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RS Recommends: Blake Gopnik's 'Andy Warhol'
Rolling Stone 50d 1 tweets
With walk-ons by Dylan, Bowie, the Stones, the Velvet Underground (of course), Nico, Candy Darling, Jean-Michel Basquiat and hundreds more, this recent definitive biography is a great summer beach …
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Blake Gopnik A rave about my #Warhol bio as "a great summer beach read." says "[its] achievement is keeping many balls in the air while pacing a swift narrative. At nearly a thousand pages, it’s quite a feat." 50d
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
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Blake Gopnik The Brits have been friendly to me today. A nice review of my Warhol bio in the Financial Times: And a listing of it as one of the year’s best books (so far) in The Guardian: 91d
The best books and audiobooks of 2020 so far
the Guardian 92d 3 tweets
Hilary Mantel’s trilogy was finished at last, Blake Gopnik exposed Warhol’s private life and Richard E Grant brought new life to Iris Murdoch. Here are our highlights of the year to date
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Blake Gopnik The Brits have been friendly to me today. A nice review of my Warhol bio in the Financial Times: And a listing of it as one of the year’s best books (so far) in The Guardian: 91d
Biography Paints Andy Warhol As The Ultimate Self-Made Man
90.5 WESA - Wesa.fm 101d 1 tweets
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 Eastern European
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Blake Gopnik Nice article and radio interview about my Warhol bio with of @905wesa in Pittsburgh (Andy's home town, of course) 101d
Blake Gopnik on his Warhol biography, Q&A with Charlie Porter at Tate Modern in London.
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Blake Gopnik on his definitive Andy Warhol biography, interviewed by Charlie Porter–and introduced by curator Gregor Muir–at Tate Modern in London on March 1...
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Blake Gopnik Since my Warhol bio doesn't get released until Tuesday, here's something ELSE to keep idle hands out of trouble this weekend: The audio (and some images) from a Q&A I did on my book at Tate Modern on March 12 -- the last day of "normal life" in London. 111d
Magus of mass production | Spectator USA
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Warhol by Blake Gopnik reviewed. Andy Warhol made millions autographing screen prints mass-produced by anonymous assistants
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Blake Gopnik Lovely review of my Warhol bio by in US ed of The Spectator: “An extraordinary and revealing biography — surely the definitive life of a definitive artist….something interesting, revealing or humorous on just about every page.” 125d
The warm, generous side of Andy Warhol | Book Club | The Spectator
Spectator.co.uk 141d 1 tweets
On this week’s Book Club podcast, I’m joined by Blake Gopnik — the author of a monumental new biography of Andy Warhol. Blake tells me how everything — fame, money, and other human beings — were 'art supplies' to Warhol, but that underneath a...
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Blake Gopnik The Spectator just posted a Podcast of me talking about my Warhol biography. Some comic relief from our grim situation? In half an hour, I managed to cover a lot of my central arguments -- but don't think that saves you having to read the book! 141d
Andy, We Hardly Knew You
Bordercrossingsmag.com 150d 1 tweets
In his lifetime Andy Warhol took an inventive approach to the facts of his biography. At different times he claimed to have been born in 1929, 1930 and 1933; he even lied about his age to his doctor; and he changed his place of birth from...
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Blake Gopnik "Easily the most important book on Warhol’s art and life yet to be published" -- I could hardly ask for better from Robert Enright reviewing my #Warhol biography in Border Crossings () 150d
Warhol by Blake Gopnik Talk and Book Launch | The Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol Museum - The Andy Warhol Museum 156d 1 tweets
Warhol for All
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Blake Gopnik The Pittsburgh launch of my Warhol biography has been announced, to happen—with a book talk and signing—at The Andy Warhol Museum on May 15: 156d
Blake Gopnik on Instagram: “Very un-Canadian of me to toot my own horn ... but I was SO pleased when the Guardian called my Warhol bio a “mesmerising book, which is as…”
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8 Likes, 0 Comments - Blake Gopnik (@blake_gopnik) on Instagram: “Very un-Canadian of me to toot my own horn ... but I was SO pleased when the Guardian called my…”
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Blake Gopnik Very un-Canadian of me to toot my own horn ... but I was SO pleased when the Guardian called my Warhol bio a “mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography.” Precisely my goal as I… 173d
Warhol by Blake Gopnik review – sex, religion and overtaking Picasso
the Guardian 174d 4 tweets
A splendid life of Andy Warhol claims him as the most influential artist of the 20th century, and isn’t shy of exposing his private life
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Blake Gopnik Pretty nice to wake up to the Guardian’s review of my “splendid” Warhol biography as their “Book of the Day”! 173d
Blake Gopnik on Instagram: “Pretty nice to wake up to the Guardian’s review of my “splendid” Warhol biography as their “Book of the Day”!…”
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47 Likes, 10 Comments - Blake Gopnik (@blake_gopnik) on Instagram: “Pretty nice to wake up to the Guardian’s review of my “splendid” Warhol biography as their “Book of…”
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Blake Gopnik Pretty nice to wake up to the Guardian’s review of my “splendid” Warhol biography as their “Book of the Day”! 173d
WARHOL by Blake Gopnik | Kirkus Reviews
Kirkus Reviews 248d 3 tweets
An epic cradle-to-grave biography of the king of pop art from Gopnik (co-author: Warhol Women, 2019), who served as chief art critic for the Washington Post and the art and design critic for Newsweek.
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Blake Gopnik Nice review of my Warhol bio from Kirkus. So impressed when I find that someone has read the whole dang thing! 248d
Nonfiction Book Review: Warhol by Blake Gopnik. Ecco, $45 (976p) ISBN 978-0-06-229839-3
Publishers Weekly - PublishersWeekly.com 280d 2 tweets
Art, commerce, homosexual camp, and the 1960s counterculture were all blithely blenderized by one man’s genius, according to this sweeping biography of pop art master Andy Warhol. Art critic and N
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Blake Gopnik First review of my Warhol book!!! 280d
Hans Haacke, Firebrand, Gets His First U.S. Survey in 33 Years
Blake Gopnik - Nytimes.com 307d 1 tweets
At 83, he is the master of museum disruption. Curators have tried to ignore him. Who knows what he’ll do at the New Museum.
Blake Gopnik on Instagram: “Just received first proofs of my Warhol bio! 961 pages. #andywarhol”
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72 Likes, 12 Comments - Blake Gopnik (@blake_gopnik) on Instagram: “Just received first proofs of my Warhol bio! 961 pages. #andywarhol”
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Blake Gopnik Just received first proofs of my Warhol bio! 961 pages. #andywarhol 350d
Blake Gopnik on Instagram: “Just home from Hudson Yards, and still feeling nauseous. A pure symbol of the greed and privilege that are killing our society and…”
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52 Likes, 19 Comments - Blake Gopnik (@blake_gopnik) on Instagram: “Just home from Hudson Yards, and still feeling nauseous. A pure symbol of the greed and privilege…”
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Blake Gopnik Just home from Hudson Yards, and still feeling nauseous. A pure symbol of the greed and privilege that are killing our society and democracy. Also, atrocious architecture.#notmynewyork 512d
Reviving the Joy of Decoration at Nike’s New SoHo Building
Blake Gopnik - Nytimes.com 1047d 2 tweets
With a nod to a more ornate past, a new structure designed by BKSK Architects at 529 Broadway belongs entirely to the present.
Growing Up in a Concrete Masterpiece
Blake Gopnik - Nytimes.com 1200d 1 tweets
My childhood home is turning 50, just in time for the rebirth of Brutalism, an architectural style that has been scorned for years.
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Blake Gopnik My NYT story on Brutalism and growing up in Habitat 67 1200d