WARHOL´S TIME MACHINE

"The artist's 612 cardboard boxes of junk offer a gateway to the past, the present, and maybe even the future".

"This is so twenty-first century, I think, walking across the Seventh Street Bridge in downtown Pittsburgh on a stupefyingly hot August afternoon. The bridge is one of three practically identical suspension spans built across the Allegheny River in the mid-1920s. Made of steel painted butter yellow, it's a beautiful and poetic expression of the city's industrial past. However, in March it was renamed the Andy Warhol Bridge after the city's most famous postindustrial son. Clamped onto the bridge's cables are a succession of square banners displaying Warhol's blank expression and announcing the new name. And so the bridge has become a strange hybrid of past, present, and future that seems to define this century thus far--a symbol of industrial might retrofitted into an emblem of third-millennium insouciance".