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Carnegie Museum of Art
2005/2006 Exhibition Schedule
April 6, 2005
PLEASE NOTE: This information is effective
as of April 6, 2005 and is subject to change. For current information, contact
the museum's communications office at 412.688.8690. Images of the museum, its
collection, and special exhibitions are available online. Contact the communications
office for access.
Exhibitions
Kawase Hasui: Landscapes of Modern Japan
Through May 8, 2005
Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground
Through June 12, 2005
Mixed Doubles
Through January, 26, 2006
The Art Connection Exhibition
March 26–April 10, 2005
kid size: The Material World of Childhood
April 30, 2005–September 11, 2005
On Paper III: Selections from the Permanent Collection
May 21–October 9, 2005
Renewing Wright
October 1, 2005–January 15, 2006
Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer
November 5, 2005–February 5, 2006
Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library 1950–1953
November 5, 2005–February 26, 2006
Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part
February, 2006
Barns of Western Pennsylvania
February 18–May 28, 2006
Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era, 1750–1920
March 18–July 9, 2006
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages
October 14, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007
Special Events
13th Annual Antiques Show
April 15–17, 2005
Decorative Arts Symposium
October 17, 2005
Holidays
December 1–31, 2005
Exhibition Descriptions
Kawase Hasui: Landscapes of Modern Japan
Through May 8, 2005
Works on Paper Gallery
Kawase Hasui (Japanese 1883–1957) was one of the most important print designers
of the shin hanga (“new print”) movement of early 20th century Japan.
Shin hanga were intended to revive the Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e) tradition,
which by the end of the 19th century had begun to fade. Watanabe Shozaburo (1885–1962),
publisher and the major force behind the movement, sought to issue artists’ original
designs utilizing traditionally trained carvers and printers, a method for print
publication that had been successful in Japan for centuries.
Hasui worked closely with Watanabe, becoming one of his most successful artists.
The Japanese landscape was Hasui’s specialty. He traveled all over the
country in search of subjects evocative of the old traditions, but his prints
were clearly informed by modern sensibilities. A master of atmospheric effects,
Hasui excelled at portraying the effect of light and the weather on the landscape.
This exhibition includes some 70 prints and a few watercolors drawn from the
James B. Austin collection at the museum as well as from a private Pittsburgh
collection.
Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground
Through June 12, 2005
The Heinz Architectural Center
Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground is the first complete monographic exhibition
dedicated to the work of Michael Maltzan and his Los Angeles-based practice Michael
Maltzan Architecture.
Commencing in 1996, Maltzan has designed innovative private homes and educational
spaces mostly in the L.A. area. His Hergott/Shepard Residence, Beverly Hills,
was included in The Un-Private House at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1999.
In June 2002, MoMA QNS—Maltzan’s reworking of a former staple factory—opened
in Queens, New York City. Projects currently in design or under construction
in California include several residences, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, the Sonoma
County Museum, and Kidspace Museum, Pasadena. Maltzan was also selected for the
2002 Venice Biennale International Exhibition of Architecture.
Michael Maltzan: Alternate Ground brings these projects together for the first
time. In particular, large and small models demonstrate essential qualities of
the practice’s work: the grafting of new and old, a sensitivity to topography,
the prioritization of natural light, and the pleasure of promenade.
Mixed Doubles
Through January 2006
Forum Gallery
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, the
first bring together the work of Dara Birnbaum and a collective work by Cory
Arcangel & Paper Rad, screening through June 3. 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.
The Art Connection Exhibition
Through April 10, 2005
Hall of Sculpture
For 76 years, studio art classes for kids at Carnegie Museum of Art have nurtured
budding artists. Among the museum’s distinguished student alumni are
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 artmaking 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.
kid size: The Material World of Childhood
April 30, 2005–September 11, 2005
Heinz Galleries
kid size presents several everyday objects from the environments that accompany
childhood. Through them the exhibition explores the similar and changing relationships
between adults and children across generations and cultures. Featured in the
exhibition are 130 pieces of furniture and other artifacts designed over three
centuries that illuminate the links between many periods and societies including
those of Europe, North and South America, Africa, India, Indonesia, New Guinea,
and China. Designed for meeting the needs of children in their world of sleep,
play, learning, movement, feeding, and grooming, these objects have been selected
in response to adult attitudes about experience and identity in a child's formative
years.
Key to the Pittsburgh installation of kid size are adult and kid-friendly activities
that encourage visitors to play with design. In each of the exhibition's six
thematic sections, adults and children can participate together in creative play
and art making projects, read bedtime stories, and try out chairs, baby carriers,
and toys just like the ones on view in the exhibition learning more about objects
and furniture designed for children.
On Paper III: Selections from the Permanent Collection
May 21–October 9, 2005
Works on Paper Gallery
Inexpensive, widely available, pliable yet resilient, paper inspires artists
and doodlers alike—to radically different results. On view in this exhibition
are some fifty works of art on paper recently added to the museum’s collection
of contemporary art that represent the vitality of paper as an artistic medium.
From photographs to paintings, drawings to various modes of printmaking, paper
lends itself well to any kind of marking. The diversity of works included span
from the 1940s to the present day, and include contemporary masters such as
Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, and Sol Lewitt alongside newer international
voices, including Peter Doig, Neo Rauch, Yasumasa Morimura, and Gabriel Orozco.
Renewing Wright
October 1, 2005–January 15, 2006
The Heinz Architectural Center
Renewing Wright brings together two iconic buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright
with, in each case, an associated project by a leading visionary architect
of today.
The Darwin D. Martin House (1903–1905) in Buffalo, New York is one of
Wright’s major domestic designs—including gardens and satellite
buildings—from the early stages of a remarkably long career. The H.C.
Price Company Office Tower and Apartments (1952–1956) in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma, one of Wright’s last realized works, is a rare example of an
organic high-rise, a small skyscraper thought of as a great tree.
Now, as the result of an invited competition involving five contemporary practices,
the Japan-born, New York-based architect Toshiko Mori is set to construct a
glass-walled Visitors’ Pavilion to one side of the Martin House garden.
Simultaneously, the Iraq-born, London-based Zaha Hadid has been commissioned
to design a fluid, horizontal Arts Center as a crescent or inhabited berm to
one side of Price Tower.
Renewing Wright will document both original Wright projects together with these
new architectural inventions inspired by the presence and legacy of Wright.
Ms. Mori is Chair of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Ms. Hadid is
the 2004 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, international architecture’s
most prestigious award.
Luke Swank: Modernist Photographer
November 5, 2005–February 5, 2006
Heinz Galleries
This major retrospective exhibition of approximately 140 photographs will reassess
the career of the Pennsylvania photographer, Luke Swank (1890–1944). Swank was one
of the most important modernist photographers of his generation, and a contemporary of Man
Ray, Walker Evans, and Berenice Abbot. During his life, his work was exhibited in New York
at the Julian Levy Gallery, and at the Museum of Modern Art. His reputation waned after his
premature death and before his place in history was secured.
Swank’s large and varied body of work moved from an early pictorial style
in the late 1920s to precise, sharp, modernist images that combine a documentary reality
with abstraction and the surreal. Swank’s photographs from the 1930s portray the city of
Pittsburgh, the nation’s center of industrial innovation and economic vitality, and other industrial subjects,
with a singular documentary vision. His circus images are seamless exploration of the real and
the surreal and his explorations of rural Pennsylvania architecture pay homage
to form, detail, and light.
Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library 1950–1953
November 5, 2005–February 26, 2006
Works on Paper Gallery
Initially commissioned to record the progress of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance
I, the photographs of Roy Stryker’s Pittsburgh Photographic Library capture
the city in a state of flux. Witness to the Fifties collects these unforgettable
black-and-white photographs that illustrate the convergence of destruction and
rejuvenation that is the essence of an urban renaissance.
Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project, Part II
February, 2006
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 II of the Teenie Harris Archive
Project, the museum once again is asking members of the community who are familiar
with the history of the era to help identify the people, places, and events taking
place in the approximately 3500 photocopied and bound images, most of which have
not been on view before. In addition to printed questionnaires that visitors
can complete onsite, the images are available on the museum’s website,
www.cmoa.org, which will have an online response form. The gathered information
will be entered into the Museum's collections database and will be available
on-line in the future.
Barns of Western Pennsylvania
February 18–May 28, 2006
The Heinz Architectural Center
Despite rampant suburban sprawl in Western Pennsylvania, 29 of the 33 counties
in this half of the state are classified as rural, and agriculture remains a
leading industry. Barns are thus an important component of this region’s
landscape, as well as extremely evocative icons in the popular mind. This exhibition
traces the development of barns in the region from the late 18th century to the
present through an exploration of their forms, functions, technological evolution,
and role as barometers of change in the agrarian economy.
Fierce Friends: Artists & Animals in the Industrial Era, 1750–1900
March 18–July 9, 2006
Heinz Galleries
In the 18th and 19th centuries, modern theories of evolution and the proliferation
of machines elevated animals to a new status in religion, philosophy, and the
arts. This exhibition, co-organized by Carnegie Museum of Art and the Van Gogh
Museum, explores the ways that artists of the period addressed the issue of humanity’s
relationship with nature as exemplified through our treatment of animals. Through
paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and photographs, the exhibition shows
how the visual arts drew upon science, natural history, and literature about
animals, and how those fields, in turn, were shaped, inspired, or influenced
by the work of artists.
Built around thought-provoking visual juxtapositions to surprise, delight, and
provoke, the visitor encounters great paintings and sculptures next to fossils,
specimens of taxidermy, ground plans of zoological gardens, illustrated books,
birdcages, and steam engines.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages
October 14, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007
Heinz Galleries
Like his art, the life of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) is filled with
drama, color, and complexity. Born into a family of great wealth, given all the
advantages of the privileged in education and travel, Tiffany was nevertheless
a hardworking perfectionist throughout his lifetime, relentless in his quest
for beauty in art. First as a painter, then as an interior decorator and experimenter
in the medium of glass, by the last quarter of the 19th century Tiffany had attained
a position of great stature in the arts. At the beginning of the 20th century,
he was revered both in the United States and in Europe, where he won numerous
honors. Throughout the first decade and into the second, with the assistance
of the talented artisans with whom he surrounded himself, he produced some of
his finest work.
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist for the Ages, an exhibition of 120 objects in all
media will examine the wide-ranging art of Tiffany. His paintings, furniture
and interior design, bronze and metalwork, enamels, art pottery, jewelry, stained
glass and favrile glass will be organized in four main themes: Inspired by Nature;
Influenced by the Near and Far East; Learning from the Past; and Looking toward
the Future. The exhibition is organized and circulated by Exhibitions International,
NY.
2005 Special Events
13th Annual Antiques Show
April 15–17, 2005
Various locations in the museum
With more than 40 well-known and reputable dealers from around the country,
the Annual Antiques Show, sponsored by the Women’s Committee of Carnegie
Museum of Art, offers an excellent opportunity for the public to view and purchase
high-quality antiques. The show’s preview party will be held April 14 and
a variety of activities including a wine tasting and lectures by Town and Country
magazine editor Pamela Fiori, garden designer Jon Carloftis, and television host
Leslie Hindman, will be held. For information, call 412.622.3325.
28th Annual Decorative Arts Symposium
Oct. 17, 2005
Carnegie Music Hall
Paul Miller, the curator of the Preservation Society of Newport County and
Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor in Architectural History at the University
of Virginia are the distinguished speakers for this year’s Decorative Arts
Symposium, sponsored by the Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art.
Their topic: The Gilded Age: Newport and Its Mansions.
Holidays at Carnegie Museum of Art
December 2, 2005–January 2, 2006
Hall of Architecture
Carnegie Museum of Art decks the Hall of Architecture every year with delightful
seasonal displays, including the Neapolitan Presepio, a rare Neapolitan Nativity scene
with more than 100 lifelike, painstakingly crafted figures, and four towering
trees, resplendent with colorful handmade ornaments created by the Museum of
Art Women’s Committee.
Carnegie
Museum of Art
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 is nationally and internationally recognized for
its distinguished collection of American and European works from the sixteenth
century to the present. The Heinz Architectural Center, part of Carnegie Museum
of Art, is dedicated to the collection, study, and exhibition of architectural
drawings and models. 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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Admission
Members, Free
Adults, $10
Seniors, $7
Children, and students $6
Group Tours
412.622.3289
For groups of 10 or more:
Self-Guided Visit—students $5.50, seniors $6.50, adults $9.50
Docent-Guided Visit—One-hour tour: students (inc. college) $5, seniors
$6, adults $9;
Ninety-minute tour: students $6.50, seniors $7.50, adults $10.50;
Two one-hour tours/one two-hour tour: students $8, seniors $9, adults $12
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and Carnegie Music Hall are located in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh at 4400
Forbes Avenue, across from the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of
Learning.
Parking is available in the garage directly behind the building at the corner
of Forbes Avenue and South Craig Street.
Contact:
Tey Stiteler
412.688.8690
stitelert@carnegiemuseums.org
Mark Bertolet
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bertoletm@carnegiemuseums.org
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