UNCUT
“I’ll be your mirror/Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know”
On the cover: The Velvet Underground courtesy of Velvet Underground Collection, #8105. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
IT seems several lifetimes ago now, but last March, shortly before the first lockdown began, I was lucky enough to see the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern. Inside Room 6, the curators gamely attempted to replicate the sensory rush of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable: Warhol films andstill images were projected on top of one another, with coloured gels and strobe lights swirling and flickering, and the music of The Velvet Underground playing at full volume.