Lynn Goldsmith wins against the Andy Warhol Foundation

Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor in her case against the Andy Warhol Foundation. Warhol’s estate licensed an image derived from her portrait of Prince to a magazine.

 Contrary to Warhol’s estate, Lynn was never paid, nor even credited. The final result of 7 votes against 2 is not only a victory for the photographer, but also a landmark of the abuse of the fair-use defense to copyright infringement in the realm of visual art. As Adam Liptak writes in The New York Times : “Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing for the majority, said the photographer’s “original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright protection, even against famous artists.” 

 It has been a long fight indeed, in 2019 the court sided with the Andy Warhol Foundation, in 2021 it was overturned in appeal in Goldsmith’s favor, then another appeal from the Foundation, until it finally reached the Supreme Court with their final decision yesterday.

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Andy Warhol poses in front of the Little Electric Chair, Alberto Venzago.

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Andy Warhol Collage (Nothing is Perfect).

By Peter Beard. 

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Photo Factory, Andy Warhol

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Pop goes the Warhol

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Keith Haring’s Famous Friends Left Their Mark on His Fridge Door

Keith Haring, the performance and visual artist who made a name for himself by scribbling whimsical chalk figures on subway walls, boasted a well-documented coterie of creative friends working in 1980s New York City. Pop singer Madonna, visionary graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Pop Art icon and party-thrower Andy Warhol all numbered among Haring’s confidantes.

 As it turns out, Haring’s circle left its mark on both his artwork and his fridge door.

 The contemporary artist’s graffiti-covered refrigerator panel recently sold at auction for $25,000.

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Andy Warhol shopping at Gristede's supermarket on Second Avenue, by Bob Adelman

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Promise

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Andy Warhol at Tate Modern

Didn’t get a chance to see the Tate’s marvellous Warhol exhibition before the coronavirus outbreak locked everything down? Fear not.
You can still experience what it’s like to be famous for 15 minutes by watching this new video by the gallery, in which the curators take you around the show.

 

Andy Warhol in front of the Cow Wallpaper

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Eat me

[new lyrics for old songs]

All tomorrow's parties

Sprayed with silver and decorated with tinfoil, Andy Warhol’s Factory was not only his studio, but a hangout for collaborators and muses like the Velvet Underground and Edie Sedgwick.
Photojournalist Nat Finkelstein spent three years documenting it all.

 

Eat like Andy

It’s from Jørgen Leth’s 1982 documentary 66 Scenes From America. According to folklore, Andy didn’t even like BK – preferred McDonalds.
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Andy Warhol Polaroid Pictures

There is perhaps no other artist who is better able to bridge the gap between the artistry of analog photography and the instant gratification of digital photography than Andy Warhol. This pioneer of pop art used photography as a basis for all his artwork and was rarely seen without his trusted SX-70 Polaroid camera.
Warhol documented every moment of his time in New York during the 1970s and 1980s, helping immortalize the friends, collectors, and celebrities who circled him. Carrying his camera everywhere, he snapped portraits both as a way to “collect” his memories and prepare for his silk screens. The famed artist also turned the camera toward himself, taking self-portraits that are an aloof, disconnected look at his own face. Warhol preciously guarded his Polaroids, relentlessly chronicling life up until his death in 1987.
Now, over 60 of his Polaroid portraits and self-portraits are on display in an exhibit, aptly titled Andy Warhol Polaroid Pictures, at BASTIAN in London.

Andy Warhol, "Self-Portrait", 1964.

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Here Died Warhol

Artist Eugenio Merino‘s lifesized, hyperrealistic sculpture of Andy Warhol is at the center of a installation at New York City’s UNIX Gallery.
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Somebody shoot me.

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

Andy Warhol, New York City, 1985.

Scottish photographer Albert Watson began taking pictures of celebrities in 1973, when he famously shot Alfred Hitchcock holding a dead goose for Harper’s Bazaar. He now has more than 100 Vogue covers to his credit and continues to work at the age of 75.
Many of his best-known photographs are collected in Albert Watson: Kaos, a new deluxe, limited-edition anthology published by Taschen.

 

Somebody shoot me.

[new lyrics for old songs]

 

Andy Warhol, Clown Nose, 1982

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