Museum Stories

The View from The Hamster Cage

March 18, 2011 By Matt Wrbican

Excuse my mess As this is my first entry, an explanation of the title would seem to be in order, except to anyone who has seen my office. Things have…

Education Stories

Teachers At Play

March 17, 2011 By Dave English

I started working at The Andy Warhol Museum as the Studio Programs Coordinator in the Education Department on January 25th 2011. It seems like my training lasted about… Let’s say…

Exhibition Stories

Andrew Loomis

March 7, 2011 By Alissa Osial

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. – Andy Warhol In the Fall we have an exciting show opening, Heroes and Villains: The Comic Book Art…

Exhibition Stories

Warhol’s Fairies

February 10, 2011 By Alissa Osial

Hi everyone! My name is Alissa and I am the Exhibition Assistant here at the Warhol. I am hoping with the help of the blog I can show you what we…

Andy Warhol, In the Bottom of My Garden, ca. 1956, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Artwork Stories

TC338: How We Categorize TC Contents

January 24, 2011 By Marie Elia

In the second part of this video blog, I show you how we break down the vast amounts of material we find in a Time Capsule into categories for further…

Artwork Stories

TC339: Video of a Time Capsule Opening

January 20, 2011 By Erin Byrne

Step inside the Archives with us as we open up TC 339 and make some interesting discoveries! We’ll follow this up with a second video discussing how we organize items…

Artwork Stories

TC318: Altoids Tins

January 3, 2011 By Erin Byrne

Each item removed from the Time Capsules tells two stories. What the object was originally designed for (the creator’s intention) and what the object came to be, through the eyes of Andy…

Exhibition Stories

A busy season at the Warhol – Marilyn, Sweden, and Alaska

November 2, 2010 By Jesse Kowalski

It has been a busy few months at the Warhol as we have sent major exhibitions to Indianapolis, Indiana and Anchorage, Alaska and opened our major fall exhibition Marilyn Monroe: Life…

Artwork Stories

TC316: Photocopy of John Cale’s Passport

September 3, 2010 By Josh Jeffery

TC315 contains this photocopy of John Cale’s passport. Andy Warhol used it—along with copies of Cale’s identification card—to design the cover of Cale’s album Honi Soit. Warhol’s original design for the…