Fine Arts
Ashley Andrykovitch, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF EDUCATION | May 1, 2013
We just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday, April 14 to mark the opening of The Art Connection Annual Student Exhibition! Check out the video to see our student artists hard at work in the museum’s studios as they prepared for this year’s exhibition. Throughout the school year, students in grades 5–9 worked through the…
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April 15, 2013
“A good haiku is like a finger pointing at the moon; once you’ve seen it, you no longer need the finger.” Ever wonder about haiku, where it came from and what it really is? Come on out to this week’s Culture Club on Thursday April 18 for happy hour (5:30–9 p.m.) and a gallery conversation (6– 7 p.m.). Listen to some classic…
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Akemi May, Curatorial Assistant, Fine Arts | January 22, 2013
There is a lot of work that goes into preparing an exhibition, even the relatively small shows that go on view in Gallery One. Much of the work is not exactly glamorous—hours spent in libraries paging through deteriorating volumes covered in 100-year-old dust, or hours spent removing 100-year-old dust from a work of art—but it can still be very exciting…
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Rachel Delphia, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts & Design | December 11, 2012
Art handler Matt Cummings takes on the delicate task of installing figures in the middle of the scene for the Neapolitan presepio. Every year on the Monday—Wednesday prior to Thanksgiving, Carnegie Museum of Art staff installs the museum’s remarkable Neapolitan presepio. Beloved by Pittsburghers as an annual holiday tradition the presepio is an incredible multi-media work of art, created by 18th-century artisans in Naples….
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Amanda Zehnder, Associate Curator of Fine Arts | December 3, 2012
Edouard Manet, Woman with a Cat (Portrait of Mme. Manet), c. 1880, oil on canvas; Courtesy of Tate Images Last week I took a road trip to Ohio to see the exhibition Manet: Portraying Life, currently on view at Toledo Museum of Art through January 1. While this enthralling exhibition focuses on Manet’s portraiture and figure paintings, a whimsical detail in a portrait…
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Michael Belman, Objects Conservator | November 26, 2012
George Barnard Grey’s Urn of Life, now on view in the Scaife Galleries. ORIGINS OF THE URN The Urn of Life (c. 1898–1900) is the unfinished repository for the ashes of Anton Seidl, the Hungarian composer and conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Upon Seidl’s death, a group of the composer’s friends asked American sculptor George Grey Barnard to…
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Lulu Lippincott, Curator of Fine Arts | November 1, 2012
David Gilmour Blythe, Abraham Lincoln, Rail Splitter, 1860, oil on canvas, Gift of Paul Mellon, 63.19 David Gilmour Blythe, Abraham Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, oil on canvas, Museum purchase: gift of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Walton, 58.56.2 This weekend marks the opening of Lincoln, a film examining the last months of the president’s life. If you haven’t yet seen the newly renovated Scaife Galleries…
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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | August 20, 2012
What is your official title, and what are some of your general responsibilities? I’m the Marketing Assistant for both CMA and CMNH. This essentially means that I take care of all of the fun stuff like budgeting, working out contracts and advertising deals with advertisers, social media (I am the Facebook and Twitter voice of Dippy the Dinosaur), and helping out…
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Amanda T. Zehnder, associate curator of fine arts | August 9, 2012
A grand, opulent setting for a cabaret Oh, what a night! Here at CMA we are still in awe of the festive evening presented on July 27 together with the Pittsburgh Song Collaborative to evoke the spirit, history, and sounds of bohemian cabaret culture in La Belle Époque Paris. With a whiff of Pernod absinthe filling the air in the…
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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | July 16, 2012
Preparators Matt Cummings and Rob Capaldi hanging the first paintings in the newly renovated galleries. Rosemary Sprig. Castleton Mist. Stuart Gold. Pomegranate. Tarrytown Green. Mysterious. Venezuelan Sea. Smoke Embers. Yes, the new paint colors for the Scaife Galleries renovation do sound like racehorses. Which makes sense because we’re nearing the final stretch. Since this past spring, staff members from a…
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