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Live video straight from the grave

Wed, 07 Aug, 2013 - 01:00

USA: The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has launched a live video feed from the pop artist’s grave site to honour what would have been his 85th birthday.

The project is titled Figment, because of a Warhol quote in which the artist said: “I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank.

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