Blake Gopnik is author of "Warhol," a new biography of the artist. Andy Warhol was one of 20 th-century art’s great success stories. He was born in 1928 as Andrew Warhola, the son of working-class ...

Andy Warhol, circa 1960, had a problem. Thanks to his success as a commercial artist, he had built up an extravagant lifestyle. He owned an angel-blue Upper East Side townhouse and the tastes to match ...

Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot the artist in June 1968. Warhol, then 39, lost his heartbeat and a lot of blood, and had ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The first of these lectures, Blake Gopnik — “Andy Warhol: What Makes Him a Great ...

Julia and Andy Warhol as photographed by Duane Michals (detail). The title of author Elaine Rusinko’s biography “Andy Warhol’s Mother” might at first seem just book-jacket shorthand, or even a bit of ...

The debate about Andy Warhol and his art is hopefully over by now, but it was a recurring topic of discussion in his 1960s and 1970s heyday. The issue boiled down to this: Was Warhol’s adoption of a ...

It’s rare to think of Warhol in such ominous terms today. His work, and Pop Art in general, is more often viewed as ironic and effervescent, or as an indictment of American consumerism. In his ...

SOMEBODY should tell Michael Jackson: The King of Pop has been -- and will be -- Andy Warhol. Wayne Koestenbaum's biography tells the story of this "mixture of Picasso and Henry Ford," but in so doing ...

Ryan Raftery — who has starred as Anna Wintour, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart and Ivanka Trump in a series of outrageous solo “bio-musicals” at Joe’s Pub — is next setting his sights on Andy Warhol. In ...

In search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this week’s hottest new book releases. 1. “Camino Winds,” by John Grisham (Doubleday, fiction, on sale ...