Thirty years have passed since Andy Warhol’s death,” wrote Jonathan Jones, The Guardian art critic. “Surely it is high time for him to be made a saint.”
Hold your horses, as the men from the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office might have said when they seized Warhol’s film Lonesome Cowboys in August 1969 and arrested the cinema manager. “Just the sort of thing that, in my opinion, would make the ordinary person sick,” remarked a Fulton criminal court solicitor, according to a report in Variety.
02 March 2017, The Tablet
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