Tag: Art

• November 11, 2022

  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…
• June 9, 2021

  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.…