Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable borrowed its name from a competitor

Evidence

Another parallel development was the soirees singer-songwriter commercial folkie Bobb Goldsteinn held in his duplex loft at the end of Christopher Street in late 1965. During the summer of 1966, Goldsteinn regularly staged these immersive audiovisual environments at L’Oursin, a Hamptons nightclub. According to Goldsteinn, Warhol, attended several “Lightworks” events and initially used the same term for The Exploding Plastic Inevitable, thus prompting Goldsteinn to send him a cease-and-desist letter. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1938

Categorization

• SEED: A small case of provenance-dispute in the immersive-environment genre — Warhol, king of the avant-garde, threatened with cease-and-desist over a name. Could anchor a piece on how ‘original’ scenes cannibalize near-contemporaries.
• SHARE: A niche Pop-art provenance trivia worth sending to anyone into Warhol/EPI history.