Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum is broadcasting a live video stream of the artist’s grave today in honor of his birthday.
Eric Shiner, the museum’s directory, told the Associated Press, “We believe that this will give Warhol the pleasure of knowing that he is still plugged in and turned on over 25 years after his death.”
Shiner said the project is called “Figment” because Warhol once said, “"I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say, 'Figment.'”
Warhol’s grave, which is in a Catholic cemetery in Pittsburgh, is inscribed with his name and birth and death dates. According to the New York Times, people often visit the site, leaving mementos like Campbell’s soup cans at his grave.
Warhol led the pop art movement in the 1960s. Some of his most famous pieces depicted Campbell’s soup cans. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which was Warhol’s hometown, is the largest museum in the United States to be dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol passed away in 1987. Today would have been his 85th birthday.
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