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☆ When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

Talk When Ruthless Cultural Elitism Is Exactly the JobI wonder if any of the many literary greats represented by Andrew Wylie ever considered using his story. I don’t think that’s ever happened. I think that’s the wrong way to look at it. Do you think that’s a phony attitude? Is there some defense of cultural elitism that you want to make?

Persons: Andrew Wylie, Wylie, scalawag, Andy Warhol’s, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Martin Amis, John Updike, Borges, Calvino, Sally Rooney, Salman Rushdie, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Wylie’s, ’ backlists, ”, understatedly, It’s, I’ve, Jesus, Andrew, Gerard Malanga, I’m, doesn’t, it’s, I’ll, “, You’ve, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, “ Don Quixote ”, that’s, what’s, you’re, Orhan Pamuk, Italo Calvino, Naipaul, Nabokov, accrues, We’re, David Marchese, Alok Vaid, Menon, ordinariness, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Downey Jr Organizations: Houghton, Paul’s, Harvard, New York Times, Harvard Business School, Getty, Disney, Marvel Locations: Houghton Mifflin, St, New York

☆ Presidential portraits: Kehinde Wiley’s secret, decade-long project painting African leaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Thomas Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Perhaps not, supposes Kehinde Wiley in his latest collection, “A Maze of Power,” which, in the artist’s own indelible style, casts plenty of light of its own. We’re now learning that before and after that commission, he had been on a secret, decade-long odyssey across the African continent, painting its current and former heads of state. This series narrows the gap further, with subjects commanding a similar power to some of Wiley’s artistic reference points. Tanguy Beurdeley/© Courtesy Kehinde Wiley and Galerie TemplonHery Rajaonarimampianina, the former president of Madagascar, sits astride a horse in one painting. Some might wrinkle their nose at seeing certain heads or former heads of state depicted in such triumphant fashion.

Persons: Kehinde Wiley, Wiley, Barack Obama, We’re, Jacques Chirac, Obama, Sarah Ligner, Black, Old, Olusegun Obasanjo, Paul Kagame, Tanguy, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Alpha Condé, –, ”, Rajaonarimampianina –, “, “ it’s, Andy Warhol’s, Mao Organizations: CNN, Old Masters, Democratic, Wiley Locations: Africa, Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Los Angeles, Senegal, Nigeria, New York, Paris, France, Rwanda, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo

☆ Is the Pantyhose-as-Pants Look a Real Thing?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | More About Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I thought pantyhose were dead, but now it seems as if they are being treated as the equivalent of actual pants. Are we really supposed to believe the pantyhose-instead-of-pants look I see on social media is going to be a trend? The fashion world became so attached to the End of Pantyhose that editors famously went to shows in February with bare legs and high heels, snow be damned. Then, in September 2022, Matthieu Blazy of Bottega Veneta sent a navy crew neck down his runway paired with only dark hose and heels. Just a few months later, Miuccia Prada largely tossed pants and skirts out the window in her Miu Miu show, subversively matching her librarian cardigans and beatnik polo necks with sheer hose and coordinating undies.

Persons: pantyhose, — Susan, Allen Gant Sr, Matthieu Blazy, Bottega Veneta, Miuccia Prada, Miu Miu, cardigans, Prada, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol’s, Emma Corrin Locations: Vancouver, Bottega

☆ IFPDA Print Fair Review: Jumping Off the Page
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Brian P. Kelly | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Andy Warhol’s ‘Shoe’ (c. 1950s) Photo: Long-Sharp GalleryNew YorkIn the stratified caste system of the art market, where paintings reign, prints belong to the underclass. Or so those too snobbish or disconnected from history might have you believe. While most prints lack the rarity of paintings since they’re released as multiples, they’ve long played indispensable roles in the art ecosystem: teaching tools in the pre-internet age; affordable entry points for collectors who can’t afford one-of-a-kind works; products of processes by which artists can further expand their practice.

Persons: Andy Warhol’s, they’re Organizations: York

☆ The Year Lou Reed Gave Up on Music
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Will Hermes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lou Reed strode onto the stage at Max’s Kansas City late on a Sunday night in August 1970. “We’re called the Velvet Underground. Danny Fields, a regular at Andy Warhol’s Factory who would soon discover the Ramones, was there, as he was virtually every night. Like Warhol, she was an obsessive taper, and had recorded a number of Velvets shows that summer. The tape would soon be passed around the underground and would eventually be released as an album — since Reed had decided this would be the last Velvet Underground show.

Persons: Lou Reed strode, “, ”, “ We’re, Sid, Toby Reed, Danny Fields, Andy Warhol’s, Brigid Berlin, Richard E, Brigid Polk, Warhol, Jim Carroll, Reed Organizations: Max’s Kansas City, Hearst Corporation, Sony Locations: Max’s, Long, Berlin

☆ 3 Young Irish Writers and Their ‘Difficult Second Books’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Imogen West-Knights | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In recent years, Irish novelists, and particularly Irish women novelists, have published some of the most compelling English-language literary fiction. Not just Sally Rooney, whose three novels to date have sold millions of copies worldwide, but a whole host of women have written books which, taken together, suggest a new contemporary Irish literature that focuses on the precarity of modern working life, as well as intimacy and its failings. Naoise Dolan, 31, Megan Nolan, 33, and Nicole Flattery, 33, are three of the better-known members of this cohort. Dolan’s 2020 debut novel “Exciting Times” was the story of a love triangle set in Hong Kong; “Acts of Desperation,” from Nolan and published in 2021, charted the life of a young woman in an abject relationship; and Flattery also published her debut, “Show Them A Good Time,” a collection of deadpan and appealingly peculiar short stories, in 2020. All three have also released a second book this year: Dolan’s is an acerbic comedy of errors about an impending wedding called “The Happy Couple,” Nolan’s “Ordinary Human Failings” follows an Irish family after one of its members is accused of a terrible crime, and “Nothing Special” is Flattery’s tale of a young woman who gets a job as a typist at Andy Warhol’s Factory.

Persons: Sally Rooney, Naoise Dolan, Megan Nolan, Nicole, ”, Nolan, Andy Warhol’s Factory Locations: Hong Kong

☆ In 1960s New York City, a Lost Young Woman Longs to Be Known
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Alice Carrière | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

NOTHING SPECIAL, by Nicole FlatteryIn the Irish writer Nicole Flattery’s exquisitely disorienting debut novel, “Nothing Special,” Mae, the daughter of an alcoholic waitress, spends her youth in 1960s New York City riding up and down department store escalators, getting nowhere except deeper into her own dissatisfaction. What she does do is observe, and the one thing that is clear is the rapacity of her speculation. She subjects her world and the people who populate it to a ravenous metamorphosing, a proxy for the closeness she craves and fears. As she listens, she grows closer to the disembodied voices, and to the revealing silences in between, than to anyone else around her. “It felt like my life had been reduced to nothing but the tapes, that I no longer recognized the sound of my own voice,” Mae narrates.

Persons: Nicole, Nicole Flattery’s, ” Mae, ”, Mae, “, —, Andy Warhol’s, she’s Locations: New York City

☆ Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Image of Prince Breaches Copyright Laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Andy Warhol’s Colossal ‘Crash’ Sells for $85.4 Million at Sotheby’s
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Kelly Crow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: 2022 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Courtesy of Sotheby’sWhen Andy Warhol’s colossal view of a car accident first came at auction in 1987, the silk-screen sold for $660,000. On Wednesday, bidders got another chance at it—and the work resold at Sotheby’s for $85.4 million. The auction house had said it expected the piece to sell for around $80 million.

☆ Copycatting lawsuits hit new media as TikTok creators, game designers and Instagrammers are sued
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Alexandra Peers | Cnn Business | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

A series of hot-button lawsuits have linked all those unlikely creators and platforms in litigation that goes as high as the US Supreme Court. The litigation deals with issues of intellectual property, copyright infringement and fair use in a rapidly changing new-media landscape. She won, but not much: $3,750, because the court ruled that, though her copyright had been violated, her tattoos didn’t impact game profits. It was a huge hit on TikTok, in part because the duo invited feedback and participation, making it a crowd-sourced artwork. But when the creators took their show on the road and sold tickets, Netflix sued.

☆ Andy Warhol’s Image of Prince Comes Before Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Pop artist Andy Warhol, pictured in 1976, created the Prince Series as among his last works of art before he died in 1987. WASHINGTON—A case involving two of the 20th century’s most famous visual and musical artists comes before the Supreme Court Wednesday, in a copyright dispute pitting a celebrity photographer against the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts over a photo she shot of Prince that Warhol used as the basis for a series of silk-screen prints. Compared with other forms of intellectual property, copyrights last a long time—for works produced since 1978, generally for 70 years after the author’s death. But copyrights confer weaker protections than patents, for other parties are entitled to make “fair use” of copyright material to create new works of their own. Copyright cases typically turn on whether a subsequent work was transformative or merely duplicative of earlier material.

☆ Andy Warhol’s portraits of Prince get their 15 minutes of fame in Supreme Court copyright showdown
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | Lawrence Hurley Covers The Supreme Court For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

The original Lynn Goldsmith photograph of Prince and Andy Warhol's portrait of the musician. Warhol himself had died in 1987, and the relevant works and copyright to them are now held by the Andy Warhol Foundation, which permitted Vanity Fair to use the image in 2016. The following year the issue ended up in court, with Goldsmith and the foundation suing each other to determine whether Warhol’s image constituted fair use. Images from Andy Warhol's series on the musician Prince. It must, “at a bare minimum, comprise something more than the imposition of another artist’s style on the primary work,” the court added.

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