Forthcoming podcast episode
Today I spent three hours talking into a microphone. In the next two weeks I will edit the audio into a proper show format.
As a special surprise, this episode of Fake Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes (in Theory) will actually be about Andy Warhol.
It will deal with his sex life (such as it was) and will also feature a review/response to the recent Netflix documentary series The Andy Warhol Diaries.
Here are two video clips that will be referenced in the show.
The above clip is very important and should start at the 14:09 mark. Joan reveals that Warhol did not actually work on the vaunted Last Supper series himself, but rather had two assistants produce the paintings for him, and that he did not even know what these paintings looked like until they were publicly unveiled.
Yes, Warhol had directed assistants previously but, as the interviewer says, this degree of “hands-off” creation is still quite remarkable. And yet no one remarks on it! This inconvenient biographical detail has somehow escaped the attention of virtually all Warhol critics, who use the Last Supper series to posit a deeply personal and uplifting ending to Warhol’s creative life. How can this be, if he didn't work on the pieces himself or even oversee their construction?
What does this all mean? My interpretation is that Warhol believed these supposedly religious paintings actually constituted blasphemy, and so he wanted to distance himself from the potential sin of their creation. After all, Warhol believed that he had made a deal with God, and that God had brought him back to life after the 1968 shooting under the condition that he would be a good boy from then on. Of course, the Last Suppers turned out to be Warhol’s final major work; he died unexpectedly soon afterwards. And so from Warhol’s own perspective, it would seem as if God had struck him down in response to these same paintings, which so many critics mistake for seriously religious (or even pious) works of art.
But anyway most of the audio I recorded deals with sex, not religion.
I will have it up sometime, and will consider returning to Instagram at that time as well.