Richard Bernstein’s mixed-media covers for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine embodied a bold technicality, capturing the celebrity culture zeitgeist of 1970s and 1980s New York.
His portraits of stars, including Cher, Stevie Wonder, Fran Lebowitz, Mick Jagger and Grace Jones, are now the subject of an exhibition at NeueHouse Madison Square. It is a celebration of both the New York art scene and Bernstein’s process, who turned each cover around in two weeks, translating the analog photography into a mixed-media style that utilised pencil, collage, gouache and airbrush.
