Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch
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The Relationship Between Paige and Andy Warhol
This is a record not just her relationship with John Michelle Basquiat but with Andy Warhol. Paige has something like 30,000 negatives so for years they were in cardboard boxes stashed under her bed in Portland. A great friend of Paige's the musician Thomas Lauderdale who leaves the band Pink Martini took it upon himself as a page we need to archive these photographs this is cultural history. Over the past decade they've been archiving all the works for photographic works printing them and another mutual friend Kim Hostreiter co-founded Paper Magazine.
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