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While this proposal is very admirable, I doubt it’s very practical. It’s the same for the WTC area. Once new buildings are raised on his land, it’s value will skyrocket, it’s tax bills will be enormous. The idea that there’s going to be some new shiny spaces there that local artists can afford is pie-in-the-sky. Those days are long over for this neighborhood.
Great art grows in the cracks and crevices of society, like weeds; not in it’s guilded halls. Unfortunately, and thanks to Bloomberg, there are very few of these moldy, shadowed buildings for such great art to incubate. Warhol certainly didn’t create his great art in such a place. He did it in a vacant warehouse.
Nick Matoney Police are asking the public for help in catching two people who they say vandalized the Andy Warhol Museum on Pittsburgh s North Side and a building in Oakland.Watch the report in the video player above.Detectives with the Pittsburgh police graffiti squad say the museum on Sandusky Street and an apartment building on Dawson Street were tagged.Police say two taggers are working together to deface properties. One uses the demo tag, which police say is popping up in a lot of areas, especially near Oakland. Police say another tag is also being used, but they are working to figure out what it says.A worker at the museum says she was shocked this happened and wants the criminals caught, but she s glad the museum is back to normal and the graffiti is cleaned up.Police released surveillance video Thursday afternoon of the two people suspected of tagging the Andy Warhol Museum and a property at 3821 Dawson St.Watch the surveillance video in the video player
By Linus Osborne
January 25, 2021 21:18 GMT
A radical thesis on the parallels between Andy Warhol s Factory and Lewis Carroll s Wonderland that has won the approval of academic experts on both artist and the author is to become the basis of an entirely new genre of art exhibition.
When Alice Meets Warhol
Shai Baitel
Currently in development, the AW project will combine technology and performance in a manner designed to immerse attention-poor digital natives in the work of the 20th century American Pop artist. It will achieve this by sending them down a sensory Rabbit Hole inspired by the work of the 19th Century English author. Advanced negotiations are underway to tour AW in New York, London and Shanghai within the next 18 months.