“Art Is What You Can Get Away With”: Intervening Warhol with Miguel Gutierrez | Art21 Blog

“Art Is What You Can Get Away With”: Intervening Warhol with Miguel Gutierrez | Art21 Blog:

MG: I made a song called “Like Money on The Wall” out of his quotation. [sings] Say you’re going to buy a two hundred thousand dollar painting / I think you should take that money / tie it up and hang it on the wall / then when someone visited you / the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.

That’s genius. This idea that instead of getting a two-hundred thousand dollar painting, just tie that money up on the wall because that’s basically what you’re trying to show people. I do think it’s really satisfying to hear that named. Though it’s funny because I was singing the song next to an actual Warhol on the museum’s wall.

Even as he was playing into this intense bourgeois notion of artist and patron and commission, he was completely aware of its implications, and how it can belie the process of making work, exposure, need, and voice.

MP: And motivation.

MG: Yes, and who has access and who doesn’t.