New York City - Andy Warhol, Donald Rubin, Museums, and Cityscapes
Artwork and text by Maura Moynihan
When I moved to New York City in the early 1980s, I met Andy Warhol, who became my beloved friend and mentor. He made me an Interview Covergirl, and for years I worked with him at Interview Magazine and Andy Warhol’s TV. Andy was brilliant, witty, generous, and fiercely disciplined; he painted every day in his Union Square Studio, I often watched him working with Basquiat on their collaborative murals, and admired how he encouraged young painters, musicians, dancers, actors, he went to their exhibitions and performances and put them in Interview Magazine. He encouraged me to pursue the arts, and thanks to Andy, I composed several albums of music, filmed music videos and painted, in all the cities I lived in after I left New York: Bangkok, Delhi, and Kathmandu.
Andy’s Covergirl 1981 – a typical night with Andy started with an art exhibition, cocktails in a 5th Avenue penthouse with patrons of his portraits, followed by a Broadway show, the opera or ballet, dinner at Odeon or Mortimers, after hours with English rockers in a dive on Avenue A. He chronicled every evening with tapes and photographs, always picked up the tab and was the singularly original, hilarious, magnanimous life of the party.