Fierce
Friends: Artists and Animals
Whether as friends or foes, animals and humans
have been inextricably connected since time began.
Together with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam,
Carnegie Museum of Art is examining the complex
connection between man and beast in its upcoming
exhibition Fierce Friends: Artists and Animals,
opening March 25. By Graham Shearing
Pittsburgh
Roars! A host of cultural, sports,
and entertainment venues in and around the
city are collaborating to show the rest of
the world the many different reasons that Pittsburgh
is still proud and strong and the many different
ways that Pittsburgh Roars! By Betsy Momich
The
Secret World of
an Outsider Artist Completely unknown until his
death in 1973, the obsessive work of self-taught
artist Henry Darger raises many questions (and
several eyebrows), drawing parallels to Warhol’s
own artistic practices. By Graham Shearing
Evolutionary
Medicine Scientists from Carnegie Museum
of Natural History are being tapped by the University
of Pittsburgh Medical School to teach students
how and why evolution matters in the study of
modern medicine. By Christine H. O’Toole