Contemporary Art
Amanda Donnan | July 21, 2011
This year, my Independence Day was a little like Christmas. After weeks of wondering and waiting, I finally tore open and watched all of the Two-Minute Film Festival submissions that had been gathering at my desk. Sure, the wrapping wasn’t as flashy, but the return labels had piqued my interest, bearing names of places all over the country and some…
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Justin Hopper | July 8, 2011
Fabrizio Gerbino and Lenka Clayton talk about their work in the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial at 2:30 p.m., Sunday, July 10. Free with museum admission. Fabrizio Gerbino’s artwork bestrides the two disparate worlds he has called home. On one side is the opulence of Florence, Italy—the heart of the Renaissance, and the city in which Gerbino came of age. There he…
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Justin Hopper | June 17, 2011
The Pittsburgh Biennial opens with a splash, as two of its artists prepare gallery talks. Peggy Ahwesh and Frank Santoro “Artists on Art” gallery talk, 2:30 p.m., Sunday, June 19. Free with museum admission. Last night’s opening of the Pittsburgh Biennial at Carnegie Museum of Art was a refreshing reminder of not only the breadth of talent available under “PGH”…
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Justin Hopper | June 14, 2011
The Pittsburgh Biennial at Carnegie Museum of Art opens with a Culture Club event from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 16. The museum is one of five co-presenting venues, including Pittsburgh Filmmakers and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum, and the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Even on a cursory first walk-through Carnegie Museum…
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Kitty Julian | June 9, 2011
Congratulations are in order. Two recent publications by Museum of Art staff have recently won national awards. First, the illustrated catalogue for Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective won a 2011 “IPPY” Independent Voice Award from Independent Publisher, as part of its 2011 Outstanding Books of the Year initiative. More than 4,000 books were submitted from nine countries. The Independent Publisher…
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Ellen James | June 8, 2011
Work is continuing on the installation of the Pittsburgh Biennial at Carnegie Museum of Art. Before long, the show of nine contemporary artists—who are currently working in Pittsburgh or have strong connections to the city—will be up and ready for the opening party on June 16. But in the days before the show opens, the gallery is closed to the…
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Justin Hopper | May 23, 2011
Gaze into one of German artist Candida Höfer’s wall-sized photographs, and you’ll see ornate, sometimes anachronistic structures: the immense, book-lined walls of a monastic library in Prague; the Modernist gyres of a Brazilian contemporary-art museum; the taxidermy trophy mounts adorning the walls of a Portuguese baroque palace. (Höfer’s photographs are on view for one final week, through May 29, as…
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Justin Hopper | April 1, 2011
Despite his Grammy and acclaim, bluesman Pinetop Perkins long ago ceased to be best known for his rollicking piano style or casually spoken singing. At the time of his death last month, at the age of 97, Perkins’s true art was his improbable existence: A 21st-century man who had played with Robert Nighthawk and Sonny Boy Williamson; a man who…
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Justin Hopper | March 20, 2011
There are certain words that Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson bandies about frequently, like the indefinite adjective “maximum,” used to qualify just about any statement. (Example: “I am a total maximum feminist.”) Maybe my favorite of these Ragnar-isms are “vaudeville” and “troubadour,” two performance anachronisms that crop up as often as you might expect to hear “punk” or “glam” from ex-rocker…
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Justin Hopper | March 10, 2011
For decades, some of the greatest artists have drawn on the cathartic, frequently illegal, street art practices of youth to create new visions of urban and suburban life. Young French artist Cyprien Gaillard’s peculiar vandal’s past—setting off fire extinguishers around the Modernist housing blocks and brownfields of Paris—might not seem to have the same artistic promise as Banksy’s graffiti. But…
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