If you’ve always thought of the Union Square section of lower Manhattan as Andy Warhol territory, your pop culture sensibility has been confirmed in chrome, temporarily at least. On display from March this year until October 2, “The Andy Monument” by artist Rob Pruitt re-creates Warhol as a 10-foot tall 20th century icon, complete with Polaroid camera around his neck and Bloomingdale’s Medium Brown Bag in hand.
Passersby in the ‘70s and ‘80s often encountered the artist/publisher right outside his Factory (located in the Decker Building at 33 Union Square West/860 Broadway). He often stood on the street distributing copies of his latest issue of Interview magazine which he carried in the Bloomingdale’s bag. Polaroid was Warhol’s medium for snapping subjects that he would later immortalize in his famous silk screens.
For the artist who once said “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes,” having a statue erected in his honor for just 6 months seems fitting. (Read the rest on We Blog the World)
Kathy Drasky regularly writes about online culture. Her marketing and communications work with the ANZA Technology Network, Advance Global Australians and with various Australians and Australian enterprises has led to at least a dozen trips Down Under.
An accomplished digital photographer, her photos have appeared in 7×7 Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle and Google Schmap.
