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The Andy Warhol Diaries (TV Series)
''The Andy Warhol Diaries'' is an American documentary streaming television limited series from writer, director Andrew Rossi, and executive producer Ryan Murphy, based on the 1989 non-fiction book of the same name by Andy Warhol, as edited by Pat Hackett. The series features the famed pop artist narrating his own diary entries through the employment of AI (voiced by Bill Irwin then morphed using Resemble AI). The series premiered on Netflix on March 9, 2022, consisting of six episodes. Among those who were interviewed in the course of the series are Bob Colacello, Pat Hackett, Christopher Makos, Rob Lowe, Jerry Hall, Mariel Hemingway, Tony Shafrazi, Mary Boone, Vincent Fremont, Shelly Dunn Fremont, Jamie Wyeth, Glenn Ligon, Larry Gagosian, José Carlos Diaz, David LaChapelle, Wilfredo Rosado, Peter Wise, Donna De Salvo, Jay Johnson, Kenny Scharf, Alan Wanzenberg, Michael Chow, Patrick Moore, John Waters, Greg Tate, Julian Schnabel, Marc Balet, Lee Quinones, Donald Warhola, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Documentary
Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries. Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film. *Television documentary series, sometimes called docuseries, are television series screened within an ordered collection of two or more televised episodes. *Television documentary films exist as a singular documentary film to be broadcast via a documentary channel or a news-related channel. Occasionally, documentary films that were initially intended for televised broadcasting may be screened in a cinema. Documentary television rose to prominence during the 1940s, spawning from earlier cinematic documentary filmmaking ventures. Early production techniques were highly inefficient compared to modern recording methods. Early television documentaries typically featured historical, wartime, investigative or event-related subject matter. Contemporary television documentaries have extended to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Gagosian
Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries. Working in concert with collectors including Douglas S. Cramer, Eli Broad, and Keith Barish, he developed a reputation for staging museum-quality exhibitions of contemporary art. Early life and education Gagosian was born April 19, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, the elder sibling and only son to Armenian parents. His mother, Ann Louise, had a career in acting and singing, and his father, Ara, was an accountant and later a stockbroker. His grandparents (original last name Ghoughasian) immigrated from Armenia; he and his parents were born in California. Between 1963 and 1969, he pursued a major in English literature at UCLA and graduated in 1969. He worked briefly in a record store, a bookstore, a supermarket, and in an entry-level job as Michael Ovitz’s secretaryEric Konigsberg (January 28, 2013)The Trials of Art Superdealer Larry Gagosian'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon (born 1960, pronounced Lie-gōne) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity.Meyer, Richard. "Glenn Ligon", in George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman (eds), ''Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia'', Volume 2. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. Based in New York City, Ligon's work often draws on 20th century literature and speech of 20th century cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, and Richard Pryor. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness. Early life and career Ligon was born in 1960 in the Forest Houses Projects in the south Bronx. When he was seven, his divorced, working-class parents were able to get scholarships for him and his younger brother to attend Walden School (New York City), Walden School, a high-quality, progressive, private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side.Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (December 11, 2009)"Glenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Wyeth
James Browning Wyeth (born July 6, 1946) is an American Realism (arts), realist painter, son of Andrew Wyeth, and grandson of N.C. Wyeth. He was raised in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, and is artistic heir to the Brandywine School tradition — painters who worked in the rural Brandywine Creek (Christina River), Brandywine River area of Delaware and Pennsylvania, portraying its people, animals, and landscape. Biography Early life James Wyeth is the second child of Andrew and Betsy Wyeth, born three years after brother Nicholas, his only sibling. He was raised on his parents' farm "The Mill" in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in much the same way as his father had been brought up, and with much the same influences. He demonstrated the same remarkable skills in drawing as his father had done at comparable ages. He attended public school for six years and then, at his request was privately tutored at home, so he could concentrate on art. His brother Nicholas would later become an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Fremont
Vincent Fremont (born 1950) is an American art magazine publishing executive, documentary director and producer, the onetime manager of Andy Warhol's studio The Factory, and a co-founder and former co-head of the Andy Warhol Foundation as was proscribed for in the famous pop Artist's will. He was both the director and co- producer of ''Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story'' a biopic on the Warhol superstar Brigid Berlin. He was also an associate producer of the 1989 film Slaves of New York adapted from the short story collection Tama Janowitz of the same bame. In 2016 Fremont was named CEO of ARTnews. He stepped down from the executive position in 2017 but stayed on as an advisor to the company. Freemont and his wife Shelly Dunn Fremont are among the on screen interviewees in the 2022 Netflix docuseries, ''The Andy Warhol Diaries ''The Andy Warhol Diaries'' is the dictated memoirs of the American artist Andy Warhol, posthumously published. It was edited by his frequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Boone
Mary Boone (born c. 1951/1952) is an American art dealer and collector. Life Boone moved to New York City at the age of 19 from Erie, Pennsylvania to a working class family of Egyptian immigrants. She studied Art History at Rhode Island School of Design and received her BFA in Sculpture in 1973. Boone met the sculptor Lynda Benglis at Hunter College, who introduced her to Klaus Kertess, director of the prestigious Bykert Gallery in TriBeCa, who took her on as a secretary. Dubbed the "The New Queen of the Art Scene" by New York Magazine in 1982, she would go on to play an important role in the New York art market in the 1980s.Finke, Nikki (2005-11-17),"Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood", ''LA Weekly''/ref> She married the German art dealer Michael Werner (art dealer), Michael Werner in 1979 two years after opening Mary Boone Gallery. Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger partnered with Mary Boone to share artists between Europe and New York City and the two contribu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Shafrazi
Tony Shafrazi (born May 8, 1943), is an American art dealer, gallery owner, and artist. He is the owner of the ''Shafrazi Art Gallery'' in New York City who deals artwork by artists such as Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, and David LaChapelle. Early life and education Tony Shafrazian was born in Abadan, Iran to Iranian Armenian parents and raised Christian. His parents divorced when he was two years old. At the age of 13, his father, an oil-company executive, and his stepmother took Shafrazi to England and left him to study there.David Grogan (March 26, 1984)Once He Vandalized Picasso's Guernica, but Now Tony Shafrazi Is a Successful Patron of the Arts''People''. He first went to a vicarage in Bilston, then to boarding school in Whittlebury, and later Hammersmith College of Art & Building. He attended the Royal College of Art from 1963 to 1967. While attending Royal College of Art, Shafrazi visited New York City in 1965, staying in a YMCA that was near Andy Warhol's Factory. On that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariel Hemingway
Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe-nominated breakout role in ''Lipstick'' (1976), and she received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's ''Manhattan'' (1979). She is also known for her leading roles in '' Personal Best'' (1982), ''Star 80'' (1983), and the TV series ''Civil Wars'' for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Amid mental health struggles, Hemingway's career dwindled in the 1990s. She has starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living. She published a yoga memoir, '' Finding My Balance'', in 2002, and a more general memoir, ''Out Came the Sun'', in 2015. Early life Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway, a writer. Her sisters are Joan "Muffet" and Margot "Margaux", the latter of whom became a model and actress. Her paternal grandparents were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Hall
Jerry Faye Hall (born July 2, 1956) is an American model and actress. She began modelling in the 1970s and became one of the most sought after models in the world. She transitioned into acting, appearing in the 1989 film ''Batman''. Hall was the long-term partner of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, with whom she has four children. She subsequently married media mogul Rupert Murdoch, from whom she is now divorced. Early life Hall was born in Gonzales, Texas, to Marjorie (née Sheffield), a medical records librarian, and John P. Hall. She is of English, Irish, and Dutch descent. She was raised in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas. Hall graduated from North Mesquite High School early at 16. While in high school, she also took classes at Eastfield College in archery, tennis, and gymnastics. Hall has been fluent in French since she was 16. She has a twin sister, Terry, whose jobs have included working in a photography and printmaking shop, real estate investing, and real est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and podcast host. He made his acting debut at the age of 15 with ABC's short-lived sitcom ''A New Kind of Family'' (1979–1980). Following numerous television roles in the early 1980s, he came to prominence as a teen idol and member of the Brat Pack with roles in films like '' The Outsiders ''(1983), ''Class'' (1983), ''The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), ''Oxford Blues'' (1984), ''St. Elmo's Fire'' (1985), '' About Last Night...'' (1986), and ''Square Dance'' (1987). The success of these films established him as a Hollywood star. By the turn of the millennium, his career saw a resurgence when he ventured back into television, making his breakthrough as Sam Seaborn on the NBC political drama ''The West Wing'' (1999–2003), for which he received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards. His other television roles include Robert McCallister on the ABC drama '' Brothers & Sisters' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Makos
Christopher Makos (born 1948) is an American photographer and visual artist. Makos is known for his photographs of Queer icons and pop stars, and of the male body. Makos apprenticed with photographer Man Ray, and assisted and collaborated with Andy Warhol. Makos's work has been in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums and major private collections, including those of Malcolm Forbes, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gianni Versace. His photographs of Warhol, Haring, Tennessee Williams, and others have been auctioned regularly. Makos lives in the West Village area of New York City. Career Chris Makos was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, but grew up in California before moving to Paris. In 1976, he worked as an apprentice with Man Ray in Fregenae, Italy. He met Andy Warhol in 1977, and became more visible in the Warhol social circle around 1979 and 1980. During that time Makos worked a photo assistant for Warhol and was involved with the publication of the 1979 art photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
