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» The Miller Gallery offers intriguing if sometimes vague proposals for a "fantastic future."
What set the tone are Fuller's worship of ingenuity, and his faith in the ultimate survivability of humankind
By Curt Riegelnegg |
October 1, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Step into the surreal, unnerving world of James Duesing's animations.
Consistency and intelligibility take a backseat to the disjointed procession of the animator's dreamlike imaginings.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
August 20, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Andy Warhol's relationship with celebrity gets a fuller airing in Warhol Live.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
August 13, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Artist Chris Kardambikis offers a brand-new creation myth (with plenty of room for interpretation).
Perhaps Kardambikis has even more of a personal appendix of lore than he lets on, suggesting a Henry Darger-type eccentric with tomes of stashed-away storytelling.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
May 28, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Daviea Davis' Neighborhood Mosaic Project shines at the Pittsburgh Glass Center.
It is this patchwork, bricolage nature of the individual panes that prevents them from being simply ornamental, and lends them their jittery abstract energy.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
May 14, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» The Frick's The Road to Impressionism gorgeously illustrates a slice of painting history.
To weigh Breton's laughing peasant girls against Millet's tired, ruddy laborers is to juxtapose the smiling housewife from a Mr. Clean commercial with the Hazelwood woman on the 11 o'clock news.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
April 23, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» The Hoyt offers a fascinating look at the sometimes-overshadowed abstract-expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.
While the forms may appear radical, Motherwell's robust intellect and calculated decisiveness are never far beneath the surface.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
April 9, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» An exhibit explores Zippy the Pinhead's relationship with Pittsburgh.
While these events could have been set anywhere, it's Pittsburgh that Griffith casts as his bourgeois purgatory.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
March 19, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» Those Halcyon Days
More than those masters he draws from, Friday recognizes that the more one tries to impose clarity on history, the more the facts seem to slip out of line.
By Curt Riegelnegg |
January 1, 2009
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
» At the Miller Gallery, anti-corporate pranksters The Yes Men Keep It Slick.
Curator Suparak has demonstrated a knack for exhibiting the work of those who require a hyphenated addendum to the word "artist."
By Curt Riegelnegg |
December 25, 2008
(Art: Art Reviews & Features)
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