In November 1966, the writer Truman Capote, riding high on his fame, threw a New York party that would reverberate around the world. Fashion historian Dr Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell takes us inside the evening at the Plaza Hotel, the glittering guest list, and extravagant fashions that continue to inspire to this day…
This week, the editors recall Carter Ratcliff’s “Andy Warhol: Inflation Artist,” published in March 1985. Currently on artforum.com, Bruce Hainley and Kristian Vistrup Madsen have a conversation about Ryan Murphy’s series The Andy Warhol Diaries, available on Netflix.“It’s easy to be disgusted by Warhol, by an entire lifetime of deathgrip hipness,” writes Ratcliff, his mind winding around and around the Pop artist and his many productions. “Then I change my mind rather, my feelings change and again my mood matches what I imagine to be his. I take his expression of feelings as an image of the