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I'll follow your lead, Lon, revisiting at the end of this long dark night.
Warhol is long, long gone. Let him go, and release too all the teachers who supposedly kept us from enjoying classical art. They're dead, and of no further use to the anti-modernist cause. Going after Warhol is like refusing to visit Germany next year because that's where Nazis were a long time ago.
There's a breathtakingly inspiring outdoor sculptural museum not far away, here in Taiwan, which happens to feature an indoor gallery that includes Warhol's Mao-tse-Tung works (not unlike his Marilyn Monroe polytych). It's brilliant, and entertaining, and even funny. I so much enjoyed seeing it in person. When's the last time you toured an exhibition and walked out and said "That was fun!"?
I also saw, three weeks ago, a very accurate, representational depiction of Mao at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, where the government killed its own citizens for having beliefs and sensibilities other than those authorized by the central committee. It was a perfect likeness, but there was nothing brilliant or enjoyable about it.
I hope we have different sensibilities here about permissible expressions of the creative impulse.
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