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Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola August 6, 1928. Born to Slovak immigrants, he was reared in a working class suburb of Pittsburgh. From an early age, Warhol showed an interest in photography and drawing, attending free classes at Carnegie Institute. The only member of his family to attend college, he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Melon University) in 1945, where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York with fellow student Philip Pearlstein. He found steady work as a commercial artist working as an illustrator for several magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and The New Yorker. He also did advertising and window displays for retail stores such as Bonwit Teller and I. Miller. Prophetically, his first assignment was for Glamour magazine for an article titled "Success is a Job in New York." Throughout the nineteen fifties, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. During this period, he shortened his name to "Warhol." In 1952, the artist had his first solo exhibition at the Hugo Gallery, exhibiting Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote. Subsequently, Warhol's work was exhibited in several venues throughout the fifties including his first group show at The Museum of Modern Art in 1955. In 1953 the artist produced his first illustrated book, A is an Alphabet and Love is a Pink Cake, which he gave to his clients and associates. With a burgeoning career as an illustrator, he formed Andy Warhol Enterprises in 1957. 1960 marked a turning point in Warhol's prolific career. He painted his first works based on comics and advertisements, enlarging and transferring the source images onto his canvases with an opaque projector. In 1961, Warhol showed his paintings, Advertisement, Little King, Superman, Before and After, and Superman, Before and After, and Saturday's Popeye in a window display of Bonwit Teller department store. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art including the Campbell's Soup Can, Marilyn and Elvis series. In 1962, the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles exhibited his Campbell's Soup Cans and in New York, the Stable gallery showed the Baseball, Coca-Cola, Do It Yourself and Dance Diagram paintings among others. In 1963 Warhol established a studio at 231 East 47th Street which became known as the "Factory." In addition to painting and creating box sculptures such as Brillo Box and Heinz Box, Warhol began working in other mediums including record producing (The Velvet Underground), magazine publishing (Interview) and filmmaking. His avant-garde films such as Chelsea Girls, Blow Job and Empire have become classics of the underground genre. In 1968, Valerie Solanis, a periodic factory visitor, and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) walked into the Factory and shot Warhol. The attack was near fatal. In the 1970's, Warhol renewed his focus on painting and worked extensively on a commissioned basis both for corporations and for individuals whose portrait he painted. Works created in this decade include Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Torsos, Maos and Shadows. Warhol also published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and Back Again). Firmly established as a major 20th-century artist and international celebrity, Warhol was given a major retrospective of his work at the Pasadena Art Museum which traveled to museums around the world. In the late seventies Warhol began dictating an oral diary to his colleague Pat Hackett, which became the basis for the best-selling Andy Warhol Diaries. He also frequented Studio 54 along with other members of the international jet-set saying, "I have a social disease. I have to go out every night." The artist began the 1980's with the publication of POPism: The Warhol '60s. He also began work on Andy Warhol's TV, a series of half hour of video programs patterned after Interview magazine. In 1985, "Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes" appeared on MTV, half hour programs featuring celebrities, artists, musicians, and designers, with Warhol as the host. The paintings he created during this time included Dollar Signs, Guns and Last Suppers. He also produced several paintings in collaboration with other artists including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente. Following routine gall bladder surgery, Andy Warhol died of complications during his recovery on February 2, 1987. After his burial in Pittsburgh, his friends and associates organized a memorial mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral on April 1 that was attended by more than 2,000 people. In 1989, the Museum of Modern Art in New York had a major retrospective of his works. In 2001 Heiner Bastian curated a Warhol retrospective that began in Berlin and traveled to the Tate in London and finally to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles
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990 5th ave NYC NY
A 7,500-square-foot co-op hit the market yesterday at 990 Fifth Avenue on the corner of 80th Street for $42 million. The triplex unit is being marketed by Sotheby's International Realty agent Lois Nasser, who is a long-time friend of the seller, whom Nasser would not identify by name. The five-bedroom, five-bathroom unit includes a 1,200-square-foot terrace, five fireplaces and views of the park. Nasser said the unit was on the market several years ago, but was later taken off. Although the seller's previous effort to sell the apartment was thwarted, Nasser said that the current owner is willing to wait for an aggressive offer. "I wouldn't call [them] a highly motivated seller," Nasser said. The owner is willing to "wait for the right [buyer] to come along and pay the price." While Nasser said that she's received queries from other brokers about the listing (none of whom she was willing to name), she conceded that she might be waiting on an int...
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In his heyday, there was no brighter star in the Hamptons social orbit than Truman, but after the serialization in Esquire magazine of his thinly veiled satire Answered Prayers, the writer entered a darker phase, in exile by the shore, taking solace in a bottle. The devastating impact of Capote's fall came swiftly. According to John Knowles, "he was completely unstrung" by the reaction and fell into an irrevocable depression. "Towards the end, of course, he was drinking too much," Clarke recalls. In July of 1980, Dunphy found Capote collapsed on the steps of his cottage with broken glass all around him. Dunphy rushed him to Southampton Hospital, where Capote told him, "I drink because it's the only time I can stand it." Three summers later he was dead. These days, it's fittingly that another creative figure, artist Ross Bleckner, resides in Capote's storied cottage, having preserved the compound now adjacent to protected lands, never to be overshadowed by the McMansions Capote would have despised. And what would Capote have made of the Hamptons today? "There was a different sort of society out here then," says Clarke, "and it was so much quieter. Who's out here now? Rock stars, movie stars... It's a publicity society." On second thought, Clarke muses, perhaps it would have suited Truman just fine. In the '70s he hobnobbed with Andy Warhol and the Rolling Stones. "Who knows? If he were still alive today, he might have been at the center of P. Diddy's latest party, making little asides...taking it all in."
Meadow Lane
A five-bedroom, five-bath Norman Jaffe-designed home on Meadow Lane in Southampton is now in contract. The oceanfront dwelling, built in 1986, sits on 4.2 acres and has a heated Gunite pool and outdoor spa. The asking price for the property was $26 million; a source tells REAL LI that the sales price is closer to $18 million.
Triplex at 176 Perry st
Hugh Jackman was the reported buyer of Sun Mircrosystems co-founder Bill Joy's 11,000-square-foot triplex at 176 Perry Street , a staggering piece of minimalist beauty (if that's your type of thing), for "somewhere above $25 million." And what a deal that would have been! You see, Joy spent around $17.5 million on the apartment—the entire eighth through tenth floors of the Richard Meier-designed Far West Village building—and then hired Meier himself to build-out the interior ( above ) for probably a couple million more. Joy never moved in and listed the spread for a crazy $40 million , then chopped it down to $33 million where it wasted away for another six months (monthly maintenance: $27,841) until Wolverine pounced. Indeed, "somewhere above $25 million" would have been a relative bargain, but there's a surprise twist ending.