Visiting the Warhol

Blog Post Number 1- I honestly have no idea if writing a blog is either worthwhile (for me) or interesting (for anyone other than me). But I’m ok with giving it a shot. There is no thesis or plan. I think I’ll just highlight some things I like whenever I am up for it. One thing I really liked recently was visiting the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. while driving cross country with my mother. As I understand it the museum changes exhibits often so there is always something new from Warhol’s universe to see. I like a vibrant changing museum so that it is more like an organism fed and enlivened by the people who work and curate there. I had just finished the fantastic, exhaustively researched, and very long book Warhol by Blake Gopnik. Thus I was really happy to be physically immersed in a few of the things that had very recently been lighting up my brain as stories only. It was a funny little coincidence that I had worn my Keith Haring t-shirt to the museum only to find a Keith Haring sculpture that was painted in the same style as my t-shirt was printed. I had not necessarily expected a stand alone piece by an artist whose name was not on the building. It wasn’t a collaboration with Warhol- it was just a Keith Haring elephant in the room. Cool. -amy 4/22/23