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One of his artworks is counted amongst the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold ($100 million for “Eight Elvises”), but in 1956, the director of collections at The Museum of Modern Art in New York rejected Warhol’s submission, a drawing, simply titled, “Shoe”, informing him that it could picked up from the museum at [...]
On June 3rd, 1968, Andy Warhol was shot three times in his infamous studio, known as the Factory, and survived. The shooter was actress and member of Warhol’s entourage, Valerie Solanas, pictured right and above with the artist. On that day she also shot Mario Amaya, an art critic, who received minor injuries, while Andy was so [...]
One of his artworks is counted amongst the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold ($100 million
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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Pretty girl bullsh** aside, the latest release from LA-based crooner known as Banks, is like one
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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The other night I tucked myself up in bed and watched Funny Face, the 1957 Gershwin musical
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators
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Imagine a place where caveman bedding, lime green carpeting and hotel rooms named after cultural
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In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a
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John Lennon would later tell a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine that he and Dylan had done
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Anyone that saw the September Issue will know who Grace Coddington is and probably fell in love
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So it’s not yet 11am here in Paris and I’m pretty much wasted on some brandy tea that I
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1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row,
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“Nadja à Paris” is a short 13-minute film by a French New Wave director, Eric Rohmer,
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