Quotable Talk | Laurence Leamer

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Sarasota Art Museum presents an inspiring lineup of great writers with great stories through this annual author series. Hear directly from authors, artists, and contemporary creatives who are sparking new ways of thinking about art, culture, and creative practices. For those who appreciate remarkable creativity, a pioneering spirit, or are in search of inspiration, we invite you to join us and become quotable.

Laurence Leamer is a six-time New York Times bestseller author. He has used his career to explore all kinds of lives, from world leaders to coal miners, from movie stars to great artists. His book Capote’s Women was made into the eight-part series Capote vs. the Swans starring Diane Lane and Naomi Watts. His newest book, Warhol’s Muses, has been enthusiastically reviewed. “Leamer shows compassion when recounting the lives of these creative women,” the Washington Post wrote. “In accentuating the humanity of these women who were made — and unmade — by the Factory, Leamer reveals Warhol as a master manipulator who used so many to build his “most enduring creation: himself.” Leamer and his wife Vesna live in Palm Beach, Florida and Washington, D.C.

Following the talk, Leamer will sign copies of his book Warhol's Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine, available for purchase in the Museum’s SHOP.

About the Book

In Warhol’s Muses, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer shines a spotlight on the complex women who inspired and starred in Warhol’s underground films. Drawn by the siren call of Manhattan life in the sixties, they each left their protected enclaves and ventured to a new world, Warhol’s famed Factory, having no sense that they would never be able to return to their old homes and familiar ways again. Sex was casual, drugs were ubiquitous, parties were wild, and to Warhol, everyone was transient, temporary and replaceable. Warhol’s Muses is an intimate look into Warhol’s inner world.

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