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From the Director

Spring 2013 Director's Statement 

We’re anxiously awaiting spring here at The Andy Warhol Museum!

First things first, make sure to visit the museum before April 28^th to experience Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Sixty Years.  The exhibition juxtaposes Warhol's paintings, sculpture, and films with those by contemporary artists who in key ways reinterpret, respond or react to his groundbreaking work. Installed on five floors throughout the museum, you won’t want to miss the contemporary art powerhouses on view.

If you haven’t attended an Off the Wall performance, there’s still time!  Performers Nora Chipaumire and Sandra Bernhard are scheduled for April.  Neither are to be missed!  Click here for more information on Off the Wall 2013.

This Spring, our Sound Series is blooming with performances hand-picked for you!  Deerhoof and Colin Stetson perform as part of The Warhol’s Sound Series.  The series includes a broad range of artists and bands that are increasingly blurring genre lines and sensibilities in the realms of emerging indie folk/rock, performance art-tinged cabaret, avant jazz, new/chamber music and global music.

Looking ahead to summer?  Don’t miss our first-ever collaboration with Stage AE to bring performers Belle & Sebastian to Pittsburgh.  It’s going to be epic!

Also, look out for Youth Invasion 2013 on May 3^rd.  This multi-faceted project features area teenagers’ unique take on Andy Warhol, with their points of view, ideas, and creative expressions energizing the entire museum – its programming, interpretation, and display.  Highlights of the program are a fashion show, performances by multiple local teen groups, youth-designed and facilitated activities, and a dance party.

Finailly, we’re looking very forward to installing our summer exhibitions, including Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: S/HE IS HER/E, Caldwell Linker: All Through the Night, and Nick Bubash: The Patron Saint of White Guys That Went Tribal and Other Works opening June 15th.  In true Warhol fashion, these exhibitions will challenge and perhaps shock, but their messages about love, gender equality and alternative ways of life are both timely and critical to understanding life in contemporary society today.  So come on over and open your mind – that is why we do what we do.

Hope to see you at the museum soon – and think spring!

Eric Shiner
Director
The Andy Warhol Museum 

The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of The Andy Warhol Museum is comprised of esteemed professionals in the local, regional and national community who lend their expertise to the continued growth and success of The Andy Warhol Museum. The Board’s function is to advise the director, to raise funds to support major Museum initiatives and exhibitions, and to recruit new board members from around the country to support the Museum’s mission.

Michele Fabrizi, Chair of the Board of Directors at The Andy Warhol Museum