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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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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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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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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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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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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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