I had heard Andy Warhol’s name before. A few times. Thrown around in pop culture here and there. History, even. In movies, perhaps too. I am a big fan of The Dandy Warhols, I would think to myself at the mention of his name. God he must be famous. But the question why, for some reason or another, never jolted my fingers towards a bio book shelf in a library or a keyboard of a computer to the Google search tool bar, to actually find out why he is so famous.

The answer was delivered to me last night when I took a seat in the Jewish Museum in St Kilda and watched Noel Anderson’s new play reading and performance, Andy Warhol’s 15 Minutes of Fame.

Why is it at the Jewish museum? Was Andy Warhol Jewish? No, was the answer: Warhol had asked Ron Feldman for an idea of…