Decorative Arts & Design
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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Jonathan Gaugler, Media Relations Manager | February 21, 2013
That mailbox. Oh man, that mailbox! If you’ve seen the mailbox that came hanging by my front door when we bought our house in Pittsburgh, you’d understand. Black-painted steel, with a bent newspaper rack and weird plastic emblem, I had to chip the former owner’s name and two sets of house numbers off of it with a razor blade. And it’s…
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Dawn Reid, Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts & Design | January 24, 2013
Installation view, Carlo Bugatti, Cobra chair, 1902, wood, parchment with painted decoration, and copper, Berdan Memorial Trust Fund, Helen Johnston Acquisition Fund, and Decorative Arts Purchase Fund Choosing my favorite object from Inventing the Modern World is nearly impossible—my “favorite” tends to shift by the hour or according to my mood (this says more about my love of objects than it does…
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Katie Reilly, Head of Publications | December 21, 2012
Working at museums has taught me that nothing can compare to the real thing; no image, however high resolution, can capture the experience of standing in front of an object and exploring it in space, and in relation to your own body. Yet somehow, I never cease to be surprised! I thought that I knew the objects in the exhibition…
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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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Jason T. Busch, chief curator and The Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Arts and Design | December 7, 2012
From the first international exhibition in London in 1851 to the New York World’s Fair in 1939, more than 90 events were held in 22 countries. With the opening of the Crystal Palace in 1851, world’s fairs became the most important global forum for debuting technological advancements and defining fashionable tastes. Among the objects at the fairs were those laden…
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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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Dawn Reid, Curatorial Assistant, Decorative Arts & Design | October 25, 2012
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939 is officially on view at Carnegie Museum of Art. The exhibition is a massive undertaking, the largest exhibition of decorative arts and design at the museum in nearly a decade. We’ve received a number of queries as to how we actually did it. While some may say it takes…
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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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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | April 12, 2012
Despite the surprise smattering of hail and snow seen across Pittsburgh yesterday, today marks the official start of spring here at the museum with the opening of the fourth annual Art in Bloom, a four-day celebration featuring traditional and contemporary flower arrangements paired with paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative art objects from CMA’s collection (photos below). Art in Bloom is open today and will…
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