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Pop-Up Digital Lab: Learning From and About Teachers

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…

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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.

Art as an Equalizer

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…

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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.

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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…

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

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

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.

My Perfect, Imperfect Body

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.

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.

Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 4: Content Development: Telling the Warhol Story

This is the fourth post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide. If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at…

Screen shot from Out Loud, The Warhol’s audio guide, showing the play screen of a story about Warhol's childhood.

Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 3: Talking Tech with Ruben Niculcea

This is the third post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide.  To develop our inclusive audio guide, we’ve partnered with the fantastic Carnegie Museum of…

Two men are engaging in conversation, seated at a brown paper cover table in an art studio. The ma on the left has an open notebook on the table in from of him, and the man on the right is holding an iPhone.

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…

Designing an Inclusive Audio Guide Part 2: Tactile Reproductions

This is the second post in a series about the development process of The Warhol’s new audio guide.  You might not think a museum would offer a meaningful experience for a person…

Two hands holding a 12 by 12 inch white 3D-printed reproduction of a man's face and wig, a reproduction of Andy Warhol's 1986 Self-Portrait.