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Glenn O’Brien (1947–2017), Gone to the TV Party in Heaven

On April 7, 2017, Andy Warhol fans received the very sad, shocking news that yet another member of the rarefied circle had passed away. Most of Glenn O’Brien’s professional career…

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A black and white photograph of three men gathered in a room. The man on the left is in profile, a cowboy hat on his head. The man in the middle holds a portrait of a woman in his right hand and places the other on his him. The third man is seated, positioned halfway off the right hand edge of the image.

Exposures: Adam Milner: Remains

Remains is an installation by Adam Milner, presented as part of The Andy Warhol Museum Exposures series. Honoring Andy Warhol’s early emergence in New York, the series features artists in…

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A blue gloved left hand hold a variety of small objects, including a small bone, fake eyelashes, and a tooth.

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A Foray into Facebook Live

When Ai Weiwei visited Pittsburgh in June for the opening of Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei, he sat down in our six floor gallery and gave a 42-minute Facebook live…

Horizontal bar chart showing reactions, comments, and shares for each Facebook Live video.

Fare thee well, Billy Name (1940–2016); We miss You.

Billy Name’s 47th birthday was remarkably sad, as it was on that very same day (Feb 22, 1987) that his old friend and mentor Andy Warhol passed away. In the…

Instagram Takeover: @52museums

We’re halfway through our @52museums takeover on Instagram, joining museums around the world in managing the account one week at a time. Created by Mar Dixon, and inspired by Chris…

Composite image of four photographs: walking man sculpture in white gallery space (top left); white funnel sculpture against night sky (top right); museum facade (bottom left); complete dinosaur skeleton (bottom right).

Hanging Fruit

Zhiwan Cheung’s installation Exposures: Hanging Fruit is on view in The Warhol Store’s street-facing windows through August 14, 2016. Join Cheung and The Warhol’s Associate Curator of Art Jessica Beck in an artist talk…

A man painted the color orange walking through a grove of green banana trees.

Digital Chaos be DAM-ed

The Warhol’s new mobile app, Unboxed, gives visitors a new way to interact with the collection and take home both a digital and physical souvenir of their experience at the…

Eleven Mao portraits in different colors hanging on a wall wallpapered with purple Mao portraits.

Andy Warhol, Clark candy, and the Pittsburgh flood

My father John Warhola was Andy Warhol’s older brother. He had so many wonderful stories of what it was like growing up as one of the “Warhola” boys. He would talk…

Photograph of Andy Warhol as a young boy about eight years old.

In Memoriam: Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923–December 27, 2015), recalling a brief memory of Andy Warhol, which he shared with me

The recent passing of this great American artist calls to my mind a wonderful memory of him, and the fragment of a memory, which he generously shared with me. For…

Andy Warhol & Selfies

Presidential candidates, dignitaries, tourists, and Kim Kardashian all do it—we all take “selfies.” The self-taken photograph composed by turning the camera lens on oneself has become an indelible (and sometimes…

In this black and white photograph, Andy Warhol appears from the shoulders up on the left side of the image. He wears a hooded jacket and dark sunglasses.