- Is credited with coining the term "superstar."
- Avoided the subject of death, except in his paintings (the Disaster series). He did not attend the funerals of his superstars nor did he attend his mother's funeral when she died in November 1972. After she passed away he continued to give the impression that she was still alive to people who would ask about her. Warhol did not mention his mother's death to any of his close friends. As late as 1976, when friends asked about his mother, Andy said, 'Oh, she's great. But she doesn't get out of bed much."
- David Bowie borrowed one of Warhol's wigs from The Andy Warhol Museum to portray Warhol in Basquiat (1996). Bowie had written the song "Andy Warhol" in tribute to him, which featured on his 1971 album "Hunky Dory".
- An astute businessman in the art world, he left an estate worth $500 million when he died.
- Was a frequent guest at the infamous "Studio 54"
- 1984: He and Don Monroe directed music video "Hello Again" for The Cars. He also appeared in it, playing The Bartender.
- When guesting on The Love Boat (1977), he was nervous about the experience and turned to his castmate (and muse for the particular episode) Marion Ross, who calmed him down and offered some advice on how to act.
- Gore Vidal once described Andy Warhol as "The only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60".
- Whenever he was at a restaurant, he insisted that the waiter wraps up the entire plate like a takeaway order. He would then go to a nearby street corner and leave the food there for the homeless people to take.
- Produced The Velvet Underground's first album. He essentially lent his name to their work and observed them in the recording studio, while Lou Reed and later Tom Wilson (who had worked earlier with Bob Dylan) mostly called the shots. The cover of the band's first album (with Nico) was Warhol's design: a banana with a peel that was actually a peelable sticker.
- He was a devout Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic for his entire life, attending Mass, though not taking communion, almost daily and even, according to his priest, making a few converts.
- He was known for having a very big sweet tooth. He visited pastry shops daily, sometimes buying an entire birthday cake for himself. He often refused more substantive meals, one time explaining to Tom Wolfe, "Oh, I only eat candy.".
- Warhol's "A: A Novel," published in 1968, is based on 24 hours of tape recordings (24 one-hour tapes) of Ondine speaking. His tape-recorded musings were transcribed and typed up and serve as the basis of the novel, which was disingenuously presented as one day in the life of Ondine. The book is one of the premier artifacts of the Pop art movement/Pop culture. Warhol followed Ondine around New York City with a tape recorder, recording their conversations. Ondine was addicted to amphetamines and was prone to wild verbal flights that covered many subjects. To type up the tapes, Warhol hired teenage girls, some of whom were barely literate and made many errors. Warhol "edited" the resulting manuscript during a series of concerts given by The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed is one of the "characters" in the novel), sitting in the rear of the theater in the dark, reading proof sheets with a flashlight. Like James Joyce when confronted with transcription errors made by the French printers/compositors of the first edition of "Ulysses" (1922), Warhol loved the mistakes and decided to keep them in. He thought the mistakes improved the book as it made it worse, more of a Pop manifesto, and insisted that all the errata be left in the final draft, which he fancied as a Pop "Finnegans Wake." In his later book/memoir "Popism," Warhol explained, "I wanted to do a 'bad book' just the way I'd done 'bad movies' and 'bad art,' because when you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something." Warhol, the author, refused to filter out the "background noise" or "static," thus preventing the reader from following a coherent narrative thread. The book intentionally is boring, as are many of Warhol's films. Of his films Warhold said that talking about them was more interesting than actually viewing them, and this likely was his intent with "A: A Novel" -- to create an artifact that made people talk about it -- and think.
- He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Empire (1964). He has also appeared in one film that is in the registry: Tootsie (1982).
- His father, who traveled much on business trips, died when Warhol was 13.
- Son of immigrants from the town Miková, located in today's northeastern Slovakia. His original name was "Warhola".
- His older brother, Paul, owned a junkyard in Pittsburgh, located near the future site of The Andy Warhol Museum. Periodically his brother would bring him odd scraps of junk, which Warhol would use in his art.
- Pictured on a USA 37¢ commemorative postage stamp issued 9 August 2002.
- Godfather of Bijou Phillips.
- His nephew, James Warhola, wrote and illustrated a children's book titled "Uncle Andy's." It is about James Warhol's visits to his famous uncle in New York City.
- He was an obsessive fan of Truman Capote who, in the days before Warhol's career took off, described him as "one of those hopeless people you know nothing's ever going to happen to" and "a born loser".
- Interred at St. John the Baptist Catholic Cemetery, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Influenced the movement of 'The New Russian Classicism'. Visited St. Petersburg, Russia and presented his 'tomato cans' to Timur Novikov and Sergei Bugayev.
- On May 2022, his famous portrait of Marilyn Monroe entitled "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn", has sold for $195 million (£158 million; EUR184 million), becoming the most expensive painting from the 20th century sold at auction.
- Although he appeared in short film in which he was eating a Whopper from Burger King (which was later used in a Super Bowl commercial in 2019), he admitted that he much preferred McDonald's - but only for its design, not for the food.
- Alumnus of the College of Fine Arts (CFA) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU); School of Art, class of 1949.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 873-876. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Was good friends with Charles Lisanby.
- He was a close friend of art historian Evelyn Welch, who is the mother of Florence Welch (lead singer of Florence and the Machine).
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