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Maybe, like me, you didn’t think the words “Steeler’s Football” and “Avant Garde Art” go together in the same sentence. But you would be pleasantly surprised to find this gem of a contemporary museum in the heart of revitalized Pittsburgh.
While visiting the University of Pittsburgh, we took an evening cab to the North Shore of Oakland, the neighborhood where Andy Warhol, aka Andrew Warhola, was born and grew up in.
The museum is in a community of warehouses and eclectic restaurants, staffed by friendly art curators, who obviously love what they do. The museum is open late on Friday nights (until 10pm) and was busy but not overly crowded when we visited.
The artwork spans seven floors, in well-lit spaces with plenty of room to walk around the exhibits. As a new Warhol fan, I was expecting lots of Campbell soup cans and Marilyn Monroe faces, but there were relatively few of these, and more of a broad spectrum of Warhol art, ranging from his early shoe drawings to later celebrity studies. The multiple versions of Jackie Kennedy are as intriguing and timeless as ever. Some of the depictions are quite graphic and potentially disturbing, especially ones that play on the themes of violence (guns and nuclear holocaust) as well as sex.
The Warhol museum also features changing works of art by more modern pop artists. When we visited, there was a fascinating collection of 100 Darth Vader masks, each by a different artist. The Vaders ranged from comic heads to blatant death masks. You could walk between rows of these Vaders, which felt a little cemetery like. We were alternately amused, confused and frightened by some of the works. Perhaps that was the point?
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