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kid
size: The Material World of Childhood April 30 – September 11, 2005 Heinz Galleries This exhibition explores objects designed for children around the world and over time. From seventeenth-century New England to Papua New Guinea in the modern era, the material worlds of children are richly symbolic and reveal much about cultures near and far. Furniture and playthings—the stuff of childhood—communicate explicit messages about adult attitudes, expectations, and desires for their offspring. Organized into six themes, kid size investigates continuity and change in objects designed to enable play, mobility, basic functions, patterns of sleep, formal learning, and seating, with whimsical and ergonomic variations on the basic chair. Designs of precious rarity and everyday use are presented to remind us of the wonders of childhood. kid size: The Material World of Childhood is an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany. Generous support for the exhibition's presentation in Pittsburgh has been provided by members of The Associates of Carnegie Museum of Art. Additional support has been provided by Eat’n Park Restaurants and Parkhurst Dining Services. General support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.
Mixed
Doubles Mixed Doubles pairs works from the Carnegie Museum of Art’s collection of canonical video works from the 1970s and 1980s with new moving image works by emerging national and international artists. Linked thematically, these juxtapositions allow poetic and formal connections to be drawn between works of different generations that share similar impulses in subject matter, technological innovation, and aesthetic investigation. Four pairs of works will be shown in succession; this first installment brings together the work of Dara Birnbaum and a collective work by Cory Arcangel & Paper Rad, screening through June 5. Future pairings of Mixed Doubles are scheduled for early June, early August, and early October; these screenings will include the works of Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and Paul Harrison and John Wood, among others.
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