A Hard Dog to Keep on the Porch

Christopher Hitchens, 6 June 1996

... Before a huge, informal and mainly young crowd, Aretha Franklin sings ‘Respect’ and Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance to perform ‘Chimes of Freedom’. Clinton and his young family appear to sing along with both. There is much heady talk about the end of the Eighties, that decade of greed and self-delusion and secret government. But if the ...

Loafing with the Sissies

Colm Tóibín: The Trials of Andy Warhol, 10 September 2020

Warhol: A Life as Art 
by Blake Gopnik.
Allen Lane, 931 pp., £35, March, 978 0 241 00338 1
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... who adopted the same pose and expression for each sitting over a period of 96 days. When Bob Dylan came to do one, he was rewarded with a Warhol canvas of Elvis for his pains.In 1964, Warhol rented a big studio space in Midtown, soon christened the Factory – it had been a hat factory. It became famous for the amount of fun that was had there, but the ...