Edie Sedgwick Ebook Speak on the Clark Artwork Museum

Arguably essentially the most iconic of the “superstars” of Andy Warhol’s milieu in Sixties New York, mannequin and actress Edie Sedgwick starred in a number of of the pop artwork large’s movies and has continued to affect style kinds, a long time after her 1971 passing. As It Turns Out, a newly printed memoir by her sister, Alice Sedgwick Wohl, would be the subject of a dialogue by its writer and music impresario Danny Fields on the Clark Artwork Institute on June 1, as a part of the middle’s “Ebook Speak” sequence.

Known as the “The Lady of the 12 months” by the style world in 1965 after she’d appeared in Chelsea Ladies, Vinyl, Outer and Interior Area, Magnificence No. 2, Area, and different underground Warhol movies, Edie Sedgwick led a dramatic however tragically quick life. Showing often in public with Warhol, she was one of the crucial acknowledged faces of the Sixties however struggled with habit and psychological sickness. Linked to Bob Dylan from when the 2 have been dwelling on the Chelsea Resort, she was for a time the romantic companion of Dylan’s shut pal and street supervisor Bob Neuwirth. Her final movie was 1971’s Ciao Manhattan.

Alice Sedgwick Wohl is a regional resident, making her house in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Danny Fields, a pal of Edie and Warhol, is a legendary determine of the early punk period, having managed the Ramones and signed the Stooges and the MC5 to Elektra Information when he labored as an A&R man on the label.

“Ebook Speak: As It Turns Out— Alice Sedgwick Wohl and Danny Fields in Dialog” will happen on the Clark Artwork Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, on June at 5:30pm. Admission is free.