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Carnegie Museum of Art
2008/2009 Exhibition Schedule
October 1, 2008
PLEASE NOTE: This information is effective as of October 1, 2008, and is subject to change.
For current information, contact the museum’s communications office at 412.622.3316. Images of the museum, its collection, and special exhibitions are available online. Contact the communications office for access.
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
through January 11, 2009
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination
November 1, 2008–February 15, 2009
Neapolitan presepio
November 28, 2008–January 7, 2009
Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero
February 28–May 31, 2009
Matsubara Naoko: A Celebration in Pittsburgh
March 7–June 7, 2009
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room
March 15–July 19, 2009
Forum 62: Maria Grazia Rosin
March 21–June 28, 2009
Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three
July 18–November 8, 2009
Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights
November 21, 2009–January 24, 2010
Neapolitan presepio
November 27, 2009–January 10, 2010
Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 19, 2009–June 13, 2010
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
January 30–April 25, 2010
Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners
February 13–June 13, 2010
Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 5, 2008–January 7, 2009
The Art Connection Exhibition
April 4–19, 2009
Art Blooms
April 16–18, 2009
Art and Architecture Camps
June 15–August 16, 2009
99th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
August 29–November 8, 2009
Reopening of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries of Decorative Arts
November 2009
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International
through January 11, 2009
Multiple museum galleries
Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, explores the important—yet continually perplexing—question of what it means to be human in the world today. Organized by Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Life on Mars presents the varying perspectives of 40 artists from across the globe. Each artist brings a unique outlook to the question of humanity’s response to a world in which global events challenge and seem to threaten our everyday existence. The exhibition includes works in a diverse range of media, from painting, sculpture, and drawing to video, film, installation, and sound pieces—all searching for the sublime in the confusion of everyday life.
The Carnegie International, established in 1896, is the oldest survey exhibition of international contemporary art in North America, and the second oldest in the world. Since its founding, the International has inspired dialogue about social and aesthetic concerns, while offering visitors a thought-provoking view of contemporary art.
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008─January 18, 2009
The Heinz Architectural Center
Long mythologized as a site of homogeneity and conformity, American suburbs have changed dramatically in the last 30 years, as growing numbers of minorities, immigrants, and non-traditional families make their homes there. No longer simply bedroom communities serving urban centers, suburbs have evolved into important generators of economic growth. While the subdivisions, shopping malls, and retail strips of suburbia give the impression of undifferentiated sprawl, they are only the most conspicuous elements of a complex physical and psychic terrain. Worlds Away, organized by the Walker Art Center in association with Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center, is the first major museum exhibition to examine the responses both of artists and of architects to the contemporary American suburb. Photographs, architectural models and drawings, animated projections, prints, sculptures, and videos by close to three dozen artists and architects reflect upon and propose ideas for suburbs, exposing the many layers of these seemingly familiar places.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Architecture and the Spaces of the Imagination
November 1, 2008–February 15, 2009
Works on Paper gallery
In his stunning series of prints called Imaginary Prisons, 18th-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi created haunting, expressive, and entirely fantastical architectural scenes. The large-scale etchings and engravings—with their cavernous, gloomy chambers and labyrinthine corridors and staircases filled with unreal machines, enormous chains, and contorted prisoners—allow for an investigation of the line between architectural observation and the imagination. Prints from Piranesi’s series Views of Rome likewise demonstrate his tremendous skill at rendering perspective and creating complex environments. Even in views of known locations in Rome, Piranesi frequently elaborated, exaggerated, and added imaginary devices or dramatic figural vignettes. Additional works by Piranesi and by his contemporaries and followers reveal the broad context of his career and his legacy through the generations.
Neapolitan presepio
November 28, 2008–January 7, 2009
Hall of Architecture
A visit to Carnegie Museum of Art’s Neapolitan presepio, one of the finest Nativity scenes of its kind, has been a Pittsburgh holiday tradition since 1957. Handcrafted between 1700 and 1830, the presepio teems with lifelike figures and colorful details that re-create the Nativity within a vibrant and detailed panorama of 18th-century Italian village life. More than 100 superbly modeled human and angelic figures, along with animals, accessories, and architectural elements, cover 250 square feet and create a memorable depiction of the Nativity as seen through the eyes of Neapolitan artisans and collectors.
Laboratory of Architecture/Fernando Romero
February 28–May 31, 2009
Heinz Architectural Center
The ambitious work of young Mexican architect Fernando Romero and his practice, LAR (Laboratory of Architecture), is explored in this exhibition focusing on 23 key projects. Illuminated models, many of them fabricated specially for the exhibition, are complemented by large photographs of Mexico City that provide a context for much of Romero’s work. Informed by his studies of Mexico City and of the U.S./Mexican border, Romero responds to the challenges and hopes of Mexico with new building forms, imaginative structures, and concepts for civic space.
The exhibition takes the visitor through a suite of installations, from rectilinear glass buildings to a set of inhabited bridges to evolving designs for complex organic structures. Deeply conscious of contemporary art culture, Romero exhibits many process models for the Soumaya Museum, an important private institution, together with his master plan for the surrounding Polanco development. In addition to these prestigious designs, the practice has focused on community projects in less affluent neighborhoods. Romero is also currently working in the United States, Europe, and China.
Matsubara Naoko: A Celebration in Pittsburgh
March 7–June 7, 2009
Works on Paper gallery
Matsubara Naoko is one of the most prominent practitioners today of sōsaku-hanga, the traditional style of Japanese woodblock printmaking where the artist designs, carves, and prints each work of art. She received her MFA in 1962 from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. A retrospective of her career from the 1960s to the present, this exhibition features approximately 50 prints, many of which have particular resonance with Pittsburgh, either through subject or circumstance. The exhibition coincides with other events surrounding Matsubara being organized by Chatham University.
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room
March 15–July 19, 2009
Heinz Galleries
Opera for a Small Room tempts the audience with songs, sounds, arias, and occasional pop tunes that quietly filter out of a room they cannot enter. Twenty-four antique loudspeakers, eight record players, and thousands of records litter the room, seen only through windows, cracks, and small holes in the wall.
Forum 62: Maria Grazia Rosin
March 21–June 28, 2009
Forum gallery
Re-creating an installation for the Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, this exhibition includes 21 hanging chandelier-like sculptures by Maria Grazia Rosin. Part-marine and part-extraterrestrial, these illuminated sculptures are combined with a video projection by Andrew Quinn, Buca d’acqua, 2007, and a sound installation by the duo Visnadi and Camomatic to create a fully immersive exhibition that Rosin describes as “a seductive sensory machine.”
Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part Three
July 18–November 8, 2009
Forum gallery
Charles “Teenie” Harris photographed the events and daily life in Pittsburgh’s African American community between 1936 and 1975 for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s most influential Black newspapers. In 2001, Carnegie Museum of Art acquired Harris’ archive of nearly 80,000 photographic negatives, few of which are titled and dated. With Part Three of the Teenie Harris Archive Project, the museum once again asks members of the community to help identify the people, places, and events taking place in the approximately 200 digital prints and thousands of online and bound images, most of which have not been on view before. The collected information will be entered into the museum’s collection database and available online in the future. The exhibition is curated by Charles “Teenie” Harris, Jr., and has a focus on the poignant family photographs from early in Teenie’s career.
Matisse: The Thousand and One Nights
November 21, 2009–January 24, 2010
Works on Paper gallery
Matisse was 81 when he created the colorful and exuberant The Thousand and One Nights of 1950, with its fanciful magic lamps, dancing plant forms, and hearts. The design of this work was inspired by Scheherazade, the narrator of the Arabian Nights, a centuries-old Middle Eastern epic tale. The large paper cutout in the museum’s collection is a visitor favorite, but because of its fragile nature it can only be on view for a limited time.
Gods, Love, and War: Tapestries at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 19, 2009–June 13, 2010
Heinz Galleries
Gods, Love, and War features large-scale tapestries woven in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. These engaging pictures in textile depict the seasons of the year, religious icons, and mythological and allegorical subjects. The exhibition shows the transcendence of motifs and styles all over Europe during the “Golden Age” of tapestry production.
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
January 30–April 25, 2010
Heinz Galleries
Charles Rohlfs was one of the most skillful though enigmatic American furniture makers of the late 19th century. His fascinating inspiration from varied sources, including Japan, China, the Middle East, and medieval and Renaissance Europe, resulted in a rich assortment of tables, chairs, chests, and candlesticks, all distinguished by the quality of their hand craftsmanship. A modernist in his sensibilities, Rohlfs indirectly endorsed the Arts and Crafts tenets of honest workmanship and truth to materials and the Art Nouveau obsession with the whiplash line.
Caricature, Satire, and Comedy of Manners
February 13–June 13, 2010
Works on Paper gallery
Caricature and satire can sometimes be used for witty, lighthearted, or humorous purposes; conversely, it can convey serious or biting comments on social or political themes. Often the seemingly disparate ideas of humor and sharp critique are blended within one image. Through the prints of artists such as Honoré Daumier, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, James Gillray, Francisco Goya, William Hogarth, and Thomas Rowlandson, among others, this exhibition examines the inherent contradictions within the categories of caricature and satire.
Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 5, 2008–January 7, 2009
Hall of Architecture
During the holidays, Carnegie Museum of Art decks the Hall of Architecture with delightful seasonal displays and offers weekend concerts to add to the festive atmosphere. The Neapolitan presepio has enchanted generations of visitors. This year’s towering holiday trees are themed in celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th anniversary and adorned with handmade ornaments by the Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art. Tours are available for the presepio and for works in the galleries that feature seasonal themes, including The Nativity and The King and the Shepherd, dramatic paintings of biblical scenes by the19th-century English artist Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.
The Art Connection Exhibition
April 4–19, 2009
Hall of Sculpture
For 80 years, studio art classes for kids at Carnegie Museum of Art have nurtured budding artists. Among the museum’s distinguished student alumni are artists Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Raymond Saunders, and Duane Michals. Students in the current Art Connection program develop their artistic skills through gallery sketching, sharing ideas about original artwork in the museum’s galleries, behind-the-scenes sessions with museum staff, and art-making using a variety of materials. This exhibition showcases the work produced by 5th- through 9th-grade students inspired by the creative environment of the museum and its collections.
Art Blooms
April 16–18, 2009
Scaife Galleries
The Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art presents the first-ever Art Blooms, a spring special event featuring fresh flower arrangements inspired by and placed alongside works of art from the museum’s collection. Regional garden clubs create the gallery arrangements, while commercial florists from the area display arrangements of their own in the museum’s public spaces. Scheduled guided tours will be available to the public during museum hours. Additional ticketed events include a benefit preview, an evening party, and a guest lecture by Ron Morgan, author of In the Company of the Flower, a new book on flower design.
Art and Architecture Camps
June 15–August 16, 2009
The Heinz Architectural Center
A series of one- and two-week camps dedicated to architectural design, construction, form, and function, and presented in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, are available for children ages four to 13, and for high school students. The galleries of Carnegie Museum of Art’s Heinz Architectural Center are transformed into bustling studios for the architecture camps. Architectural drawings and models from the Center’s collection are put on view to inform and inspire campers and their instructors. The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours.
99th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
August 29–November 8, 2009
Heinz Galleries
Each year the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh invites artists living within 150 miles of the city to submit work for this survey exhibition. The juried show has been held annually since 1910, making AAP the oldest and largest continuously exhibiting member arts organization in the country.
Reopening of the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries of Decorative Arts
November 2009
The Ailsa Mellon Bruce Galleries will present an enhanced reinstallation of the museum’s collection of decorative arts, design, and craft, selectively integrated with prints, architectural drawings, and paintings. Included will be a prominent display of the museum’s important collections of Western Pennsylvania furniture and contemporary objects made from glass and aluminum—two materials deeply associated with Western Pennsylvania.
Objects will be arranged chronologically, reflecting the strength of the collection from the 18th century to the present. The cross-continental installation will provide a universal perspective on the development of style and design, from Rococo and Neoclassicism of the 18th century, to Revivalism and the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements of the 19th century, to Modernism and contemporary design and craft of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art was founded by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1895. One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, it is nationally and internationally recognized for its distinguished collection of American and European works from the 16th century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum of Art, is dedicated to enhancing understanding of the physical environment through its exhibitions, collections, and public programs. For more information about Carnegie Museum of Art, call 412.622.3131 or visit our web site at www.cmoa.org.
The exhibitions and dates listed above are subject to change.
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Children and students, $11
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Contact:
Leigh Kish
412.622.3316
kishl@carnegiemuseums.org
Tey Stiteler
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stitelert@carnegiemuseums.org
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