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Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Andy Warhol's Authenticity Shift

Warhol may not have even known these paintings existed. He gets this begging message from Malanga saying, you've got to help me. And his response is to retroactively create genuine Andy Warhols. So I would say it's unlikely that top of his mind, he's tried to save Malanga's skin. For me it is the moment when Warhol realized and enacted the fact that what an artist said about a work could be more important than the work itself.

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