Bernsteins Tag

In 1972, Andy Warhol asked artist Richard Bernstein to hitch his magazine, Interview. Founded just two years prior, the DIY publication was still in its infancy, passed around art world parties but not yet the culture-setting document it might come to be. Bernstein’s now iconic covers elevated Interview right into a latest stratosphere, combining collage, photography and paint to create fantastical portraits that magnified celebrities’ beauty into larger-than-life glamour. “He puts wit into the beauties, fantasy into the wealthy, depth into the glamorous and adds quick patina to newcomers,” Paloma Picasso said of Bernstein’s work. It’s these defining moments of pop art that make-up artist Andrew Gallimore and photographer Mateusz Sitek desired to have a good time and pay tribute to...