National History Day began in 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio, and it has expanded to a nationwide competition with thousands of middle school and high school students participating each year. After…
In my time at The Andy Warhol Museum as the Friends of the Frick Fine Arts curatorial fellow, I have become increasingly sensitive to not only the broad scope and…
This text by Barbara Klein originally appeared in the fall 2015 issue of Carnegie Magazine, a quarterly publication of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. A revelatory exhibition features a little-known but widely influential…
“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,…
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…
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.…
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…
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?…
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…
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.…