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Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Arts, Culture & Media

WNYC’s Sara Fishko takes a look at one of the greatest fans of all time, who himself was an object of fan obsession. (Originally aired: August 4, 2001)

Sylvia Miles’s Artifacts

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Sylvia Miles

Arts, Culture & Media

Warhol’s Soup Cans

Arts, Culture & Media

Special Guest: John Cale

Arts, Culture & Media

Cale on Warhol

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John Cale tells Kurt about what it was like to work with the Pop art superstar in the 1960s.

Style It Takes

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Back in 1990, John Cale and Lou Reed, his bandmate from the Velvet Underground, wrote a song cycle about Andy Warhol, called Songs for Drella. John performs one for us in the studio.

Campbell’s Soup Can

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Andy Warhol started painting Campbell’s soup cans around the same time he was painting Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. For him, Campbell’s was a “star” just like any movie pinup, and he made thousands over the course of his career. Warhol told people he painted soup because he ate it for lunch every day, but […]

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2nd Stop

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They leave every day from Grand Central Terminal — train cars and subway cars. But yesterday, New Yorkers witnessed a rarer departure: art cars.Two weeks ago, an installation of four BMW art cars arrived at Grand Central straight from a show at the L.A. County Museum of Art. Yesterday they left NYC on an express […]

American Icons: Warhol’s Soup Cans

Arts, Culture & Media

Andy Warhol told people he painted soup because he ate it for lunch every day, but the paintings remain mysterious more than 40 years later.

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