Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings "Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962) and "Marilyn Diptych" (1962), the experimental film "Chelsea Girls" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" (1966–67).
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator.
After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist.
His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame.
" In the late 1960s, he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded "Interview" magazine.
He authored numerous books, including "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol" and .
He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement.
After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58.
Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films.
The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city of Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.
Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable.
The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$105 million for a 1963 canvas titled "Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster)"; his works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.
A 2009 article in "The Economist" described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Louis Waldon
Louis Waldon (December 16, 1934 – December 6, 2013) was an American film actor, whose career spanned nearly 45 years.
Born in Modesto, a town in Stanislaus County, California,
Waldon began his acting career in 1965.
He was best known for his collaboration with American artist and film director Andy Warhol and, as one of the Warhol superstars, appeared in several Warhol's films, including "The Nude Restaurant" (1967), "Lonesome Cowboys" (1968), "Flesh" (1968), and "Blue Movie" (1969), a seminal film in the Golden Age of Porn.
He is also noted for appearing in the film "Mask" (1985).
He was friends with fellow Andy Warhol actor Waldo Díaz-Balart.
Louis Waldon died following a stroke on December 6, 2013, aged 78, in Los Angeles, California.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
John Donatich
John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press.
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
The Nude Restaurant
The Nude Restaurant, also billed as Nude Restaurant, is a 1967 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, and starring Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, and Billy Name.
Different versions of the film exist, with one being an all-male, all-nude cast, and the other with all actors in G-strings.
Filmed in one day at the Mad Hatter Restaurant in Manhattan in October 1967.
John Farrell (businessman)
John Farrell is the director of YouTube in Latin America.
Dana Blankstein
Dana Blankstein- Cohen( born March 3, 1981) is the director of the Israeli Academy of Film and Television.
She is a film director, and an Israeli culture entrepreneur.

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