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Wed, December 01, 2010 • War is hol

Greetings, Art Monkeys!

Recently at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, we did a tribute to Andy Warhol's factory. Some of you may be thinking, "Wait a minute! Didn't you already do an Andy Warhol-themed session?" That just shows how little you understand pop-art. We have to do a series of Andy Warhol sessions, each one coloured differently. This time around, we had Dante Posh as Grace Jones, Miss Southern Comfort as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Miss Vivian as Edie Sedgewick, and Madame Rosebud as Andy himself. Justin Lussier took copious photographs of the event.

Just like the real factory, there was a whole slew of people vying for attention.

Kat Mon Dieu captured all of Nico's emaciated, Aryan charm. And by "captured," I literally mean "put in a cage."

Throughout the evening, Molly Burkett, in the role of Ultra Violet, posed with a cigarette that I think was playing John Cale or someone like that.

I wasn't told who Chelsea Brannon was portraying, but considering that this was the factory, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it was some drag queen.

I should also note that the phrase "some drag queen" once also appeared in a web over Eddie Izzard's bed.

Foley dressed as one of Warhol's most famous Souperstars.

As an added treat, Lauren Goldberg performed aerially for us.

While she was doing that, Kim Boekbinder played music for us. Unfortunately, these photographs do not have an audio component, but if you can remember the last time you were truly, genuinely happy and imagine that the experience could be encapsulated in sound, it would not be quite as nice as Kim Boekbinder.

Here we see Paigey in captivity, much blonder than usual. I do believe that this session had more blonde wigs than any previous session.

If I knew anything about Edie Sedgewick, I'd probably have a really clever reference right here. Miss Vivian sure is hot, though.

I had never seen Jean-Michel Basquiat topless in person before, and I must say it is not exactly what I was expecting.

Here we see a conceptual switch, as the artist becomes the art.

The only way this could be more art is if there were also a kangaroo.

As with all of our sessions, the people in the back have the freedom to imagine anything they want on stage.

Here we see artist side by side with the art they created on sketchbooks provided by our friends at Moleskines.

That outfit is giving me vertigo.

Andy Warhol often struggled to keep the hair from escaping his head

On one wall of the Red Lotus room, an exquisite corpse was started, and it eventually looked like this.

Towards the end of the night, Molly and Juliette made a John sandwich, which is always a popular selection at New York delis.

And with these last group shots, I have run out of photographs. Thank you to everyone pictured in them. See you soon.

- Syd Bernstein

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