June 02, 2006

Warhol with 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 for lunch every day, but the paintings—and their ultimate artistic legacy—remain mysterious more than 40 years later. As part of Studio 360's series on American Icons, David Krasnow takes stock of Andy Warhol's Soup Cans.

Cale on Warhol

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

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.

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.

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.

Darwin

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.

Special Guest

Special Guest: John Cale

Rock guitarist and classical violist John Cale participated in one of Warhol's big experiments, The Velvet Underground. Warhol took the difficult, obscure band mates and made them stars. After the Velvets' breakup, Cale became an underground rock hero with records like Fear and Paris 1919. Cale's latest album is Black Acetate.

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