Andy Warhol’s Mother by Elaine Rusinko

Andy Warhol’s Mother The Woman Behind the Artist by Elaine Rusinko University of Pittsburgh Press, 528 pp., hardcover $40; paperback $24 Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh in 1928, the man better known as Andy Warhol went on to become one of the most enduringly prominent American artists of his generation. Warhol’s legacy has been turned to repeatedly in recent biographies, docuseries and...
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Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

Radiant The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch HarperCollins, 512 pp., hardcover $40 Pennsylvania-born artist Keith Haring (1958–90) produced one of the most recognizable visual styles in 20th-century art. His distinctive drawings of barking dogs, grinning hearts and crawling babies were ubiquitous in the art world and graffiti culture of the 1970s and 1980s and today remain iconic...
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