During the move in 1968, the couch was stolen while left unattended on the sidewalk for a short time.[10]. The Rauschenbergs and the Jaspers were there. But Andy could be generous. Warhol used a large portion of his income to finance the Factory.[7]. They’re in love.” He would turn to me and ask, “You believe in love, Bob?”. He mentions Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis and Joe Campbell (referred to in the song by his Factory nickname Sugar Plum Fairy). I want one!) When somebody laughed or did something interesting, you’d see this hand come out from behind the newspaper and turn the camera on. [14], Andy Warhol commented on mainstream America through his art while disregarding its conservative social views. They were doing high-grade amphetamines. Speaking in 2002, musician John Cale said, "It wasn't called the Factory for nothing. We have to bring home the bacon.”. By making the films, Warhol created a sexually lenient environment at the Factory for the "happenings" staged there, which included fake weddings between drag queens, porn film rentals, and vulgar plays. Edie Sedgwick is a good example, but there were others. Aside fro… She went under water. He used to say, “I want to be a machine.” He kind of meant it. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Silver, fractured mirrors, and tin foil were the basic decorating materials loved by early amphetamine users of the sixties. He would ask questions. Sometimes I’d set up lunch in the dining room for advertisers or a person getting a portrait. André Leon Talley, 69, fashion journalist.
Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory “Silver was the future, it was spacy – the astronauts wore silver suits… And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism" Warhol poses for photographer Jon Naar on the famous red couch in his studio on E. 47th Street in midtown Manhattan, 1965 The Silver Factory by Stephen Shore. Please try again. They felt they certainly had a part in Andy’s fame. Indeed, Warhol, the sometime pornographer and voyeur, had the charismatic actor Ondine crowned Pope at the Factory; and in Warhol's film Chelsea Girls 'Pope' Ondine is a witty and violent confessor. My job was to set up the appointments for the portraits, the luncheons, the meetings. He said, "You know? Andy was always walking around being very vague about everything. Surrounded by silver, artists and Warhol Superstars were in a place of worship, a house of art and a bed of creativity, a silver spaceship exploring new artistic galaxies. Warhol's years at the Factory were known as the Silver Era. There was health insurance. I set up my painting area with the workbench near the front of the windows, but I kept most of the light blocked out – that’s the way I liked it.”. Ugo Mulas (August 28, 1928 – March 2, 1973), Andy Warhol with ‘Flowers’ at The Factory, (1964). He then relocated his studio to the sixth floor of the Decker Building at 33 Union Square West near the corner of East 16th Street, where he was shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas. My previous job had been as the public affairs director of the Portland Zoo, where I sold packaged elephant manure called Patsy’s Garden Elixir. These people often paid a price for linking their destinies to the gifted but frustrated graphic artist who decided in the early sixties to “start Pop art” because he “hated” Abstract Expressionism. The film, starring Viva and Louis Waldon, was the first adult erotic film depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical release in the United States.[15][16][17]. We were all in the same room. The following list includes all movies filmed entirely or partly at the Factory. Andy came to my parents’ house for dinner when I was 5 years old. His creative genius exploded into film, photography, video, and television, as well as publishing his own books and establishing Interview magazine with British journalist John Wilcock. And that thing was thrown out of there, and when he came up to me the next time, he said to me, "Nobody has ever thrown me out of a party." In 1984 Warhol moved his remaining ventures, no longer including filming, to 22 East 33rd Street, a conventional office building. Instead, he has become a lasting icon of popular taste. As a script doctor, O’Sullivan worked on numerous screenplays, including: La piste de l'aigle (Galatée films, prod. The series has been broadcast in twenty other territories and sold to over 400 universities worldwide. Anyone who is a Warhol fan will want to dig into it, deep. She has published articles and stories in the Los Angeles Times, The L.A. "[9], Billy Name brought in the red couch which became a prominent furnishing at the Factory, finding it on the sidewalk of 47th street during one of his "midnight outings." Andy was a great teacher. You weren't involved..."[18]. Mary Woronov, 74, painter, writer, actress. Leave it to the critics to pronounce on the vast oeuvre when a major Warhol retrospective — the paintings, the films, the time capsules — opens amid a flurry of parties on Nov. 12 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Factory year: 1987. Viva (Susan Hoffman), 80, writer, actress. In 1965 Bob Dylan was brought to Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory by Barbara Rubin, a filmmaker and a mutual acquaintance of Dylan and Warhol’s, to be the subject of one of Warhol’s … Warhol was an artist, but I was too young to know any of that. This was the site of Warhol’s Factory from 1962-68. Robert Heide, 79, playwright. He was always trying to figure out human relationships.
Andy Warhol’s Factory People, The 2015 University Edition, is a revised, comprehensive 440-page, three-part oral history that tells the story of Warhol’s famous 1960s Silver Factory as told by the friends, superstars, and foes who worked with, partied with, filmed with, and slept with Andy from 1964 to 1968 in the Factory. People have said that Andy was asexual.
Factory years: 1960s. Don't you know who I am?" He later increased the price of alternative colors to $20,000 each. Factory years: 1960s. Aside from the prints and paintings, Warhol produced shoes, films, sculptures and commissioned work in various genres to brand and sell items with his name. The Velvet Underground and EPI used the Factory as a place to rehearse and hang out. Sam Bolton, left, and Jeffrey Slonim at the Factory in 1986. Have a look at Warhol gathering with his artist and celebrity friends! But then sometimes you’d shift around. The most comprehensive look at the Silver Factory told by the people who knew it best. Please consider making a donation to our site.
Somehow it turned into the gay bohemian bar of the early 1960s. We used to tease Andy, “You could run for president.” He liked hearing that. Liz Derringer, 68, music journalist. There was Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. What comes clear in interviews with more than two dozen former friends and colleagues from the various Factory spaces is that, from the start of a career that ended with his premature death at 58, the rabidly ambitious and deeply needy Warhol marshaled all that was paradoxical in his nature and put it to the service of the sustained piece of performance art that was his public self.
The original Factory was on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, in Midtown Manhattan. Please try again. [2] Many Warhol films, including those made at the Factory, were first (or later) shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre or 55th Street Playhouse. Warhol’s most famous superstar was Edie Sedgwick. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission.
Benedetta Barzini, 75, Vogue model, actress. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Friends of Warhol and "superstars" associated with the Factory included: The Factory became a meeting place of artists and musicians such as Lou Reed,[11] Bob Dylan, and Mick Jagger, as well as writer Truman Capote. Andy loved Halston. There were people who wanted to be in this entourage Andy had, people who wanted Andy to bring them places. Danny Fields, 78, music industry executive, former manager of the Ramones. There was a time when we went to Peter Knoll’s [heir to the Knoll furniture fortune] apartment on East 72nd Street. It was not the idea that we were going to be rich. Fran Lebowitz, 68, writer. One night she said, “We’re going with Andy to the opening of a new nightclub.” It was called Salvation. So famous is The Factory that its name conjures up images of all night parties, the Warhol cast of characters called the Warhol Superstars and his production-line silkscreen process. There was a famous one of women eating tuna out of a can, and they’d been poisoned by the can [“Tunafish Disaster,” 1963]. He went into Pop Art because he saw that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein started to get all that attention. Warhol effectively launched an artistic and cultural revolution in 1963 with the founding of his Factory. In the studio, Warhol's workers would make silkscreens and lithographs under his direction.
It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. What he wanted to do was get you to talk. In 1964, Warhol opened the Factory, a large warehouse in Midtown Manhattan with foil-covered, silver-painted walls. Almost all his work filmed at the Factory featured nudity, graphic sexuality, drug use, same-sex relations and transgender characters in much greater proportion to what was being shown in mainstream cinema. Not so. He didn’t have any credit cards. Factory Panorama with Andy, (1966), Nat Finkelstein. Factory years: 1968-87. He used to say to me, “Oh, Viva, your mind is a gold mine.” Of course he totally depended on other people for his stuff. Warhol’s artistic aspirations were as high as NASA’s – to the moon. Because of the constant drug use and the presence of sexually liberal artists and radicals, drugged orgies were a frequent happening at the Factory. That was the genesis of the first Factory. The building no longer exists- Warhol moved the factory to Union Sq West in 1968, but this is known as the Silver Factory- the one Billy Name decorated with tin foil everywhere. Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol at the Silver Factory – From Stephen Shore’s book Warhol: Factory. You had to show up every day, or you would be fired.
1, to have an important position in the history of art. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut. Warhol’s fifth floor studio at 231 E.47th Street in New York from 1962 to 1968 was designed by photographer/archivist/acolyte Billy Name in the style of his own apartment, with silver paint, tin foil and fractured mirrors. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 17, 2015), Fascinating Oral History of the Silver Factory, Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016. One day a drug dealer came up. Factory years: 1960s. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.
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Inside Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory “Silver was the future, it was spacy – the astronauts wore silver suits… And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism" Warhol poses for photographer Jon Naar on the famous red couch in his studio on E. 47th Street in midtown Manhattan, 1965 The Silver Factory by Stephen Shore. Please try again. They felt they certainly had a part in Andy’s fame. Indeed, Warhol, the sometime pornographer and voyeur, had the charismatic actor Ondine crowned Pope at the Factory; and in Warhol's film Chelsea Girls 'Pope' Ondine is a witty and violent confessor. My job was to set up the appointments for the portraits, the luncheons, the meetings. He said, "You know? Andy was always walking around being very vague about everything. Surrounded by silver, artists and Warhol Superstars were in a place of worship, a house of art and a bed of creativity, a silver spaceship exploring new artistic galaxies. Warhol's years at the Factory were known as the Silver Era. There was health insurance. I set up my painting area with the workbench near the front of the windows, but I kept most of the light blocked out – that’s the way I liked it.”. Ugo Mulas (August 28, 1928 – March 2, 1973), Andy Warhol with ‘Flowers’ at The Factory, (1964). He then relocated his studio to the sixth floor of the Decker Building at 33 Union Square West near the corner of East 16th Street, where he was shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas. My previous job had been as the public affairs director of the Portland Zoo, where I sold packaged elephant manure called Patsy’s Garden Elixir. These people often paid a price for linking their destinies to the gifted but frustrated graphic artist who decided in the early sixties to “start Pop art” because he “hated” Abstract Expressionism. The film, starring Viva and Louis Waldon, was the first adult erotic film depicting explicit sex to receive wide theatrical release in the United States.[15][16][17]. We were all in the same room. The following list includes all movies filmed entirely or partly at the Factory. Andy came to my parents’ house for dinner when I was 5 years old. His creative genius exploded into film, photography, video, and television, as well as publishing his own books and establishing Interview magazine with British journalist John Wilcock. And that thing was thrown out of there, and when he came up to me the next time, he said to me, "Nobody has ever thrown me out of a party." In 1984 Warhol moved his remaining ventures, no longer including filming, to 22 East 33rd Street, a conventional office building. Instead, he has become a lasting icon of popular taste. As a script doctor, O’Sullivan worked on numerous screenplays, including: La piste de l'aigle (Galatée films, prod. The series has been broadcast in twenty other territories and sold to over 400 universities worldwide. Anyone who is a Warhol fan will want to dig into it, deep. She has published articles and stories in the Los Angeles Times, The L.A. "[9], Billy Name brought in the red couch which became a prominent furnishing at the Factory, finding it on the sidewalk of 47th street during one of his "midnight outings." Andy was a great teacher. You weren't involved..."[18]. Mary Woronov, 74, painter, writer, actress. Leave it to the critics to pronounce on the vast oeuvre when a major Warhol retrospective — the paintings, the films, the time capsules — opens amid a flurry of parties on Nov. 12 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Factory year: 1987. Viva (Susan Hoffman), 80, writer, actress. In 1965 Bob Dylan was brought to Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory by Barbara Rubin, a filmmaker and a mutual acquaintance of Dylan and Warhol’s, to be the subject of one of Warhol’s … Warhol was an artist, but I was too young to know any of that. This was the site of Warhol’s Factory from 1962-68. Robert Heide, 79, playwright. He was always trying to figure out human relationships.
Andy Warhol’s Factory People, The 2015 University Edition, is a revised, comprehensive 440-page, three-part oral history that tells the story of Warhol’s famous 1960s Silver Factory as told by the friends, superstars, and foes who worked with, partied with, filmed with, and slept with Andy from 1964 to 1968 in the Factory. People have said that Andy was asexual.
Factory years: 1960s. Don't you know who I am?" He later increased the price of alternative colors to $20,000 each. Factory years: 1960s. Aside from the prints and paintings, Warhol produced shoes, films, sculptures and commissioned work in various genres to brand and sell items with his name. The Velvet Underground and EPI used the Factory as a place to rehearse and hang out. Sam Bolton, left, and Jeffrey Slonim at the Factory in 1986. Have a look at Warhol gathering with his artist and celebrity friends! But then sometimes you’d shift around. The most comprehensive look at the Silver Factory told by the people who knew it best. Please consider making a donation to our site.
Somehow it turned into the gay bohemian bar of the early 1960s. We used to tease Andy, “You could run for president.” He liked hearing that. Liz Derringer, 68, music journalist. There was Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. What comes clear in interviews with more than two dozen former friends and colleagues from the various Factory spaces is that, from the start of a career that ended with his premature death at 58, the rabidly ambitious and deeply needy Warhol marshaled all that was paradoxical in his nature and put it to the service of the sustained piece of performance art that was his public self.
The original Factory was on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street, in Midtown Manhattan. Please try again. [2] Many Warhol films, including those made at the Factory, were first (or later) shown at the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre or 55th Street Playhouse. Warhol’s most famous superstar was Edie Sedgwick. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission.
Benedetta Barzini, 75, Vogue model, actress. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Friends of Warhol and "superstars" associated with the Factory included: The Factory became a meeting place of artists and musicians such as Lou Reed,[11] Bob Dylan, and Mick Jagger, as well as writer Truman Capote. Andy loved Halston. There were people who wanted to be in this entourage Andy had, people who wanted Andy to bring them places. Danny Fields, 78, music industry executive, former manager of the Ramones. There was a time when we went to Peter Knoll’s [heir to the Knoll furniture fortune] apartment on East 72nd Street. It was not the idea that we were going to be rich. Fran Lebowitz, 68, writer. One night she said, “We’re going with Andy to the opening of a new nightclub.” It was called Salvation. So famous is The Factory that its name conjures up images of all night parties, the Warhol cast of characters called the Warhol Superstars and his production-line silkscreen process. There was a famous one of women eating tuna out of a can, and they’d been poisoned by the can [“Tunafish Disaster,” 1963]. He went into Pop Art because he saw that Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein started to get all that attention. Warhol effectively launched an artistic and cultural revolution in 1963 with the founding of his Factory. In the studio, Warhol's workers would make silkscreens and lithographs under his direction.
It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. What he wanted to do was get you to talk. In 1964, Warhol opened the Factory, a large warehouse in Midtown Manhattan with foil-covered, silver-painted walls. Almost all his work filmed at the Factory featured nudity, graphic sexuality, drug use, same-sex relations and transgender characters in much greater proportion to what was being shown in mainstream cinema. Not so. He didn’t have any credit cards. Factory Panorama with Andy, (1966), Nat Finkelstein. Factory years: 1968-87. He used to say to me, “Oh, Viva, your mind is a gold mine.” Of course he totally depended on other people for his stuff. Warhol’s artistic aspirations were as high as NASA’s – to the moon. Because of the constant drug use and the presence of sexually liberal artists and radicals, drugged orgies were a frequent happening at the Factory. That was the genesis of the first Factory. The building no longer exists- Warhol moved the factory to Union Sq West in 1968, but this is known as the Silver Factory- the one Billy Name decorated with tin foil everywhere. Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol at the Silver Factory – From Stephen Shore’s book Warhol: Factory. You had to show up every day, or you would be fired.
1, to have an important position in the history of art. Be anything but an architect" - Kurt Vonnegut. Warhol’s fifth floor studio at 231 E.47th Street in New York from 1962 to 1968 was designed by photographer/archivist/acolyte Billy Name in the style of his own apartment, with silver paint, tin foil and fractured mirrors. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 17, 2015), Fascinating Oral History of the Silver Factory, Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2016. One day a drug dealer came up. Factory years: 1960s. We work hard to protect your security and privacy.
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