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 ...

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 ...

1. Here’s the story, as normally told. In the summer of 1949, when Andrew Warhola arrived in New York from his native Pittsburgh, almost the first thing he did was lose the too-ethnic “a” at the end ...

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 ...

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 ...

The debate about Andy Warhol and his art is hopefully over by now, but it was a recurring topic of discussion in his 1960s and 1970s heyday. The issue boiled down to this: Was Warhol’s adoption of a ...

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 ...

Writer-director Andrew Rossi and Warhol Museum curator Jessica Beck dive into the personal history of one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. By Tyler Coates Awards Editor In ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Camino Winds,” by John Grisham (Doubleday, fiction, on sale ...

Filmed 60 years ago, the new trove includes footage from Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests series and explicit rolls that reveal the artist as a “porn-oisseur.” By Blake Gopnik Blake Gopnik is the author of ...