Photography
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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Marilyn Russell, Chair and Curator of Education | April 29, 2013
Oh Snap! combined 13 new photographs from our collection with nearly 1,500 photo submissions from the public. Wrap Party, Lytro Workshop, and more—Saturday, May 4 First things first—submissions for Oh Snap! Your Take on our Photographs are now closed, but we are excited to celebrate the thoughtful and creative collaboration of the hundreds of participants in the project. Don’t miss the three…
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Kerin Shellenbarger, Archivist, Teenie Harris Archive | March 29, 2013
Photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris was a well-known athlete in his youth long before he earned his moniker of “One Shot.” In the first half of the 1920s, along with Bill Harris (no relation), he founded the Pittsburgh Crawfords baseball team that would become a Negro League powerhouse. Around the same time, he was developing a reputation as an ace dribbler…
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Kerin Shellenbarger, Archivist, Teenie Harris Archive | February 5, 2013
Seventy-five years ago today, in 1938, the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper printed pictures of a young Lena Horne (a Pittsburgher at the time) at the Allegheny County Airport as she departed for Hollywood. She spent the hours before at a farewell party in her honor at the Loendi Club in the Hill District. At the airport, her husband Louis Jones, her…
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Kerin Shellenbarger, Archivist, Teenie Harris Archive | January 16, 2013
August 28, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which he prophetically described as the event that “will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” Many Pittsburghers traveled to the demonstration in Washington D.C. that…
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Raymund Ryan, Curator of Architecture, Heinz Architectural Center | December 18, 2012
Installation view of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time Exposed, 1991, Courtesy of the artist. The photographs on the left were placed inside the fountain which was allowed to freeze during the winter. From the 1991 Carnegie International. If you have the good fortune to visit the southern Japanese island of Naoshima—one of the six sites in our current exhibition at the Heinz Architectural Center,…
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Ashley Andrykovitch, Assistant Curator of Education | December 10, 2012
Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh, and the Mayor’s Youth Council recently teamed up to present Wallflowers and Wildflowers, an alternative homecoming dance for local high school students. The sold-out event was held in Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Botany Hall and Halls of North American and African Wildlife, and it was attended by a…
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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 | September 19, 2012
What is your official title, and what are some of your general responsibilities? I’m the new curatorial assistant for the photography department. Along with the normal day-to-day activities, I’m primarily assisting with a large exhibition planned for 2014—a definitive retrospective of the photographer Duane Michals. What were you doing before joining us at CMA? Before being hired at CMA,…
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Raymund Ryan, Curator of Architecture, Heinz Architectural center | September 18, 2012
Jardín Botánico de Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Photo: Iwan Baan. The work of Iwan Baan is key to White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, both the exhibition and the catalogue. In the exhibition, each of the six sites for art is documented by six large prints (24 x 36 in.) each. In addition, Seirensho on the Japanese island of Inujima,…
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