Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art

Good morning. ⛅ Today, filmmaker Sam Pollard talks to Hyperallergic about his MLK/FBI documentary, Is

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Good morning. ⛅ Today, filmmaker Sam Pollard talks to Hyperallergic about his MLK/FBI documentary, Ishmael Reed picks apart Manuel-Miranda’s Hamilton, and Blake Gopnik’s take on Warhol, love, sex, and desire.—Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

Andy Warhol’s Hopes for Queer Art

Andy Warhol, "Male Couple" (1950s) (copyright © the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., all images courtesy Taschen)

In an essay from Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire, Blake Gopnik argues that Andy Warhol had good reason to believe that daring gay imagery was where art ought to have been heading. Read the excerpt here.

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