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“... buried behind the familiar events we know as history, and to give them their historical due’. Andy Warhol told us that everyone can be famous for fifteen minutes. There are in this book many diverting stories about the socially obscure. Yet the historian is captive to his ‘mouse-eaten’ records, and much of the evidence remaining is ...”

“... fictional world, this last gasp of the emperor-obsessed samurai spirit registers as an Andy Warhol moment – depthless, barely penetrating the rock and roll soundtrack.Partly because of this cool, iconoclastic attitude, Murakami’s books are wildly popular with younger Japanese readers – Norwegian Wood (1987), a realistic coming-of-age ...”

“... Farah Pahlavi and Andy Warhol photographed in New York, 1977. In the mid 1970s​ , Iran started buying nudes. Some were abstract nudes, such as Willem de Kooning’s Woman III, with her yellow hair and emphatic yellow breasts and an expression that suggests some bemusement at de Kooning’s ‘melodrama of vulgarity ...”

“... Lawrence, Wittgenstein, Che Guevara, Greta Garbo, Edith Sitwell, JFK, Maria Callas, Howard Hughes, Andy Warhol, Glenn Gould, the late Princess of Wales) down to minor bog-sprites such as Eartha Kitt, Cher or Quentin Crisp. (Such lists are infinitely expandable.) What links each of these disparate individuals is a singularity so tangible as to border on ...”

“... by Davenport of Buster Keaton, W.B. Yeats, Abraham Cowley, a ‘Franco-Cantabrian Muralist’, Andy Warhol and Charles Babbage, among others. Davenport published his first book of short fiction (or ‘assemblages’ as he called it), Tatlin! Six Stories, as well as translations of the fragments of Archilochos (the first work by Davenport I encountered ...”

“... ad in the decision to call his current heroine ‘Susan Colgate’; wrappers, video grabs, an Andy Warhol detail on ‘another American town that bought Tide, ate Campbell’s soup and generated at least one weird, senseless killing per decade’. In the latest book there’s a portrait-of-the-artist cameo from a retired TV weatherman who spends his ...”

“... the slight chocolatey, then smoothly apricotty, flavour.At one point, Jesse laments missing the Andy Warhol show at the Tate, but I suspect Mendez himself may have caught it. Like Warhol, Mendez divides his attention between boredom and titillation, leveraging the two against each other; you’ve got to work hard if ...”

“... poetry worlds, though he never achieved, or, by all accounts, desired, the celebrity and status of Andy Warhol or Claes Oldenburg or Jim Dine, alongside whose work his elegant collages were first presented to British gallery-goers at the Hayward’s Pop Art show of 1969. But Brainard wasn’t really a Pop artist, and though a big ...”

“... cures can kill more efficiently than the disease itself; he can also deal out existential death. Andy Warhol was particularly suspicious of doctors, who he believed had given his mother an unnecessary colostomy, thus creating a shameful confusion between the outer and inner worlds, between what can be looked at and what ought to be concealed. Many ...”

“... sum of $50,000 for spilling the beans to Rupert Murdoch’s trash-TV flagship A Current Affair. If Andy Warhol were still alive, he would not be thought of as a satirist of the Post-Modern. In the bad old days, there used to be something called the Hays Office in Hollywood. This office laid down certain dos and don’ts for movie-makers, most but not all ...”

“... films of Fassbinder. But Micheaux’s impoverished mise-en-scène is far more extreme. Not until Andy Warhol purchased a sound-on-film Auricon camera in the mid-1960s would anyone make more stripped-down and radically practical movies. Moreover, where Warhol’s largely unedited films follow a vigorously minimalist ...”

“... subject. Disney was the 20th century’s corporate artist supreme, the original multimedia genius, Andy Warhol avant la lettre, Elvis Presley’s only rival as the most important figure in American mass culture. Besides, as Leslie is well aware, the cartoons on which Disney built his Magic Kingdom have never seemed more central to the history of motion ...”

“... new medieval future’, such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Often Burn’s book reads like an Andy Warhol-style celebration of the new, shiny mediated reality. As he lists the football shirts worn by famously murdered children, Burn sounds almost religious. The news seems to be acting out what Mailer called ‘the dream life of the nation’. This ...”

“... television. New names will appear: Clement Greenberg, Alfred Barr, Josef Albers, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon. All but the stodgiest departments – though this exempts many – will make gestures towards what has for the last thirty years been referred to, again tautologically, as ‘Theory’. Somewhere along the line, art history majors ...”

“... developed strong ‘Palestinian’ associations). He came under fire again when visiting the 2002 Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern. Browsing in the bookshop, he was approached by a man who asked in a ‘venomous’ whisper: ‘Where are the bloodstains?’ Blechman likes blending into the world’s wild places, but he is neither an off-duty ...”