{"id":40548,"date":"2020-07-03T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=40548"},"modified":"2020-07-03T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:08:01","slug":"is-it-a-moon-shot-nope-its-a-book-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/07\/is-it-a-moon-shot-nope-its-a-book-chat.html","title":{"rendered":"Is It a Moon Shot? Nope, It’s a Book Chat."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Follow the countdown\u2014the days, hours, minutes, and yes, even the seconds\u2014to Blake Gopnik’s chat with Annalyn Swan about his biography of Andy Warhol<\/a>. Well, it IS a big book. Big in page count (976). Big in subject (Warhol’s influence rivals Picasso’s.) Stellar in praise. (I’ve read only one review that dumps on it, persuasively<\/a>.) So okay, a countdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click to follow the countdown.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Gopnik was the chief art critic of The Washington Post, the art and design critic for Newsweek, and a critic-at-large for Artnet News. These days he’s a contributor to The New York Times. Swan is the co-author with her husband, the art critic Mark Stevens, of de Kooning: An American Master<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, among other prestigious awards. Her upcoming biography Francis Bacon: Revelations<\/a>,<\/em> also co-written with Stevens, is scheduled for publication in March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biographer Blake Gopnik and the cover of Warhol.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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