Brigid Berlin, artist and Andy Warhol muse, has died. Berlin was the eldest of three daughters born to socialite parents, Muriel "Honey" Berlin and Richard Berlin, who was chairman of the Hearst media … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Warhol Factory Girl, Brigid Berlin
September 6, 1939- Brigid Berlin: "My mother wanted me to be a slim respectable socialite... Instead I became an overweight troublemaker." Her friend John Waters said of Brigid Berlin: "She is a lady who really lunched but also loved being nude. She was also a hostile … [Read more...]
#MapplethorpeMondays: Vintage Footage of Mapplethorpe, Candy Darling, Taylor Meade and Others Hanging at Max’s Kansas City
Awesome fly-on-the-wall footage from 1970, featuring TOUT LE Warhol crowd in the back room of the legendary Max's Kansas City (which was across the street from the Union Square Factory). In it, we see a clearly-out-of-her-mind Brigid Polk toddling around with her shirt off, … [Read more...]
Former Warhol Superstar Brigid Berlin Has New Book of Poloroids
Amphetamine-loving former deb and underground icon Brigid Berlin aka Brigid Polk obsessively documented life in the Warhol social circle with her Poloroid camera … [Read more...]
Warhol 4 Sale: Bob Colacello’s Art, Photographs, and Memorabilia from the Warhol Years
An auction of the Bob Colacello's collection of art, photographs, and memorabilia from the 70s and 80s when Bob was an intimate member of Warhol's social scene and editor of Andy's Interview magazine is happening now. Bob literally wrote the book on the Warhol era: Holy Terror: … [Read more...]
Just Because
Take a break and watch all eight-plus minutes of this darkly fascinating bit of film shot in 1980 at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. The footage, part of a program on BBC 4 in the UK, includes a positively verbose Andy Warhol, a beautifully dressed William S Burroughs, and a … [Read more...]
