7/6/2023 0 Comments Bingo caller magazine![]() You tape record conversations.Īndy holds up his tape recorder, its long and thin like a cigarette lighter or a candy bar.Īndy: Someone gave me this as a present. That’s basically all I do is going around looking at things…. I spend a lot of time thinking about religion and looking at paintings. Mick: Never do anything you’d be ashamed of your mother hearing about.Īndy: Well that kind of limits the options doesn’t it.Īndy: Oh yes. Mick: I felt obligated to behave badly-we were expected to be rude and break things.Īndy: You always seemed nice to me. Mick: It was like I was putting on a show. Mick: Yes except for the brief period where I did not. Mick: That was my first time in New York. Mick: I didn’t realize it was her father’s place.Īndy: In 1964 Tom Wolf called her “the girl of the year.” She was twenty-four at the time. Andy is wearing wing tips and Mick has on leather sandals-his feet are dirty.Īndy: It was 1964 and Baby Jane threw a dinner party in her father’s apartment. Mick is wearing a kind of loose gauzy shirt with a sweater tied around his neck and shoulders. Andy wears a sweater over a turtleneck and a bucket hat. Mick and Andy are sitting outside, the sun is out but in Montauk there is always a breeze. Andy was an old friend of the band he designed the cover for their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. NOTE: Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones rented Andy Warhol’s House-Eothen-in the summer of 1975 to rehearse for their upcoming North American Tour. May 18, 1975: Eothen (Andy Warhol Compound) Montauk, New York HOMESĮating Oysters with Andy - a fictional interview based on real events. The only thing missing from the story is me, but I am waving from the side lines.-A.M. And so, Eating Oysters with Andy is a fictional moment set in the summer of 1975. In celebration of its reopening, the curators asked writers with a connection to the University if they would create fictions based on images in their collection. In 2008, The Art Museum at U of I was damaged in a historic flood. By 1990, Montauk and the east End of Long Island had become a creative home to me, first at Edward Albee’s Barn, where he invited artists for residencies, and then when I bought a very small home of my own. I was a student at The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop when Andy Warhol died in New York on February 22, 1987. There was no conversation about it-but it was a much-needed vote of confidence for a young artist and disrupter. A few days later I brought Andy a piece of art I’d made imitating his style. I took a lot of Polaroids of him at the opening of the show and each time one spit out of my camera Andy would sign it and give it back to me. for the launch of the portfolio Ten Portraits of Jews. I was already obsessed with both Andy and the Stones when I finally met Andy in 1980. Andy paid Mick Jagger a visit, shot some Polaroids of Mick and the band and the result was a portfolio of ten screenprints of Mick and the cover for the Stones 1977 album Love You Live. In 1975, The Rolling Stones rented Andy Warhol’s Montauk, New York compound to rehearse for their upcoming tour. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The University Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 1976.5.
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