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Love the Front Korea
Once in a while, a listener will write in to Studio 360 asking for a transcript of a story we've broadcast. Unfortunately, we don't have transcripts of the shows (it's just too time consuming and we...
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As American as Andy Warhol
Handpicked by President Obama as the host city of last week's G-20 economic conference, Pittsburgh may finally be getting its due.While most news coverage of the event was more concerned with the art...
View ArticleGig Alerts: Carl Craig
Carl Craig"Experimento"Playing FRIDAY at: Walter Reade Theater (W. 65th St. near Amsterdam Ave., U.W.S.)Get: Tickets (2 shows) | DirectionsFor the second night of the Unsound Festival, electronic music...
View ArticleStolen Pieces
Provocative Brooklyn artists Eva and Franco Mattes have work on view at Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea that they have kept secret for 15 years. “Stolen Pieces” is an exhibit of dozens of tiny fragments...
View ArticleWarhol: The Later Years
From 1977 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol wasn't just collecting friends through the revolving door of his Factory. He was making art with them.The Brooklyn Museum's new exhibition, Andy Warhol:...
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A Mosaic Mystery Unfolds in Queens
When art blogger Andrew Russeth stepped on a mosaic of famed 1960's Parks Commissioner Robert Moses in Queens' Flushing Meadows Corona Park, he stepped right into a 45-year-old controversy involving...
View ArticleBuyers Pay More for Warhols, Lichtenstein Than Projected
Andy Warhol's works of art have sold above their projected pricetags at two out of three of this week's contemporary art auction sales.On Monday, Phillips de Pury and Company sold 59 works of art for...
View ArticleThis Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Andy Warhol's very long movies at MoMA, rammed earth pillars at the Whitney, a parading Viking ship in Chelsea and some serious girl power in Williamsburg. The holidays may be upon us, but that doesn't...
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'Empire' Tweets Back: WNYC Culture Live Tweets Andy Warhol's 8-Hour Marathon...
This Friday, join WNYC and the Museum of Modern Art for a screening and simultaneous Twitter discussion of Andy Warhol's marathon film "Empire."On the evening of July 25, 1964, artist Andy Warhol,...
View ArticleWatching (and Tweeting) Andy Warhol's 'Empire'
Boring. Unwatchable. Eight. Hours. Long. The critics haven't always been kind to Andy Warhol's "Empire," his epically long 1964 film of the famed Manhattan skyscraper at night. But the fact is that for...
View ArticleEmpire State Flashback
As part of our Empire Tweets Back project—in which we watch all eight hours of Andy Warhol's film "Empire"—we did a little rooting around in the WNYC and Museum of Modern Art archives to see what we...
View ArticleAndy Warhol's Favorite New York City Haunts
From 1949 up until his death in 1987, New York City was home to Andy Warhol. WNYC had a look through Thomas Kiedrowski's Andy Warhol's New York City: four walks uptown to downtown, published by The...
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That Picasso? Worth About as Much as a Fifth Avenue 5-Bedroom
It's long been axiomatic that a slice of pizza costs about the same price as a single ride on the subway. But here's a new economic parallel for New York City: the most expensive apartments changing...
View ArticleAndy Warhol, Culturally Relevant as Ever
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the lasting influence of Andy Warhol, who remains as stubbornly culturally relevant as ever, 25 years after his death. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty...
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American Icons: Warhol's Soup Cans
Andy Warhol told people he painted soup because he ate it for lunch every day, but 50 years later, the paintings remain mysterious. Around 1961, Andy Warhol started painting cans of Campbell's soup, in...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie & Andy Warhol
Kurt Andersen talks with Salman Rushdie. His new memoir chronicles the stranger-than-fiction decade he spent under threat of the Ayatollah Khomeni’s fatwa. We revisit the golden age of MTV. And Andy...
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Vanished Venues: Area Was A Club Like No Other
In 1983, a club unlike any other opened in New York. Area, on Hudson Street in TriBeCa, was a fusion of art and performance and night life that reinvented itself with a new theme every six weeks. Less...
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Art Talk: What Happens When the Art Dealer Steals the Show
Museums usually mount exhibits featuring one artist. Or a period in history. Or an art movement. But for the first time in its history, the Museum of Modern Art is devoting an exhibition to an art...
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Andy Warhol, Computer Artist
Here's something I never knew. Andy Warhol was a fan of the Commodore Amiga, a personal computer line from the mid eighties. Warhol used his Amiga to create drawings using the computer's built in paint...
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A Censored Warhol is Back, 50 Years Later
The 1964 World's Fair was supposed to be an event celebrating peace, and humankind achievement.On April 15th, 1964, Pop artist Andy Warhol presented his contribution to it: his piece Thirteen Most...
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