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Courtney Marie Andrews

November 14, 2017 By Ben Harrison

At just sixteen years old, Courtney Marie Andrews left home in Arizona for her first tour. She traveled up and down the West Coast, busking and playing any bars or…

Woman smiling and happy wearing a country western shirt.
Museum Stories

The Magnetic Fields

November 11, 2017 By Ben Harrison

The Magnetic Fields perform “Andrew in Drag” and “This Little Ukulele” at The Warhol in a gallery reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory studio. Credits Curator of Performance Arts and…

Screen grab from live performance, in black and silver. A man sings into a microphone, and plays a guitar.
Museum Stories

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

April 11, 2017 By Matt Wrbican

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…

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.
Education Stories

Pop-Up Digital Lab: Learning From and About Teachers

January 9, 2017 By Desi Gonzalez, Melissa Pallotti

Each fall, educators from the greater Pittsburgh area convene at The Warhol for its Teacher Open House. Think of the three-hour event as an all-access pass to the museum: teachers can…

A man wearing a white sweatshirt with vertical streaks of bright colors leans over a table in the Andy Warhol Museum's art studio during Teacher Open House 2016. An artist educator, who is a man in a faded blue shirt with a thick gold beard and his hair pulled back into a short ponytail, helps the man make a turquoise screen print on a yellow sweatshirt.
Education Stories

Art as an Equalizer

December 15, 2016 By Julie Hannon

This story originally appeared in the fall 2016 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Story by Julie Hannon and photography by Renee Rosensteel. A new…

The boy in the center of the image tosses a large cube with a picture of a smiling young women on the viable side of the cube. His mother, to his left, looks on smiling.
Museum Stories

Exposures: Adam Milner: Remains

November 2, 2016 By Adam Milner

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…

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

Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 5: Reflections on a user-centered design process

October 25, 2016 By Desi Gonzalez

This is the fifth post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide. Since the beginning of this year, we’ve been developing Out Loud, The…

A low vision Warhol Museum visitor uses the Out Loud audio guide.
Exhibition Stories

My Perfect, Imperfect Body

October 4, 2016 By Cristina Rouvalis

This article by Cristina Rouvalis originally appeared in the fall 2016 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol loved the beauty in others but couldn’t…

Black and white silkscreen with the text in white bubble letter outlined in black Be a somebody with a body in the upper left of the canvas. In the lower right is painted a muscular man from the waist up, arms folder across his chest. He is also white outlined in black.
Museum Stories

A Foray into Facebook Live

September 12, 2016 By Jessica Warchall

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.