Art & Museums category, Page 10
AI-aided virtual conversations with WWII vets are latest feature at New Orleans museumVideo
NEW ORLEANS — Olin Pickens sat in his wheelchair facing a life-sized image of himself on a screen, asking it questions about being taken prisoner by German soldiers during World War II. After a pause, his video-recorded twin recalled being given “sauerkraut soup” by his captors before a grueling march....
Sweetwater Center for the Arts looks forward to 2024 Master Class series
Sewickley’s Sweetwater Center for the Arts is bringing in a slate of renowned artists as instructors for its 2024 Master Classes. The series of five three-day workshops will take place between April and October of 2024. “Our big goal with the Master Classes is to offer something here at the...
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh to offer free admission on the late Fred Rogers’ birthday
Pittsburgh’s favorite neighbor would have turned 96 on Wednesday. To celebrate the life of Fred Rogers, host of the long-running WQED children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side is offering free admission on March 20. Rogers was born on that date in 1928...
BOOM Concepts celebrates 10 years as a hub for artists, community in PittsburghVideo
A chance meeting with Darrell “DS” Kinsel at a Hill District bus stop 10 years ago ended up launching Cue Perry’s art career. Perry said had it not been for the founders of BOOM Concepts, Kinsel and Thomas Agnew, he wouldn’t have realized it was possible to have a career...
A new Banksy mural sprouts beside a cropped tree in London. Many see an environmental messageVideo
LONDON — A new Banksy mural drew crowds to a London street on Monday, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed that the work was his. The artwork in the Finsbury Park neighborhood covers the wall of a four-story building and shows a small figure holding a pressure hose beside...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art celebrates spring with ‘Art in Bloom’
Spring is in the air at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. From Thursday to Sunday, “Art in Bloom” will bring a burst of floral inspiration to the Greensburg museum. The program pairs 20 local floral artists with pieces of art from the museum’s collection and tasks them with creating...
Local, international dance companies offer differing takes on ‘Alice in Wonderland’
When Alice makes her journey to the fictional Wonderland in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 children’s novel, the world is a wild reflection of what she has known up to that point as reality. The story’s underlying theme of a journey of self-discovery makes it ripe for interpretation. Two of those interpretations...
Michelle Gainey, Fantasy Zellars curate ‘Resilience and revolution’ exhibit
First Lady of Pittsburgh Michelle Gainey is creating spaces for Black and brown artists to showcase their work. A recently opened exhibition, “Resilience and revolution: Honoring Black History and Women’s History through art” at the Dentons Cohen & Grigsby Gallery Downtown, honors Black history and women’s history through art. It...
‘Arts Alive’ exhibition shows off talents of Alle-Kiski Valley high school students
Each year, the Alle-Kiski Arts Consortium pulls together “Arts Alive,” a display of artworks by area high school students, at the Penn State New Kensington Art Gallery. The show will be open to the public until March 22. The show is made up of art produced by students from five...
Carnegie Museum of Art will open ‘Everlasting Plastics’ exhibit
The Carnegie Museum of Art has a new exhibition opening Saturday, and while the art is new to the space, its material will be familiar. “Everlasting Plastics,” which opens March 9 in the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum in Oakland, is a walk-through exhibition that explores our relationship...
Collier artist’s work to be featured in upcoming children’s museum exhibit
Kathleen Zimbicki’s upcoming showcase at the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh is proof that art is for all ages. A legend in the Pittsburgh art scene, Zimbicki’s most recent work features her watercolor pieces with drawings done by her great-grandchildren and neighbor children on top of the paint. A display of...
Heinz History Center takes it back to the ’90s with History Uncorked
Everybody dance now! The Heinz History Center’s annual History Uncorked fundraiser will be throwing it back this Friday night with the theme “We Love the ’90s.” “This year is the 26th History Uncorked, and every year we have a different theme for people to get excited about,” said Angela Gaitaniella,...
Andy Warhol honored by Slovakia on anniversary of his death
On this date 37 years ago, the world lost its king of pop art. Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol died suddenly of complications after a routine gallbladder surgery Feb. 22, 1987, in New York. He was 58. The world knew him as pop artist Andy Warhol. But to his nephew Donald...
Carnegie Museum of Art honors Audre Lorde’s 90th birthday
Audre Lorde was born in New York City and was a prolific writer and poet whose work addressed the state of the world, confronted inequities, and brought to light the tossing aside of Black queer women. On Sunday, what would have been Lorde’s 90th birthday was celebrated at Carnegie Museum...
Latrobe exhibit to focus on Fred Rogers’ role as helper
Latrobe native Fred Rogers’ efforts to help others is the focus of a month-long exhibit that begins Saturday at the Latrobe Art Center. Presented in partnership with the Fred Rogers Institute at nearby Saint Vincent College, “Fred Rogers: Celebrating A Lifelong Helper” will kick off with an opening event from...
Bethel Park painter, 99, continues to serve as inspiration
Surrounded by stacks of paintings and the pungent smell of turpentine, 99-year-old painter and art instructor John Del Monte moves his hand toward the top righthand corner of his sketchbook and marks a cross. He stares at the two simple lines and rests his ink-coated hand on the studio table,...
A new exhibition aims to bring Yoko Ono’s art out of John Lennon’s shadow
LONDON — Before there was John and Yoko — and after — there was just Yoko Ono. The Japanese-American artist became a global celebrity through her marriage to John Lennon, her partner for more than a decade until his murder in 1980, as well as her collaborator on peace-protest “bed-ins”...
Former Greensburg Salem, Saint Vincent educator to showcase paintings at Greensburg library
Al Sanfilippo has always been interested in art. But it wasn’t until his retirement from a 50-year career in education that he started exploring his artistic ability at the Greensburg Art Center in Hempfield. About nine years later, Sanfilippo’s artwork is on display until mid-March at the Greensburg-Hempfield Area Library...
Painting by René Magritte may fetch $64 million at auction marking century of surrealism
LONDON — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced Saturday that it will offer “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7 sale...
Great escapes exhibit explores how World War II captives coped with tedium and torment
LONDON — Eighty years ago in one of the most ingenious and audacious acts of defiance of World War II, 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German POW camp into a snowy forest. For most of the escapees, it ended tragically. Three made it to safety, but the...
65th anniversary exhibit at Westmoreland Museum showcases organization’s history
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will celebrate its 65th anniversary with a trip through the museum’s years of history. With “65 Artists, 65 Years: An Anniversary Exhibition,” the museum plans to highlight artists from its collections, return to points in its past and include commentary from community members and...
What’s that?: Hempfield man’s ‘solar garden’ catches the eye of passers-by
Editor’s note ‘What’s That?’ is a recurring feature in the Tribune-Review’s Westmoreland Plus edition. If there’s something you’d like to see explored here, send an email to gtrcity@triblive.com. Jeffry Meyer spent his career as an engineer, which didn’t leave a lot of time for gardening. So when he retired and...
Carnegie Science Center changing name after receiving $65M gift
Daniel G. Kamin built his own telescope when he was a teenager — he was fascinated with space. That passion has remained with him more than six decades later, and now he wants to fuel that same energy in others. That’s a reason he and his wife, Carole L. Kamin,...
$1M artwork allegedly stolen by Nazis and once housed at Carnegie Museum returned to heirs
A drawing that was housed in a Pittsburgh museum and believed to be stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust was returned to its heirs Friday. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced “Portrait of a Man” by Austrian artist Egon Schiele was returned to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an...
Pittsburghers, punk fans celebrate Erik Bauer’s book documenting 25 years of shows
The crowd that packed a Point Breeze bookshop Friday to celebrate a book release by Pittsburgh-bred photographer Erik Bauer could’ve been pulled right out of a 1981 punk show at Oakland’s now-shuttered Electric Banana. Or cheering on The Bats, a local post-punk outfit led in May ‘84 by Pulitzer Prize-winning...
