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Snack Landscape, 2020. Gabrielle (Gabe) Wolfe.

South Side art exhibit celebrates food in a casual creative space

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer November 29, 2023

“Buttery Spread,” an art exhibition that uses food as both a subject and a medium, invites visitors to indulge their child-like curiosity. Build a tower out of paper doritos. Look at a kayak shaped...

Artwork at the Teal Gallery on Thursday.

‘It breaks down that isolation’: Teal Gallery displays art from student survivors of sexual assault

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer November 13, 2023

When a student-led gallery of art and writing from survivors of sexual assault opened its doors on Thursday evening, the clothes that survivors wore when they were assaulted hung on clotheslines across...

Offbeat | How I’m Finding Meaning in Art: ‘Having Fun/Good Life, Symptoms’ by Bruce Nauman

Offbeat | How I’m Finding Meaning in Art: ‘Having Fun/Good Life, Symptoms’ by Bruce Nauman

By Jillian Rowan, Staff Writer November 10, 2023
In this week’s installment of Offbeat, staff writer Jillian Rowan dissects Bruce Nauman’s art installation at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
Installation view of “Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground” at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Art confronts industrial horrors in Carnegie Museum’s ‘Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground’ exhibit

By Nada Abdulaziz, Senior Staff Writer October 26, 2023

At the Carnegie Museum of Art, a haunting, melancholic melody replaces the usual tranquil notes of classical music. The art exhibit “Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground” transforms the gallery into a...

Attendees at the Fall Exhibition Reception in the Frick Fine Arts Building on Thursday.

New University Art Gallery exhibits highlight vibrant Caribbean culture

By Trinity Foster, Senior Staff Writer October 15, 2023

Sylvia Rhor Samaniego, curator and director of the University Art Gallery, hopes that the gallery’s most recent exhibition celebrating Caribbean culture makes Latinx, Black and Brown students feel welcome...

Aki Onda’s performance "Spirits Known and Unknown” featuring Eyvind Kang in the Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday.

Impossible Music exhibit at Carnegie Mellon reexamines the meaning of music

By Jiya Narwal, Staff Writer October 1, 2023

Clay microphones, a self-playing piano and a cassette machine playing archival tapes captivated visitors at the “Impossible Music” exhibit at Carnegie Mellon University. The showcase explores musical...

Members of the community listen to a story being read during the Homewood Pop-Up Art Exhibit on Saturday.

‘Black is Beautiful!’: PRIDE Art Festival celebrates Black youth identity in Homewood

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer September 18, 2023

Surrounded by children as he told stories of Black empowerment, D.S. Kinsel posed a question to an audience outside the Homewood-Brushton YMCA. “Who is raising all these smart Black children?” Kinsel...

Mellon Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Vendors and visitors fill Mellon Park for annual craftsmen’s fair

By Maya Valletta, Staff Writer September 11, 2023

Mellon Park came alive last weekend as 85 vendors and thousands of visitors flooded the space for A Fair in the Park with all kinds of art, food and music.  The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh hosts...

Revisiting Pitt biotechnology art exhibition amid emerging AI technology

Revisiting Pitt biotechnology art exhibition amid emerging AI technology

By Amy Zhang, Staff Writer September 5, 2023

15-foot tendrils of braided hair emerge from a bright orb above viewers as they tug and bend on a sculpture. The braids “listen” and respond with generative sequences of lights and sound. This interactive...

A student paints during “Variety, Variety, Variety!” at WQED Studio A.

CMU and Pitt’s ‘Variety! Variety! Variety!’ event explores multitude of art forms

By Shreya Singh, Senior Staff Writer April 17, 2023
More than 100 people gathered on Sunday evening to watch a variation of different art forms at “Variety! Variety! Variety!” — an event hosted by the School of Music at CMU in collaboration with Pitt’s department of studio arts.
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