Things To Do

Pittsburgh Flicks and Nightlife in January

The skills acquired from practicing improv, we are told, can be applied to any human endeavor. Classes, though, can be expensive and time-consuming. For the curious yet uncommitted, Arcade Comedy Theater offers a monthly Improv Pop-Up Night.

Spotlight: Birds of a Feather

A cross-pollination between BoxHeart Expressions and Phipps Conservatory blooms into “Emergent Patterns,” a nature-centered hat trick of a show featuring three female artists.

Book Reviews: ‘Becoming Andy Warhol’

The Warhol in these pages is avid in his desire for fame and success in the moneyed, chi-chi world of fine art, but he is also contemptuous of the arrogant pretensions of the taste-makers (gallery owners, critics, art patrons).