ARTS : Carnegie to Build Warhol Museum

A museum devoted to the art, films and archives of the late Andy Warhol will be established in an old industrial building in the artist’s native Pittsburgh, it was announced today by the Carnegie Institute.

The museum, scheduled to be opened to the public in 1992, will cover 30 years of Warhol’s career as a commercial artist, painter, film maker, magazine publisher and author.

The core of the museum’s collection--more than 700 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptural works, films and videotapes--is being donated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Dia Art Foundation, both of New York. The project will be funded through the Carnegie Institute, whose Carnegie Museum of Art will operate the museum.