Spring 2018 Archives - Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

A family posing at anaturalization ceremony tthe U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office man is holding an american flag and a baby standing in front of a flag

Out of Many, One

By Reid R. Frazier

What’s it like to be an immigrant in today’s Pittsburgh? Their journeys reflect a broader American story.

A detail of a painting depicting people and animals

Order & Chaos

By Barbara Klein

Carnegie Museum of Art mines its significant holdings from 1750–1850, revealing artists’ visions of a Western world caught between rational order and chaotic abandon.

Painting of a valley with train tracks running beneath a bridge, there are houses on the hillsides and a boiler plant with a smoke stack on one side

John Kane helped build industrial Pittsburgh. Then, as a complete unknown, his work was accepted into the 1927 Carnegie International, making him the first self-taught artist to be recognized by the American art establishment. His muse: his adopted city.

Ian Gallagher holds a print of his late father, Peter.

Healing Through Art

Story by Cristina Rouvalis / Photography by Martha Rial

A partnership between The Warhol and Highmark Caring Place gives grieving kids a chance to make new memories to last a lifetime.

News Worthy

A dinosaur dream come true It was the length of a school bus and lived in what’s now modern-day Egypt. And it’s giving paleontologists rare insight into a time and

Face Time: Liz Whitewolf

By Elizabeth Hoover

[media-credit name=”Photo: Joshua Franzos” alignnone size-full] Photo: Joshua Franzos [/media-credit] When self-described “maker” Liz Whitewolf learned that her daughters wanted loft beds, she didn’t take them shopping. Instead she helped

Director’s Note

[media-credit name=”Photo: Abby Warhola” alignnone size-full] Photo: Abby Warhola [/media-credit] Over the past year, we’ve talked a lot at The Andy Warhol Museum about how, as an institution dedicated to

Green silhouette Illustration of trees and birds

Climate Change in Our Backyard

By Jason Bittel

Carnegie Museum of Natural History researchers are on the front lines of climate science, tracking the complex changes unfolding right here in western Pennsylvania.