This sensual still is taken from one of Andy Warhol’s earliest films, Kiss, made at his legendary studio The Factory in New York City, in 1963. The movie runs for fifty minutes and spotlights different couples kissing for three and a half minutes each. He would follow Kiss with Sleep and Blow Job, rendering what MoMA curator Rajendra Roy aptly terms these “incredibly intimate acts”, “incredibly mundane because of the way he shoots them”. He continues, “to capture both of those things in the same moment, I think is remarkable.” The work is part of the Kunst Museum Basel’s vast online collection, which you can peruse at your leisure by century or artist’s name.
