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Digital Chaos be DAM-ed

April 1, 2016 By Kristin Britanik

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.
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Andy Warhol, Clark candy, and the Pittsburgh flood

March 31, 2016 By Donald Warhola

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.
Education Stories

Face Time: Adil Mansoor

March 11, 2016 By Betsy Momich

Image: Adil Mansoor, photo by Joshua Franzos This text by Betsy Momich originally appeared in the spring 2016 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. By his estimate,…

Adil Mansoor
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Private Spaces / Public Personas

February 17, 2016 By Jamie Earnest

Domestic spaces often tell intimate stories of their inhabitants. Andy Warhol’s Factory has been widely photographed, but few have seen images of his residence, a five-story town house, at 1342…

Artwork Stories

Unboxed: A new app at The Warhol

February 3, 2016 By Desi Gonzalez

Andy Warhol was an obsessive collector. Starting in 1974, he assembled 610 Time Capsules, putting together all sorts of things (from fanzines to food) into cardboard boxes and sending them…

A close up view of a person's hand holding a cell phone against a pink and yellow screenprint of a cow's head.
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Andy Warhol Talks about Donald Trump throughout the Mid-1980s

January 21, 2016 By Grace Marston

Does the Internet need another blog post about Donald Trump? Probably not. But Andy Warhol always followed the headlines and depicted the trending topics of the time in his artwork.…

The cover of the book The Andy Warhol Diaries.
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A Modest Memoir of a Cultural Giant, David Bowie

January 14, 2016 By Matt Wrbican

David Bowie was a huge fan of Andy Warhol. About 20 years different in age, both men often transformed their physical appearance (Bowie more radically so than Warhol) and were…

A vinyl record sits against a gray background. On the paper in its center is David Bowie's signature in blue ink.
Museum Stories

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

January 11, 2016 By Matt Wrbican

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…

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Andy Warhol & Selfies

December 30, 2015 By Maeve McAllister

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.