Behind the Scenes
Alyssum Skjeie, Curatorial Assistant, The Heinz Architectural Center | November 30, 2012
Hiroshi Sambuichi, Inujima Art Project Seirensho, 2008, wood and acrylic model, incense; 1:50; Courtesy of Hiroshi Sambuichi A particularly fascinating model on view in White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes is by Sambuichi Architects of a transformed copper refinery, or seirensho, on the Japanese island of Inujima. The Inujima Art Project Seirensho is a museum dedicated to preserving and reusing the remains…
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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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Ian Finch, Associate Editor, Publications | November 26, 2012
What is your official title, and what are some of your general responsibilities? My official title is director of development, and I’m responsible for the museum’s fundraising. I create and execute plans for getting the dollars in the door that the museum will need to hold exhibitions, launch programs, and even run normal, everyday operations. This means developing proposals and…
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Ashley Andrykovitch, Assistant Curator of Education | November 14, 2012
“Not-so-silent-awe” is how I might describe high school students’ collective reaction to Cory Arcangel: Masters on Saturday, November 3. Maybe they were surprised to find familiar imagery from Nintendo and YouTube in the museum’s Forum Gallery, or maybe they were overcome by inspiration… Or maybe it was the artist himself, who led a gallery talk about his work on view…
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Tina Kukielski, Associate Curator of the 2013 Carnegie International | October 31, 2012
Cory Arcangel: Masters opens this weekend—check out this video where Cory and I talk about his newest work, The AUDMCRS Underground Dance Music Collection of Recorded Sound, a collection of over 800 techno LPs, available for listening on turntables in the Carnegie Library in Oakland. A choice selection of video works of the last ten years will be on view in…
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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 | October 12, 2012
What is your official title, and what are some of your general responsibilities? My official title is Multimedia Producer. It is my responsibility to document significant and seemingly insignificant time-based events, people, happenings, etc., that exist inside and outside the Carnegie Museum of Art, by means of digital and analog technology. It is then my job to archive, and edit…
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Emily Rice, Special Projects Assistant, Heinz Architectural Center | September 20, 2012
Model of the Langen Foundation at Raketenstation Hombroich by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates In August 2011, I began working at Carnegie Museum of Art as the special projects assistant for White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, and I have spent the past year working with curator Raymund Ryan to plan the exhibition. I’m a detail-oriented person, and a huge…
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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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