February 25, 2022 | Arts / Entertainment

"The Andy Warhol Diaries" coming to Netflix

A new Netflix docu-series, The Andy Warhol Diaries, promises a rare glimpse of the artist through interviews with friends and fans. It will also rely on the artist's own words courtesy of his diaries.

Producer Ryan Murphy is behind the project, with Andrew Rossi directing. 

“This breathtakingly expansive, six-part portrait of a legend chronicles the remarkable life of Andy Warhol from the intimate vantage point offered by the artist’s own posthumously published diaries.

Beginning with his childhood in Pittsburgh, the series traces Warhol’s almost unbelievably diverse journey fluidly moving between mediums and through eras as an artist — both revered and reviled — director, publisher, TV producer, scene maker, celebrity, and much more."

Cutting edge technology is also being employed. Warhol's voice has been recreated using AI.

“The Diaries reveal Andy’s romantic longings and spiritual side as a living, breathing gay man,” Rossi explained. “I wanted to weave together Andy’s words and images to explore how that emotional life is reflected in the artworks he created during his last decade.”

He added: “My goal is for this collage of art and journalism to depict sides of Andy you’ve never seen or heard before. I try to bring iconic subjects down to earth and understand them on a human level.”

The show will be released on March 9.