Pittsburgh, once a backwater city and one crippled by loss of the steel industry, is today's American darling. It has a diversified economy (HQ for American Eagle) lots of high-tech industry (has a Google campus) and is ranked as a city high in arts (Warhol Museum) and culture.
Pittsburgh museums include the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Mattress Factory. Installation art is featured outdoors at ArtGardens of Pittsburgh, says Wikipedia.
Warhol's experience of Pittsburgh was not glamorous. He was born Andrew Warhola in a working class suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928 to Slovak immigrants (Ondrej and Julia Warhola [Varchola in Slovakia]). Because Warhol showed an early interest in photography and drawing, he attended free classes at Carnegie Institute.
Warhol's father worked in a coal mine, and the family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two brothers John and Paul. His father died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.
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