'The Andy Warhol Diaries' docuseries gives the artist another 395 minutes of fame
CNN
Andy Warhol was such a distinctive figure -- cutting across the worlds of art, media and pop culture -- that a docuseries about his life could hardly be boring, and "The Andy Warhol Diaries" isn't. But this six-part Netflix production does unfold at a languid, almost-hypnotic pace, while employing AI technology to create Warhol's voice reading his words from the great beyond, which is as oddly creepy as that sounds.
Warhol would probably embrace the idea of extending his way-more-than-15 minutes of fame, and the project -- directed by Andrew Rossi, and produced by the prolific Ryan Murphy -- certainly does that. In fact, while the "Everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" quote might have been misattributed to the artist, with most episodes running more than an hour, "Diaries" adds 395 minutes to Warhol's tally, for whatever that's worth.
Rossi uses the posthumously published diaries as the program's narrative spine, while darting about in a manner that represents the chaotic times during which Warhol lived, the lives he touched, and the various contradictions associated with him.
