Walking into Jeff Koons's studio is like entering a medical laboratory crossed with an open plan office. It’s a sanitized, technologized and infantilized version of Andy Warhol’s factory. In one room a group of assistants, dressed in medical scrubs and facemasks, bend over the prone forms of his famous Popeye Series sculptures. Powerful medical lights spotlight the scene as the assistants silently scrape away at their surfaces with gleaming metal blades. It’s an ER room for art.

The Andy Warhol Museum recently released The Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app, a universal app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

New York police are investigating an unusual theft, after one or more robbers tunnelled through the wall of a posh Manhattan apartment and made off with loot that included art by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Officers were on hand at a Greenwich Village apartment complex Thursday night [December 23] to investigate the heist, which took place while the owners were away around American Thanksgiving.

Several Andy Warhol prints were among the artworks stolen, including this one, titled Superman. Police believe the theft occurred between Nov. 24 and 28.

The thief or thieves gained access to the apartment by carving a tunnel through the wall of an adjacent hallway, according to police.

The stolen art collection, estimated to be worth about $750,000 US, included the Warhol prints Superman, The Truck and a signed, eight-piece series entitled Camouflage. It also included the Lichtenstein prints Thinking Nude and Moonscape, and the oil painting Live Cat by Carl Fudge.


Along with the limited edition artworks, jewelry and luxury watches were lifted from the apartment.

The theft was likely committed by experts because a video recorder connected to the surveillance camera system was also taken.

No arrests have been made, police said.

Reported by CBC News.

Andy Warhol: Camouflage, an exhibition at Honor Fraser that includes silkscreens on canvas, unique trial proofs on board, and screenprints. This marks the first comprehensive west coast exhibition, in over ten years, of Warhol’s late series, the Camouflage works. The exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with an essay by Vincent Fremont. Please find excerpts from his essay below.



The Camouflage paintings were not shown publicly until six years after Andy’s death. In September of 1993, with the cooperation of the Andy Warhol Foundation, an exhibition entitled Andy Warhol Abstrakt opened at the Kuntshalle in Basel, Switzerland. For the first time ever, large Camouflage paintings measuring from 50 x 198-inches to 116 x 420-inches were presented in a groundbreaking and intriguing survey of the work resulting from Andy’s interpretation and experimentation with abstract painting.



The Camouflage paintings were a personal vision of Andy’s. No gallery had commissioned him to create these paintings for an exhibition. It all started in 1986 when Andy asked his art assistant, Jay Shriver (who was also an artist) what he was working on. Andy had agreed to let Jay work four days a week as long as Jay created artwork in his own studio on his day off. Jay told Andy that he was making small abstract paintings by pushing paint through the mesh of a piece of military camouflage cloth. Andy immediately realized making paintings of the actual camouflage shapes and patterns would be a great idea. He sent Jay off to the local Army/Navy store on Fifth Avenue near Union Square to buy some camouflage fabric. When Jay returned they photographed the cloth and the project began. Andy had the mesh pattern removed from the pictures of the camouflage cloth so just the shapes remained. Andy had a good experience creating this series of Camouflage paintings; from the very large-scale to the very small-scale versions measuring only 9 x 9-inches. He was so pleased with the results of the paintings he decided to publish his own limited edition of Camouflage prints.



Andy Warhol: Camouflage
Honor Fraser
October 30 2010 - February 5 2011

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The closely watched federal lawsuit in which a private collector is suing the Andy Warhol Foundation and its subsidiary Art Authentication Board is about to reach an abrupt and unexpected end. Joe Simon, the London-based American whose 2007 complaint challenges the board’s rejection of the authenticity of the 1964 Warhol self-portrait that he owns, says that he and his lawyer, Seth Redniss of New York, will withdraw from the case at the next hearing, scheduled for November 10 2010 in federal court in the Southern District of Manhattan. A parallel lawsuit in which Redniss is counsel, filed last year by U.S. collector Susan Shaer after the rejection of a self-portrait from the same series, also will be dropped, says Simon.

“The case is done,” says Simon. “I can’t do it anymore.” The reason is that Redniss, who has been working for years without pay in exchange for a percentage of a prospective settlement, is unable to respond to the numerous motions filed by lawyers for the Warhol Foundation. Simon says he does not have funds to hire additional counsel and is unable to enlist other firms willing to work on contingency.

See the full article on Artinfo

Below is an interesting 7 part video which describes the case.