Nick Ripatrazone finds the latest series about the artist perfectly depicts the startling paradoxes that guided his life and work
The final episode of The Andy Warhol Diaries, a new six-part documentary series on Netflix about the pop artist’s life and work, examines how the HIV/Aids epidemic roiled New York City in the Eighties. Bronx painter Glenn Ligon, one of the many artists interviewed, says “Warhol was going to Mass every Sunday and stayed a good Catholic boy, even though his lifestyle would seemingly be the opposite. How do you reconcile those things?”
