How did people ever swallow the supposition that the real Warhol was a white-wigged idiot standing around saying, “Great”?

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such di­verse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.

“The reality of the 'mass naked happening' seem­ed to lie in the media, in the pictures, in the gesture — which meant nothing except insofar as it was reported”

“Warhol has so arranged his discotheque that his patrons tend to feel that they have wandered into some evangelist's vision of Nineveh and that perhaps it is time to mend their ways.”

Marina Abramovic and Ulay's 12-Year Partnership in Art and Life Comes to a Spectacular End on the Great Wall of China

“What happened was we had ... my wife is an artist and I am an artist and we had a quarrel about the fact that I was more, eh, exposed to the public than she was and she went to the bedroom and I went after her and she went out of the window”

A Story of Labor, Lies, Losses, and Libel Suits

The design virtuoso, who died last week at age 91, brought the Voice's editorial look up to speed

“Basquiat has absorbed every trick in contemporary painting's book at an astoundingly early age. He's so precocious he's practically old before his time”

“What I missed immediately was the figure of Jean him­self, one of the most beautiful young men — with one of the most original minds — I have ever met”