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.)
Making Money (The New Yorker)
