{"id":1753,"date":"2026-07-30T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:42:06","slug":"%c2%a7-9-8-quince-minutos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/2026\/07\/30\/%c2%a7-9-8-quince-minutos\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a7\u00a09.8. 15 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1968, in the catalog for an exhibition of his work at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Andy Warhol\u2014\u00fcber-dandy of the sixties\u2014consigned one of his most famous phrases: \u201cin the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.\u201d Nat Finkelstein, a photographer who had taken some portraits of Warhol a couple of years earlier, was quick to declare that it was he who had originated the expression as he was taking a series of photographs of the artist on a New York street and a group of children and a butcher wanted to get into the frame. \u201cEverybody wants to be famous,\u201d Warhol said at the interruption, to which Finkelstein replied, \u201cyeah, for about fifteen minutes, Andy.\u201d Whether Finkelstein\u2019s commentary actually originated the expression we will never know and truth be told it doesn\u2019t matter as this would seem to be a case of \u201cgood artists copy, great artists steal,\u201d an expression that, paradoxically and consistently enough, has been attributed to Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner and even Steve Jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, by the time Warhol consigned these words in his exhibition catalog, American culture was already more than obsessed with celebrity, \u201cbut it wasn\u2019t until Warhol that that there was a definitive of what most Americans really wanted: not only a chance to know<\/em> everything about celebrities but also the opportunity to become<\/em> celebrities themselves.\u201d1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years Warhol\u2019s quote has taken on increasingly darker overtones. In 1989, David Bowie and his band Tin Machine revived the original escenario of Finkelstein\u2019s portrait of Warhol in their song I Cant\u2019t Read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When you see a famous smile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter where you run your mile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be right in that photograph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy, where\u2019s my fifteen minutes?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Exactly a decade later, Marilyn Manson would probe the reaches of fame in I Don\u2019t Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me), a song that can be seen as a tribute to 1970s era Bowie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019re rehabbed and we\u2019re ready<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our 15 minutes of shame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norm life, baby<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re talkshown and we\u2019re pointing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just like Christians at a suicide<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

By the first decade of the this century, Banksy showed a work in Los Angeles that featured another d\u00e9tournement<\/em> of Warhol\u2019s quote. It was a TV set painted pink with the phrase: \u201cIn the future, everyone will be anonymous for fifteen minutes,\u201d making it clear that in the future\u2014ours and Banksy\u2019s present, really\u2014we will only be able to lead anonymous and private lives for the fifteen minutes that fame was once allotted. Privacy is so strange these days as to qualify as a superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-49006256<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Guin, Jeff and Perry, Douglas. The Sixteenth Minute: Life in the Aftermath of Fame<\/em>. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005.\u00a0 \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

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    En 1968, en el cat\u00e1logo para una exposici\u00f3n de su trabajo en el Moderna Museet de Estocolmo, Andy Warhol \u2014\u00fcber-dandy de los sesenta\u2014, consign\u00f3 una de sus frases m\u00e1s celebres: \u201cen el futuro todo el mundo ser\u00e1 famoso por quince minutos.\u201d Nat Finkelstein, un fot\u00f3grafo que hab\u00eda hecho unos retratos de Warhol un par de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274836558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Guin, Jeff and Perry, Douglas. The Sixteenth Minute: Life in the Aftermath of Fame<\/em>. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2005.\u00a0\",\"id\":\"758a8377-f5af-4b19-b7cd-ac51979ba717\"}]","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[786109670],"tags":[786109281,786109198,786109674,786109227,786109675],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitulo-9","tag-andy-warhol","tag-david-bowie","tag-fifteen-minutes","tag-marilyn-manson","tag-quince-minutos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYHfz-sh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274836558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locusterribilis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}