{"id":8530,"date":"2017-07-23T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8530"},"modified":"2017-08-02T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:07:49","slug":"alice-coopers-electric-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/23\/alice-coopers-electric-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Cooper&#8217;s Electric Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/alice-cooper-just-remembered-that-warhol-electric-chair-he-got-40-years-ago-1028822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from artnet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Alice Cooper Just Realized He Got a Warhol Electric Chair 40 Years Ago and Totally Forgot About It<\/h1>\n<p>The discovery could be the first major market test of a new Warhol authentication service.<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/eileen-kinsella-22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eileen Kinsella<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Andy Warhol with Alice Cooper in 1974. Photo by Bob Gruen. Courtesy Bob Gruen.\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2017\/07\/Bob-Gruen-Photog-1974Andy-Warhol-Sgt-Pepper-Broadway-Musical-Premiere-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Warhol with Alice Cooper in 1974. Photo by Bob Gruen. Courtesy Bob Gruen.\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Andy Warhol with Alice Cooper in 1974. Photo by Bob Gruen. Courtesy Bob Gruen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How rock n\u2019 roll is Alice Cooper? He is so rock n\u2019 roll that he actually forgot about a canvas believed to be by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnet.com\/artists\/andy-warhol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Warhol<\/a> that he received as a gift in the 1970s and later put into storage.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, that painting will see the light of day again\u2014first in Cooper\u2019s home, and then potentially on the market\u2014thanks to advice from a Los Angeles collector and a\u00a0San Francisco private dealer.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the early 1970s, when Cooper was touring the world, he typically included an unusual theatrical element\u00a0in his macabre shock rock act: an actual electric chair. Aware of his fondness for the sinister stage prop, Cooper\u2019s then-girlfriend, Cindy Lang (a model <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alicecooperechive.com\/articles\/feature\/awin\/731200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who had appeared on the cover<\/a> of Andy Warhol\u2019s <em>Interview<\/em>\u00a0magazine), bought him an Andy Warhol red electric chair silkscreen in 1974. She paid $2,500 for it.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/alice-cooper-just-remembered-that-warhol-electric-chair-he-got-40-years-ago-1028822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet Alice Cooper Just Realized He Got a Warhol Electric Chair 40 Years Ago and Totally Forgot About It The discovery could be the first major market test of a new Warhol authentication service. by Eileen Kinsella Andy Warhol with Alice Cooper in 1974. Photo by Bob Gruen. Courtesy Bob Gruen. How rock n\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}