Andy Warhol gets another 15 minutes in documentary about his later years

When director Andrew Rossi reread the diaries of artist Andy Warhol, above, it registered far more deeply with him. ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’ for me is a love story.” So elemental a force in mass media that someone might reliably call him a hyperobject — like the internet, or a black hole — artist Andy Warhol has never been fully understood as a human being by a popular culture he in many ways created. That’s something filmmaker Andrew Rossi works extensively to change in his six-part Netflix documentary series “The Andy Warhol Diaries,” executive produced by Ryan Murphy, which draws on the pop artist’s most intimate source material, the diaries he dictated daily to his amanuensis Pat Hackett between 1976 and his 1987 death. No need to rehash Warhol’s epochal 1960s, the spinal column of such recent nonfiction faves as Todd Haynes’ “The Velvet Underground.” “But rather,” Rossi said, “understand how Andy resonates with our current moment through his personal life and through his later artwork, which has been rarely investigated.“ The filmmaker often is drawn to cultural mainstays, whether the New York Times in “Page One” or the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its annual fashion gala in “First Monday in May.” The series received four Emmy nominations, including three for Rossi for writing, directing and as executive producer of the nominated series. Although marked by Warhol’s signature wit, the episodes are imbued with “a golden-hued melancholy,” Rossi said, a quality clued by the theme music — Nat King Cole’s ballad “Nature Boy”— and inherent in the events of Warhol’s later years, when the artist’s very public celebrity often was caught in the shadow of the silvered disco ball.