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Episode 2: What the Wall Label Doesn’t Tell You

Death of an Artist

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The Art World of the 1960s

"I like to say that going in was like walking past heavy metal to strawberry shortcake," Peter says. Warhol's notoriously swish friends, as they were called back in the day, meant gay people and anyone on the fringe of white masculinity circa 1960. "All the minimalist were assholes ... I'll accept Saul O'Witt, who was an angel in human form."

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