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Ari Messer bio ↓ · February 6th, 2009 · filed under art

The de Young Museum in San Francisco is holding Andy Warhol tryouts for Warhol Live. Do you have to do everything he did? Do you gots to “interview” Steven Spielberg on a bed? Must you have annoyingly advertised exhibitions in London? I hope that anyone who catches the live performance of 13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests will be as thrilled and exorcised as I was by Britta’s rendition of Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep it with Mine,” set against Nico’s screen test (Dylan wrote the song for Nico). A thousand times better than Marriane Faithful’s version (video)!

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Ari Messer is currently working on "Pray Tell: A Séance for Warren Zevon," which will take place on 3/13/10. His convoluted criticism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Paste, and other places. He is also working on a book about Christopher Smart. More from this author →

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