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2012-05-19 18:00:16
Carnegie Museum of Art took a major step Friday toward increasing its status as a global contender.
2012-05-19 00:02:54
On one of those all-too-rare sunny Pittsburgh days, Ned Kahn brought clouds to the North Side of the city.
2012-05-18 22:52:46
Carnegie Museum of Art has named Dan Byers as the first Richard Armstrong Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
2012-05-18 16:01:53
Artist Ned Kahn conducted the first testing of his "Cloud Arbor" today at a park on the North Side.
2012-05-16 15:32:30
A slumped form resembling a small animal lies at the entry of an installation at the Mattress Factory museum on the North Side.
2012-05-16 09:22:48
Several local institutions are participating in the Association of Art Museum Directors' Art Museum Day on May 18
2012-05-15 00:25:17
This is a biweekly series about art and artists in the region.
2012-05-11 16:59:23
Isa Leshko examines aging animals and Akihiko Miyoshi uses a computer program to give his photos a digital interpretation.
2012-05-11 00:12:09
Impressionism and Paris will fill summer days and nights at Carnegie Museum of Art.
2012-05-11 00:09:06
Memorial Day and Labor Day are the traditional bookends of the summer season.
2012-05-09 17:47:25
In the 1960s, before he catapulted onto the world stage, Andy Warhol was already producing some of his most iconic pieces.
2012-05-09 17:46:10
One hundred photographs of Andy Warhol from the early 1960s have been given to The Andy Warhol Museum.
2012-05-09 16:19:33
When the governor and his wife accept the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opera's gala on Saturday, they can expect some extras outside.
2012-05-09 15:52:11
Three members of the African-American poetry organization Cave Canem will read Thursday in front of Teenie Harris' looming, projected images
2012-05-09 15:51:57
Andy Warhol had hundreds of boxes of stuff, and not one came with an explanation.
2012-05-09 15:51:49
"We've had spectacular attendance at all the Teenie Harris programs by a great cross-section of Pittsburghers."
2012-05-09 15:51:16
It's a question often posed by architects and urban planners whose focus is Downtown.
2012-05-09 15:47:59
The house's new owner is sparring with neighbors and some church members over plans to tear it down to build a youth center and parking lot.
2012-05-09 15:39:54
Today: Mendelssohn Choir, "Canvassing Clutter," "Pressing and Mounting Specimens for a Herbarium." Monday: "Shakespeare on the Irish" ...
2012-05-09 15:38:43
A fundraiser today on South Side offers a chance to buy framed paintings and drawings by children who are residents of an African orphanage.
2012-05-09 15:29:17
In Shaler Area, art shows aren't just for mature artists.
2012-05-09 15:29:02
"Only God can make a tree, but I'm trying," Kathleen Ferri says as she dabs a canvas with her brush. "I can't get the leaves right."
2012-05-09 15:27:30
Alexandra Raphael, a gifted enamelist who is also daughter of the organization's founder, will give a free talk at 6 p.m. March 30.
2012-05-09 15:24:30
This is a biweekly series about art and artists in the region.
2012-05-09 15:22:09
The D.C. native who started his professional life as a frontman for hardcore pioneers Black Flag spoke for nearly three hours Saturday.
2012-05-09 15:20:34
The Storefront Project is an online feature dedicated to showing the historical transitions of retail corridors throughout the city.
2012-05-09 15:20:06
Celebrate the children from city neighborhoods who participated in the "Picturing Me After-School Youth Program" by attending a talk.
2012-05-09 15:15:54
Nicholas Chambers, an art historian and curator from Australia, is the new Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum.
2012-05-09 15:13:32
Three of the artists featured in the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts' "10 Solo Exhibits" will speak there tonight.
2012-05-09 15:13:30
Nicholas Chambers, curator of contemporary international art at the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, will begin work in April.
2012-05-09 15:10:04
Romare Bearden's mural "Pittsburgh Recollections," has been reinstalled in the Gateway Center light-rail station.
2012-05-09 15:09:59
"Native Pennsylvania, A Wildflower Walk" exhibition arrives just as the weather turns springlike.
2012-05-09 14:52:42
Cleanup efforts are under way after comic books were ruined when a leak sent rain through ToonSeum warehouse.
2012-05-09 14:52:27
The Downtown museum has raised more than $10,000 and received commitments for more comic books.
2012-05-09 14:52:07
Art centers vary in size, offerings, audience and hours, but have a welcoming quality that extends to anyone who walks through the door.
2012-05-09 14:50:23
Here are thumbnail sketches of a half dozen of the region's many community art centers:
2012-05-09 14:49:17
An exhilarating exhibition at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown, brings together potent artworks.
2012-05-09 14:46:57
As many as thousands bear water damage, including some that will be hard to replace.
2012-05-09 14:46:24
Artist Donald Judd infected this high desert cattle town with East Coast sensibilities in the 1970s. Now it's an outpost of avant-garde.
2012-05-09 14:46:10
Before the invention of celluloid plastic, all photographs were taken on glass plates.
2012-05-09 14:46:10
Patricia Sheridan's photos from Marfa, where art is big.
2012-05-09 14:42:33
If you were invited to capture Pittsburgh's persona with a camera, what would you shoot?
2012-05-09 14:42:10
When Damien Hirst's spot paintings opened at 11 Gagosian galleries in January, critics busied themselves.
2012-05-09 14:35:56
"ASPIRE: a retrospective of young talent"
2012-05-09 14:33:30
After years of dues-paying, artist Beverly McIver cleared a high rung on the success ladder when she was given her first solo
2012-05-09 14:31:12
To observe the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Distinctively Dutch Festival, we bring you a few more ways to experience Holland on your own
2012-05-09 14:24:52
A field diary by British explorer David Livingstone is legible for the first time in 141 years.
2012-05-09 14:23:46
River City Brass joins local high school bands for music of the rocking 1950s in its next run of shows around the region.
2012-05-09 14:09:01
This is a biweekly series about art and artists in the region.
2012-05-09 14:06:51
The moment you enter "Van Gogh Up Close" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition tells you that it's something special,
2012-05-09 14:06:39
That the Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting a major van Gogh exhibition would be no mystery to the devoted Japanese pilgrims who bear
2012-05-09 14:06:04
Carnegie Museums of Art and of Natural History, Oakland, will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2012-05-09 13:50:38
Sometimes it's difficult to gauge what will produce a visceral response.
2012-05-09 13:45:00
In celebration of Black History Month, 10 screen prints and collages by Romare Bearden are being exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, 117
2012-05-09 09:19:44
"I wanted everybody to see the child differently than they did the day before," says artist Arne Swenson, whose work is at The Warhol.
2012-05-06 00:07:10
The Pittsburgh Opera's production of "The Abduction From the Seraglio" takes the tale out of the Turkish harem and onto the Orient Express.
2012-05-04 07:45:36
Those silent folk standing, sitting and working around Gateway Center haven't been body snatched by an alien force.
2012-05-02 00:06:05
Pittsburgh in its earliest incarnation was a frontier of opportunity, nestled between the Appalachian chain and the great Ohio.
2012-05-01 09:07:28
This is a biweekly series about art and artists in the region.
2012-04-30 20:37:46
The "Before I die" project introduced on the side of an abandoned house in New Orleans last year has gone global.
2012-04-30 12:54:46
Transparency might be the buzzword of the day, heard constantly in news sound bites. But it's also a theme used frequently in art.
2012-04-29 00:26:19
Christopher Houlihan, star organist; Shakespeare in the Parks' BYOB; Oberhofer at the Warhol; authors Stewart O'Nan and Jane McCafferty ...
2012-04-27 15:08:01
With so much of the arena already destroyed, the lawsuit it moot, a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
2012-04-26 15:15:08
JFest celebrates Israel, 'Bus Stop' at CMU, Bluegrass Concert benefit, Pyrotopia, Art All Night in Larryville, make way for 'Houli Fans' ...
2012-04-26 00:38:21
A world premiere and a grand opening are part of the entertainment Friday.
2012-04-25 11:20:25
Pyrotopia, Pittsburgh's first Festival of Fire Arts, will be held Saturday at the Historic Pump House & Water Tower in Homestead.
2012-04-21 16:51:21
Kennywood Park aficionados who have grown weary of the Thunderbolt or Phantom's Revenge can ride the new Black Widow.
2012-04-19 15:35:42
Doug Sneyd will give fans a glimpse into his life and art at the ToonSeum
2012-04-18 00:27:16
If you're looking for something to do on Earth Day, consider a visit to www.whatismissing.net, the site developed by artist Maya Lin.
2012-04-18 00:07:57
The biennial Silver Eye Center for Photography Benefit Auction and Brunch will be held April 29 at Clear Story Studio, South Side.
2012-04-16 00:39:28
The former film storage structure is envisioned as "a cooperative work environment for creative types."
2012-04-16 00:08:30
Architect weighs students' ideas on making the CAPA roof a green space.
2012-04-15 17:31:35
A single work by artist David Ludwig invites a discussion -- of color and form and craft, of quietude and intensity.
2012-04-15 16:45:09
This tropical retreat has upped its game. It's not just sun, sand and snowbirds anymore. The city has morphed into a cultural capital.
2012-04-15 00:04:15
"There are five reasons why men drink -- good wine, a friend, because I'm dry or lest I should be by and by or any other reason why."
2012-04-14 00:12:47
Art in Bloom, an annual event that fills the galleries of the Carnegie Museum of Art with the colors and fragrances of spring, returns.
2012-04-11 18:29:19
CMU professor opens Center for PostNatural History in Garfield
2012-04-11 18:05:59
Young Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Omara 'Bombino' Moctar will be playing at the Thunderbird Cafe
2012-04-11 16:31:53
Carnegie Museums has committed to showing his globe-hopping "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" on a date to be determined.
2012-04-10 00:28:41
Someone wants to own a huge chunk of Titanic history. As a matter of fact, how about more than 5,500 pieces of it?
2012-04-10 00:07:09
Designers and architects are dreaming big for a chance to improve the place sometimes called America's front yard.
2012-04-09 18:09:55
The Bloomfield Bridge Tavern is never dry, and tonight it will be wetter than usual. That's because today is Dyngus Day.
2012-04-07 10:01:33
The "By His Wounds" exhibit is featured in a show at the Union Project tonight in Highland Park.
2012-04-07 10:00:45
Stefanie Moser, a Highland Park artist who hula hoops around Pittsburgh, spent Lent wrapping her mind around Judas.
2012-04-05 16:49:39
Now in its third year, the Geek Arts/Green Innovation Festival starts tonight and runs through Saturday.
2012-04-04 07:56:32
Japanese tsunami images become iridescent abstractions, an abandoned greenhouse becomes a metaphor for mill towns.
2012-04-04 00:29:46
Award recipients in ARTWorks, the 13th annual exhibition of work by Pittsburgh employees and family members.
2012-04-03 00:03:40
This is a biweekly series about art and artists in the region.
2012-04-02 10:53:50
Chris Olsen's moving, zooming, time-traveling map, originally meant as a work tool, has become a bit of a local sensation.
2012-04-01 13:02:22
Pirates fans can use the PG guide to identify Downtown skyline sites as seen from inside PNC Park.
2012-04-01 12:59:56
For spectators inside PNC Park, Downtown's skyscrapers serve as a glittering backdrop. But in breaks between innings, the eyes wander.
2012-03-12 12:47:30
ALL WEEKEND 'Hattie' on the Horizon New Horizon Theater's "Hi Hat Hattie"
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