Art & Museums category, Page 12
300-year-old painting stolen by American soldier during World War II returned to German museum
CHICAGO — After a stopover in the U.S. that lasted the better part of a century, a baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a...
What could have been: Westmoreland Museum exhibit brings unrealized Frank Lloyd Wright projects to life
The Laurel Highlands are among few places lucky to be home to several architectural works designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Tens of thousands of visitors every year tour Fallingwater, the home he designed for Liliane and Edgar Kaufmann in Mill Run, Fayette County. In Westmoreland County, people can explore Polymath...
Sharon Stone says health issues slowed her acting career so she’s expressing herself through paint
NEW YORK — During the pandemic, a friend sent Sharon Stone a paint-by-numbers set to keep her busy, a gesture that has led to a new path of creative expression for the actor. Known best for roles in films like “Casino” and “Basic Instinct,” Stone has discovered a love of...
New CEO brings lifelong love of museums, private-sector experience to bear at The Westmoreland
Silvia Filippini-Fantoni says a trio of happenstance instances ultimately brought her to The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. “Sometimes you have to read the signs,” said Filippini-Fantoni, a native of Italy who for the past two decades has worked with museums in Europe and the United States. She...
Mysteries will haunt the museum at Westmoreland Museum’s October Art on Tap
Museumgoers, beware — at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s upcoming October Art on Tap event, an eclectic cast of spooky characters will wander the galleries. They’re not ghosts or ghouls, but Halloween-themed roles that will be played by actors from Greensburg theater company Stage Right. Through a “Mystic Museum...
Carnegie Museum bans controversial diorama, enacts new policy
A popular but controversial diorama the Carnegie Museum of Natural History displayed for museum-goers for more than 120 years will be permanently removed from public view, due to a newly enacted human-remains policy, museum officials said Thursday. The Oakland museum’s move, in the works for several years, comes amid debate...
Carnegie Museum of Art gives up $1 million Egon Schiele drawing as original owner’s heirs drop lawsuit
For the first time since 1960, the Carnegie Museum of Art will be absent its million-dollar Egon Schiele drawing, “Portrait of a Man.” The museum Wednesday renounced its claim to the 1917 artwork, ending a criminal probe into whether the piece was stolen property and capping a long legal battle...
New Van Gogh show in Paris focuses on artist’s extraordinarily productive and tragic final months
PARIS — Planted in a field, Vincent van Gogh painted furiously, bending the thick oils, riotous yellows and sumptuous blues to his will. The resulting masterpiece, “Wheatfield with Crows,” bursts off the canvas like technicolor champagne. Art historians believe the Dutch master painted it on July 8, 1890. As far...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: Sept. 29-Oct. 1
We leave September and welcome October this weekend. Here are some ways to spend it. Hazelwood Green Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre presents “Open Air” performances at Hazelwood Green on Lytle Street in Hazelwood at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The ballet will present a mixed repertory performance featuring classical and contemporary...
Andrew Carnegie Free Library exhibit explores French Jewish life during the Holocaust
Most of us have seen this movie scene: the intrepid protagonist is starting to put the pieces together, but more research is needed. Our hero is seated in a dim library basement, their face illuminated by the flickering light of a microfilm reader as they scroll through a long reel...
Pioneering Black portraitist Barkley L. Hendricks is first artist of color to get solo show at Frick in New York
NEW YORK — A dozen years ago, Barkley L. Hendricks, the pioneering portrait artist known for vivid, stylish paintings of Black men and women, stood outside the Frick Collection in Manhattan, known for its works by European Old Masters. He was explaining his love for Rembrandt. “It’s like good music,”...
Probe shines new light on old claims that Carnegie Museum of Art’s $1M Schiele was plundered by Nazis
Decade after decade, a modest 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele, one of Austria’s most famous artists, graced the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, occasionally being displayed with little fanfare. That changed this month when the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office executed a search warrant on the Oakland museum and...
Bob Ross’ 1st TV painting, done in a half hour, goes on sale for nearly $10M
MINNEAPOLIS — What would Bob Ross think? The artist who brought painting to the people, with works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half-hour with little more than a large bristle brush, putty knife and plenty of encouragement, certainly wouldn’t have envisioned one of his works going up...
Westmoreland Museum of American Art offers ‘Sweet Life’ with candy-inspired memories
Bubble gum, chocolate bars and jelly beans were just some of the sugary treats that brought back delicious memories for visitors to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art during Sunday’s “Celebrate the Sweet Life” event. The free event in Greensburg invited people of all ages to create candy-themed art, play...
Retrieving artwork believed stolen during the Holocaust not uncommon, experts say
There’s a long history of Jewish people trying to recover art and family heirlooms taken from them during the Holocaust — which is what might have happened to a piece of art seized from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Oakland this week. The artwork is believed to have been...
Artwork seized from Carnegie Museum was believed to have been stolen during Holocaust
NEW YORK — A work of art believed to have been stolen during the Holocaust from a Jewish art collector and entertainer was seized Wednesday from the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood by New York law enforcement authorities. “Portrait of a Man,” a pencil-on-paper drawing valued at...
Body art: Meeting of the Marked tattoo convention inks three decades of skin design
A tattoo needle punctures the skin around 100 times per second, depositing the ink 1.5 millimeters to 2 millimeters below the surface. It bypasses the epidermis, the outer layer of the skin. Tool firmly in hand, the image that appears is more than ink injected into the skin — tattoos...
Ceramic creations take center stage in Greensburg Art Center show
Some have been hand-molded, others shaped on a spinning wheel. More than 80 pieces of ceramic art will be featured in “From The Earth,” the next exhibition at the Greensburg Art Center, opening Saturday at 230 Todd School Road, in Hempfield. “We have some amazing pottery here, it’s a really...
Latrobe Art Center to host 14th annual Mister Fred Rogers Fine Arts Juried Exhibition
Latrobe Art Center will host the opening reception for the 14th annual Mister Fred Rogers Fine Arts Juried Exhibition 5-7 p.m Friday. Nearly 50 of the participating artists who created the 75 pieces in the exhibition are expected at the reception. The exhibition will run through Sept. 30. Justin Gunther,...
Saint Vincent College gallery to display 88 newly acquired paintings
Saint Vincent College will display a recent bequest of 88 paintings in its entirety in “Impressionist Legacies: The Michael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Collection,” opening Sept. 7 in the Verostko Center for the Arts on the Unity campus. A public reception is planned for 5 to 7 p.m. that evening...
Seton Hill’s Harlan Gallery extends entries for women’s juried exhibition
Seton Hill University’s Harlan Gallery extended entries for its Women Artists 2023 juried exhibition to Wednesday. The exhibition for women artists in all media will run from Oct. 19 until Nov. 17 in the Seton Hill Arts Building. Interested artists can submit up to three works digitally and the entry...
Pittsburgh sculptor Thaddeus Mosley recognized as artist, inspiration
Thaddeus Mosley is a strict but loving father, a World War II veteran and an internationally recognized sculptor, friends and family said Monday. Mayor Ed Gainey recognized the 97-year-old Pittsburgh artist on Monday in a small ceremony at the City-County Building. “You have changed this city,” Gainey told Mosley, whose...
Westmoreland Museum event promotes public art participation
A new community art resource will be unveiled during Public Art Day, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. The free event also will feature artist demonstrations, chalk art activities and information from local galleries. “The Community Art Exchange Station …...
In Anne Frank’s Amsterdam, Ukrainian children’s war diaries go on show in exhibition at City Hall
AMSTERDAM — The city where Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at...
Billy Porter helping to revitalize Pittsburgh’s Homewood Coliseum
The arts saved Billy Porter. Porter wants those dreams for other young people. That’s why he is partnering with Herky and Lisa Pollock and professional cook Rachael Ray on the revitalization of the Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum in Homewood, a part of the city near and dear to Porter. Ray is...
