CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/6/2018

Happy Birthday Andy Warhol, born August 6, 1928

Featured image is reproduced from Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls, the first museum monograph on Warhol's history-making, three-hour, split-screen, experimental cinematic masterpiece. In 1966, Roger Ebert wrote, "Warhol has nothing to say and no technique to say it with," while TV Guide issued the surprising: "fascinating, provocative, and hilarious." Perhaps Warhol himself said it best: "Chelsea Girls was the movie that made everyone sit up and notice what we were doing in films (and a lot of times that meant sit up, stand up, and walk out.) Until then the general attitude toward what we did was that it was 'artistic' or 'camp' or 'a put-on' or just plain 'boring.' But after Chelsea Girls, words like degenerate and disturbing and homosexual and druggy and nude and real started being applied to us regularly."