The Velvet Underground
In an oft-repeated declaration, Roxy Music co-founder Brian Eno once said that the Velvet Underground only sold a few records, but everyone who bought their albums started their...
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A 'New York Apartment Story'
AM New York, everyone's favorite daily, breaks through with a week-long "interactive housing feature." Ever wondered about the "borough identity" of Marble Hill resi...
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A nearly $10 million eBay bid for a car made famous by "The Dukes of Hazzard" seems to have vanished faster than the Duke boys escaping from the sheriff.The General Lee's owner _ actor John Schneid...
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A disco ball revolves slowly like a planet in the solar system, scattering little illuminated paw prints around a living room in the artists’ community of Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Sa-Ra̵...
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Before he began transforming mundane cans of Campbell's soup into icons of Pop art and hanging around with the likes of Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick and anyone else seeking 15 minutes of fame, Andy Warh...
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Michael Tompkins was born to paint plywood—to be precise, the edges of plywood panels. In each of the five paintings in his New York debut at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Mr. Tompkins brings an...
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Last week at Christie’s, an anonymous bidder picked up Andy Warhol’s Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) for $71.7 million—more than four times the highest sum previously comman...
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"Hannah Montana," a Disney Channel program I watch on occasion with my daughter, features a 14-year-old girl with a secret identity: she's actually a rock star. This is an absurd fantasy.In ...
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There are two people's voices I can impersonate well: that of Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt and Project Runway frontman Tim Gunn. It seems Merritt is forever impersonating as well, or pe...
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I feel that Andy Warhol spoke for all of us when he said: “You can’t take a princess to dinner and order a cookie for starters no matter how much you crave one. People expect you to eat...
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The Velvet Underground
Tuesday: A Good Book, A Weird Series, A Bad Map, and Vultures
