Behind the Scenes
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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Alyssum Skjeie, Curatorial Assistant, Architecture & Rosemary Burk, Development Assistant | February 13, 2013
This past Saturday, five teams of local architects and bakers competed for the title of “Master CAKEitect” to mark the opening of 20/20: Celebrating Two Decades of the Heinz Architectural Center. The teams wowed everyone with their edible versions of iconic architecture from Pittsburgh and around the globe. Guest judges Virginia Montanez (aka PittGirl), Charles Rosenblum, and Jason Roth rated each…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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