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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…

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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.

An interview with Ai Weiwei

The following is an excerpt from Eric Shiner’s interview with Ai Weiwei that appears in the exhibition catalogue Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei. The catalogue was produced in conjunction with the…

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Self-portrait of Ai Weiwei in a room with a mirror behind him, and the flash of the camera above him.

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Meeooaaww-AW-AWW

The following is an excerpt from Matt Wrbican’s essay “Meeooaaww-AW-AWW” about Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, and cats that appears in the exhibition catalogue Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei. The catalogue…

A black and white photograph of Andy Warhol holding a kitten in front of a window draped in white cloth.

Book Smart

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…

An open book showing a blank page that is gold colored and then a Warhol line drawing with gold accents on the facing page.

Travis K. Schwab: Lost & Found

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…

View of the face of a tan colored building with three large display windows. Art images can be seen on display through the windows.

GLYCERINE and ROSE WATER

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.…

Interior view of an installation showing screen printed cows on two walls and a floral motif painted at the periphery of a glass wall looking onto a portrait of Marilyn Monroe.

TREASURE/TRASH

The first thing to strike me was the surface. I was in painting storage at The Andy Warhol Museum, standing over Andy Warhol’s 1985 print Truck.I’d always admired Warhol conceptually,…

Interview with visiting artist Stefan Hoffmann

Education Coordinator Stephanie Garrison sat down with German/Dutch visiting artist Stefan Hoffmann to talk about his site-specific work Glycerine and Rose Water, which he is installing in The Warhol entrance…

Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York

During the Pearlstein, Warhol, Cantor: From Pittsburgh to New York opening on May 29, 2015, there was an undeniable excitement on The Warhol’s second floor as Philip Pearlstein and Dorothy…

Hacking Vintage Technology to Simulate Time Travel

While he’s best known for his analog work, it’s no secret Andy Warhol was interested in and experimented with digital technologies. Warhol’s digital experiments took place in the mid-1980s in…