The Pope of pop gets his Vatican. (interview with Andy Warhol Museum Director Tom Armstrong) (Interview)

From: Interview | Date: May 1, 1994| Author: Liebmann, Lisa | Copyright information

The Andy Warhol Museum will open on May 16, 1994 in Pittsburgh, PA. Museum Director Tom Armstrong noted that the new facility will house one of the most comprehensive collections of works by a single artist.

Andy Warhol - without him there would be no Interview magazine, which with the help of his friends, followers and fellow entrepreneurs, he founded twenty-five year ago. We are not the first to say that Interview is among Warhol's greatest inventions. For it is a marriage of ...

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