Feted as the “Queen of the Bohemians,” Abercrombie saw herself as a kind of jazz witch forging dream visions into a strange, eerie, and occult body of work.
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How the Andy Warhol Museum Lost Its Way
Thirty years after its founding, the Pittsburgh institution still hasn’t defined a role for itself.
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Patrick Moore to Resign as Warhol Museum Director
Moore, who joined the museum in 2011, drew criticism for an exhibition in Saudi Arabia that was accused of “artwashing” the nation’s human rights record.
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Pittsburgh Museum Faces Outcry After Postponing Islamic Art Show
The Frick Pittsburgh’s decision was decried by local Muslim civil rights advocates as perpetuating Islamophobic stereotypes.
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Experiment and Take Risks in Carnegie Mellon’s Top-Ranked Interdisciplinary MFA Program
The school offers generous tuition scholarships, esteemed faculty, and many visiting artists, critics, and curators. Attend a virtual open house on November 16.
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124-Year-Old Display With Human Skull Removed From Carnegie Museum
The institution’s adoption of a new policy regarding the display of human remains led them to the permanent removal of the diorama.
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Pushing Against the Art World’s Disavowal of Labor
Pittsburgh’s John Kane: Life & Art of an American Workman presents Kane’s experience as a manual laborer as integral to — not separate from — his art.
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Experiment and Take Risks in Carnegie Mellon’s Top-Ranked Interdisciplinary MFA Program
All students receive generous, guaranteed financial support in the form of partial or full tuition scholarships. Attend a Virtual Open House on November 17.
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Workers Crash Carnegie International Opening, Demanding Fair Wages
The union says 60% of employees at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh make less than $15 an hour.
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Museums Have a Responsibility to Their Neighbors
As museums readily draft land acknowledgments, they should also be ready to leverage their presence and power on the land to meet the needs of their neighbors today.
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Artists Find Creative Ways to Raise Food Insecurity Awareness
While it may be strange to think of food insecurity as a basis for art, the works in Food Justice reveal barriers and injustices in food access.
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Carnegie Mellon’s Interdisciplinary MFA Challenges Students to Expand the Meaning of Being an Artist
This top-ranked program in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania offers a new graduate facility, generous tuition scholarships, guaranteed graduate assistantships, esteemed faculty, and more.