As time passes, Andy Warhol’s art continues to become more and more relevant (weather you like it or not). This season we are seeing more of AW than ever (the celeb paintings, the piss abstractions, and we will see plenty at the fairs this fall/winter) Warhol’s understanding of the mundane is in force now more than ever. On July 25th 1964, from 8:06pm till 2:42am, Warhol (or an assistant) trained a camera from the Time-Life Building to the Empire State Building and treated this architectural icon, he once described, as “a star” to the full on Warhol method. Just watching – not judging – not interfering. The Camera’s lens never moves, nothing happens, lights on and lights off, people enter and leave…”nothing” happens — for eight hours.
Empire is on view in Andy Warhol Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-46 at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada