Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 18–September 2, 2019; and the Art Institute of Chicago, October 20, 2019–January 26, 2020. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Donna De Salvo. Whitney Museum of American Art, 400 pp., $70.00 (distributed by Yale University Press)
In the 1970s, impecunious and unknown, the only way I could get into the legendary Studio 54 was under the sponsorship, so to speak, of someone older and more established. The velvet rope parted only one time; it wasn’t the night Bianca Jagger rode across the dance floor on a white horse, but it was close.
There was a balcony…
