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News Release February 22, 2008 When Pittsburgh industrialist Andrew Carnegie founded Carnegie Institute in 1895, one of his bold ambitions was to create a museum of modern art. The series of contemporary art exhibitions he established in 1896 became the linchpin of that scheme, and a means of building a collection for the museum through the purchase of the “Old Masters of tomorrow,” whose work would be on display. Since that time, at least 300 works have entered Carnegie Museum of Art’s permanent collection through the exhibitions, including works by Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Eduardo Chillida, Willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Ellsworth Kelley, Mike Kelly, Anselm Kiefer, Sol LeWitt, Camille Pissarro, Sigmar Polke, John Singer Sargent, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and James A. McNeill Whistler, among others. Today, the Carnegie International, as the exhibition was named in 1982, is the oldest exhibition of international contemporary art in North America and, after the Venice Biennale, the second oldest in the world. While the mission of the International has remained constant over the years, the exhibition itself has had many incarnations, ranging from an annual survey of international art to surveys of American art, to one- and two-person exhibitions. In 1982, the show returned to its original 1896 anthology format. It has been presented approximately every three years since that time. The Carnegie Prize awards $10,000 to an artist in the exhibition for outstanding achievement in the context of a lifetime of work. New to the Carnegie International in 2008 is the Fine Prize, which will complement the Carnegie Prize and be awarded to an emerging artist in the exhibition. The Fine Prize is part of a $5 million endowment given for the Carnegie International by the Fine Foundation in September 2007. 2008 Carnegie International Curator and Advisory Committee The advisory committee for Life on Mars comprises Daniel Birnbaum, director, Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Richard Flood, chief curator, New Museum, New York, NY; Eungie Joo, director and curator of education and public programs, New Museum, New York, NY; and Chus Martinez, director, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Graphic Design and Architecture Support Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh and founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museum of Art, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architecture Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to the collection and exhibition of architectural representations and to the study of all aspects of the built environment. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org.
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