Archived - Shows And Events

October 1, 2016 – January 2, 2017 - The exhibition moves from the artist’s two-dimensional works, including Metaesquemas, geometric abstract paintings in bold colors that are so alive with incipient movement that they seem to struggle against the grid that supports them, into his explorations of color and form in three-dimensional space, in which the Metaesquemas’ geometric shapes take to the air.

September 10, 2016 - February 13, 2017 - The exhibition immerses visitors in inventive ways that public spaces become social spaces sites that respond to the unique circumstances and pressures of their communities. Spanning projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Peru, and Venezuela, Building Optimism: Public Space in South America investigates ways that emerging architects and designers i...

July 23, 2016 - February 6, 2017 -​ This exhibition features nearly 100 works dating from the late 1800s to the present, Strength in Numbers highlights series of photographs organized around three themes: People, Place, and Perspective. Through these themes, works by artists including Eugène Atget, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mike Kelly, Sharon Lockhart, and Andy Warhol illuminate the ways in which serie...

June 11–September 4, 2016 - The exhibition looks at the high-heeled shoe’s rich and varied history and its enduring place in our popular imagination. As fashion statement, fetish object, instrument of power, and outlet of artistic expression for both the designer and the wearer, throughout the ages the high-heeled shoe has gone through many shifts in style and symbolism.

January 30 - May 22, 2016 - The largest exhibit featuring flying reptiles ever mounted in the United States, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, highlights the latest research by Museum scientists and leading paleontologists around the world. Featuring rare pterosaur fossils and casts from Italy, Germany, China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, as well as life-size models...

May 28 - August 29, 2016 - In this exhibiton Ai’s work reimagines those that once adorned the famed fountain-clock of Yuanming Yuan, an imperial retreat in Beijing destroyed by the British in 1860. It debuted on the world stage in 2011 shortly after the artist, an outspoken critic of the communist regime, had been detained by Chinese authorities and held for 80 days.

May 20 - October 24, 2016 -The exhibition, the first at any museum to consider the breadth of the artist’s work across media features a focused selection of key pieces from the 1960s to the present, including interactive sculptures; sound-making objects; large works on paper, silk, and canvas; and a selection of the artist’s own collected ephemera.

May 14 - August 15, 2016 - The AAP annual exhibition is the longest and oldest continuing survey exhibition of regional art in the country. The 105th Annual Exhibition features selections by juror Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, a Los Angeles-based writer and curator.

May 6 - August 21, 2016 - The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see current trends and innovations in this constantly evolving medium. Recognized among fiber artists around the world as a benchmark exhibition, the Fiberart International highlights innovative work rooted in traditional fiber materials, structure, processes and history, as well as art, which explores unexpected relationshi...

January 22 - July 17, 2016 -Teenie Harris Photographs: Great Performances Offstage, celebrates performances of all kinds as produced or experienced by Pittsburgh’s African American community between ca. 1935 and ca. 1980. Actor Bill Nunn guest curated the exhibition, as well as its companion show, Great Performances Onstage at the August Wilson Center, and was struck by how the artists, August Wil...