The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls, an in depth look at Warhol's most famous film The Chelsea Girls including numerous stills from the newly digitized film, never-before-published transcripts, unpublished archival materials, and expanded information about each of the individual films that comprise Warhol's most well-known film. The hardcover, 328 page, 9 in. x 12 in. illustrated book, published by Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., retails for $65.00 and will be released in April 2018.
Andy Warhol’s seminal 1966 film The Chelsea Girls is an iconic document of the Factory scene and 1960s New York. Filmed in part at the Chelsea Hotel with Factory Superstars like Nico, Ondine, Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga and Mary Woronov, The Chelsea Girls was Warhol’s first commercially successful film, as well as the first underground movie by any director to screen in first-run theaters, playing nationally and around the world for more than two years. Featuring Warhol Superstars performing “everyday” activities like chatting with friends, lounging in bed, cutting their hair, and shooting amphetamines, the film mesmerized viewers with its characters’ dark, inherent glamour. Quite simply, there had never been anything like it before. “In one film alone,” an early reviewer noted, “[Warhol] has sadism, masochism, whipping, transvestites, homos, prostitutes, a homosexual ‘Pope,’ boredom, stunningly beautiful girls, depravity, humor, ‘psychedelics,’ truth, honesty, liars, poseurs....”
