Ric Burn's documentary on Andy Warhol

In the continuing absence of Victor Bockris's superb biography of Andy Warhol (lost, perhaps forever, in the garage somewhere) I have come across Ric Burn's excellent 2006 documentary on him instead. Originally a US PBS programme, this is an amazing 4 hours long - perhaps in order to be like one of Warhol's own films! This is exactly the sort of detailed biography I was hoping for.

One highlight was the discussion with the collector who had bought the Warhol 32 soup can set for $1,000 and sold them the Metropolitan Museum of Art for $15m. Individual cans (additiions to the original 32) sell for $2m+, so the original set might be worth $100m. Amazing. Another was a section on the Jackie Kennedy screen prints following the death of JFK. I hadn't seen these before, but was much impressed.



Just superb in my view