Episode #722

Warhol, Bernal, Darwin

Warhol with John Cale

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Friday, June 02, 2006

Andy Warhol was the superstar who coined the phrase “superstar,” and changed our culture forever. Kurt Andersen and music pioneer John Cale talk about the lasting legacy of the Pop art legend. They'll discuss Warhol's influence on art, album covers, and a celebrity-obsessed culture he helped create. And Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal defends accusations that he's the cinema's biggest heartthrob.

Studio 360 Episode 722, Warhol, Bernal, Darwin Charles Darwin (Julia Margaret Cameron, courtesy of the American Museum of Photography)

Guests:

John Cale

Campbell's Soup Can

Andy Warhol started painting Campbell's soup cans around the same time he was painting Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. For him, Campbell's was a "star" just like any movie pinup, and he made thousands over the course of his career. Warhol told people he painted soup because he ate it ...

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Cale on Warhol

John Cale tells Kurt about what it was like to work with the Pop art superstar in the 1960s.

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Style It Takes

Back in 1990, John Cale and Lou Reed, his bandmate from the Velvet Underground, wrote a song cycle about Andy Warhol, called Songs for Drella. John performs one for us in the studio.

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Sticky Fingers

When we asked graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister to pick his favorite album cover of all time, he chose a notorious design by Andy Warhol: The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. Produced by Derek John.

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Gael Garcia Bernal

Studio 360's Leital Molad finds Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal irresistibly charming, no matter what kind of taboos his characters are breaking. She talked with Bernal about his breakthrough performance in Y Tu Mama Tambien and his new film The King.

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Presenting Darwin

How do you convey the millions of years over which a species evolves in the span of a museum tour? Sarah Lilley looks at an exhibit on Charles Darwin that lets the science speak for itself.

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