="Smith2" /> In an effort to generate work, the majority of these books were printed in order to be given out to people to draw attention to his illustrations.<ref name=":39" /> After gaining fame, Warhol "wrote" several books that were commercially published: * ''[[A, a novel]]'' (1968, {{ISBN|978-0-8021-3553-7}}) is a literal transcription—containing spelling errors and phonetically written background noise and mumbling—of audio recordings of [[Ondine (actor)|Ondine]] and several of Andy Warhol's friends hanging out at the Factory, talking, going out.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Waalkes |first=Bekah |date=July 2023 |title=Coming of age in Warhol's world of imitations and copies |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/07/10/coming-age-warhols-world-imitations-copies/ |access-date=April 2, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> * ''[[The Philosophy of Andy Warhol]] (From A to B & Back Again)'' (1975, {{ISBN|978-0-15-671720-5}})—according to Pat Hackett's introduction to ''The Andy Warhol Diaries'', [[Pat Hackett (writer)|Pat Hackett]] did the transcriptions and text for the book based on daily phone conversations, sometimes (when Warhol was traveling) using audio cassettes that Andy Warhol gave her.<ref name=":32">{{Cite journal |last=Gross |first=Michael |date=May 29, 1989 |title=The Satanic Diaries: Is Andy Telling The Truth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HegCAAAAMBAJ&dq=pat+hackett+warhol+barnard&pg=PA51 |journal=New York |pages=48–56}}</ref> The cassettes contained conversations with [[Brigid Berlin]] and former ''Interview'' magazine editor [[Bob Colacello]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Menand |first=Louis |date=April 20, 2022 |title=The Very Public Private Life of Andy Warhol |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-very-public-private-life-of-andy-warhol |access-date=April 2, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> * ''[[Andy Warhol's Exposures|Exposures]]'' (1979, {{ISBN|9780448128504}}), authored by Warhol and Bob Colacello, is a book of Warhol's photographs of his famous friends with anecdotes. * ''[[Popism: The Warhol Sixties|POPism: The Warhol '60s]]'' (1980, {{ISBN|978-0-15-173095-7}}), authored by Warhol and Pat Hackett, is a retrospective view of the 1960s and the role of pop art. * ''[[The Andy Warhol Diaries]]'' (1989, {{ISBN|978-0-446-39138-2}}), edited by Pat Hackett, is a diary dictated by Warhol to Hackett in daily phone conversations.<ref name=":32" /> Warhol started the diary to keep track of his expenses after being audited, although it soon evolved to include his personal and cultural observations.{{sfn|Colacello|1990|p=183}} Warhol created the fashion magazine ''Interview'' that is still published. The loopy title script on the cover is thought to be either his own handwriting or that of his mother, Julia Warhola, who would often do text work for his early commercial pieces.{{sfn|Colacello|1990|p=22–23}} Warhol created covers for a number of magazines, including ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brower |first=Steven |date=March 2, 2017 |title=Magazine Covers by Famous Artists: Warhol, Lichtenstein, Banksy, Fairey & More |url=https://www.printmag.com/featured/magazine-covers-warhol-banksy-lichtenstein/ |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=PRINT Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> ===Other media=== Although Andy Warhol is most known for his paintings and films, he authored works in many different media. [[File:Silver Clouds Warhol Musee dArt Moderne ville Paris.jpg|thumb|upright|''Silver Clouds'' reproduction at the [[Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris]], December 2015, Warhol Unlimited Exposition]] * '''Drawing:''' Warhol started his career as a commercial illustrator, producing drawings in "blotted-ink" style for advertisements and magazine articles. Best known of these early works are his drawings of shoes. Some of his personal drawings were self-published in small booklets, such as ''Yum, Yum, Yum'' (about food), ''Ho, Ho, Ho'' (about Christmas) and ''Shoes, Shoes, Shoes''. His most artistically acclaimed book of drawings is probably ''A Gold Book'', compiled of sensitive drawings of young men. ''A Gold Book'' is so named because of the [[gold leaf]] that decorates its pages.{{Sfn|Bourdon|1989|p=51}} In April 2012 a sketch of 1930s singer Rudy Vallee claimed to have been drawn by Andy Warhol was found at a Las Vegas garage sale. The image was said to have been drawn when Andy was nine or 10.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-17591826 |title='Andy Warhol sketch found' in US garage sale |date=April 2, 2012 |access-date=April 3, 2012 |work=BBC News}}</ref> Various authorities have challenged the image's authenticity.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Adam |date=May 29, 2012 |title=Andy Warhol's Brother Says Drawing Bought at Garage Sale Is a Fake |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/05/andy-warhols-brother-says-drawing-bought-garage-sale-fake/327550/ |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> * '''Sculpture:''' Warhol's most well-known sculptures are his [[Brillo]] boxes—silkscreened ink on wood replicas of the large branded cardboard boxes used to hold 24 packages of Brillo soap pads.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Levy |first1=Adrian |last2=Scott-Clark |first2=Cathy |date=August 20, 2010 |title=Warhol's box of tricks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/aug/21/warhol-brillo-boxes-scandal-fraud |access-date=November 21, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The original Brillo design was by commercial artist [[James Harvey (artist)|James Harvey]]. Warhol's Brillo boxes were part of a series of "grocery carton" works that also included [[Heinz ketchup]] and Campbell's tomato juice boxes.<ref name="Staff of The Andy Warhol Museum-2004">{{cite book |author=Staff of The Andy Warhol Museum |title=Andy Warhol: 365 Takes |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |year=2004 |page=35 |isbn=978-0-500-23814-1 |oclc=56117613}}</ref> Other famous works include the ''Silver Clouds''—helium filled, silver mylar, pillow-shaped [[balloon]]s. A ''Silver Cloud'' was included in the traveling exhibition ''Air Art'' (1968–1969) curated by [[Willoughby Sharp]]. ''Clouds'' was also adapted by Warhol for [[avant-garde]] choreographer Merce Cunningham's dance piece ''RainForest'' (1968).{{Sfn|Bourdon|1989|p=231}} * '''Audio:''' At one point Warhol carried a portable recorder with him wherever he went, taping everything everybody said and did. He referred to this device as his "wife". Some of these tapes were the basis for his literary work. Another audio-work of Warhol's was his ''Invisible Sculpture'', a presentation in which burglar alarms would go off when entering the room. Warhol's cooperation with the musicians of The Velvet Underground was driven by an expressed desire to become a music producer.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=de Duve |first1=Thierry |last2=Krauss |first2=Rosalind |year=1989 |title=Andy Warhol, or The Machine Perfected |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/778945 |journal=October |volume=48 |pages=3–14 |doi=10.2307/778945 |jstor=778945 |issn=0162-2870}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Scherman |first=Tony |date=November 7, 1999 |title=MUSIC; Warhol: The Herald Of Sampling |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/07/arts/music-warhol-the-herald-of-sampling.html |access-date=April 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> * '''Time Capsules:''' In 1973, Warhol began saving ephemera from his daily life—correspondence, newspapers, souvenirs, childhood objects, even used plane tickets and food—which was sealed in plain cardboard boxes dubbed Time Capsules. By the time of his death, the collection grew to include 600, individually dated "capsules". The boxes are now housed at the Andy Warhol Museum.<ref>{{cite book|author=Staff of The Andy Warhol Museum |title=Andy Warhol: 365 Takes |publisher=Harry N. Abrams |location=New York |year=2004 |page=157 |isbn=978-0-500-23814-1 |oclc=56117613}}</ref> * '''Television:''' In 1968, Warhol produced a TV commercial for [[Schrafft's]] Restaurants in New York City, for an ice cream dessert appropriately titled the "Underground Sundae".<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1968 |title=Underground Sundae |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-emporia-gazette-andy-warhols-underg/159468313/ |work=The Emporia Gazette |pages=2}}</ref> Warhol dreamed of a television special about a favorite subject of his{{dash}}[[Nothing]]{{dash}}that he would call ''Nothing Special''.<ref name=":2" /> Later in his career he created three television shows: ''Fashion'' (1979–80), ''Andy Warhol's TV'' (1980–1983), and the [[MTV]] series ''[[Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes]]'' (1985–87).<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 22, 1991 |title=Warhol: Where And When |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/22/arts/warhol-where-and-when.html |access-date=August 23, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * '''Fashion:''' Warhol is quoted for having said: "I'd rather buy a dress and put it up on the wall, than put a painting, wouldn't you?"<ref>{{cite web|title=Monsters and Critics – Andy Warhol Biography |url=http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Andy-Warhol/biography/ |access-date=July 28, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216214910/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/Andy-Warhol/biography/ |archive-date=December 16, 2013 }}</ref> Warhol himself has been described as a modern [[dandy]], whose authority "rested more on presence than on words".<ref>[[George Walden]], ''Who's a Dandy?—Dandyism and Beau Brummell'', London: Gibson Square, 2002. {{ISBN|978-1-903933-18-3}}. Reviewed by Frances Wilson in [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview3 "Uncommon People"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305005503/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/oct/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview3 |date=March 5, 2017 }}, ''The Guardian'', October 12, 2006.</ref> His work in fashion includes department store window displays, illustrations for ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar'', and a career as a model.<ref name=":53">{{Cite news |last=Chilvers |first=Simon |date=March 2, 2020 |title='Hip, rebellious, even a bit sinister': how Andy Warhol made pop art fashion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/mar/02/hip-rebellious-even-a-bit-sinister-how-andy-warhol-made-pop-art-fashion |access-date=April 2, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He was friends with prominent figures in the fashion industry, including former ''Vogue'' editor-in-chief [[Diana Vreeland]], fashion designers [[Yves Saint Laurent (designer)|Yves Saint Laurent]], [[Halston]], and [[Calvin Klein]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meeting Andy Warhol |url=https://museeyslparis.com/en/biography/rencontre-avec-andy-warhol |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwiegershausen |first=Erica |date=May 8, 2014 |title=A Look at the Fruitful Friendship of Warhol and Halston |url=https://www.thecut.com/2014/05/fruitful-friendship-of-warhol-and-halston.html |access-date=August 23, 2024 |website=The Cut |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":53" /> In 1972, Warhol collaborated with Halston for the [[Coty Award|Coty Awards]].<ref name=":56" /> In 1997, the Whitney Museum in New York mounted the exhibition ''The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion'', organized by the Andy Warhol Museum.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=1997-11-07 |title=ART REVIEW; Fluffing Up Warhol: Where Art and Fashion Intersect |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/07/arts/art-review-fluffing-up-warhol-where-art-and-fashion-intersect.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * '''Performance Art:''' Warhol and his friends staged theatrical multimedia happenings at parties and public venues, combining music, film, slide projections and even Gerard Malanga in an [[S&M]] outfit cracking a whip. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable in 1966 was the culmination of this area of his work.{{Sfn|Bourdon|1989|pp=221-225}} * [[File:Debbie Harry by Andy warhol, 1980s photoshoot at The Factory NYC.jpg|thumb|Photograph of [[Christopher Makos]] [[Debbie Harry]] by Andy Warhol, taken at the Factory during the photoshoot for her silkscreen portraits in 1980]]'''Theater:''' Warhol's play ''[[Andy Warhol's Pork]]'', which opened at New York's La MaMa theater in May 1971 for a two-week run. It was brought to the Roundhouse in London for a longer run in August 1971. ''Pork'' was based on tape-recorded conversations between Brigid Berlin and And. Berlin would play Warhol tapes she had made of phone conversations between herself and her mother, socialite Honey Berlin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=2215|access-date=January 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126195518/http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=2215|work=warhol.org|title=Talk on the Wild Side: The Effect of Andy Warhol's PORK on the evolution of Glitter, Glam and Punk Rock|archive-date=January 26, 2016}}</ref> In 1974, Andy Warhol designed the sets for the musical ''[[Man on the Moon (musical)|Man on the Moon]]''.<ref name=":04" /> * '''Photography:''' To produce his silkscreens, Warhol made photographs or had them made by his friends and assistants. These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of [[Polaroid Corporation|Polaroid]] camera, [[List of Polaroid instant cameras|The Big Shot]], that Polaroid kept in production especially for Warhol. This photographic approach to painting and his snapshot method of taking pictures has had a great effect on artistic photography. Warhol was an avid photographer and also used the [[Polaroid SX-70]] as a portable camera.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 30, 2021 |title=Andy Warhol Polaroids |url=https://publicartuhs.org/artwork/andy-warhol-polaroids/ |access-date=October 24, 2024 |website=Public Art University of Houston System |language=en}}</ref> He took an enormous number of photographs of Factory visitors, friends, and celebrities; many of these have been acquired by [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Andy Warhol Photography Archive |url=https://exhibits.stanford.edu/warhol |website=Spotlight at Stanford |publisher=[[Stanford University]] |access-date=February 5, 2022 |language=en |quote=From 1976 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987) was never without his camera. He snapped photos at discos, dinner parties, flea markets, and wrestling matches. Friends, boyfriends, business associates, socialites, celebrities, and passersby all captured Warhol's attention. Drawing on a trove of over 3,600 contact sheets featuring 130,000 photographic exposures acquired in 2014 from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the images document Warhol's daily life.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.casualphotophile.com/2019/04/29/the-big-shot-polaroid-andy-warhols-pen-pencil/|title=The Big Shot Polaroid – Andy Warhol's Pen & Pencil|date=April 29, 2019|website=Casual Photophile|language=en-US|access-date=February 26, 2020|archive-date=May 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512160950/https://casualphotophile.com/2019/04/29/the-big-shot-polaroid-andy-warhols-pen-pencil/|url-status=live}}</ref> * '''Music:''' In 1963, Warhol founded [[The Druds]], a short-lived avant-garde [[noise music]] band that featured prominent members of the New York proto-conceptual art and minimal art community.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=desi |date=August 7, 2014 |title=My Mind Was Blown: Experiencing the Warhol's EPI Gallery |url=https://www.warhol.org/my-mind-was-blown-experiencing-the-warhols-epi-gallery/ |access-date=November 8, 2024 |website=The Andy Warhol Museum |language=en-US}}</ref> * '''Computer:''' Warhol used [[Amiga]] computers to generate digital art, including ''[[You Are the One (Andy Warhol)|You Are the One]]'', which he helped design and build with Amiga, Inc. He also displayed the difference between slow fill and fast fill on live TV with Debbie Harry as a model.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nowseethis.org/invisiblephoto/posts/108 |title=Andy Warhol's Amiga Experiments |year=2014 |access-date=May 19, 2014 |archive-date=May 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140519221608/http://www.nowseethis.org/invisiblephoto/posts/108 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
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