Rediscovered Andy Warhol interview explores pop art and queerness

A new paper in the Oxford Art Journal examines the significance of a newly discovered recoding of Andy Warhol’s famous 1963 interview with Gene Swenson, published in ARTnews under the heading “What is Pop Art?” The printed interview omitted a large part of the recording, which actually starts with the question “What do you say about homosexuals?” Warhol’s early and explicit on-the-record statements about Pop’s relationship to homosexuality were suppressed from publication.