I touched a Warhol
Published 15 Mar 2005
I’m probably the only one at SXSW that is taking this time to blog about something totally different. I’ve got the obligatory SXSW post brewing but for now, I’m going to point out something that is likely to have just as big of an impression on me.
Jess is working at a gallery that is opening on Saturday. The inagural show is a collection of Warhol prints that have never been shown and were never meant to be shown— they were made as gifts or trial proofs, etc. I went with her on Saturday morning before Zeldman’s opening to the frame shop that had the prints, so she could take some digital photos of a couple of them to promote the show.
So I got to see a newly framed chocolate bunny, an unframed study of Muhammad Ali’s fist, and an unframed trial proof of his fish wallpaper. The fish wallpaper was large and on very thin paper, and Jess had a hard time keeping it from rolling back up on itself. So she had me and the frame guy hold it open for her while she took the photo. I will be posting the photo here of my hands holding open the Warhol print that has never been shown before, but I couldn’t wait any longer to make this post and rub it in.
What does it say about me that what I wanted to do really badly was stick my face right into the print and smell it? I didn’t, but I wanted to. And I could have. But I didn’t.
I was wearing gloves by the way, but I still touched a Warhol.
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Commentary
Nat writes
Mar 16 at 04:25 PM #
When I read aloud to Steve that you touched a Warhol he had two witty comments:
“Is Brian okay with that?”
“I guess I’d be more impressed if she had touched Warhol”
I, on the other hand am impressed without snide comment—okay maybe just one:
“smell it? should I be oddly impressed by your self restraint?”
Oh, and of course there was Stella’s quote:
“Dat?!”
Andrea writes
Mar 18 at 08:34 AM #
You should be impressed, because I pretty much didn’t eat or sleep the whole week.
I think the smell thing started with your linoleum the other day, the smell of which took me right back to about 2nd grade when we used it for some random art project. I guess I wanted to see if his art projects smell like 2nd grade, too.