The people who make these decisions were not there at the time and so are actually rewriting history to their own satisfaction. I think it’s a cruel joke.
Billy Name. Warhol factory photographer and assistant who lived at Warhol’s factory throughout most of the 1960’s.
The (myandywarhol) situation was an anomaly; we never farmed out another job at that point.
Gerard Malanga, Warhol’s primary assistant during the 1960’s.
If Joe Simon’s self portrait is not authentic so, it would seem, is most of Warhol’s oeuvre.
John Richardson, art historian, author, contributor to the New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair.
The exclusion of (myandywarhol) from his oeuvre makes it easier to catalogue and sell Warhol's art, but it does nothing to enhance his stature in the history of art.
Richard Dorment, art critic for the daily Telegraph. Contributor for the New York Review of Books.
Having analyzed the evidence submitted to me by Joe, I feel he is totally in the right.
John Richardson, art historian, author, contributor to the New York Review of Books and Vanity Fair.
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