“My hope is that someday Samuel Rosenberg’s art will come out of the shadows and he will receive the credit—as an artist—he so richly deserves.”—Mel Bochner, artist
Explore the life and work of this celebrated Pittsburgh artist and teacher. This film follows his creative journey from his early portraits through his urban landscapes and allegorical depictions to his late abstract paintings.
Happy hour has never been so interesting. Start with a drink at 5:30 p.m. and then join in a salon-style conversation in the galleries. Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts, examines the revealing world of gesture and pose.
Explore the art of structure—elegant engineering solutions to structural challenges—with David Billington and Maria Garlock, distinguished professors from Princeton University’s department of civil and environmental engineering and curators of the exhibitions in The Art of Structure. Reception with cash bar follows on the Hall of Sculpture balcony; galleries open until 9 p.m.
Lynn Zelevansky talks frankly and personally about her own experiences as curator, museum visitor, parent, friend of artists, and now museum director. Hear about her ambition for the museum and her predictions for the future of art and artists.
Local heritage comes alive in landscapes, portraits, and scenes of daily life by Pennsylvania artists.
This collaborative program of Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh presents casual and thoughtful 15-minute gallery talks highlighting visual and literary connections. The talks are followed by book discussion in the galleries with fellow readers and library staff. Most books are available at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. This month’s book is Wendell Berry’s Hannah Coulter: A Novel. (images of food in the permanent collection)
Call 412.622.3288 to register.
Explore the vibrant color, surface texture, and sculptural form in studio glass. Meet at the Pittsburgh Glass Center for a tour of their facility and glassblowing and flame working demonstrations. Return to the museum for lunch in the café and continue your exploration with a guided tour of glass in the museum’s collection, led by Rachel Delphia, assistant curator of decorative arts.
Get your first look at this exhibition culled from our rich collection of contemporary art. This evening only, see the proto-psychedelic film Heaven and Earth Magic (1957–1962) by American avant-garde artist Harry Smith, on view in the Hall of Sculpture. Smith, known to many as the creator of the famous 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music, which influenced musicians like Bob Dylan, was also a highly original artist and filmmaker who made this major work by painstakingly animating cutouts from Victorian catalogues and magazines.
Happy hour has never been so interesting. Start with a drink at 5:30 p.m. and then join in a salon-style conversation in the galleries. Associate curator Dan Byers and a guest artist chat together in the exhibition Ordinary Madness about the fugitive meanings of artworks in the context of collections and exhibitions.
Film has the capacity to mirror—and manipulate—reality like almost no other medium. As part of the exhibition Ordinary Madness, experience two nights of film drawn from the museum’s extraordinary collection of works from the 1960s and 1970s. Some of these vintage prints haven’t been screened in decades and may not be seen again for years to come.
This program brings together works that focus on the irrational, ambivalent, and chaotic aspects of everyday experience and pop-culture phenomena. Because each in its own way interrogates and threatens the order imposed on society by the moral and legal establishment, several of these films were—and remain—controversial milestones.
Kenneth Anger, Scorpio Rising (1963, 30 min.) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965, 3:30 min.)
Bruce Conner, Cosmic Ray (1962, 4 min.)
Carolee Schneemann, Fuses (1964–1967, 22 min.)
Ed Emshwiller, Relativity (1966, 40 min.)
