Candy Darling Interview at the Whitney Museum (1971)

An awkward interview with an unusually bashful Candy Darling at the Whitney Museum in 1971.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Candy
• Darling
• Andy
• Warhol
• Ultra
• Violet
• Factory
• 1970's
• Pop
• Art
• Holly
• Woodlawn
• Jackie
• Curtis

[coolguitar123]

That's some incredible surgery done especially for the time. You prob couldn't even tell she was born a man. Her voice sound like a woman too....I don't want to use the words Creepy or Strange cause that would be offensive but...interesting I guess? Idk. I really don't want to hate but it really makes me wonder about other girls I know.......

[Candyfan993]

@coolguitar123 Candy never actually had any cosmetic surgery, or a sex change operation, but she did take female hormones which probably gave her a slightly softer look.

[Shanniquitie]

Candy was a woman because she said so. That is all, and that is truth.

WE CREATE OURSELVES.

[taty4ever]

She is beautiful!!!! Such a tragedy she died so young.. Was she a drag queen??? or did she have a sex change???? Regardless of that.... Candy Darling looks like a women and is beautiful

[20somethingstories]

@sushimoustache Warhol had a thing for humiliating people, especially friends and artistic subjects, the former and the latter generally being one in the same. He always seemed so detached and innocuous but I gather he was rather vicious in that respect. I don't suppose any of the Warhol crowd was particularly cultured, including Warhol himself. It was a rag tag operation he ran. I personally think his navigation of and commentary on celebrity culture remains his most enduring artistic exploit.

[bekindtoanimals100]

GROSS! A woman with a dick? EWWW

[BernardProfitendieu]

@sushimoustache no, the art really was his, he was a commercial artist before he became a fine artist, so his whole career. The movies he definitely just lent his name (and maybe funding? dunno) to to better promote. They were principally directed by Paul Morrissey who went along with it.

[sushimoustache]

@BernardProfitendieu

It almost seems that at the beginning of the video that Warhol has kind of set Candy up to look foolish by having the interviewer ask her questions, and pointing out that she's never been to a museum outside of her school days.

There's a break in the video where the light changes and we can't tell how much was cut out, but just maybe at the end she was actually being crafty and trying to embarass Warhol.

[sushimoustache]

@BernardProfitendieu "she let the cat out of the bag on andy not directing those movies" - yes. I think everyone is so caught up in how she was so pretty and such is why your observation hasn't been remarked upon until now.

Do you suppose Warhol just had a bunch of art students doing stuff and he just put his name on it so it would sell and make money? Was Warhol as an artist himself as much of a Warhol production as the Velvet Underground?

[robjacksontop]

She's my favorite actor.

[vegetalian]

my gosh. seeexy! aouuuuu!

[MsIfuckinghateyou]

god damn she is fuckin sexy. i am a straight male. i say she is a woman and fine as fuck. but it doesnt matter if i say so or not. she was. and is. its how we live when no one is watching that defines us.