A walk on the wild side with Warholstars

August 29, 2004 12:26 PM

Warholstars is a comprehensive guide to the colorful cast of characters that made up Andy Warhol's constellation and that Lou Reed sang about in Walk on the Wild Side...meet Holly, Candy, Little Joe, Sugar Plum Fairy, Jackie Curtis, and more.
posted by madamjujujive (9 comments total)

Andy still has a strong pull on the art world - his Foundation dispenses $10 million a year in art grants.
The Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Homepage
Andy Warhol Prints
Warhol as Simulacra
The Velvet Underground
The Wild Side of Lou Reed
posted by madamjujujive at 12:29 PM on August 29, 2004

I am a big Andy Warhol-head; one of the great days of my life was spent going to the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and then going to a showing of I Shot Andy Warhol at a cool movie theater whose name I now forget.

Thanks, madamj!
posted by Sidhedevil at 12:52 PM on August 29, 2004

Joe Dallesandro--mmmm : >
posted by amberglow at 12:54 PM on August 29, 2004

I'm a big VU-head, so I love seeing these images!

Here's a bizarre story.

(also, a few photographs from Laura Rubin, who was a friend of Candy Darling, and this great group photo from Gerard Malanga. More from him here.)
posted by taz at 1:42 PM on August 29, 2004 [1 favorite]

marvy
posted by Postroad at 3:35 PM on August 29, 2004

Who was it who said that Warhol was "the first to shout 'theatre' at a crowded fire"? I always thought that summed up the Factory and its hangers-on well.
posted by jokeefe at 4:14 PM on August 29, 2004

heh - channel surfing tonight, I stumbled on I Shot Andy Warhol.
posted by madamjujujive at 7:44 PM on August 29, 2004

The Museum was great fun -- they were having a workshop the Sunday I went, and I did some of those funky color-blocked self-portraits. I love a museum where they teach you technique.
posted by alumshubby at 7:19 AM on August 30, 2004

Very neat, thanks once again
posted by magullo at 8:14 AM on August 30, 2004