Iron City Tweets // Pittsburgh w/ @heartasarena

Last month at the Art Table’s blogger panel, the moderator made the unfortunate decision to introduce all the participants twice. A pity, because there were a number of issues that the excellent panel were unable to fully address. Twitter was one of them.

Twitter has changed things for bloggers. It’s allowed more immediate, real-time conversations about art. It’s expediated the repartee. Blogspot comments sections never did it quite like this. Twitter has also given bloggers the opportunity to carry their readers through museums with them.

Here’s the blow-by-blow from my trip to the museums of Pittsburgh.

Dec 22, 2009

HELLO Iron City! 1:10 PM
Thank you @thewarholmuseum!!! Nice prints & wallpaper in the airport. Woohoo! 2:27 PM
At Carnegie Museum of Art. Yaay. #cmahaa 3:47 PM
Already got lost in the Head trip that is the Cecil Balmond 3:48 PM
And LOVE that Alex Katz. Different in all ways 3:49 PM
Listening to In the Court of King Crimson in the Gods, Love, and War tapestry exhibit. Um. Perfect. 3:55 PM
Holy shit! The engravings in the tapestry exhibit are blowing my mind. 3:58 PM
Omg. The Capt of Industry by Hendrick Goltzius. Fat AND phat! Totally rad. 4:01 PM
Pieter van der Heyden. Are u serious? Scarier than the nastiest Black Metal. Totally sick. 4:04 PM
Palms Springs architecture photo exh. Not really art but pretty incredible stuff. 4:11 PM
Fucking awesome. The draft for the Dinah Shore house. 4:14 PM
Wow. This is one punchy Julie Mehretu 4:15 PM
Recurring theme at cma. Works off the artists’ regularly beaten path 4:17 PM
@jenwgilmore Carnegie museum of art. Totally kicking my ass. 4:18 PM in reply to jenwgilmore
Where did Kara Walker find this blue? 4:19 PM
Hey look. It’s aitken’s migration That is one uglyass Richter. But I mean that in s goodway 4:22 PM
Agnes Martin next to Jo Baer. This is one of the best painting pairings EVER. 4:25 PM
Actually, w the Ryman on the left. Trio of the year. I don’t want to leave this wall. 4:28 PM
It’s official. A curator just made me cry. Srsly cannot get over the force of these 3 on a wall together. 4:30 PM
Wow. This is my favorite Wayne Thibauld. Table Setting, 1961 4:33 PM
Now this is how to own a Rothko. Take note #metmuseum 4:35 PM
Raphael Soyer. Who are you and why are you kicking my ass so hard? 4:37 PM
Other theme at Carnegie. Not so well known painters with killah paintings. 4:39 PM
Well, shit. Then there’s These Bonnards. So great. Bathtime!!! 4:41 PM
@tabgirl rotmuseumfl 4:42 PM in reply to tabgirl
@tabgirl and this one’s out there(Katz). Color, size and image 4:43 PM in reply to tabgirl
Aaron Gorson. Pittsbugh At Night. 1920. Go Steelers! 4:47 PM
And thus ends my tweetage of the Carnegie Museum of Art, says he comfortably warm on the 61a. 5:14 PM

Dec 23, 2009

At The Warhol. Let’s get THIS out of the way … NO PHOTO policy is a drag & just wrong. http://www.warhol.org/ That said… #haawarhol 10:50 AM
Things get kicked off w a moment I’ve bee waiting for for a couple yrs now. Album of a Mat Queen. Rosalyn Drexler in the house! 10:53 AM
OBEY 10:56 AM
Obey Soup Can makes me think of Richard Pettibone b4 Warhol. That’s, like, stoopid awesome. 10:57 AM
Shepard Fairey is overwhelming in a way I hadn’t expected. More emotional than physical. 11:01 AM
Arab Woman is especially moving. Printed on newsprint. That’s what got me. 11:02 AM
Fairey’s steel prints are severe. Obey Minneapolis Stay Up is rad. FEEL the drop. 11:07 AM
“Art is what you can get away with.”—Andy Warhol on the wall. Hilariously/sadly ironic given the latest devel in the case. 11:11 AM
Can’t believe I can’t show you this. An entire case of Warhol’s 1984 TIME cover of Micheal Jackson. This place fucking RULES!!! 11:20 AM
SuperTrash Xhibit bringing back way too many memories of the Porno/Bmovie dying drive-in in my hometown when I was growing up. 11:27 AM
Srsly. John Waters would actually give birth on the spot if he saw this show of Bmovie posters. 11:29 AM
Omg. Sweet room if Warhol Xmas illustations. The 3 Fir Tree are stellar. 11:36 AM
Fir Tree on the top. Delicat. Delicate. Delicate.#haawarhol 11:36 AM
I ain’t missing you at all. Green Stamps w just 12 little stamps in upper left corner. Lonely. Beautiful. 11:39 AM
Just across the way…Edie Sedgwick’s barstool prop from Kitchen. Same thing. Lonely. Beautiful. 11:42 AM
@joygarnett totally surprised by it. Really excellent. 11:43 AM in reply to joygarnett
Wow. Practically negative space version of Soup Can.#haawarhol 11:44 AM
Good too see Elvis again. All 11 of him. 11:45 AM
Ludovica Gioscia’s sculptural abuse of Warhol’s wallpaper is fun. ‘Specially on top of, um, Warhol wallpaper. 11:48 AM
Ooooh. Silver Clouds are back!!! And this time the room is painted black. Effective like a muthafucka! 4th floor half of Fairey exhibit. Darker. The big side room filled w warhol’s Skulls. Brilliant.#haawarhol 11:56 AM
Srsly. Black in the SC room is a game changer. Reflections and shadows rendered anew.#haawarhol 11:58 AM
@hragv maybe. Can cut both ways. Ron Mueck didn’t work as well at Warhol compared to bma 12:17 PM in reply to hragv
And thus endeth my morning tweets from @thewarholmuseum. I’ll prob stop back this after 4 one more runthrough. Mostly tweetless.#haawarhol 12:30 PM
Off to the @mattressfactory !!! 12:32 PM
At the @mattressfactory starting w the Oppenheimer. 1 word: snow. http://www.mattress.org/ #haamf 1:40 PM
Srsly @tylergreendc you gotta see this w snow on the ground!!! 1:42 PM
And yo. Museums take note. Throw outcha information sheets. The QR code is here and it is kicking ass. 1:46 PM
Weirdly want to touch the Jim Campbell. But won’t. Topograhy + color = memory 1:52 PM
Cx. That was Paul Demarinis. 1:54 PM
The Jom Campbell. Something else entirely. Omg. So beautiful. Srsly. No fucking way. Loose AND tight LED exploitation. 1:58 PM
Nikki S. Lee. R u srs?! Never seen her do anything like this. Soft and brainmelting. 2:01 PM
Just spent an elevator ride w woman fr Cleveland, both if us LOVIN the Jim Campbell that’s actually in the elevator. 2:09 PM
John Latham’s book pieces are great but the shadows they cast are even better. Sick, in fact. 2:13 PM
The Greer Lankton installation. The closer you look the more you’ll weep, in both victory and defeat. Fuck. 2:27 PM
Srsly. The reinstall of Greer Lankton’s It’s all about ME, Not You is worth the trip to Pittsburgh. 2:29 PM
Still looking @ the Lankton. Art does not get more devestating than this. Do NOT miss the vid of the orig install accssd via QR code. 2:38 PM
Omg. The Kusama. As many times as I’ve seen it, it still gives a kick. 2:41 PM
Oh, hello entire floor of Turrell’s. LOVE. 2:44 PM
Nothing will fuck you up like Turrell’s Pleiades. 15 minutes of visual confusion. The most consistenty spooky room (basement room @ mf) in all of artdom comes through again. This time w Tony Oursler. 2:54 PM
And look. I’m not even an Oursler fan, and I am totally digging this piece. 2:55 PM
Got to go into the Greer Lankdon installation before I left. One of the most important pieces of identity art I’ve ever seen. 3:31 PM
HaHa. Hard to look at Howdy Fucking Doody in Warhol’s Myths now w/out thinking of Koons. Thnx @powhida. 3:56 PM
Nice show of pburgh artists who work @ art inst. around town @ SPACE. http://tinyurl.com/y88ysws #space 5:25 PM
Standouts: Laurel Mitchell, C&N Beauregard, Slinky, & Madelyn Roehrig. http://tinyurl.com/y88ysws 5:27 PM
Wood Street. Their program is so smart it’s almost scary. The Julien Maire show is just the latest example. http://tinyurl.com/56l6me 5:34 PM
The Memory Cone. A physical representation of memory reconstruction. Participatory. Feel it. #woodstreet 5:40 PM
Les Instantanes. An insanely labor-intensive way to abuse a slide projector. Nuts. 5:51 PM