Paris
Warhol TV
La Maison Rouge
Until May 3rd.

There is a big Andy Warhol exhibition opening in Paris on March 18th at the Grand Palais, as a good preamble there is now a Warhol TV exhibit at the Maison Rouge. The exhibit shows a a variety of his different TV works. I found the Andy Warhol TV, shown on Manhattan cable and Warhol’s Fifteen produced by MTV-based on his famous quote on celebrity- the most interesting. Warhol’s selection of artist, fashion people, and musicians that he chose to feature; they were relevant then, as they are now, special because the shows are a great testimony of the 80’s scene, never mind that the editing and sequence of the show was done in a complete free-style. In the photo above you can see a shot of David Hockney who is talking about style and how old people look good in everything. And a very young Cindy Sherman talking about her photography, as well as some stills of Warhol. I am sure that if Warhol was alive today he would be exploiting the Internet. Imagine: The Warhol Blog, Warhol Twitter… Warhol’s Facebook! He was obsessed with TV so much so that he was a guest on The Love Boat. More over Warhol did not mind to profit from his image appearing on commercials, like the one below or for Coca-Cola. It goes to show yet again what a futurist Warhol was. He was more preoccupied with art & commerce more so that with creativity for the sake of creativity.

From a fashion perspective, it is timely for Pepe Jeans to have the Warhol collection in the European maerket, this from a very first degree perspective. More interestingly, If we were to speak about Andy’s personal style, he was rather timeless. Watching a clip of him with Jean Michel Basquiat I noticed he was very New Balance shoes, the “cool” guy shoe of choice. And which other famous maven wears New Balance shoes now? Click here to find out.

Andy Warhol with the Velvet Underground

Pepe “Warhol” Collection.

“Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television”.