here are innumerable pictures of Andy Warhol, almost all of which convey various degrees of discomfort. In a portrait by Helmut Newton, the artist sits on an armchair, holding various tape recorders, swaddled in a giant black scarf that looks as if it might choke him to death. When Robert Mapplethorpe photographed Warhol near the end of his life, he was rendered a ghoulish deity; his silver wig and sickly skin blending into the halo that surrounded his face. Even in his self-portraits, he couldn’t get comfortable. He always looked startled, nervous, stilted; a little
