Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

The Warhol Art App Available Now

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By now, all of our readers should have the Warhol Museum’s DIY POP app, especially since it was free for a while. This new product caters more to the left-brained crowd and invites users to go behind the scenes to see Andy Warhol’s career as never seen before. This app is the closest you can get to Warhol without actually stepping foot in his museum. Perfect for fans living outside of the Burgh. Enjoy an in-depth multimedia collection that gives you the opportunity to peer into  archival items not normally on display, as well as video clips, audio descriptions, letters, and over 50 art works from the 1920′s to the 1980′s.
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Andy Warhol the Party Animal

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Andy Warhol's letter from Elk Realty

A letter to Andy Warhol from Elk Realty Inc.

We’ve shared letters that were sent to Andrew Warhola, Jr. before, but this one (posted by Letter of Note) really confirms Andy’s work hard/play hard lifestyle. Apparently his landlord didn’t appreciate his behavior and decided to confront him with a typed notice.

Now wait just a New York minute! What kind of tight-asses would send Andy Warhol a letter demanding him stop throwing parties in his legendary Factory?
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Andy Warhol and Campbell’s Soup = BFF

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A letter to Andy Warhol from the Campbell's Soup Company

A letter to Andy Warhol from the Campbell's Soup Company

This letter has been passed around the art blogs like a football at Steelers training camp, but we thought there’s no place more deserving of another repost than yours truly.

John Morris TheDarkEngine – In 1964, the Campbell’s Soup Co. sent Andy Warhol a fan letter. Today it would be a cease and desist letter. http://bit.ly/9UH2J9

TheDarkEngine makes a valid point. The original Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibit consisted of 32 separate canvases with each one displaying a different flavor of canned soup (that was also how many varieties of canned soup were available from Campbell’s at the time). Today, that might have been 32 counts of copyright infringement. How did he know all of the flavors? According to a blurb on the gallery description at MoMA, the artist referred “to a product list supplied by Campbell’s” – which indicates that he must have discussed the idea with the company before he started working on it. Rumor has it that Warhol really liked soup.
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