Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Andy Warhol's New York ... Today

If you're an Andy Warhol fanatic (like I am), you'll love Camille Dodero's look at what "his" New York looks like 25 years after his death HERE. The Village Voice reporter is taken on a tour by Thomas Kiedrowski, author of "Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks Uptown to Downtown," a pocket guidebook of 80 addresses of note to the famed Pop artist:

The walk begins at the Upper East Side apartment building where Truman Capote (whom Andy all but stalked back when before the term had even been coined) lived with his "drunken mess of a mother in the early '50s" and ends at 57 Great Jones Street, near the corner of Bowery, where Jean-Michel Basquiat fatally overdosed in 1988. Warhol's former residences, the Factories and everything else is in between. "I just don't want people to have the impression that he's not really around," Kiedrowski tells Dodero, in a tone much she describes like he is speaking of God. "He's everywhere." Read HERE.


The book is available HERE.



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