Warhol Foundation Funds Watts Towers House-Rehab Bid

The $125,000 grant “creates the unlikely, face-to-face juxtaposition of Andy Warhol … with Simon Rodia, the Italian immigrant artisan whose single-handed creation of the hundred-foot-high, ornately sculpted and decorated Watts Towers over more than 30 years established him as one of art history’s ultimate do-it-yourselfers.”