"Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up" featuring Author Bob Colacello

Bob Colacello was born in Brooklyn, NY, raised on Long Island, and educated at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (BSFS 1969) and Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA, 1971). From 1971 to 1983 he edited Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Since 1984, he has been a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair, for which he has written more than 100 profiles of prominent cultural, political, and social figures. He has authored several books, including "Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House" and "Studios by the Sea: Artists of the East End of Long Island." His Factory memoir, "Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up," originally published in 1990, has been reissued this year with a new introduction.
Moderator: Paul Richard, former art critic, The Washington Post

[@johnmcclean343]

My father owned the first " factory" space that was rented to Andy Warhol. He recalls his many interactions with Andy during that period of time, he got to know the many sides that many didnt see. The factory iconic gatherings are well known and the next morning Andy would just as happy being alone in a quite factory floor where the two sometimes share a very simple lunch.

[@metronomejack]

Why do I never get tired of watching documentaries about Andy Warhol?

[@finlybenyunes8385]

You and me both!

[@EmilianoCanal]

Bob Colacello is an amazing writer and storyteller, and a witness to a fascinating era.

[@joeyrider]

I could listen to Colacello for days

[@CRYDERSB]

Yesssssss

[@frankscott927]

Lucky enough to have met him during this tour. Really a nice guy.

[@michaelcollins7738]

I could listen to Bob all day, unpretentious, intelligent and interesting.

[@sandralang9779]

Love Bob! And Andy!

[@Pat7629]

This book needs to be on Audible

[@michallysek6996]

Thanks so much for uploading this, so interesting.

[@briteness]

Excellent interview! I did not know much about Bob Colacello before this. Certainly I didn't know he was basically Andy's ghostwriter, among other things. One thing that struck me as particularly interesting, and new to me, was the idea that Disney was one of Warhol's big influences.

[@xrrrismickey]

Interviewers knows jack all.

[@daphnecarpenter2794]

Interviewer needs to let this man finish his thought and sentances

[@josebenito15]

Today I've got a copy of that book. I'm just beginning to read it and it looks like such great and engaging reading. I have to confess I bought the book because I saw this interview first.. Great marketing KZbin

[@francoisgouws7288]

Love u Andy ❤❤❤

[@teodelfuego]

That was interesting

[@tiny0665]

I'm going to read the book.

[@CRYDERSB]

Love

[@markwardel6751]

This interviewer is rather annoying and not terribly well informed. Bob's book basically covers the Warhol 70s in fabulous detail but this guy seems too focused on 60s subjects. Holy Terror, without doubt the best Warhol book ever.

[@jeffallcock4561]

Mark Wardel I agree about the interviewer. I get the sense from him that he's not very sympathetic to Warhol. Why does he end the interview proper with that quote from the Bible about thieves, I wonder? Anyway, when he's not blathering, Colacello is in good form. I love 'Holy Terror', and I only wish other Warhol associates (like Brigid Berlin, Fremont, Malanga, Morrisey) would write their stories too.

[@markwardel6751]

Jeff Allcock I agree Jeff would love some "Holy Terror" type accounts from those you mentioned especially the super droll and dry Brigid Berlin.

[@johnbrocado1083]

Mark Wardel well nobody's perfect

[@atis3062]

It's my favorite, and I think I've read every one.

[@suzannesands7330]

What do you expect? It's Aspen. It's going to be full of a lot of narcissistic pseudo-intellectuals who like to listen to themselves talk, and don't understand the first thing about professional interviewing.

[@stephaniewood6133]

After reading Andy’s diaries this is fascinating!

[@grantcatton]

14:00 "...in North Philadelphia" lololol FML

Neither The New York School Of Modernism nor The Cedar Tavern was "largely" Jewish... and they certainly didn't reject Andy because he was Catholic... but rather because he was a commercial Artist... to the bone... rather than a fine Artist.

[@1ACL]

Poor Andy.

[@skylarmoreau3922]

andy was from the hood, he came out the mud

[@dianekimball6812]

Andy was a " commoner" who made good. Right on, Andy!

[@duncanfrere2656]

I read "Holy Terror," then... read it again. If you're a Warhol fan, it's essential reading.

[@SLOtsuji]

Why, in your opinion did he name the book Holy Terror?

[@duncanfrere2656]

@@SLOtsuji It's the last line in the book. Paul Morrisey and Bob Colacello are walking down the sidewalk after Andy's memorial service. Paul says: "“You know what Andy really was: a primitive in a sophisticated world. That’s why people were attracted to him. John Richardson was onto something about Andy being a Russian village idiot/saint type. Andy was a holy fool.” And Bob Colacello adds the book's last line: "And a holy terror."

[@SLOtsuji]

@@duncanfrere2656thank you for sharing this. It’s so compelling, his life that is. I get the sense Colachello was somewhat terrorized by working w: Andy.

[@goingtoeatstuff]

This host is horrible and he keeps talking over Bob how rude. I want to hear Bob but he just keeps talking this is so annoying.

[@MarneyII]

Love Bob and this book. The interviewer keeps overpowering Bob and it’s a bit annoying.

[@LINDAOZAG]

I made it out of there. All art!

[@AX1A]

why does the interviewer keep interrupting bob?

[@l.a.gothro3999]

Norman Rockwell has never gotten his due, more so than Walt Disney, IMNSHO.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

Norm is coming around, slowly.

[@SLOtsuji]

Bitter Bourgeois

[@SLOtsuji]

Why did he name the book Holy Terror?

[@sugeyitareniegos2761]

Basquiat, the great invention of Warhol

[@iliveinarichgirlsdream]

Don’t quite agree either

[@Transformational_change]

I would call them kindred spirits.

[@randyrandall8274]

Basquiat was his own person: no credit to Warhol. what on earth are you on about?

[@thepeachprince]

Bob Valpolicella

[@FindAReason-mi7go]

Warhol themed videos do not get a lot of hits. Not many people are into art, not even the most famous.

[@ArtCreamProject]

I never understood the Warhol phenomenon

[@joaniec6178]

Art Cream And?

[@kathrynmcelroy5658]

tooo bad for you. but that's okay.

[@terr777]

And yet, you are here trying to. I think there's your answer.

[@sexobscura]

Bob Coca-Cola

[@kabardinka1]

Sorry, zero respect for Colacello, who continues to be a Log Cabin Republican and was a big bud of Reagan... who refused to acknowledge the AIDS crisis.

[@broke305]

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[@rhaven50]

I don't have the sound up. This guy is creepy.

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

Andy Warhol never found the ability to conceptualize the future this made him a propagandist not an artist .Only artists understand prefiguration enough in its topological form so that empirical reality reacts as a weighted error or precognition inside of representation. This is why only empiricists can make art they can envision the future as causality outside of time or as the irreducible topology of a painting but they also never confuse reality with art because different observers can have different measurements & disagree & chaos thus reveals a false order & you arrive to the future He never conceived of that He was an irrelevant terrorist Re: empirical models: "An empirical model operates on a simple semantic principle: the maker observes a close correspondence between the behaviour of the model and that of its referent. The crafting of this correspondence can be 'empirical' in a wide variety of senses: it may entail a trial-and-error process, may be based on computational approximation to analytic formulae, it may be derived as a black-box relation that affords no insight into 'why it works'. Empirical Modelling is rooted on the key principle of William James's radical empiricism, which postulates that all knowing is rooted in connections that are given-in-experience. Empirical Modelling aspires to craft the correspondence between the model and its referent in such a way that its derivation can be traced to connections given-in-experience. Making connections in experience is an essentially individual human activity that requires skill and is highly context-dependent. Examples of such connections include: identifying familiar objects in the stream of thought, associating natural languages words with objects to which they refer, and subliminally interpreting the rows and columns of a spreadsheet as exam results of particular students in particular subjects."

[@jonesy2111]

Empiricism is a terrible philosophy

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

@@jonesy2111 that is because it is not a philosophy philosophy is obsolete Empiricism means ten people who see red see red but the philosopher is delusional and sees a goat and narcissistically bullies everyone into hating their lives thinking red is a goat. Did you know that bulls dont actually see red? That is empiricism, empiricism is intelligence, curing disease, a sting operation. Philosophy is pro-pedophilias & battery. Philosophy is over as Arendt said in 1964 & Hawking said over a decade ago. Either you exist or you have some kind of brain disorder as a woman or a man called philosophy abusing men & women who all know they suck, that life is short & that we are all born with & die with & fight diseases. Philosophy is an untreated brain disorder & only one disease out off countless diseases that we all have that when cured empirically lengthen our lives. Empiricism is not opinion it is universally accessible proof correction & literacy People who are opinionated & philosophical are performers & porn stars they are clinical narcissists who use others to/for abuse money sex or crime or all at once there is no proof otherwise Empiricism solves these problems with no punishment war or prisons Either you are smart & fight disease, cancers, illnesses, abuse/crime because you are collectively smart with others as in how the NSA operates in a team of empirical cognition or you are possibly sick & delusional & just ramble & abuse others for no apparent reason, there is no sitting on the fence this is why empiricism is not a philosophy because you garner shared life mechanics & often real satisfaction from evolving & solving problems with others whereas philosophers are self absorbed boring bullies & liars Arendt rejected being called a philosopher so did Hawking I guess you are smarter than they were :)

[@leosullivan9228]

"irrelevant terrorist" like this interviewer? lol or uh, more like god's terrorist

[@quantumfineartsandfossils2152]

@@jonesy2111 "An empirical model operates on a simple semantic principle: the maker observes a close correspondence between the behaviour of the model and that of its referent. The crafting of this correspondence can be 'empirical' in a wide variety of senses: it may entail a trial-and-error process, may be based on computational approximation to analytic formulae, it may be derived as a black-box relation that affords no insight into 'why it works'. Empirical Modelling is rooted on the key principle of William James's radical empiricism, which postulates that all knowing is rooted in connections that are given-in-experience. Empirical Modelling aspires to craft the correspondence between the model and its referent in such a way that its derivation can be traced to connections given-in-experience. Making connections in experience is an essentially individual human activity that requires skill and is highly context-dependent. Examples of such connections include: identifying familiar objects in the stream of thought, associating natural languages words with objects to which they refer, and subliminally interpreting the rows and columns of a spreadsheet as exam results of particular students in particular subjects."