Features December 1994
At the Warhol Museum
On impressions of the new Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.
—Andy Warhol
One’s first impression of the Andy Warhol Museum is of a smart new specialty store—not exactly a department store, to be sure, but something on the scale of the old Henri Bendel’s on West Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan or the new Barneys on Madison Avenue, only in this case distinctly downmarket and featuring but one line of goods: the artist’s reputation. In this respect, it also resembles some of the...
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