- Film and Video
Robert Breer’s Blazes: Animation on Fire
Chance or choice? Alla Gadassik investigates the spectacular effects of Robert Breer’s 1961 film Blazes.
Installation view, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. Photo: Bryan Conley
- Carnegie International
Vodou Surrealism
Historian and author Marcus Rediker explores Haiti’s Vodou-based Surrealist art.
- Carnegie International
From Travelogue to Typologue: The Identity of Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018
Prem Krishnamurthy of Wkshps on the visual identity of the Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018.
- Film and Video
Reconstructing Buky Schwartz’s ‘The Big Video Chair’
Emily Davis, an expert in time-based media, takes us behind the scenes as she reconstructs Buky Schwartz's seminal artwork.
- Carnegie International
Why We Travel: My Latest Passage to India
Pico Iyer takes an imaginative journey to India with curators Ingrid Schaffner and Doryun Chong.
- Film and Video
Uncovering the Secret History of Video Art at the Carnegie
Tess Takahashi looks back at the first decade of video art at Carnegie Museum of Art.
- Film and Video
Unreproducible: The Life and Work of Visionary Filmmaker Roger Jacoby
Ben Ogrodnik reassesses the impact of Roger Jacoby, a Pittsburgh filmmaker and visionary.
- 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.
- Hillman Photography Initiative
Second Lives: Who Are We in the Virtual World?
Leigh Alexander considers the promise of virtual reality, and the ways in which we present our second selves in the digital world.
- 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.