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''Interview'' is an American magazine founded by pop artist Andy Warhol and journalist John Wilcock in 1969. The magazine, nicknamed "The Crystal Ball of Pop," features interviews of and by celebrities. Background In 1965, pop artist Andy Warhol announced his retirement from painting to focus on filmmaking. After he survived an assassination attempt in 1968, he began to concentrate on building a business enterprise. When Warhol tried to obtain press permits for the New York Film Festival, he was denied. Therefore, having a formal method for obtaining press passes was one of the reasons he founded ''inter/VIEW: A Monthly Film Journal'' with British journalist John Wilcock in 1969. The magazine, which was headquartered at Warhol's Factory, started as a film review before shifting its emphasis to pop culture. "I felt there was a need for an easygoing, conversational magazine,' said Warhol. "Every other paper is full of bad news, but we publish only good." ''Interview'' was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important American artists of the second half of the 20th century. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and filmmaking. Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings ''Campbell's Soup Cans'' (1962) and '' Marilyn Diptych'' (1962), the experimental film '' Chelsea Girls'' (1966), the multimedia events known as the '' Exploding Plastic Inevitable'' (1966–67), and the erotic film '' Blue Movie'' (1969) that started the " Golden Age of Porn". Born and raised in Pittsburgh in a family of Rusyn immigrants, Warhol initially pursued ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Ottenberg
Mel Ottenberg (born 1976) is an American wardrobe stylist and the editor-in-chief of ''Interview'' magazine. From 2011 to 2019, he worked as Rihanna's stylist and has styled numerous other high profile musicians, actresses, and celebrities. In 2024, he designed a unisex capsule collection with denim brand RE/DONE. He lives and works in New York, New York. Early life and education Ottenberg grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Edmund Burke School in Forrest Hills. His father, Ray, was a fourth-generation baker who ran the family-owned Ottenberg Bakery. Ottenberg's mother and stepfather were in custom publishing, designing magazines. He grew up as “culturally Jewish” and had a Marrakech-themed Bar Mitzvah. When he was young, he went to Corcoran every weekend to take drawing classes and painting classes. He said he was also inspired by copies of ''Vogue'' that his best friend's mom had lying around. Later, in the early '90s, he snuck out to go to nightclubs in D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Morrissey
Paul Joseph Morrissey (February 23, 1938 – October 28, 2024) was an American film director, known for his early association with Andy Warhol. His most famous films include ''Flesh (1968 film), Flesh'' (1968), ''Trash (1970 film), Trash'' (1970), ''Heat (1972 film), Heat'' (1972), ''Flesh for Frankenstein'' (1973), and ''Blood for Dracula'' (1974), all starring Joe Dallesandro, 1971's ''Women in Revolt'' and the 1980s New York trilogy ''Forty Deuce'' (1982), ''Mixed Blood (1984 film), Mixed Blood'' (1984), and ''Spike of Bensonhurst'' (1988). From 1965 to 1973, Morrissey ran the publicity and filmmaking activity for Warhol at The Factory (first at 231 E. 47th St. and then at 33 Union Square (Manhattan), Union Square West in New York City). Additionally, between 1966 and 1967, he managed the Velvet Underground and Nico and co-conceived and named Warhol's traveling multi-media Happening the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. In 1969, alongside Warhol and publisher John Wilcock, Morris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio 54
Studio 54 is a Broadway theatre, Broadway theater and former nightclub at 254 West 54th Street (Manhattan), 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Opened as the Gallo Opera House in 1927, it served as a CBS broadcasting, broadcast studio in the mid-20th century. Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager opened the Studio 54 nightclub, retaining much of the former theatrical and broadcasting fixtures, inside the venue in 1977. Roundabout Theatre Company renovated the space into a Broadway house in 1998. The producer Fortune Gallo announced plans for an opera house in 1926, hiring Eugene De Rosa as the architect. The Gallo Opera House opened November 8, 1927, but soon went bankrupt and was renamed the New Yorker Theatre. The space also operated as the Casino de Paree nightclub, then the Palladium Music Hall, before the Federal Music Project staged productions at the theater for three years starting in 1937. CBS began using the venue as a sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Bollen
Christopher Bollen (born November 26, 1975) is an American novelist and magazine writer/editor who lives in New York City. Describing his novels, ''The Daily Telegraph'' notes that "Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of John Updike, Updike, Jeffrey Eugenides, Eugenides and Jonathan Franzen, Franzen, but he is also an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie." Early life Bollen grew up in Cincinnati, where he graduated from St. Xavier High School (Ohio), St. Xavier High School. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1998. Career Bollen was the editor-in-chief of ''Interview (magazine), Interview'' from early 2008 to mid-2009, after serving as editor-in-chief of ''V (American magazine), V''. After stepping down as editor-in-chief, he continued on as editor-at-large of ''Interview''. On May 21, 2018, the publication ceased operations completely after nearly 50 years. Bollen also writes about art and culture at other publications like '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Lee Cohen
Nadia Lee Cohen (born 15 November 1990) is a British artist, photographer, filmmaker, and model. Early life Cohen was born in Essex in 1990, to an Israeli father, and a British mother of Ukrainian descent. She was raised on an isolated farm in the English countryside. Career Early work Lee Cohen's parents helped her build sets in their garage for her earliest film and photographic projects while she attended the London College of Fashion, where she graduated with BA (Hons) in fashion styling and photography and MA in fashion photography. She relocated to Los Angeles in search of the Hollywood scenery that inspired her, only to find the real Hollywood Boulevard was one of trashy stores and broken dreams. This became her new source of inspiration for her project, ''Women,'' that would be published six years later. Her photographs and films are character-driven visions of saturated and surreal dreamscapes that capture the manifest pleasures and visceral terrors of the urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warhol Superstars
Warhol superstars were a clique of New York City personalities promoted by the pop artist Andy Warhol during the 1960s and 1970s. These personalities hung out at Warhol's studio, the Factory, appeared in his films, and accompanied him to his New York haunts. The Factory crowd, known for its casual sex, casual nudity, and flaunting queerness when it was still taboo, would come to symbolize the sexual revolution of the time. History The first recognized superstar was Baby Jane Holzer, whom Warhol featured in many of his early film experiments. The superstars would help Warhol generate publicity while Warhol offered fame and attention in return. Warhol's philosophies of art and celebrity met in a way that imitated the Hollywood studio system at its height in the 1930s and 1940s. Warhol's studio, The Factory, played host to most of his superstars and as his experiments in film continued, he became more interested in the bohemian eccentrics attracted to the studio. Some of the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Colacello
Bob Colacello (born May 8, 1947) is an American writer. He began his career writing for ''The'' ''Village Voice'' before becoming an editor for pop artist Andy Warhol's ''Interview'' magazine from 1970 to 1983. His roles at ''Interview'' included special contributing editor, managing editor, and executive editor. He collaborated with Warhol on the books ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'' (1975) and '' Exposures'' (1979). In 1984, Colacello became a contributing editor for ''Vanity Fair'', and since 1993, he has served as a special correspondent. Life and career Robert Colaciello was born to John and Libby Colaciello in Bensonhurst, New York on May 8, 1947. He and his two sisters, Barbara and Suzanne, were raised in Plainview, Long Island. He graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969 and has an MFA in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vogue (magazine)
''Vogue'' (stylized in all caps), also known as American ''Vogue'', is a monthly Fashion journalism, fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and Fashion show#Catwalk, runway. It is part of the global collection of Condé Nast's VOGUE media. Headquartered at One World Trade Center in the FiDi, Financial District of Lower Manhattan, ''Vogue'' began in 1892 as a weekly newspaper before becoming a monthly magazine years later. Since its founding, ''Vogue'' has featured numerous actors, musicians, models, athletes, and other prominent celebrities. British Vogue, British ''Vogue'', launched in 1916, was the first international edition, while the Italian version ''Vogue Italia'' has been called the top fashion magazine in the world. As of March 2025, there are 28 international editions. Eleven of these editions are published by Condé Nast (British Vogue, ''British Vogue'', ''Vogue Arabia'', ''Vogue China'', ''Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attempted Assassination Of Andy Warhol
On June 3, 1968, the artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was shot by the radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas at The Factory in New York City. Prior to the incident, Solanas was a bit player in the Factory scene. She wrote and self-published the ''SCUM Manifesto'', a feminist pamphlet advocating for the eradication of men, and she appeared in the Warhol film '' I, a Man''. On the day of the attack, Solanas was turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. She believed he was plotting with her publisher, Maurice Girodias, to prevent her manuscript from being published. It had apparently been misplaced.Jobey, Liz, "Solanas and Son," ''The Guardian'' (Manchester, England), August 24, 1996, p, T10 and following. Solanas was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sentenced to three years in prison. Background In 1967, radical feminist Valerie Solanas was on a quest to have her book ''SCUM Manifesto'' published and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turley (graphic Designer)
Richard Turley is an English creative director and graphic designer. He is the editorial director of ''Interview'' and the co-founder of ''Civilization'' magazine. Turley became well known for his work redesigning the visual strategies of ''Bloomberg Businessweek'' and MTV. Early life and education Turley attended the Liverpool School of Art and Design where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. While at the University of Liverpool, he designed the university's student paper ''Shout''. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale. Career Turley worked at the marketing department of London-based newspaper ''The Guardian'' before moving to the creative department. Between 2003 and 2005, he worked with creative director Mark Porter as senior designer during a major redesign of ''The Guardian''. He later served as the art director of ''G2'', ''The Guardian'''s magazine with editors Kath Viner and Ian Katz. ''Bloomberg Businessweek'': 2010–2014 In 2011, Turley w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regine's
Regine's was a nightclub at 69 East 59th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was operated by Régine Zylberberg from 1976 to 1991. She also opened a bistro alongside the nightclub called Cafe Reginette. History In 1975, French singer Régine Zylberberg, known mononymously as Régine, purchased a penthouse suite at the Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue and 59th Street in New York. In 1976, she opened Regine's, a restaurant and discotheque, on the ground floor of the hotel. It cost $700,000 to open Regine's; she was able to finance the venture with the help of a Rothschild bank-owned company and an international insurance provider. Regine's was designed by interior designer Alberto Pinto. The nightclubs was characterized by opulent Art Deco fretwork, rooms filled with mirrors, and brocade couches, and snake-wrapped lamps. There was a heart-shaped neon sculpture by artist Ron Ferri built into a lit dance floor, which Regine referred to as "the Heart of New York." A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
