A new Netflix show makes a big deal of how mysterious and unknowable Andy Warhol was, “but we must know more about him than we do about any artist who ever lived,” Louis Menand writes. “He recorded everything and he rarely threw anything away.”
kept a daily diary—meaning, since Warhol was dyslexic, and since he preferred having assistants perform the labor for his works, that he dictated it over the phone to a writer named Pat Hackett. Hackett had showed up at Warhol’s studio in 1968, a few months after Warhol was shot and nearly died, and got a job transcribing Warhol’s phone conversations. She would become his principal co-author, ghostwriter, or some combination of both.
In the beginning, the reason for keeping a diary was to make a record of Warhol’s daily cash payments. Warhol tried to deduct pretty much everything—takeout food, cab fares, all his shopping purchases and entertainment expenses—on his income-tax returns. This got him into trouble with the I.R.S., which seems just, unless we believe, as many people believe, that Andy Warhol’s greatest work of art was Andy Warhol. In that case, every dollar he spent on himself was properly a business expense.
Eventually, Warhol got into the habit of telling Hackett what he had done the previous day—usually a lot, since most evenings he socialized non-stop. According to Hackett, their conversations began around 9” was published in 1989, two years after Warhol died in the hospital following an operation to remove his gallbladder. The book is being reissued this spring, and a six-part Netflix series based on it arrived in March.
Warhol’s work is notoriously indeterminate. What did he think about Campbell’s soup, car crashes and electric chairs, Marilyn Monroe, Mao? He never said. Some people read social criticism into the work, even though Warhol does not appear to have ever expressed a political view. He was certainly not a political radical. He seems to have been a liberal Democrat. Other people think that the work can be read autobiographically.
The thickness is made possible by Warhol himself. From early on, he made a practice of photographing, filming, and taping almost everything that he did, and he encouraged members of his entourage to do the same. Consequently—and, although you get used to it, kind of miraculously—there seems to be a photographic record of almost every dinner party Warhol attended, every trip he made, every club he visited.
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