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New Hire: Matt Hackler

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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Think Like a Hacker

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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Six Visions for Radical Change

Raymund Ryan, Curator of Architecture | November 12, 2012

In the entryway to White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes we’ve built a white cube, in fact a double cube, inside which the visitor discovers a kind of graphic green maze. Photo blow-ups are matched with a quotation from a founder figure or key patron for each of the six sites in the exhibition. These statements—exhortations, even—are intended to…

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Art of the Post-It

Marilyn Russell, Chair & Curator of Education | November 2, 2012

Visitors getting creative at the Natural History activity station BACKGROUND Carnegie Museum of Art shares its historic building with Carnegie Museum of Natural History. While these are two entirely distinct museums with separate staffs, boards, and programs, for many Pittsburghers the sprawling building we occupy is simply “The Museum” where one can see paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings, and contemporary…

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What Was Lincoln Really Like?

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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Interview with Cory Arcangel

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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Installing the Modern World

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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New Hire: David D’Agostino

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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Architectural Models for White Cube, Green Maze

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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New Hire: Adam Ryan

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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