Andy Warhol on display in Burlington

[Shana A]

Andy Warhol on display in Burlington

Burlington, Vermont - January 19, 2010

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11847870

Several loaned photos showing Warhol dressed as a woman are lesser-known. The show's curator says they illustrate the artist's fascination with transgender people as being what he thought of as being the ultimate in sexual honesty and freedom.

Diary entries show Warhol worried his dressing in drag might lose him a commission from First Lady Nancy Reagan, but it did not. "A lot of Andy Warhol's contemporaries, when he first started out, the phrase they used was 'he was too swish.' 'Too swish' to be taken seriously as an artist. But he proved them wrong!" Marcereau DeGalan says.

[tekla]

Oh, I thought they were displaying the body a la Lenin in Moscow.  I would have paid to see that, photos, not so much.

[Pica Pica]

I was going to say 'wouldn't he smell?'

[tekla]

Smelled when he was alive too, so no big change.