[PNC was] going to try to do something in Washington, but everybody said it would be hot and unpleasant there this time of year, and probably nobody on the Corcoran mailing list would be in town.
It is a great thing -- someone whose art was about American products and mass production and Levi's being one of the most etched American things.
She's the only museum curator I know who can take a beer-can opener and a frying pan and make a marvelous exhibition out of it.
They would say, Andy, we need two Coke bottles standing next to an apple, and we need the background to be yellow. He'd say OK. Meanwhile, the wife of the head of J. Walter Thompson would decide it should be blue. So the next morning Andy would have that drawing in blue.
He was the most sought-after graphic illustrator in New York City. He was making $150,000 a year, which is like a half-million now.
We like to think of the arts as highfalutin, and all of a sudden Warhol was making art that was pedestrian, working-class.
But I knew people from Washington summered in Rehoboth Beach.
When pop art first happened it was fresh and original, ... popular art for the masses.
It would have been the same if he had been from Buffalo or Cincinnati. The same kind of issues would come up. He was a working-class kid born to ethnic parents. He was gay. He was not comfortable playing baseball with the boys.
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