MARILYN: capturing a legend
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Alfred Eisenstaedt's 1952 "Actress Marilyn Monroe Playfully Elegant at Home" will be part of the "Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend," opening at the Warhol Oct. 23.
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Marilyn Monroe is the headliner at The Warhol this season, while the Carnegie looked deep into its collection and found that "the everyday is laced with the mad, uncanny, and surreal." Other fall highlights include a female Victorian photographer at the Frick, an exploration of Cuban race and racism at Mattress Factory and DIY artists at the Society for Contemporary Craft.
Culture Club (Carnegie), Dialogue (Pittsburgh Center for the Arts) and Gallery Crawls (Pittsburgh Cultural Trust) continue to grow community.
The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Centennial Year remains active with openings at Fallingwater (Saturday), the University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Sept. 25), and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, among venues. The Centennial Annual continues through Sept. 19 at the Carnegie.
Following are other season highlights.
-- Post-Gazette art critic Mary Thomas: mthomas@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1925
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: Continuing are "Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation," through Oct. 3, and the "Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Centennial Annual Exhibition" through Sept. 19. "The Art of Structure," leading 20th-century engineers explore innovative bridges and concrete shell structures, arrives Sept. 25 and continues through Jan. 17 at the Heinz Architectural Center (curator's lecture is 6 p.m. Sept. 23; free). "Ordinary Madness," works in a variety of media from the collection that suggest everyday life is anything but ordinary, opens with a free 7 p.m. Oct. 14 preview and one-time screening of the proto-psychedelic film "Heaven and Earth Magic" by avant-garde artist Harry Smith (through Jan. 9). "Andre Kertesz: On Reading," images from the 1920s to 1970s of people reading by the late Hungarian photographer, opens Oct. 23 and continues through Feb. 13. The Neapolitan Presepio rings in the holiday season Nov. 26, followed by the Annual Christmas Trees, in the Hall of Architecture (through Jan. 6). Events include new series, "What Are Museums For?," beginning Sept. 30, and "Seniors in the Morning," beginning Oct. 5, and the return of the popular Culture Clubs starting at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 16 with curator of fine arts Louise Lippincott talking about "Striking a Pose: Body Language in Art" ($10 includes two drink tickets). The film "Samuel Rosenberg: Pittsburgh's Painter Laureate" screens at 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Lunch and Learns begin today with topics including mythology's relevance, contemporary glass, rule-breaking artists and holiday traditions. (412-622-3131)
First Published September 9, 2010 12:00 am
