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April 18, 2013
Carnegie Museum of Art program will be a living laboratory for photography Pittsburgh, PA…Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry J. Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, announced today the launch of the Hillman Photography Initiative, which aims to be a living laboratory for exploring the rapidly changing field of photography and its impact on the world. According to Zelevansky, “The…
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January 18, 2013
Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs, on view at Carnegie Museum of Art through March 10, 2013, includes 46 new promised gifts from the collection of William T. Hillman. Yours Truly: Privately Collected Photographs presents 80 vintage prints by some of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century, including such masters of the medium as Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson,…
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January 15, 2013
Exhibition explores influence of industrialist H. J. Heinz and poet Sadakichi Hartmann Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…An exhibition of two rarely-seen Japanese collections from the early years of Carnegie Institute (now Museums of Art and Natural History) will capture the excitement and intrigue surrounding the museums’ first encounters with these exquisite objects. Opening in Gallery One at Carnegie Museum of Art, “Japan Is…
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December 13, 2012
$300,000 challenge grant will endow position in the Teenie Harris Archive Carnegie Museum of Art announced today the award of a $300,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. When matched, the museum will use the funds to endow the position of archivist for the Teenie Harris Archive. The archivist will spearhead research and public access initiatives related…
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November 8, 2012
Holiday family favorites include sing-along, Neapolitan presepio, and activities for kids. Celebrate the season with one of the great Pittsburgh holiday traditions: the Carnegie Trees at Carnegie Museum of Art. For the 51st year, the museum’s Hall of Architecture will dazzle visitors with seven grand, 20-foot trees, flanking the museum’s perennial favorite, the Neapolitan presepio, a beautiful 18th-century Nativity. Each…
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October 2, 2012
November 3, 2012–January 27, 2013 Forum Gallery Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…For the 70th installment of its Forum series, Carnegie Museum of Art presents a survey of work by New York City–based contemporary artist Cory Arcangel, curated by Tina Kukielski, associate curator of the 2013 Carnegie International. Best known for his modified versions of obsolete video games, Arcangel employs readymade digital technology as…
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July 24, 2012
Exhibition planning gains momentum, co-curator Daniel Baumann moves to Pittsburgh in preparation Pittsburgh, PA… Through long visits, Skype chats, phone calls, and countless emails, the underlying structure of the 2013 Carnegie International is taking shape. Curators Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers, and Tina Kukielski have traveled the world, meeting with colleagues and visiting artists’ studios, exhibitions, and art fairs both large…
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July 10, 2012
Lynn Zelevansky, The Henry Heinz II Director of Carnegie Museum of Art, announced today the promised gifts of six photographs and one glass plate negative from the collection of William Talbott Hillman. Five photographs are currently on loan to the museum for its groundbreaking exhibition Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz, and will soon be joined by…
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June 21, 2012
The Heinz Architectural Center of Carnegie Museum of Art presents White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes, curated by Raymund Ryan, examining, for the first time, six new art sites that share the common thread of moving beyond the traditional “white cube” gallery space. Featuring the photography of noted architectural photographer Iwan Baan, the exhibition endeavors to explore the radical…
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May 14, 2012
Pittsburgh, PA… From their inception in 1851, the world’s fairs showcased, obsessed over, and enthralled the visiting public with the cutting edge of industry, production, new materials, and methods, for creating everything from tools to jewelry, furniture to textiles. In doing so, artists and manufacturers used breakthrough scientific innovations to create art objects that embodied the latest aesthetics and techniques….
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