A dark comedy from this year's Tribeca Film Fest, it stars Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, Kristen Bell, and Justin Long (Mac guy). It's also the directorial debut ...
Experimental filmmaker Ben Russell's stunning feature film debut just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Shot (and projected) in 16mm, this Guggenheim r ...
This groundbreaking production is an important artistic work that explores the universal themes of family, segregation, isolation, survival and the hope of the unconquerable human spirit. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wrote, "Some things are too ...
Date/Time: 11-12-2009 08:00 PM |
Venue: The O'Reilly Theater
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| Type: Plays
Written by Lillian Hellman Directed by Ted Pappas
Its juicy characters, scathing humor, and emotional fireworks have made The Little Foxes one of the absolute essentials of the American theater. Living in 1900 in the New South, ...
Date/Time: 11-06-2009 08:00 PM |
Venue: Andrew Carnegie Free Library Music Hall
| Type: Opera/Musical
The musical that swept the 1997 Tony awards with its moving story and powerful score faithfully tells the tale through the eyes of crew and passengers alike: Barrett, the stoker whose fiancО awaits his return; immigrants who yearn for a bett ...
Leonard Bernstein’s musical genius combines with Voltaire’s raucous satire in Candide, a sublimely sung tale about the discovery of evil and the endurance of hope. ...
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel is the magnificently moving story of love, loss and redemption. Carousel broke the mold with its gritty and courageous look at relationships, telling the gripping story of Billy ...
Beautifully shot in black and white, this charming little film is about two boys who forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tom is a runaway from Nottingham. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives in the district of Somers Town, w ...
Tracing a day in the life of Abu Laila, this is a wry, comedic portrait of the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abu (played by legendary Palestinian actor Mohamma ...
Date/Time: 11-14-2009 02:00 PM |
Venue: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main
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| Type: Film/Video Arts
Based on a novel by Richard Yates, this film, set in the 1950s, follows a young, seemingly perfect suburban couple struggling with a growing inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships and careers.
Join Phipps for another premier exhibition, this time featuring the extraordinary work of Hans Godo Frabel, an internationally famous artist known for his otherworldly glass creations. As beautiful as it is unusual, the artist's installatio ...
A visit to our Tropical Forest Conservatory takes you to the Headwaters of the Amazon in a stunning, lush exhibit. Featuring new plants and displays, Tropical Forest: Headwaters of the Amazon introduces you to the unique cultures and ecosystems of ...
Date/Time: 09-01-2009 ~ 01-31-2010 |
Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art
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Most photographs are of people—this has been true since the invention of photography. This exhibition of more than 70 works from the permanent collection and local private collections reveals how photographers from the past 160 years have ex ...
Date/Time: 09-19-2009 ~ 01-31-2010 |
Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art
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Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a glimpse of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs. The exhibition features 100 photographs by renowned Los Angeles–based photographer Julius Sh ...
Date/Time: 10-17-2009 ~ 01-31-2010 |
Venue: The Andy Warhol Museum
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October 17, 2009 - January 31, 2010
Shepard Fairey, the Los Angeles-based street artist behind the red, white, and blue Obama campaign image that swept the globe, is the subject of an exciting new exhibitio ...
Date/Time: 10-18-2009 ~ 01-31-2010 |
Venue: The Andy Warhol Museum
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October 18, 2009 – January 31, 2010
Commissioned by the LANXESS Corporation, the world's leading manufacturer of synthetic rubber--and with it's U.S. headquarters in Pittsburgh--Unnatural Rubb ...
Date/Time: 10-18-2009 ~ 01-31-2010 |
Venue: The Andy Warhol Museum
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October 18, 2009 – January 31, 2010
London-based Italian artist Ludovica Gioscia creates intricate wall sculptures from wall paper that mimic the severed heads of monarchs from around the world.&nbs ...
Date/Time: 09-23-2009 ~ 01-02-2010 |
Venue: Silver Eye Center for Photography
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"The World at Our Door: Melissa Farlow and Randy Olson" begins September 23 through January 2, 2010. In the finest documentary tradition, Pittsburgh's Melissa Farlow and Randy Olson ...
Date/Time: 10-12-2009 ~ 12-18-2009 |
Venue: Jewish Community Center
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The first comprehensive look at his extensive career that spanned nearly five decades, Body of Work surveys Pittsburgh artist and teacher Philip Mendlow. Drawn from his personal collection, the work in the exhibit represents the breadth of Mendlow ...
Date/Time: 07-24-2009 ~ 01-10-2010 |
Venue: Mattress Factory Art Museum
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Drawing on different generations and perspectives to explore the significance of identity and place, I invited Pittsburgh residents and professionals to create site-specific installations that span a range of medi ...
Date/Time: 04-26-2009 ~ 12-31-2009 |
Venue: Mattress Factory Art Museum
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Sarah Oppenheimer opens apertures in existing architecture, modifying the recognizable modular units (such as rooms) that make up our standardized built world. Interested in the way that people navigate their envi ...
Date/Time: 10-03-2009 ~ 01-03-2010 |
Venue: Frick Art & Historical Center
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This exhibition presents 58 photographs chronicling the evolution of photography from a scientific curiosity in the 1850s to one of the most potent for ...
Date/Time: 10-09-2009 ~ 03-21-2010 |
Venue: Mattress Factory Art Museum
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Portraits are everywhere. They are in our wallets; on our computers, cell phones and desktops; on the walls of corporate offices, banks and schools. But what precisely is a portrait or image of likeness? How do artists’ methods and materials ...
A two-person exhibition featuring the newest work of Jason Rosemeyer and Christian Breitkreutz. See how the two explore the age of innocence and what happens in it’s absence:as artistic technique, as visual narrative. Jaso ...
Date/Time: 11-14-2009 ~ 11-29-2009 |
Venue: Carnegie Museum of Art
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Cecil Balmond has transformed the role of the engineer in contemporary architecture with his unorthodox and visionary approach that challenges staid definitions of architecture and engineering. Forum 64 features his work ...
The U.S. debut of French installation artist Julien Maire, an artist who works with experimental forms or projection, highlighting simultaneously both the simplicity and the complexity of reality.
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