Art critic and Warhol biographer Blake Gopnik kindly wrote about my discovery of the hitherto unknown Warhol cover art for the album Al Escobar (Cadence Records, CLP-3014, 1958) on his website Warholiana.com. “To prove it’s by Warhol (he was working in a shared style), Minnebach […]
AL ESCOBAR – the mambo record no one knew has an Andy Warhol & Reid Miles cover
Thunderstruck. That word hardly describes what I felt when I first laid eyes on this mambo music album, a couple of weeks ago. Could it still be possible to discover a nearly 70 years old LP with undocumented Andy Warhol cover art? The answer is: […]
‘World Wide Warhol’ album cover exhibition in Antwerp
World Wide Warhol is a four week exhibition I have held in galerie S&S, a small but cozy gallery in my hometown Antwerp, with finissage on June 22nd, 2025. Two years ago I organized an exhibition in the same venue with Warhol’s book and magazine […]
Latin Rhythms in Japan: first Warhol cover overseas?
A project I have been working on lately, is listing all Andy Warhol record covers from the 1950ies outside of North America (USA and Canada). I have always been curious about when exactly Warhol’s commercial illustration work reached other continents. Record covers were without a […]
‘Early Andy Warhol’ returns to art school
‘Early Andy Warhol’ is a four week exhibition held in PXL Mad (Media, Arts, Design), an art college in Hasselt, Belgium. Mid January I received a message from famed art curator Luk Lambrecht, if I was interested to participate in the expo, by lending record […]
Absolut stunning Warhol exhibition in Stockholm
In October the exhibition Money On The Wall: Andy Warhol opened in the Spritmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden. The Spritmuseum is home to the complete Absolut Art Collection, 850 works by 550 artists around the iconic Absolut Vodka bottle – or rather the bottle became iconic […]
The second apparition of Warhol’s cool gabriels in Japan
Nothing better to start the new year, than with a totally unknown Warhol cover. Imagine my surprise, while I was patiently browsing a Japanese online used record store, when I saw this little gem. Never seen or heard of it before, and it is very […]
The Debbie Harry portraits, or: The face Andy Warhol would have liked to have
In 1980 Andy Warhol created a series of now iconic portrait paintings of Blondie’s frontwoman Deborah Harry, herself of course a living icon on her own artistic merit. The portraits were not made as a commission for a record cover. Debbie Harry bought one for […]
Music and Flowers Matter: Johnny Griffin’s The Congregation on 45 rpm
There is an unwritten rule in the community of Warhol covers collectors: one can never ever have enough copies and versions of Johnny Griffin’s excellent Blue Note album The Congregation. So, here we go again! I seemed somehow to have missed the 2011 release of […]
Billie Holiday drawing part of ACT Art Collection
About a year ago I wrote a post about a jazz album by the Nils Landgren Funk Unit, on the German label ACT. The cover illustration was borrowed from a Warhol drawing I already mentioned a few years earlier, a cover design for an imaginary […]
Velvet Underground’s Scepter master tapes (and 100 bananas) at The Warhol
Last year November I received an email from Matt Gray, manager of archives at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, with truly fantastic news: “We recently identified the master tapes to The Velvet Underground & Nico album from a large donation from Warhol’s estate. Exciting to say […]
$300 invoice for Consumer Reports illustrations
An invoice by Andy Warhol addressed to a certain “Mr. Grove, Consumers Report”, found in the archives of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh during my visit and research a few years ago, drew my attention. Consumer Reports (typically misspelled by Warhol) was (and still […]
Andy Earhole 