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Garrick Cinema
The Garrick Cinema (periodically referred to as the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre, Andy Warhol's Garrick Cinema, Garrick Theatre, or Nickelodeon) was a 199-seat movie house at 152 Bleecker Street in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Andy Warhol debuted many of his notable films in this building in the late 1960s. The Cafe Au Go Go was located in the basement of the theater building in the late 1960s, and was a prominent Greenwich Village night club, featuring many well known musical groups, folksingers and comedy acts. The building was demolished in the 1970s. Warhol years As an advertisement illustrator in the 1950s, Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity. Collaboration would remain a defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career; this was particularly true in the 1960s. One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga. Malanga assisted the artist with the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleecker Street
Bleecker Street is an east–west street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightlife, nightclub district. The street connects a neighborhood popular today for music venues and comedy as well as an important gay village, center of LGBT history and LGBT culture , culture and Bohemianism, bohemian tradition. The street is named after the family name of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, a banker, the father of Anthony Bleecker, a 19th-century writer, through whose family farm the street once ran. Bleecker Street connects Abingdon Square (the intersection of Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue and Hudson Street (Manhattan), Hudson Street) in the West Village, Manhattan, West Village, to the Bowery in the East Village, Manhattan, East Village and NoHo. History Bleecker Street was named by and after the Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, Bleecker family because the street ran through the family's farm. In 1808, Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brigid Berlin
Brigid Emmett Berlin (September 6, 1939 – July 17, 2020), also known as Brigid Polk, was an American artist and Warhol superstar. Life and career Early years Berlin was born on September 6, 1939, in Manhattan in New York City. She was the eldest of three daughters born to socialite parents, Muriel (Johnson) "Honey" Berlin and Richard E. Berlin. Her father was chairman of the Hearst media empire for 32 years. As a child, Berlin regularly mixed with celebrities and the powerful: I would pick up the phone and it would be Richard Nixon. My parents entertained Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and there were lots of Hollywood people because of San Simeon – Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Kilgallen... I have a box of letters, written to my parents in the late 1940s and 1950s from the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Her socialite mother frequently worried about Brigid's weight and constantly attempted to get her to lose it through any means, from giving her cash for ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Giorno
John Giorno (December 4, 1936 – October 11, 2019) was an American performance poetry, poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events. Giorno's creative journey was marked by collaborations, groundbreaking initiatives, and a deep exploration of diverse art forms. He gained prominence through his association with pop art luminary Andy Warhol, sparking a creative partnership that propelled his career to new heights. Giorno's artistic evolution was shaped by his encounters with Warhol and other influential figures. His notable appearance in Warhol's 1964 film ''Sleep (1964 film), Sleep'', where he slept on camera for over five hours, introduced audiences to his unique blend of performance and artistic expression. Giorno's creative trajectory was marked by an array of multimedia poetry experiments, one of which was the pioneering "Dial-A-Poem" project. This v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Factory
The Factory was Andy Warhol's art studio in Manhattan, New York City, which had four locations between 1963 and 1987. The Factory became famous for its parties in the 1960s. It was the hip hangout spot for artists, musicians, celebrities, and Warhol's superstars. The original Factory is referred to as the Silver Factory. In the studio, Warhol and his assistants would make silkscreen paintings and underground films. The Factory later became the headquarters of his enterprise. History In 1960, pop artist Andy Warhol purchased a townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, which he also used as his art studio. Due to the mess his work was causing at home, Warhol wanted to find a studio where he could paint. A friend of his found an old unoccupied firehouse on 159 East 87th Street where Warhol began working in January 1963. No one was eager to go there, so the rent was $150 a month. 1963–67: 231 East 47th Street A few months later, Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candy Darling
Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American actress, best known as a Warhol superstar. She was a pioneer for transgender visibility, inspiring songs by the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed. Her performances Andy Warhol's films '' Flesh'' (1968) and '' Women in Revolt'' (1971), brought her fame. She also appeared in theatrical productions by Jackie Curtis and Tennessee Williams. Early life and education Candy Darling was born in Forest Hills, Queens, as the child of Theresa (née Phelan) Slattery, a bookkeeper at Manhattan's Jockey Club, and John F. Slattery, a racetrack worker whom she described as a violent alcoholic. Darling's early years were spent in Massapequa Park, Long Island, where she and her mother moved after her parents' divorce. She spent much of her childhood watching television and old Hollywood movies, from which she learned to impersonate her favorite actresses such as Joan Bennett and Kim Novak. Darling took a strong interest in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis (born John Curtis Holder Jr.; February 19, 1947 – May 15, 1985) was an American underground actor, singer, and playwright best known as a Warhol superstars, Warhol superstar. Primarily a stage actor in New York City, Curtis performed as both a man and in Drag queen, drag. Curtis made his stage debut as Nefertiti's brother in Tom Eyen's play ''Miss Nefertiti Regrets'' (1965). He subsequently wrote several Off-off-Broadway, Off-off Broadway plays, including ''Glamour, Glory and Gold'' (1967), ''Amerika Cleopatra'' (1968), and ''Vain Victory: Vicissitudes of the Damned'' (1971). Curtis appeared in the films ''Flesh (1968 film), Andy Warhol's Flesh'' (1968), directed by Paul Morrissey, and starred in ''Women in Revolt'' (1971), a comedic spoof of the women's liberation movement. While performing in drag on stage and screen, Curtis would typically wear lipstick, glitter, bright red hair, ripped dresses, and stockings. Curtis pioneered this combination of Camp (sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Woodlawn
Holly Woodlawn (October 26, 1946 – December 6, 2015) was an American actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in the films '' Trash'' (1970) and '' Women in Revolt'' (1971). She is also known as the Holly in Lou Reed's hit glam rock song " Walk on the Wild Side". Early life Woodlawn was born in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico, to a German-American father who was a soldier in the U.S. Army, and Aminta Rodriguez, a native Puerto Rican, and grew up in Miami Beach, where she came out at a young age. She adopted the name Holly from the heroine of '' Breakfast at Tiffany's'', and in 1969 added the surname from a sign she saw on an episode of ''I Love Lucy''. After changing her name she began to falsely tell people she was the heiress to Woodlawn Cemetery. In 1962, at the age of fifteen, Woodlawn ran away from home, leaving Florida heading north. She recollected that "I hocked some jewelry and ... made it all the way to Georgia, where the money ran out and ... had to hitchhike the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabelle Collin Dufresne
Isabelle Collin Dufresne (6 September 1935 – 14 June 2014), known professionally as Ultra Violet, was a French-American artist, author, and both a colleague of Andy Warhol and one of his so-called Superstars. Earlier in her career, she worked for and studied with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dufresne lived and worked in New York City, and also had a studio in Nice, France. Early life Isabelle Collin Dufresne was brought up in a strict religious upper-middle-class family, but she rebelled at an early age. She was instructed at a Catholic school, and then a reform school. In 1953, she received a BA in Art at ''Le Sacré Cœur'' in Grenoble, France. She soon left France to live with an older sister in New York City. Salvador Dalí and New York City In 1954, after a meeting with Salvador Dalí, she became his "muse", pupil, studio assistant, and lover in both Port Lligat, Spain, and in New York City. Later, she would recall, ''"I realized that I was 'surreal', which I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viva (actress)
Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann (born August 23, 1938), known professionally as Viva, is an American actress, writer and former Warhol superstars, Warhol superstar. Life and career Viva was born in Syracuse, New York, Syracuse, New York, the daughter of Mary Alice (née McNicholas) and Wilfred Ernest Hoffmann. Hoffmann was the eldest of nine children born into a family of strict Roman Catholics. Her father was a prosperous attorney, and her parents were stalwart supporters of the Army–McCarthy hearings held to expose Communist government infiltration. The Hoffmann children were required to watch the televised proceedings. Raised in devout Catholicism, she considered becoming a nun. Viva began her career in entertainment as a model and painter. She retired from both professions, claiming that she believed painting to be a dead medium, and describing her time as a model as "...a period of my life I would rather forget." She was given the name ''Viva'' by Andy Warhol before the release o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edie Sedgwick
Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post (April 20, 1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American actress, model and socialite who was one of Andy Warhol's superstars, starring in several of his short films during the 1960s.Watson, Steven (2003), "Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties" Pantheon Books, pp. 210–217 Her prominence led to her being dubbed an " It Girl", while ''Vogue'' magazine named her a " Youthquaker". Sedgwick broke with Warhol in 1966 and attempted to forge an independent acting career. However, her mental health deteriorated from drug abuse and she struggled to complete the semi-autobiographical film '' Ciao! Manhattan''. Sedgwick abstained from drugs and alcohol after meeting her future husband, Michael Post, and completed filming ''Ciao! Manhattan'' in early 1971. Post and Sedgwick married in July 1971; she died four months later of an overdose at age 28. Early life and education (1943–1964) Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara, California, the seventh of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Dallesandro
Joseph Angelo D'Allesandro III (born December 31, 1948) is an American actor and Warhol superstar. He was a sex symbol of gay subculture in the 1960s and 1970s, and of several American underground films before going mainstream. Dallesandro starred as a male prostitute in The Factory film ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), produced by Andy Warhol and directed by Paul Morrissey. ''Rolling Stone magazine, Rolling Stone'' magazine declared Dallesandro's subsequent lead in ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970) as the "Best Film of the Year", making him a celebrity of youth culture and the sexual revolution. Dallesandro proceeded to star in ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Andy Warhol's Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Andy Warhol's Dracula'' (1974). After appearing in European genre fiction, genre and art films for several years, he crossed into the mainstream as mobster Lucky Luciano in the 1984 film ''The Cotton Club (film), The Cotton Club''. Early life Joe Dallessandro was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico
Christa Päffgen (; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Nico had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's '' La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and Andy Warhol's ''Chelsea Girls'' (1966). At the insistence of Warhol, she sang lead on three songs of the Velvet Underground's debut album '' The Velvet Underground & Nico'' (1967). At the same time, she started a solo career and released '' Chelsea Girl'' (1967). Her friend Jim Morrison suggested that she start writing her own material. She then composed songs on a harmonium, not traditionally a rock instrument. John Cale of the Velvet Underground became her musical arranger and produced '' The Marble Index'' (1968), '' Desertshore'' (1970), '' The End...'' (1974) and other subsequent albums. In the 1980s, Nico toured extensively in Europe, United States, Australia and Japan. After a concert in Berlin in June 1988, she went on holiday in Ibiza, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
