- Carnegie International
Drawing the Stars as a Way to Reach Distant Worlds, New Ideas
Liz Park, associate curator of the Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018, embraces drawing and letter writing as paths to new ideas.
Installation view, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. Photo: Bryan Conley
- Carnegie International
Tam O’Shanter Drawing Sessions
Ingrid Schaffner, curator of the Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018, discusses the origins and intent of the Tam O’Shanter Drawing Sessions.
- Teenie Harris Archive
Nina Simone and the Blurred Line Between Public and Private Life
Niela Orr explores Charles "Teenie" Harris's double exposure of Nina Simone, one of the more arresting images the photographer captured during his decades long career.
- Film and Video
Bored in Pittsburgh: The Obscure Film That Immortalized 1980s Punk
Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh reflects on Stephanie Beroes' film Debt Begins at Twenty, which immortalized the Pittsburgh punk scene of the early 1980s.
- Hillman Photography Initiative
How a Childhood at the Museum Influenced One Artist’s Future
Steffani Jemison recalls a childhood encounter with art, and how that informed her future work with the museum's Hillman Photography Initiative.
- Carnegie International
The Sum of Encounters
Emmanuel Iduma’s Travelogue is based on the 14-day research trip Curator Ingrid Schaffner conducted with Companion Carin Kuoni to Morocco for the closing of the Marrakesh Biennial, Senegal for the opening of the Dakar Biennial, and Lagos, Nigeria in May 2016.
- Carnegie International
The Travelogue Series
Ingrid Schaffner, curator of the Carnegie Int’l, 57th ed., 2018, discusses the origins and intent of the Travelogue Series.
- Film and Video
Beyond Mystery: Peter Rose Meditates on Space and Time
David Finkelstein interviews experimental filmmaker Peter Rose about his 1981 film The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough.
- Teenie Harris Archive
How Teenie Harris Became an Eyewitness to Political Change
Teenie Harris’s photographs of the democratic process defined much of his 40-year career as a photojournalist at the Pittsburgh Courier.
- 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.