- Contemporary Art
Those Marvelous Things: Black Poets and Their Complex of Visual Songs
Both a plea and a polemic, this powerful essay revises how we think about Black art and artists.
Installation view, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. Photo: Bryan Conley
- Contemporary Art
Two Radically Different Museums Start an Urgent Discussion
Amanda Hunt and Eric Crosby discuss the impetus behind the exhibition 20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art, which brings both museum's very different collections into conversation.
- Contemporary Art
Looking at a Deeply Divided America through a 20/20 Lens
A unique collaboration between Carnegie Museum of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem combines works of the past and present to give voice to shifting, contemporary realities.
- Contemporary Art
How Artist Lenka Clayton Captures Essential Truths about the Museum
In her series Dispatches from the Museum, artist Lenka Clayton captures the quotidian experiences on view at the museum.
- Contemporary Art
How Alison Knowles’s ‘Event Scores’ Offer Recipes for Action
Following the opening of her exhibition in the Forum Gallery last May, Alison Knowles led an impromptu performance workshop with local artists.
- Contemporary Art
Organizing Delirium: Inside the World of Hélio Oiticica
How Hélio Oiticica challenged the traditional boundaries of art, and its relationship with life, by turning the viewer into participant.
- Contemporary Art
Year of the Monkey: The History Behind Ai Weiwei’s ’Zodiac Heads’
Yi (Sally) Cao examines the meaning and history behind Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads.
- Contemporary Art
Installing Ai Weiwei’s ‘Zodiac Heads’ in the Hall of Architecture
Mark Blatnik, chief preparator at Carnegie Museum of Art, on the challenge of installing Ai Weiwei's Zodiac Heads in the Hall of Architecture.
- Contemporary Art
Los Angeles to Pittsburgh: Guest Curating from a City in Transition
Los Angeles-based writer and curator Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer reflects on her experience jurying this year's Associated Artists of Pittsburgh exhibition.
- Contemporary Art
Celebrating the Playful and Ephemeral Art of Alison Knowles
At the opening of her Forum exhibition, Alison Knowles embraced the playful nature of her work with a memorable (and colorful) event.