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- Jan. 6, 1993
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Thomas N. Armstrong 3d, the former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been named director of the Andy Warhol Museum, now under construction in Pittsburgh. Mr. Armstrong, a well-known figure in the art world, made headlines nearly three years ago when he was dismissed from the Whitney after 15 years as its director.
"Being involved in an important museum from the ground up is a very challenging assignment," Mr. Armstrong said. "I hope the Warhol Museum will be a model for other single-artist museums across the country."
The museum will be housed in an 80,000-square-foot industrial warehouse on the North Side of Pittsburgh, the city where Warhol, who died in 1987, grew up. The cost of the building and the extensive renovations total about $12 million.
The project is a collaboration between the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which will donate more than 1,000 Warhol works to form the heart of the collection; the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, which will manage the museum as an independent entity affiliated with the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Dia Center for the Arts, a New York organization that supports innovative projects by contemporary artists and that is donating several important early Warhols from its collection. The new museum is to open in the spring of 1994. Mounted Warhol Shows
At the Whitney, Mr. Armstrong was an early and consistent Warhol advocate. He mounted an exhibition of Warhol's portraits in 1979 and initiated a collaborative program in Warhol's films and videos with the Museum of Modern Art. For most of the 1980's Mr. Armstrong led an ultimately fruitless campaign to win approval for an addition to the Whitney designed by the architect Michael Graves. At the time he was dismissed from the Whitney, Mr. Armstrong was widely blamed for the failure of the expansion plan.
Still, the director has many fans. "You have to have someone with the kind of sophistication to deal with this kind of novel institution," said Charles Wright, the director of Dia. "It breaks the mold."
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