The 20th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death next year is creating buzz about the famously misunderstood artist, who uniquely grasped the function of celebrity and mass media in modern society and redefined the barrier between art and commerce. This month Phaidon Press publishes a 15-lb., 624-page visual biography, including 2,000 images, many rare or unpublished. In September PBS will air a documentary by Ric Burns anointing Warhol as the most significant artist of the second half of the 20th century and featuring previously unseen footage of Warhol in his studio in 1962. Also this fall Sienna Miller will star in a...
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