Tag: Art
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Gods, Gods, Gods! : Mythological Hijinks with ‘Divine Egypt’ at the Met
I’m coming to my blog schedule late this week because we just got back from another short trip to New York City, and I’m still trying to get organized in the aftermath of that. Aside from some other activities, including scoring extremely good lottery tickets to Six, we burned another entire day at the Metropolitan…
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All The Art We Do Not See: Curating From the Margins of the Art World
It might be 85 degrees outside, but technically it is almost fall here in Pittsburgh, and about time for us to return to the Carnegie Museums and see what they have going on. I haven’t been down to the Science Center yet since their big name change/reopening, in part because they’re cycling through all of…
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Defining Art: Museum Curation and the Work of Gertrude Abercrombie
I haven’t done a museum entry in a while, and the Carnegie Museum of Art has some new exhibitions that caught my attention last week, so I thought we’d take a look at some of what’s on offer for the spring quarter. CMOA’s Forum Gallery is a single-room exhibition space that rotates on a roughly…
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Lions, and Tigers, and Bonnacons: Zoology and Allegory in Medieval Bestiaries
This week, I thought we’d take a look at one of the most interesting cultural artifacts to come out of the medieval period: the medieval bestiary. Although present throughout the Middle Ages and all over Europe, these elaborately illuminated animal catalogues were most popular during what is now often referred to by modern historians as…
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Day Tripping at the Met, Part 3: A Little Bit of Everything Else
Okay, folks we’ve made it to the third and final entry in my Met roundup, where I try to wrap up everything else that I saw after I escaped the first floor of the museum (and try not to think about all of the stuff I didn’t have time to see). A truly impossible task,…
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Day Tripping at the Met, Part 2: Little Latin and Less Greek
As promised, we’re back with round two on my latest experience in the Metropolitan Museum of Art—this week focused on the Greek and Roman Art wing. As my paraphrase of Ben Jonson above suggests, I spent more time with the Romans (and specifically the first century Romans of my books) than the Greek stuff, but…
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Renos and Revamps: Updates From the CMOA and CMNH
I am up to my eyeballs in pre-publication work for The Gourd and the Stars, so I’m afraid I don’t have a super substantial post for this week. But I did take a much-needed mental break trip to the Carnegie museums last week, and since there were a number of changes to exhibits and situations…
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Continuity, Change, and Collaboration: Post-Meiji Art and Printmaking in Japan
I love Japanese art and culture, but I usually don’t spend a lot of time saying so in public because that statement generally elicits presupposed knowledge about anime or J-Pop, of which I am a dilettante (the former) or almost completely ignorant (the latter). No, most of you who have been playing the home game…
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Pandemic, Populism, and Panorama: The 58th Carnegie International
I’ve already talked about how a relatively provincial city like Pittsburgh ended up with a world class modern art museum (robber baron blood money). What you may not know is that aside from creating the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) itself, Gilded Age steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) also championed formal exhibitions of contemporary art…
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Field Day Part 2: The Carnegie Museums and the Classical World in Imitation
As promised, this week we’re going to continue our tour through the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) and Natural History (CMNH), but I also promise to finally let all of you out of the single room I confined you to last week. [Pictured: People fleeing my attempts to keep them in the Hall of Architecture]…
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