Don’t Forget the Warhol.
Posted By Cliff Tuttle | August 7, 2011
No. 674
Today would have been Andy Warhol’s 83rd birthday. This is a good opportunity to remind you non-Pittsburghers to visit the Warhol Museum, which is a next door neighbor to PNC Park. Warhol was one of Pittsburgh’s trio of famous Andys. The others were Carnegie and Mellon. No, Andy Russell wash’t as famous as those guys. No, Andrew Jackson lived in Tennessee. So did Andrew Johnson.
Warhol was the only one of the great Andys to be born in Pittsburgh. He’s buried here, too.
And while you are at it, there’s the August Wilson Center. This great 20th Century American playwright was born here too. His name isn’t Andy but there’s a connection. August Wilson spent a great deal of time in the Carnegie Library as a child.
CLT
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