TOURS
Drop–in Tours
Tuesday–Sunday, 1:30–2:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Group Tours
Call 412.622.3289 to schedule a docent-guided tour for your adult, community,
or school group. To schedule a slide-illustrated talk for a community group,
call Deborah Starling-Pollard at 412.622.5578.
LECTURES
Curator’s Lecture: Laura Hoptman
Friday, October 15, 6:00 p.m.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Lecture Hall
Artist’s Lecture: Julie Mehretu
Thursday, October 21, 5:00 p.m.
Carnegie Mellon University, McConomy Auditorium
Artist’s Lecture: Senga Nengudi
Thursday, October 28, 5:00 p.m.
Carnegie Mellon University, McConomy Auditorium
Artist’s Dialogue: Senga Nengudi with Filmmaker Linda Goode Bryant
Saturday, October 30, 2:00 p.m.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Lecture Hall
Artist’s Lecture: Trisha Donnelly
Thursday, November 11, 5:00 p.m.
Carnegie Mellon University, McConomy Auditorium
Lecture: Elizabeth Smith (the James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) on Lee Bontecou
Saturday, November 13, 2:00 p.m.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Lecture Hall
Architect’s Lecture: Michael Maltzan, Architect of the 2004–5 Carnegie International
Friday, February 11, 2005, 6:00 p.m.
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
Reception to follow
Artist’s Lecture: Jeremy Deller
Saturday, February 12, 2005, 3:00 p.m.
Carnegie Music Hall
University Night to follow
Artist’s Lecture: Kathy Butterly
Date and time TBA, 2005
Artist’s Lecture: Robert Breer
Date and time TBA, 2005
Artist’s Lecture: Paul Chan
Date and time TBA, 2005
FOR EDUCATORS
Evening for Educators
Call 412.622.3288 for more information and to register.
Friday, October 29, time TBA
Teachers of multiple grade levels and disciplines learn about the art and
artists in the 2004–5 Carnegie International and the connections between
contemporary art and the classroom. By discussing topics that range from
the role of technology in our lives to the most routine parts of our daily
existence, learn to view art as a vehicle for navigating the uncertain
terrain of the 21st century and what it means to live in today’s world.
A notebook of teacher resources will be distributed. Special presentation
by 2004–5 Carnegie International artist Senga Nengudi.
Educators Feedback Forum
Here teachers learn about the artists and ideas in one of the world's largest, global surveys of contemporary art. Participate
in an on-line dialogue about how contemporary art can be used as a catalyst for
classroom discussions on a wide range of topics and current issues.
Programs for School Groups
Carnegie Museum of Art’s division of education has developed a variety of programs to
engage school groups in the exhibition. Call Emily Buchler at 412.622.1974 for more
information or to be added to the mailing list for Learning Links, the educator
newsletter.
EVENTS
University Night
Saturday, February 12, 5:00–9:00 p.m.
(3:00 p.m.–Artist’s Lecture: Jeremy Deller)
Call 412.622.3288 for more information.
Free for all university faculty and students
ADULT CLASSES
Call 412.622.3288 to register.
Lunch & Learn: Conversation with the Curator
Thursday, November 11, 10:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
$25 members/$30 nonmembers
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
Fee includes lunch in Carnegie Café
In assembling the 2004–5 Carnegie International, curator Laura Hoptman has created
an exhibition that examines what philosophers have called “the Ultimates”—the most
elusive and unknowable questions of life. Join Hoptman for personal insights on some
of the art and artists in this 54th installation of North America’s most renowned and
longest running exhibition of international contemporary art. Following lunch, discuss
some of the works on view in a docent-led gallery tour elucidating the exhibition’s key
themes.
Getting a Grip on the 2004–5 Carnegie International
Sept. 28, October 5 & 12 (3 sessions)
1:30–3:00 p.m. or 6:00–7:30 p.m.
$48 members/$56 nonmembers
Carnegie Museum of Art Theater
How does a curator charged with bringing the best in contemporary art to Pittsburgh,
resolve the challenges of selecting work by 38 artists from 17 countries, in all manner
of contemporary media, in a way that communicates to museum visitors something about
our world? Laura Hoptman, curator of the 2004–5 Carnegie International, has centered
her exhibition around the work of three key artists: Robert Crumb, Lee Bontecou, and
Mangelos. Join Vicky A. Clark, scholar and independent curator of contemporary art,
for this three-part course that will focus on the ideas and the work of one of these
influential figures each week. Clark will examine their influence on other artists in
the exhibition and elucidate their role in confronting our cultural moment.
The Cartoonist Sketchbook
Saturday, October 16–November 20 (6 sessions)
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
$66 members/$80 nonmembers
Studio 4
Robert Crumb is almost as famous for his unbridled and inventive sketchbooks as he is
for his published "Underground Comix." Join professional cartoonist, Don Simpson, in
examining your own cartoonist’s sketchbook as a resource for raw ideas, personal
studies, and unedited explorations of your imagination. Materials and methods for
sketching as well as finished cartoon art will be discussed and demonstrated, and
students will select their best sketchbook ideas to develop a finished cartoon,
illustration, or comic strip. Gallery visits to look closely at Crumb’s work in
the 2004–5 Carnegie International are included.
EXHIBITIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art
Lebbeus Woods: Experimental Architecture
July 31, 2004–January 16, 2005
Heinz Architectural Center
Considered one of the most innovative experimental architects working today, Lebbeus
Woods (American, b. 1940) combines an extraordinary mastery of drawing with a
penetrating analysis of architectural and urban form and social and political
conditions that is nourished by his knowledge of fields ranging from philosophy
to cybernetics. This show will include in-depth presentations of selected projects
shown through drawings, models, and human-scaled photographic blow-ups to create an
engulfing spatial experience. The exhibition will also feature a site-specific
installation that Woods describes as a “drawing in space.”
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts
October 8–24, 2004
The Festival will introduce American audiences to works by highly acclaimed European
and Asian artists as well as companies featuring all American premieres in the
contemporary performing arts. It seeks to challenge audiences to look at the
performing arts in new ways through experiencing some of the most provocative
contemporary artists working in performance around the world today. Festival
events, to be presented in association with other city cultural organizations,
will occur at various traditional and non-traditional performance sites both within
the geographic boundaries of the Cultural District and other venues throughout the
city of Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon University
Kraus Campo
Opens October 8, 2004
Artist Mel Bochner and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, in a unique
collaboration, have designed a new garden for the Carnegie Mellon University campus.
The Kraus Campo has been conceived as a single integrated work combining art,
horticulture, and landscape design. Rare among projects of this kind, it challenges
the very definition of a garden: it is both a garden-as-a-sculpture and a
sculpture-as-a-garden.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules
October 3, 2004–January 2, 2005
In the mid-1970s, Warhol began filling cardboard boxes with the objects from his daily
life — from receipts and fan mail to photographs and works of art. The result, more than
600 boxes known as Time Capsules. For the first time in the United States, the entire
contents of 15 boxes — totaling more than 3,000 objects will be installed throughout
The Warhol Museum. Collectively, this material provides a unique view into Warhol’s
private world, as well as a broad cultural backdrop illustrating the social and artistic
scene during his lifetime.
The Mattress Factory
Cuba: Instalaciones Nuevas, Artistas en Residencia
October 3, 2004–July 25, 2005
Cuba: Instalaciones Nuevas, Artistas en Residencia celebrates the exciting art scene Cuba
maintains in spite of the country’s difficult economic situation and the recent
crackdowns on dissidents. Ten artists from Cuba, including established artists
whose work has been exhibited in other countries and several young artists who have
not exhibited outside of Cuba will work in residence from July through September 2004.
Wood Street Galleries + SPACE
Drawn by Reality—Encapsulated in Life
October 1–December 31, 2004
This exhibition explores the vanishing line between reality and fiction, with more
than a dozen installations by a new generation of European video artists in their
first U.S. appearances.
Society of Contemporary Craft
Perchance to Dream
September 10, 2004–January 15, 2005
This exhibition explores the rich connection between the inner world of dreams and
the creative process. Fifteen artists will present an intriguing range of
three-dimensional pieces in clay, metal, fiber, and wood that have been informed
by or based on dreams.
Frick Art and Historical Center
Pittsburgh Collects: European Drawings, 1500 to 1800
October 23, 2004–January 2, 2005
Selected from local private collections and the Carnegie Museum of Art, this exhibition
contains highlights from the Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and English schools.
Featured artists include Antonio Canaletto, Guido Reni, Jacopo Tintoretto,
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Baptiste Pater, Hubert Robert, Anthony Van Dyck, and
Thomas Rowlandson.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Michael Maltzan: Architecture
February 12–June 12, 2005
Heinz Architectural Center
Michael Maltzan: Architecture will be the first in-depth showing of work from this
innovative architect. Maltzan began private practice in 1995 after almost a decade
at Frank O. Gehry & Associates. This exhibition displays his designs and their
essential architectural principles. Maltzan has designed several private homes and
educational spaces. His Hergott/Shepard Residence was included in the seminal The
Un-Private House exhibition at MoMA in 1999 while his project, Kidspace Children’s
Museum, was exhibited at the 8th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice
Biennale in 2002. Maltzan also designed MoMA, QNS, which opened in 2002. Maltzan is
the designer of the 2004-5 Carnegie International exhibition.
