Frank, 67, shared stories of growing up on tree islands. He remembered when the water was so clean he could drink it, and the deer that emerged to play when a softball game was underway.
Laurence Leamer’s well-researched “Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine” explores the life of Warhol through that perspective. Like Leamer’s earlier books, abouthis latest explores an artist’s life through their relationships with women.
The opening “Prologue” begins with Warhol’s getting shot by a woman who targets him for basically deranged reasons. And that’s just the beginning.In one characteristic segment, Warhol shows up at a gala preview in a tuxedo, except his pants are defiantly splattered with paint.In another, he designs department store windows, one of the first to underline the connection between art and fashion, in an unabashed embrace of 20th century commercialism.
“Warhol is the defining figure of pop art, an artistic movement that burst forth in the early Sixties, taking fine art on a wild roller-coaster ride. In the same way that jazz is the first uniquely American music, so pop art is profoundly American,” a passage in the book reads.Various recognizable names pop up on the pages, flitting in and out of Warhol’s life: Salvador Dali, the Velvet Underground,
In 2022, nearly four decades after Warhol’s death, his silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe sold for $195 million.
Every art fan has been mesmerized by Warhol’s psychedelic repetition of flowers, lips and bananas. Warhol seems to inject such everyday items with a greater meaning, or perhaps with zen-like meaninglessness.Republicans are planning to
into immigration enforcement with more money for deportation officers, detention space and removal flights.The plan aims to remove 1 million immigrants annually and house 100,000 people in detention centers. It calls for 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and investigators.
ICE houses people it arrests at a network of detention centers around the country, including government-run facilities, privately contracted facilities and local jails.Lyons also said the agency has about 3,500 beds available at Fort Bliss in Texas and is currently holding 69 detainees there. He said money to pay for detaining those people at Fort Bliss and other military bases would come out of the Defense Department’s budget.