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“... the emerging rock of Elvis Presley. With the help of Victor Bockris – author of a biography of Andy Warhol – Cale has written a thoughtful and entertaining autobiography in a strikingly original format: a slab of a book, bound in cardboard, combining photographs, facsimiles, cartoons, sketches and a disconcertingly innovative use of graphics. In his ...”

“... radical change of direction and style,’ the narrator says.It didn’t bother us, we’d read the Andy Warhol phrase about how it’s crazy to think of an artistic change of direction as a betrayal, and that you should be an abstract artist one week and a figurative or a pop artist the next, an idea we subscribed to wholeheartedly, as we did to the rest ...”

“... Hergé’s original drawings, some of the sources that he drew on (and drew), a portrait of him by Andy Warhol, and various seafaring artefacts. The boy reporter’s first assignment was to Russia. The strips from Le Petit Vingtième were collected in a book published in 1930, Tintin au pays des Soviets. The Bolsheviks are fantastically evil: in one of ...”

“... Before​ Nico was one of Andy Warhol’s ‘Superstars’, before she sang with the Velvet Underground and made six solo albums, she was known as ‘the girl from La Dolce Vita’. Fellini had spotted her hanging around on set and gave her a small part as a model called Nico. Nico wears beatnik black and her space-age platinum hair is loose ...”

“... about everywhere, and is highly successful in the art market. Many now see Wool as the heir to Andy Warhol, the next great link in an American tradition of painting that began in the postwar years of abstract expressionism and pop art. A retrospective can be seen at the Guggenheim in New York (until 22 January). The key to Wool is his use of printing ...”

“... culture’. This effacement of frontiers, which has often taken parodic form (the soup cans of Andy Warhol, the deliberate kitsch of architects like Philip Venturi, author of the feisty manifesto Learning from Las Vegas) is now itself parodied in Gilbert Adair’s funny and accomplished second novel. The narrator of Love and Death on Long Island is ...”

“... 1960s began, Rugoff continues, artists associated with Pop and photorealism – Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Richard Artschwager, Vija Celmins and Malcolm Morley – turned again to photography, not only as a source of images but as a way to convey the look of consumer society, already processed as so much of it was through ...”

“... as an exhibition space (this was the birth of Chelsea as an art neighbourhood), and, with the Andy Warhol Foundation, initiated the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Both these spaces were industrial structures redesigned by Richard Gluckman, who is as much an architect of the Dia aesthetic – a Modernist transparency ...”

“... of the contradictory manifestations of Modernist effort – how does one reconcile Thomas Mann and Andy Warhol? – he can’t help but see the Modernist instinct as essentially an affirmative urge. Two-thirds of the way through his book, Gay states bluntly that ‘liberalism’ was the ‘fundamental principle of Modernism’. But whose liberalism is he ...”

“... with choosing, fabrication with arrangement’. Goldsmith once edited a book of interviews with Andy Warhol, who shows up; so do Duchamp and Cage. There are many entertaining snippets from books that seem impossible to read to the end. ‘The helpless spectacular he get decided for the hair was into the amateur, so he seemed for had looked occurred for ...”

“... would have to call off the show.’ One night he nearly met Yves Saint Laurent, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol, Catherine Deneuve and someone called Betty Catroux. In fact, on the dancefloor, Nureyev took his hand and twirled him round and round for what, he tells us (and it must be so), ‘seemed like an eternity’. Then Rupert went to drama ...”

“... and the archetypal risible modernist, all plonks and tinklings, for the man in the street. Like Andy Warhol, with whom he had much in common, he became a household name yet produced practically nothing of real and permanent value. Cage was America’s best Dadaist, best Surrealist, best self-publicist, self-archivist, and its worst composer. He was a ...”

“... always to give the same results, he fuses a knowing riff on Pollock with a knowing riff on Andy Warhol.’ In other words, Marclay is DJing with the history of art, and hiphop is part of that story too: the larger paintings also resemble vivid graffiti pieces, old-school hiphop’s visual mode of expression.There’s a room of small paintings each ...”

“... years into a decade-long stay in New York, where he abandoned painting and fell under the spell of Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns and of course Duchamp: ‘The most, if not the only, influential figure in my so-called art practice’. Many of Ai’s early works are readymades of a kind, though they are frequently so freighted with symbolism, so stubbornly ...”

“... and none of them pure or (as Susan Sontag put it) raw. Among the artists in Invisible perhaps Andy Warhol, already a walking void of sorts, gets closest. In 1985, at the Area nightclub in New York, he stood briefly on a white plinth and then was photographed beside the ‘invisible sculpture’ that still retained some of his aura. The aura, that ...”