EPILOGUE
In a November ‘74 edition of Asahi Graph, the Life magazine of Japan at the
time, Andy Warhol was asked how he felt he had inspired those who’ve seen his
art. His response, “I don’t know.” Warhol always had little to say into the
microphones of reporters and was often known to say nothing at all. His interest
lay more in the interviewing of others. With this interest Warhol started his own
reportage magazine, appropriately titled, Interview, in 1969. Five years into the
magazine Andy had created the American ideal in the form of ink and paper. The
pages of glamour, fashion, parties, and celebrities gave a glimpse into what the life
of a superstar must have been like. The magazine was a piece of modern
Americana and the world began to look closer at the artist who was turning
images of life and death into iconography, particularly, the Japanese.
Andy Warhol made two trips to Japan in his lifetime. The first was in 1956 as a
young commercial artist traveling abroad. 18 years later in 1974 Warhol was
invited to take part in a retrospective exhibition at the Daimaru Department Store
in Tokyo. This was Warhol’s introduction into the Japanese market and one of the
men responsible for the inauguration was Yoshio Kano. In a visit to the Union
Square studio in October of that year Kano took some photographs to
commemorate the deal.
Among some of the photos taken, Andy is seen editing images and looking
through current issues of Interview. In another image [not shown] Fred Hughes,
with the cookie jar collection in the background, is seen discussing the exhibition
and in another Andy’s stuffed dog is silently giving input as well. The photographs
capture a time when Interview and Warhol were in unison.
Warhol surrounded himself with people who knew him well, sometimes better
than he knew himself and in 1988 after Warhol’s death, it was Ingrid Sischy who
assumed the role of Interview editor. “When I was first drafted as editor after Andy
Warhol’s death I thought I’d stay a few years, devote myself to helping the
magazine find its post-Warhol life, and then get back to my writing,” Sischy said
in a recent press release. This comes 18 years after Warhol’s death and after those
Above, Andy Warhol looking through Interview Magazine.
long years Sischy has resigned as editor after Sandra Brant, publisher of Interview
33 Union Square West, NY, Oct. 1974
since the beginning, decided to sell her interest in Brant Publications.
Nearly 40 years after it began, Interview magazine is still going. Under the new
leadership of another original, Glenn O’Brien, and creative mastermind Fabien
Baron, May will reveal the new Interview. As the American ideal continues to
transform leave it up to the immortal art of Andy Warhol to be the answer to
that previous question. / K.Hinton
Above, Yoshio Kano (middle), with
colleagues and Warhol’s stuffed dog.
Right, Warhol with Bob Colacello
editing Interview Magazine.
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