{"id":7635,"date":"2016-07-23T00:06:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T07:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2016-07-22T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T05:12:03","slug":"billy-name-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/23\/billy-name-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Name Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol\u2019s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0RANDY KENNEDY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Stephen Shore<\/em><\/p>\n

Andy Warhol<\/a>\u2019s New York loft on East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan, called the\u00a0Silver Factory<\/a>\u00a0because every surface was embellished with aluminum foil and silver paint, was to the social life of postwar art what Gertrude Stein\u2019s Rue de Fleurus apartment in Paris or the Royal Academy of Art\u2019s drawing rooms in London were to previous eras.<\/p>\n

But the Silver Factory wouldn\u2019t have been the hallowed salon it was had Warhol, in 1959, not run into a handsome, brooding waiter named William Linich Jr., a refugee from the middle-class straits of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., who had moved to the city and plunged into its ferment as the Beat years gave way to the counterculture.<\/p>\n

When Warhol later went to get a haircut at Mr. Linich\u2019s apartment, he was so wowed by its obsessive reflective d\u00e9cor (\u201cI even painted the silverware silver,\u201d Mr. Linich once recalled) that he invited Mr. Linich uptown to decorate the loft the same way \u2014 an act that came to symbolize an entire Pop worldview that Warhol would invent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy he loved silver so much I don\u2019t know,\u201d Warhol wrote of the man who later rechristened himself Billy Name. \u201cBut it was great. It was the perfect time to think silver.\u201d It was the future, he said, the space age, and also the past, the silver screen and old Hollywood. \u201cMaybe more than anything,\u201d he added, \u201csilver was narcissism \u2014 mirrors were backed with silver.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billy Name, who became Warhol\u2019s lover, muse and court photographer, leaving behind a monumental visual record of the 1960s art world in and around the Silver Factory, died in Poughkeepsie on Monday at 76. His agent and executor,\u00a0Dagon James<\/a>, said the cause was heart failure.<\/p>\n

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