The Frick plans to welcome walkers
The Frick Pittsburgh, which will finish a $15 million expansion in November, is installing a new walkway at Penn and South Homewood avenues in Point Breeze.
View ArticleArt notes: Warhol events play By the Book
The Andy Warhol Museum chief archivist Matt Wrbican will discuss the limited-edition 1959 cookbook “Wild Raspberries” with food historian Susan Rossi-Wilcox at 7 p.m. Friday at the museum,117 Sandusky...
View ArticleTrove of modernist art from Tehran museum may travel to the U.S.
A trove of modern art, some of which has been in storage since the Iranian Revolution, will emerge over the next year, when works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art go on exhibit in Berlin and...
View ArticleMonsters in Mars? It's all about art
Monsters have invaded the board room at the Mars Area School District.
View ArticleBridgeville artist's 'Robot Repair Shop' flying high at Pittsburgh airport
Bridgeville artist Toby Atticus Fraley’s “Robot Repair Shop” is a time warp installation that seems to have its feet in two different eras. Inspired by the TV and vacuum repair shops of the 1950s, it’s...
View ArticleThe Next Page: The big dreams for Pittsburgh that got away
With the exciting news that the prestigious Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group has been hired to design parts of the former Civic Arena site, we think it is worth looking back at other famous...
View ArticleData of the art: Carnegie Museum computer program collects every detail on...
Almost every day, young Mary Cassatt could be found in the Louvre in Paris, studying the Old Masters. While looking at an artist’s private collection, the Pittsburgh-born Impressionist discovered “The...
View ArticleObituary: Aaron Sheon / Pitt professor of art and architecture
As an art historian and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Aaron Sheon helped hundreds of students develop an appreciation for art in all forms.
View ArticleWire crocheting art exhibit opens in Monroeville
As a teen, Judith Gentile learned to crochet from her aunt, but gave up the craft when she took up watercolor painting while studying fashion illustration at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Years...
View Article5 things we love this week, Nov. 14
Tovah, Tovah, Tovah: Fans of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” have gotten a good look at Tovah Feldshuh’s range, as Deanna goes from housewife-y head of Alexandria to a woman finally wrapping her head around...
View ArticleVoters designate Dippy as Carnegie clash winner
A certain dinosaur has earned bragging rights for the next 120 years.
View ArticleAllegheny County may remove provision to fund public art projects
Allegheny County Council on Tuesday is expected to consider removing a requirement for public art funding from a 2005 law that has never been enforced.
View ArticleChautauqua delays historic amphitheater’s demolition
Leaders of Chautauqua Institution will meet later this year for a second review of bids to demolish a historic amphitheater at the lakeside summer retreat in southwestern New York. Earlier this month,...
View ArticleRoman Verostko exhibits at Saint Vincent Gallery
It’s not often that an art exhibition would be of equal interest to an artist, a philosopher, a geneticist, an art historian, a computer programmer, a theologian and a curious sixth-grader, among...
View ArticleFund established to support programming at August Wilson Center
The August Wilson Legacy Fund has been established to support programming at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
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