Tehran disco

Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy...

Street Hassle

Music by Lou Reed, images from a number of Warhol’s films. Ellen Willis writes in 1979, a year after “Street Hassle” was released: Though Lou Reed rejected optimism, he was enough of his time to crave transcendence. And finally — as “Rock...