Brigid Berlin

Brigid Berlin was an American artist and Warhol superstar who was born in Manhattan in 1939 and died in 2020. After she met Andy Warhol in 1964, she joined his entourage and adopted the nickname Brigid Polk. She appeared in several Warhol films, including Chelsea Girls (1966) and Ciao! Manhattan (1973), and was known for obsessively taping and photographing everyday life. Selections from her tapes were compiled into the play Andy Warhol's Pork, and other tapes became the basis for Live at Max's Kansas City, the Velvet Underground's first live album. In 1969 she participated in Warhol's prank that claimed all his paintings were hers. From 1975 she worked for Warhol's Interview magazine until well after his death. Later she had minor parts in John Waters's Serial Mom (1994) and Pecker (1998). A documentary, Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000), told her life story. She also created Tit Prints, exhibited in 1996.