Design and Architecture
Interview Magazine folds, Soviet Hippies
We bid farewell to Andy Warhol’s Interview, and talk to artist and celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston about working for the magazine, and the creation of the “glamour- industrial complex.”
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenA flag created by Sveta Barabash, aka Ofelia, and her band of Soviet hippies. In 1975, they participated in an exhibition of nonconformist artists. The original flag (this is a reproduction), with the slogans “World without Borders” and “Make Hair Everywhere,” caused a scandal and was confiscated by the KGB. Image courtesy of The Wende Museum of the Cold War.
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2 storiesPhotographer Matthew Rolston recalls Interview Magazine’s heyday
Andy Warhol co-founded Interview magazine in late 1969 as a “clever way to receive invitations to screenings and meet celebrities in society and entertainment,” writes art director Charles Churchward in the book “Hollywood Royale.”
Read the story18 minSex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll in Soviet Russia
In the 1960s, the hippie movement flourished in California, quickly spread throughout the country and then overseas - to the Soviet Union. Juliane Fürst is a historian at the University of Bristol in the UK, specializing in late Soviet culture.
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