Andy Warhol—
From A to B and
Back Again
Nov 12, 2018–Mar 31, 2019
Andy Warhol Enterprises
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In addition to his art, Warhol availed himself of various means of distribution, from printmaking to publishing to television. From 1979 until his death, Warhol collaborated with producer Vincent Fremont and director Don Munroe on forty-two episodes of television. Initially conceived as “a fashion magazine on TV,” the broadcasts developed into a variety show that often featured the artist interviewing friends and cultural figures. While the single season of Warhol’s Fashion (1979–80) and two seasons of Andy Warhol’s T.V. (1980–83) were only aired locally on Manhattan Cable TV Channel 10 and the Madison Square Garden Network, Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes (1985–87) was broadcast nationally on MTV, joining Warhol-produced music videos for bands such as the Cars, Walter Steding and the Dragon People, and Curiosity Killed the Cat.
“I’ve always believed in television. A television day is like a twenty-four-hour movie. The commercials don’t really break up the continuity. The programs change yet somehow remain the same.”
Interview Magazine
Interview (Yoko Ono), January, 1985. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Curatorial Library
Warhol launched Interview in 1969, largely as a means of promoting and contextualizing his own underground films. By 1972, Warhol, editor Bob Colacello, and art director Glenn O’Brien had chosen to expand the purview of the magazine to cover the broader expanse of celebrity culture, with each new issue featuring an unedited conversation between two notable cultural figures as well as a highly stylized portrait by Richard Bernstein on the magazine’s cover. Although Warhol’s name was removed from the masthead in 1977, his unceasing role as the magazine’s promotional figurehead and de facto supervisor lasted until his death.
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On view in the exhibition:
Interview 1, no. 1 (1969). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Curatorial Library
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On view in the exhibition:
Interview (Truman Capote), July 1979. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: Curatorial Library
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Andy Warhol on Saturday Night Live
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