Art - Art Reviews & Features - Pittsburgh City Paper

The Mattress Factory's latest Gestures show is by turns sobering and touching.
The tenuousness of existence seemed to color my perception of the remainder of this very strong exhibition.
By Melissa Kuntz | November 19, 2009

Pittsburgh little museum devoted to animation and comics art expands -- and moves Downtown.
"We are all Mickey Mouse, we are all SpongeBob."
By Melissa Meinzer | November 19, 2009

The places where we simply wait are the subject of Transfer Lounge, at Space Gallery.
"It's interesting to me that the ways of communicating have changed so much, but the content remains the same, about longing to be part of a network."
By Lucy Leitner | November 12, 2009

Even alongside Icons of American Photography, Esther Bubley's 1951 Children's Hospital images shine.
Children's Hospital is a kind of sprawling still-life, where nurses and patients are frozen in time, stethoscopes at the ready.
By Robert Isenberg | November 5, 2009

A photographic museum explores the 19^th century's profusion of images of dead children.
"I think this just came out of necessity, of people wanting that last image of their loved one before they were put into the ground."
By Lucy Leitner | October 29, 2009