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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…The 2004–5 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art’s influential survey of contemporary art, closes Sunday, March 20. Since 1896, the Carnegie International has been the premier North American showcase for the best new art and new artists from around the world. This year, the 54th installment of the exhibition, 38 established and emerging artists from the forefront of global contemporary art are represented in a diverse array of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film and video, and performance. The overarching theme for the exhibition deals with the consideration and use of art as a meaningful vehicle for confronting what philosophers have called ‘the Ultimates’—life’s unanswerable questions.

A full schedule of free lectures, performances, and tours highlight the final days of the show.

A special viewing of Maurizio Cattelan’s Now takes place in the Founder’s Room Friday, March 4 through Sunday, March 6, and again Friday, March 18 through Sunday, March 20.

A special docent-led tour of the women artists within the 2004–5 International will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day. Nearly 40% of the artists in the exhibition are women. The tour is free with museum admission.

Artist and activist Paul Chan discusses the goals, limits, and consequences of mixing art and political activism in a lecture at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 17 at Carnegie Mellon University’s McConomy Auditorium. Chan’s ideologies, strengthened through his involvement with several politically motivated groups, are evident in two of his video works on display in the International.

The importance of presenting major art surveys is the topic of a curators’ dialogue at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18 in the Carnegie Lecture Hall. International curator Laura Hoptman talks with Francesco Bonami, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, about the impact such exhibitions have on the local audience and around the globe.

The International galleries will remain open until 9:00 p.m. on Friday, March 18.

On Saturday, March 19, at 1:00 p.m., a performance of Pawel Althamer’s work Real Time Movie occurs on the corner of Forbes Ave. and South Craig Street.

Regular tours of the exhibition will continue through the final week, Tuesday through Friday at 1:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

More information is available by calling 412.622.3131 or online at www.cmoa.org.

SUPPORT
Major support for the 2004–5 Carnegie International has been provided by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund and The Henry L. Hillman Fund. Additional generous gifts and grants have been provided by Friends of the Carnegie International; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Community and Economic Development; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Gumberg; Kraus Family Foundation; National City; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Sheila and Milt Fine; and The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Major gifts have also been provided by The Grable Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; the LLWW Foundation; the Woodmere Foundation; and The Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, Inc.

Additional support has been provided by TIAA–CREF; The Broad Art Foundation; Pro Helvetia, The Arts Council of Switzerland; Hansen Foundation; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; The Japan Foundation; British Council; The MAT Charitable Foundation, Inc.; Insitut für Auslandsbeziehungen e. V.; American–Scandinavian Foundation; Ziba and Pierre de Weck; David Teiger; Kelly Custom Furniture; Stanley Communications; The Government of Flanders, Belgium; and the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.