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Discussions, ethnic fest to keep Warhol hopping
Wednesday, April 12, 2000 By Mary Thomas, Post-Gazette Art Critic
The Andy Warhol Museum, North Side, will be hopping this weekend, with it's third annual Carpatho-Rusyn cultural day on Saturday -- which celebrates Warhol's European heritage -- and arts-related panels on Friday and Sunday that will address, respectively, collecting and having a voice in cultural policy.
Inspired by the museum's current exhibition, "Andy Warhol Drawings 1947-1987," a forum that addresses the question "Collecting Artists' Drawings: Why do we do it?" will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, in collaboration with the Art History Department of the University of Pittsburgh.
Panelists will discuss their passions and give advice on how to begin collecting at any budget level. They, and their areas of interest, are: Dr. Herbert Diamond, chairman of the Department of Medicine at Western Pennsylvania Hospital, drawings; Ann Sutherland Harris, professor of the history of art at the University of Pittsburgh, contemporary women's work; David Lewis, artist, architect and professor of urban studies at Carnegie Mellon University, works by friends; DeCourcy McIntosh, executive director of Frick Art & Historical Center, 19th-century French drawings.
The moderator is art critic Graham Shearing. The forum will be preceded by the 5 to 7 p.m. Friday Happy Hour and a drawing party in the entrance gallery.
(Also scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition are life drawing parties on April 21 and 28. From 5 to 7 p.m. the subject will be shoes, and from 6 to 8 p.m. models will be available.)
On Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m., The Carpatho-Rusyn Society will present Rusyn music and dance, Pysanky egg painting, traditional food, contemporary Rusyn film and information on a new film project. Performers include the Slavjane Folk Ensemble of McKees Rocks and the Javorina Ensemble, featuring Beata Begeniova, from Cleveland.
Both of these events are free with museum admission, which is $7 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students and children, free to members. For information, call 412-237-8300.
"Cultural Matrix: A Panel Discussion," which will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, is the public portion of a weekend symposium on formulation and implementation of cultural policy.
Panel participants are artists Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento of New York and Mariana Botey and Glenn Kaino of Los Angeles, the latter of whom is exhibiting at the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, Downtown. The moderators are Three Rivers Arts Festival executive director Jeanne Pearlman and Daniel Martinez of the Deep River Gallery, Los Angeles, where the Kainio show originated.
The panel is free. For information, call 412-281-8723.
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