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Andy, Andy everywhere. Few figures have influenced New York City—its art, its commerce, its style, its nightlife, its legends—like Andy Warhol. The eighty sites in Andy Warhol’s New York City bring to life the electrifying world he created and include his Factories and residences, as well as clubs, museums, boutiques, restaurants, and dozens of glamorous and gritty places in between.
New Yorkers will savor glimpses of the city’s icons—vanished (Schrafft’s), current (Serendipity 3), and never realized (the Andy-Mat); art lovers will appreciate the listing of Warhol’s many gallery shows; anyone interested in fashion and celebrity will be intrigued by the details of his stylish world.
There are sidebars on Warhol’s residences, favorite restaurants, and factories. Brief biographies of personalities in the book describe the cast of glittering characters that enter and leave the stage as Warhol’s mesmerizing story unfolds.
Nine original drawings in the book were made specially for Andy Warhol's New York City by the artist Vito Giallo, a former studio assistant of Warhol's who assisted in the making of hundreds of Warhol's ink blot drawings, and who later owned the antique store where Warhol bought thousands of items that were posthumously auctioned at Sotheby's.
The eighty sites are divided into four walks:
I Upper East Side (above East 70th Street)
II Upper East Side (East 57th to East 68th Street)
III Midtown
IV
Downtown (Murray Hill, Chelsea, Rose Hill, Union Square, East Village, Greenwich Village)
A “star system” lets readers know at a glance what sites are still in existence, which have been razed, and which are still standing but no longer the Warhol-associated site described.
4.25” x 7.25”
ISBN 13: 978-1892145-93-2
Retail price: $14.95
Price: $11.96 (20% off)
"Warhol trivia is gathered into four walking tours in Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks, Uptown to Downtown, a slim but informative guidebook that maps the artist's life….[Author] Kiedrowski, a true Warholphile, commissioned elegant drawings from Vito Giallo, an artist who served as Warhol's first paid assistant." – T, The New York Times Style Magazine blog
"Thomas Kiedrowski, who leads tours to Warhol sites in New York, has written an excellent new guidebook to the pale one's haunts, Andy Warhol's New York City: Four Walks Uptown to Downtown…. A guidebook is not a biography, but this sturdy paperback is rich with details about Warhol, some surprising." – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Andy Warhol's New York City is "one of ten reasons to love New York this summer." — Vogue.com
Thomas Kiedrowski is an independent scholar who received his B.F A. in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He lives in New York and leads tours to Warhol sites in New York City.
The original drawings in Andy Warhol’s New York City were made specially for the book by the artist Vito Giallo, using the same blotted line technique that he used when he was a studio assistant of Warhol’s. Giallo later owned the antique store where Warhol bought many of the items that were posthumously auctioned at Sotheby’s.
From the Introduction:
When I first visited New York Citya number of years ago, my friends asked me what I wanted to do. See the spectacular view of Manhattan from the 86th Floor Observatory of the Empire State Building, perhaps, or the brilliance of Times Square lights after a Broadway show? Explore the shops and cafés of Greenwich Village?
Instead, I pulled out a list of addresses that all concerned Andy Warhol’s life in the city: the Silver Factory at 231 East 47th Street, the White Factory at 33 Union Square West, his townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue and 89th Street. My friends began to ask me what went on in those places. So we set out on a long walk through the Upper East Side to see where Warhol had lived, passing the windows of the Barneys depart- ment store. There I was confronted by a giant head of Warhol constructed out of telephones, just another piece of evidence that his story is woven intricately through so many aspects of life in New York City, even almost twenty-five years after his passing.
He lived here for almost four decades, establishing careers as a commercial artist, a major modern painter, an innovative filmmaker, a magazine publisher, a socialite, a music promoter, and a totally unique celebrity figure. He frequented restaurants, stores, theaters, musical venues, and hot spots. He loved New York City from the Empire State Building to Central Park, from old churches to galleries and boutiques. He embraced the city and all of its star power, both the cutting edge and the latest thing, as well as the established and the venerable.
Soon after that initial visit, I moved to the city and continued my quest to locate the sites where Warhol lived, worked, played, and worshipped, leaving his own stamp on many of them in the process. Eventually, I reached out to people who knew Andy Warhol, and began recording histories from the characters of Warhol’s New York past, tales of what happened and when.
This book is the result of my research, a collection of stories surrounding certain buildings and locations that have cemented my own connection with Andy Warhol.
I offer the book to the like-minded, for anyone who has wondered where all of those legendary Warhol events actually happened: Where did he live (with his mother), eat, and drink? Where were the four different Factories? Where were his paintings silkscreened and his movies shot? Where did his exhibitions open, in galleries or museums? Where did he present the Velvet Underground, performing with his movies projected over them? Where did he pop up with Edie Sedgwick and his collection of superstars? Where were Studio 54 and Max’s Kansas City? Where was he shot?