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Andy Warhol Gets a "B"

March 1, 2011 by Marion Maneker

The New Yorker reminisces with Berkeley Reinhold, daughter of Andy Warhol’s closest friend and collector of Warholiana, about growing up in the New York art world:

In the book’s introduction, Reinhold shares the experience of growing up in the New York art world of the nineteen-seventies and eighties. She recounts taking a taxi by herself to the Factory to have Warhol paint her portrait. She remembers being photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe the year before—“I was a little more dressed up than I would have liked to be due to my mom’s influence, which was, ‘You can’t show up in a white t-shirt and jeans to get photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe.’” She mentions the time she sent dollar bills to a handful of famous artists, asking them to do something artistic with the bill. “I just got their names and addresses from an art-directory book that my parents had,” she told me. “There’s one from Keith Haring, there’s a Lichtenstein (he donated the dollar to charity), and even a Carl Andre.” She also writes about the time she asked Andy to sign a Campbell’s soup can for her art teacher, saying, “Please give Berkeley an A.” (The teacher, though impressed, gave her a B.)

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