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Night of 1,000 Andys

September 16, 2015 By Karen Lautanen

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” — Andy Warhol Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,…

Exhibition Stories

Travis K. Schwab: Lost & Found

September 16, 2015 By Travis K. Schwab

My first known encounter with Andy Warhol’s work was a spot on television when I was a little kid. It promoted different attractions in Pittsburgh, and it featured The Andy…

View of the face of a tan colored building with three large display windows. Art images can be seen on display through the windows.
Exhibition Stories

GLYCERINE and ROSE WATER

August 25, 2015 By Stefan Hoffmann

Some of the passersby were stopping and staring at the museum windows with the huge Ziploc bags. They probably were reading the words printed below over and over again. Puzzled.…

Interior view of an installation showing screen printed cows on two walls and a floral motif painted at the periphery of a glass wall looking onto a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.
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Richard Maxwell’s “The Evening”

August 20, 2015 By Ben Harrison

On October 23, for one night only, we proudly present “The Evening” by playwright and director Richard Maxwell and his company The New York City Players, in partnership with the…

Education Stories

Q&A: Pittsburgh’s Youth Pride Prom 2015

August 5, 2015 By Adrian Gordon

  Swedish Fish or Peppermints? Oversize chocolate bars or paper mache gumdrops? Is a hand writing analyst relevant to the theme? Would visitors recognize a cardboard cutout of Ms. Gulch?…

Artwork Stories

The Art of Dance

July 31, 2015 By Sarah Gahr

Walking through the seventh floor galleries, I rarely passed by Andy Warhol’s Dance Diagram [2] (Fox Trot: “The Double Twinkle-Man), 1962[1] without seeing someone attempting to Fox Trot. It is…

Warhol's 1962 print Dance Diagram 2 Fox Trot: “The Double Twinkle—Man.
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The Warhol staff visits Kennywood

July 21, 2015 By Jessica Warchall

Founded in 1898 as a small trolley park near Pittsburgh, Kennywood is one of America’s oldest amusement parks, and The Warhol staff was lucky enough to have its retreat there this summer.…

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TREASURE/TRASH

July 13, 2015 By Elizabeth A. Rudnick

The first thing to strike me was the surface. I was in painting storage at The Andy Warhol Museum, standing over Andy Warhol’s 1985 print Truck.I’d always admired Warhol conceptually,…

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Interview with visiting artist Stefan Hoffmann

June 19, 2015 By Stephanie Garrison

Education Coordinator Stephanie Garrison sat down with German/Dutch visiting artist Stefan Hoffmann to talk about his site-specific work Glycerine and Rose Water, which he is installing in The Warhol entrance…