Mick Jagger wrote Andy Warhol a letter in 1969 regarding the artwork for their new album, Sticky Fingers. Andy Warhol read the brief. The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (1971) Probably Warhol’s most problematic album cover, in that 1) Each copy contained an actual zipper attached to the front that basically killed any other record that touched [...]
Author Archives: Martin Benninge
Civilization and the Ascent from Hell to Heaven
September 23, 2009 – 7:34 am
These are stills from Marco Brambilla‘s video Civilization, which is currently installed in the elevators of the Standard Hotel in New York City. The video is installed so that it plays in sync with the elevators: as the elevator ascends the viewer experiences the movement from a hellish environment to a heavenly one. To see the video [...]
