Last week at Christie’s, an anonymous bidder picked up Andy Warhol’s Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) for $71.7 million—more than four times the highest sum previously commanded by a Warhol painting at auction. Whoever the mystery buyer was, he seems to have come down with the latest case of Warhol fever, which broke Read More
Joey Dallesandro, Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey.
Today’s New York Post brings us tales of bidding wars over Hamptons rentals for the coming summer.
YOU know what they say about the early bird? His $50,000 is going to rent him a better Hamptons summer house than yours is. “What you’re seeing [now] for Read MorePOLO-PLAYING PUBLISHER RENTS WARHOL’S COMPOUND In 1972, broker Tina Fredericks, who owns her own realty firm in East Hampton, showed Andy Warhol, his partner Paul Morrissey and a carload of friends around the Hamptons in search of a summer home. Warhol found the area dreadfully boring, but when they drove into Montauk, he perked up Read More
Harmony Korine shot his latest movie, The Julien Chronicles , in the streets of New York with a hand-held digital video camera, without a script, and without special lighting or even props. Some would say the 25-year-old goofball auteur, who graced the world with the script of Kids and all of Gummo , is once Read More
