Andy Warhol cookies at the Andy Warhol Museum Cafe in Pittsburgh
Get these freshly baked “Self Portrait” sugar cookies at The Warhol Café beneath the Andy Warhol Museum. If you’ve never been to the cafe, it’s worth noting that you can also grub on some soup, salads, and sammiches while you’re there.
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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 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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The Warhol: D.I.Y. POP - iPhone app by the Andy Warhol Museum
The Andy Warhol Museum has managed to jam the entire process of silkscreening into their new D.I.Y. POP app so that you can avoid getting real paint on your hands. Check it out…
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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.
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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