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Film director Paul Morrissey who was Andy Warhol’s business manager describes how unimpressed he was with Warhol: “He couldn’t influence anybody. He was incapable of doing anything. He was so severely autistic…He couldn’t read!” Morrissey cites Warhol’s name recognition as the reason for his star power versus his art–and says that the world has given him far too much credit for work that Warhol never actually did himself.

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Lou Reed speaks at the 2013 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on the astonishing achievements and foresight of Andy Warhol’s artistic style and vision. Reed’s band, the Velvet Underground, was little-known at the time–but Warhol saw something in them before the general public did. In the band’s humble beginnings, they were only able to book shows when they were part of Warhol’s art installations: “We were his one and only band. The factory band.”

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In an interview with Andy Warhol and transgender actress, Candy Darling, the duo talk about how they met and their upcoming movie, “Blonde on a Bum Trip,” which would later be renamed “Women in Revolt.” Although Warhol is known more for being a leading figure in the pop art movement, he also had a prolific career as a filmmaker. During the 1960s, Warhol made over 60 films, most of them fairly short, but some very long, such as “Empire,” a film consisting of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building at dusk. Warhol and Darling met at a New York club called the Tenth of Always and went on to make two of Warhol’s most famous film’s together, “Flesh” and “Women in Revolt.”

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Marla Wasser, organizer of Andy Warhol’s Factory 2009, walks viewers through the process of setting up the museum, which is a multi-media celebration of Warhol’s work (he died in1987). Well known pieces of art show include those of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and more. The museum contains 60+ pieces of his art, along with art that was inspired by Warhol.

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In 1986, Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat agreed to be interviewed together. These two artists worked on multiple collaborative paintings from 1983 until 1985. Warhol was a leading artist in the pop art movement who died in 1987. Basquiat was a Haitian-American artist who was one of the leaders of the street art movement. Basquiat died on August 12, 1988 at the age of 27 of a heroin overdose.

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Andy Warhol and other members of the Factory, Warhol’s New York City studio, discuss film making, including: whether or not Warhol considers himself a director. He also speaks on how he would respond to critics, “bow tie movies,” the quality of underground films, British underground films and more. Warhol had begun making films around 1963.

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This 1966 interview shows many different aspects of the quirky artist, Andy Warhol, as he asks the interviewer to provide the answers as well as the questions. Watch Warhol silk screen a piece of art with his assistant, discuss his film making techniques, talk about how much he does or doesn’t care about other people’s lives, discuss the Velvet Underground and much more.

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Two of Warhol’s nephews, James and Paul, Jr., and the director of The Andy Warhol Museum discuss how being shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas changed Warhol’s personality and lifestyle, as well as the negligence charges brought upon the hospital when he died after a gall bladder surgery 19 years later. The video highlights Warhol’s will and the battle over his estate, as well as Warhol’s lasting legacy.

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John Stanton remembers when Andy Warhol moved his Factory, where he made art and film, from one location in New York City to another. Find out what went missing and how Stanton knows that to be the case. The Factory was located in three different places between 1962 and 1984, with Warhol moving the remaining projects to a regular office building in 1984.

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