Museum Stories

Richard Maxwell’s “The Evening”

August 20, 2015

The Warhol staff visits Kennywood

July 21, 2015

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.…

Q&A with Bartholomew Ryan, The Warhol’s new Milton Fine Curator of Art

June 12, 2015

Bartholomew Ryan is The Warhol’s new Milton Fine Curator of Art. He was previously an assistant curator at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, where he began as a curatorial…

Happy Mother’s Day, Julia Warhola

May 8, 2015

Andy Warhol’s mother Julia Warhola immigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe in 1921, joining her husband Andrej who had left for America nearly eight years prior. The couple…

More than a Museum: A Digital Strategy for The Warhol

March 31, 2015

Museums, like nearly all organizations across public and private sectors, are acknowledging the enormous impact emerging technologies have on their missions, operations and business models. The evolving digital landscape promises…

Exposures

January 12, 2015

On Black Friday of last year we launched a new project for The Warhol: a store within a store, featuring curated artist goods. It’s one half of a project we’re calling…

A Swatch for Christmas

December 22, 2014

It’s widely known that Andy Warhol enjoyed the Christmas holiday. During the 1950s when he worked as a commercial designer, Warhol made hundreds of personal Christmas drawings and greeting card…

Andy Warhola’s Living Room

December 5, 2014

I was thrilled to be asked by The Warhol’s Director, Eric Shiner, and Warhol staff to create a window installation for the new series Exposures, working in the tradition of…

Bug Bits For Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno

September 30, 2014

When a bug ends up suffocating for science, in a killing jar, put there by a collector or entomologist, to be taken back to the museum to be scientifically or…