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25 Cats Named Sam And One Blue Pussy, 1954, Andy Warhol ”Warhol kittens - it was a menagerie. They roamed through the paper jungle, clawing and pissing on Andy’s materials and periodically storming through the unruly heaps of art work in fits of feline mania. The television was on continually, as often as not accompanied by Broadway show tunes on the record player. One friend noted that walking through the apartment without knocking anything over or tripping up was like walking on a tightrope. Others described the place as a ‘bat cave’ and a set from On The Waterfront. The cats appeared to be like surrogate children. To most people they became part of his legend: Andy was living in a mad studio with his mother and twenty-one cats. The smell, they said, was something else. The apartment was situated over a night club, Shirley’s Pin-Up Bar on the ground floor, and the booming beat of ‘Your So Adorable’ floated up through the front windows mixing with the thunder of the Lexington Avenue subway.” - from Warhol, Victor Bockris

25 Cats Named Sam And One Blue Pussy, 1954, Andy Warhol

”Warhol kittens - it was a menagerie. They roamed through the paper jungle, clawing and pissing on Andy’s materials and periodically storming through the unruly heaps of art work in fits of feline mania. The television was on continually, as often as not accompanied by Broadway show tunes on the record player. One friend noted that walking through the apartment without knocking anything over or tripping up was like walking on a tightrope. Others described the place as a ‘bat cave’ and a set from On The Waterfront. The cats appeared to be like surrogate children. To most people they became part of his legend: Andy was living in a mad studio with his mother and twenty-one cats. The smell, they said, was something else. The apartment was situated over a night club, Shirley’s Pin-Up Bar on the ground floor, and the booming beat of ‘Your So Adorable’ floated up through the front windows mixing with the thunder of the Lexington Avenue subway.”

- from Warhol, Victor Bockris

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