Blake Gopnik is author of "Warhol," a new biography of the artist. Andy Warhol was one of 20 th-century art’s great success stories. He was born in 1928 as Andrew Warhola, the son of working-class ...

Julia and Andy Warhol as photographed by Duane Michals (detail). The title of author Elaine Rusinko’s biography “Andy Warhol’s Mother” might at first seem just book-jacket shorthand, or even a bit of ...

Andy Warhol, circa 1960, had a problem. Thanks to his success as a commercial artist, he had built up an extravagant lifestyle. He owned an angel-blue Upper East Side townhouse and the tastes to match ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The first of these lectures, Blake Gopnik — “Andy Warhol: What Makes Him a Great ...

Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot the artist in June 1968. Warhol, then 39, lost his heartbeat and a lot of blood, and had ...

“It’s looking more and more like Warhol has overtaken Picasso as the most important and influential artist of the twentieth century.” That’s the assessment of Blake Gopnik, a journalist and former art ...

It’s rare to think of Warhol in such ominous terms today. His work, and Pop Art in general, is more often viewed as ironic and effervescent, or as an indictment of American consumerism. In his ...

Ryan Raftery — who has starred as Anna Wintour, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart and Ivanka Trump in a series of outrageous solo “bio-musicals” at Joe’s Pub — is next setting his sights on Andy Warhol. In ...

SOMEBODY should tell Michael Jackson: The King of Pop has been -- and will be -- Andy Warhol. Wayne Koestenbaum's biography tells the story of this "mixture of Picasso and Henry Ford," but in so doing ...

The wig gives it away, otherwise we’d be hard-pressed to immediately – or even slowly – recognize Paul Bettany’s fast-talking, extroverted and inquisitive artist character in Anthony McCarten’s The ...