The second box set in the series of NBC audition packets I have in my collection, contains a full episode of the news show Voices and Events.The show was highly innovative for its time because it integrated tape recordings of actual audio clips—the literal “voices […]
Month: August 2026
Hanging on the Telephone with Andy Warhol in Krakow
Temperatures rose to a scorching 39°C in the beautiful city of Krakow in Poland, the day of the vernissage of the exhibition Andy Warhol: Od linii do legendy (Andy Warhol, From Line to Legend). I have given in loan a complete collection of Warhol record […]
“Night Beat”: the first Warhol record cover pictured in a magazine
Already in 1949, the first year Andy Warhol worked a s a commercial illustrator in New York, he received commissions for record cover art. He did spot drawings for at least two LP’s on the Columbia label (Carlos Chávez, A Program of Mexican Music and […]
Clap Hands, Here Comes Archie! Two variations on Warhol’s “Al Escobar” cover drawing
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 […]
Andy Earhole 