Warhol Museum Reimagines the Factory in a New ‘Pop District’ (original) (raw)

Art & Design|Warhol Museum Reimagines the Factory in a New ‘Pop District’

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The museum aims to create an arts and music destination in Pittsburgh, teach skills to young people and shore up its finances.

A rendering of the Pop District Park. The Andy Warhol Museum’s director said it has a plan and resources to to be an “agent of change for Pittsburgh.”Credit...Andy Warhol Museum

May 20, 2022

A “Pop District” is being planned in Pittsburgh, the Pop artist Andy Warhol’s hometown.

Officials with the Andy Warhol Museum said the creation of the district, covering six blocks, is part of an expansion that will include a reimagining of the Factory, the center of Warhol’s creative universe.

The first of the district’s elements have already been installed: a mural created in an alleyway adjoining the museum, by a Miami-based artist known as Typoe, and a sculpture by Michael Loveland, also of Miami, placed on a grassy space across the street from the museum.

“Andy continues to be emblematic of the American entrepreneurial spirit — a true agent of influence and change,” Patrick Moore, the director of the Warhol Museum, said in a statement. “We now have the plan and resources to follow suit as an agent of change for Pittsburgh.”

The project is meant to make the museum more stable financially, provide training in creative skills and play a part in shaping the future of a swath of a city that has undergone significant gentrification in recent years and accompanying displacement.

Situated on Pittsburgh’s sparsely populated North Shore, where its most prominent neighbors are stadiums used by the Pittsburgh Pirates and Steelers, the museum is halfway between two busier areas. It is separated from the active North Side to the north by an elevated roadway and from the Cultural District to the south by the Allegheny River.

The hope, Moore said, is that the Pop District would attract restaurants, art galleries and other businesses that could make the area a destination for Pittsburgh residents as well as tourists.

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