![]() ![]() The studios or homes of several 19th century painters have been converted into museums - Frederick Church and Augustus St. ![]() The United States is short on single-artist museums. This last thought could be called the mantra of the new Andy Warhol Museum. The analogy resonates with ironies: of the shooting of the President as the sort of American tragedy that made Warhol famous of the mourning Jackie Kennedy as one of Warhol's most enduring images of the artist's own near fatal shooting several years later, one day before Kennedy's brother Robert was himself shot to death of the likelihood that after Kennedy, Warhol is the most identifiable presence in American history since the 60s of the thought that Warhol's work, like Kennedy's murder, is not as simple as it may have been made to seem. But even though the building is sheathed in glazed terracotta, I'll hold on to my first impression of the home of the new Andy Warhol Museum as a more fanciful cousin of the building from which, according to the official story, President Kennedy was killed. ![]() In truth, the Frick & Lindsay, which is just a block and a bridge away from downtown Pittsburgh, has a more decorative facade than the standard warehouse. Maybe it's my own insensitivity to architecture, but at first glance the Frick & Lindsay building (also known as Volkwein Music & Instruments Co.) reminded me of the Book Depository building in Dallas. ![]()
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