Was andy warhol gay
HOLY TERROR: ANDY WARHOL Near UP BY BOB COLACELLO
Andy Warhol entered my life when, at the age of twelve, I discovered one of his coffee-table books at the local Barnes & Noble in suburban Providence. Warhol’s nude male “landscape” series and the piss paintings were the first homoerotic art I had ever seen. Why was Warhol respected for making gay imagery when it was banned everywhere else? A few years later, freshly out of college, and freshly out, but with no real-life gay role models to draw upon I turned again to Warhol — or rather to Bob Colacello’s memoir, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. It introduced me to a world I never knew existed: the day-to-day life of a wildly successful gay man who created the physical, social, and psychological spaces that provided refuge and empowerment to all types of outsiders, places where audacity, originality and decadence reigned supreme. I immediately moved to New York Urban area seeking out the contemporary equivalent.
Holy Terror’s gossip-fueled pages resonated with me so strongly because it was the first time
Andrew van der Vlies
In a ARTNews magazine interview with the critic Gene Swenson, Andy Warhol famously stated – apparently in all seriousness – that ‘everybody should be a machine’. The similar interview included other pithy responses: everyone ‘should like everybody’, and pop art was, in essence, about ‘liking things’.[1] Warhol’s personal reputation as reticent and fond of gnomic or evasive answers, and his professional reputation as an artist fascinated with commodification, mechanisation, seriality and the surface, have long relied on soundbites such as these. And yet the published account of this interview omitted, apparently at the behest of a bigoted editor, a essential framing context. Swenson had opened with a leading question: ‘What do you say about homosexuals?’[2] In the complete transcript, Warhol’s responses can thus more fully be seen for what they most likely were: performatively affectless statements, offered in a knowing, ironically level manner, cultivated to subvert the art world’s predilection for exaggeratedly straight (and straight-talking) male painter personae.
LGBTQ stories: Andy Warhol's unlikely spirituality
One of America’s most beloved artists kept a confidential. Something that may have shocked his friends and colleagues. Andy Warhol — pop artist and gay icon — was also a lifelong Catholic who went to mass regularly at a church in New York City’s Upper East Side.
Warhol grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His family were Slovakian immigrants — their original name was Warhola. And every week, his mother took him to a Byzantine Catholic Church.
“Andy grew up in a religious and hardworking household, and I think that applies to his career and adult life,” said Jose Diaz, a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Diaz came to Modern York last year to position together an exhibition on Warhol’s spiritual life at the Brooklyn Museum — with curator Carmen Hermo. Carmen walks me through a room in the museum full of Warhol trinkets.
“There are sweet works that he made as a child, gorgeous minute painted Jesus statue that he made at ten years old,” Hermo said. “As a pupil at Carnegie tech, reproducing images of the family cruci
How Andy Warhol Revolutionized Art & Sexuality
My profile picture on Affinity Magazine is me in front of Andy Warhol&#;s Campbell&#;s Soup Cans when I visited the Museum of Modern Art during my time spent in New York City support in September The photo is quite old, but I can clearly recall the day I visited the gallery; I ate a crepe and drank peppermint tea before taking a short walk from the cafe over to MoMA. I also went only hours before my flight back home to Toronto, so my consciousness was packed with bittersweet emotions. But what distracted me from having to leave was all of the art I viewed while wandering around the museum. And although I cherished the expressionism of Marc Chagall&#;s work and the calming blue hues of Vincent Van Gogh&#;s The Starry Night, there was something inherently moving in each canvas of Warhol&#;s depiction of Campbell&#;s soup that I couldn&#;t describe.