Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol 1971-1976
video, black and white, mono, 88 minutes, edited 1994, digital betacam
In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled
the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol,
Auder captures revealing moments in Warhol's public and private life:
the opening of the 1970 Whitney Museum retrospective, a party held at
John Lennon and Yoko Ono's home, a heated telephone conversation
between Warhol, Viva and Brigid Berlin, and an illuminating interview
conducted with Larry Rivers, the grandfather of Pop Art, following the
publication of The Philosophy of Andy Warhol in 1975. The issue of
money is a consistent topic of conversation with Viva, who after
departing the Factory in 1969 sent Warhol a series of threatening
letters demanding money.