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The Warhol Art App Available Now

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By now, all of our readers should have the Warhol Museum’s DIY POP app, especially since it was free for a while. This new product caters more to the left-brained crowd and invites users to go behind the scenes to see Andy Warhol’s career as never seen before. This app is the closest you can get to Warhol without actually stepping foot in his museum. Perfect for fans living outside of the Burgh. Enjoy an in-depth multimedia collection that gives you the opportunity to peer into  archival items not normally on display, as well as video clips, audio descriptions, letters, and over 50 art works from the 1920′s to the 1980′s.
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10 First Date Ideas From Real Pittsburghers

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10 Things to do on a first date in Pittsburgh

10 Things to do on a first date in Pittsburgh

So you finally found someone in Pittsburgh to take out on a date. Sweet! Now you have to figure out where to take them. Boring Pittsburgh asked the community to help you with some first date suggestions. If you’re new to the Burgh (or new to dating in general) this list should point you in the right direction… the rest is up to you!
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Andy Warhol and Campbell’s Soup = BFF

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A letter to Andy Warhol from the Campbell's Soup Company

A letter to Andy Warhol from the Campbell's Soup Company

This letter has been passed around the art blogs like a football at Steelers training camp, but we thought there’s no place more deserving of another repost than yours truly.

John Morris TheDarkEngine – In 1964, the Campbell’s Soup Co. sent Andy Warhol a fan letter. Today it would be a cease and desist letter. http://bit.ly/9UH2J9

TheDarkEngine makes a valid point. The original Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibit consisted of 32 separate canvases with each one displaying a different flavor of canned soup (that was also how many varieties of canned soup were available from Campbell’s at the time). Today, that might have been 32 counts of copyright infringement. How did he know all of the flavors? According to a blurb on the gallery description at MoMA, the artist referred “to a product list supplied by Campbell’s” – which indicates that he must have discussed the idea with the company before he started working on it. Rumor has it that Warhol really liked soup.
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Social Media Day at the Warhol

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Social Media Meetup Day in Pittsburgh at the Andy Warhol Museum

I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.  – Andy Warhol

Today was Social Media Day (as declared by the ever so venerable Mashable.com). Pittsburgh social-media butterflies met at the Andy Warhol Museum to celebrate. It’s hard to say how many people actually showed up but 113 people were interested on the Meetup page and about 50 people checked in on FourSquare. Good turnout for Pittsburgh!

The event was organized and sponsored by Brunner Works, a major ad agency with offices in the Burgh (and DC/Atlanta). We just love their website. If you watch the street view on their homepage long enough, you will see one of the cars pull off an infamous Pittsburgh Left. You might as well apply for a job with them here while you’re there.
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