Carnegie Museum of Art

10/16/2026

A fresh perspective on a modern masterpiece.

MICHIYAYA Dance is researching a reimagined version of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, transforming and responding to the galleries of the Carnegie International into a living performance that invites audiences to follow the dancers through the museum. Created by co-artistic directors Anya and Mitsuko Clarke-Verdery, this work interrogates ritual, identity, empathy, and collective transformation.

🗓️ Saturday, October 17
🕐 1–3 p.m.
📍 Heinz Architectural Center
🎟️ Free with museum admission

Audiences are invited to move through multiple galleries alongside the performers for a unique look at the creative process.

Learn more online: https://carnegieart.org/event/michiyaya-1pm

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Photo by Nathan Cephas; Courtesy of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

10/13/2026

Rum flows. Metal rusts. Images fade.

In Camara Taylor’s Permanent Futures (2026), materials are never static. On view in If the word we: 59th Carnegie International, Taylor’s installation unfolds in real time as dark rum circulates through the gallery, steel slowly oxidizes, and photographic images gradually deteriorate through continuous projection.

Connecting Scotland's River Clyde with the histories of Caribbean sugar and rum production, the work traces cycles of labor, trade, memory, and transformation. Visitors move through an atmospheric environment of submerged prints, iridescent collages, and hand-processed images that shift and change over the course of the exhibition.

What emerges is a space shaped by accumulation and dissolution, where the artwork is continually remaking itself.

Learn more about Camara Taylor and the 59th Carnegie International online at https://carnegieart.org/exhibition/59th-carnegie-international/

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Installation view of Camara Taylor, permanent future (2026), in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

10/09/2026

👯 A matching moment in the galleries.

Plan a visit to the museum this weekend to discover something new, connect with art, find your doppelgänger, or perhaps pick up some fashion inspiration.

See what's on view, check out our events and programs, and get your tickets online at https://carnegieart.org/

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John White Alexander, Aurora Leigh, 1904, Carnegie Museum of Art, Gift of C. Bernard Shea in memory of Joseph B. Shea; Photo: Zachary Riggleman

10/05/2026

Art history isn't finished. It's still being written.

This October, join Carnegie Museum of Art curators for Crash Course: The Future of Art History, a four-part series that examines how the field is changing today. Through artworks from our collection, emerging research, and lively discussion, you'll explore the questions reshaping how we understand art, culture, and the past.

Schedule:
Oct. 7 | John Tain, Director of Curatorial Affairs
Oct. 14 | Dr. Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire, Curator of European and American Art
Oct. 21 | Liz Park, Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art
Oct. 28 | Dan Leers, Curator of Photography

Sessions are held Wednesday afternoons from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Each in-person session is followed the next day by an online option from 6 to 7:30 p.m., streamed via Zoom.

What does art history look like today? How are museums, artists, curators, and scholars rethinking the stories we tell about art, culture, and our shared past? Art history isn't just about the past. It's about the questions we ask today.

10/01/2026

A large-scale ikebana, conceived by Kenjiro Katayama and realized with Sogetsu Pittsburgh Study Group, is one of the first works of art to welcome visitors to If the word we: 59th Carnegie International.

Inside the galleries, you’ll find paintings and sculptures by Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of Sogetsu. An experimental school of ikebana, Sogetsu advanced the centuries-old art of Japanese flower arrangement by placing it in dialogue with transformations in Japanese ways of life, the built environment, and relationships with the wider world.

Envisioning an ikebana practice that emphasized the individual, Teshigahara proposed ways the art could activate one’s agency and imagination through engagement with and expression of one’s surroundings.

Want to learn more about Sogetsu and Ikebana? Head to the link in our bio and check out our upcoming workshops, hosted at the museum in parternship with Sogetsu Pittsburgh: https://carnegieart.org/event/sogetsu-ikebana-demonstration-by-ken-katayama-sensei/

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The 59th Carnegie International presentation of Sofu Teshigahara and Sogetsu Foundation is supported by The National Center for Art Research, Japan.
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Installation view of Sogetsu ikebana (2026), arranged by Kenjiro Katayama, in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026-January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

09/29/2026

Since 1896, the Carnegie International has been central to the way Carnegie Museum of Art has built its collection.

While visiting If the word we, the 59th Carnegie International—on view through January 3, 2027—don't miss A History of the Carnegie International. This recent installation in our collection galleries traces how artworks from past editions found a permanent home at Carnegie Museum of Art, shaping our understanding of how art and artists have responded to the critical questions of the times.

Featuring works acquired through the exhibition series since its founding in 1896 and presented in a salon-style hang reminiscent of the exhibition's early iterations, the gallery offers a compelling overview of the International's legacy.

Learn more and plan your visit online at https://carnegieart.org/exhibition/a-history-of-the-carnegie-international/

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Photo: Zachary Riggleman

09/26/2026

The weekend is here, and it’s the perfect time to experience the 59th Carnegie International, featuring work by 61 artists and collectives from around the world.

If you’re planning to spend some time in the galleries, please note that Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History will open at noon tomorrow, Sunday, September 27 due to The Pittsburgh Great Race 2026.

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Installation view of Georges Adéagbo, Le Socialisme Africain, 2001–2004, version 2026 (detail), in If the word we, the 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Warhol Creative

09/25/2026

What traces do our movements leave behind?

Artist Dineo Seshee Bopape (Raisibe)’s artistic process engages the matter of self-sovereignty, exploring an awareness of the self in relation to external forces while inviting visitors into a space of material and spiritual resonance.

For the 59th Carnegie International, Bopape’s multimedia installation centers on the rhythmic sounds of sweeping and the curving motion of bristles tracing across earth. She describes the sweeping gesture as “a kind of cleansing, with meditative potential for the person who is sweeping, slowly making a drawing on the earth,” while imagining “the listening ear of the earth hearing the vibrations and rhythms of these strokes, which collectively then look like waves and currents.” Through the performative enactment of this gesture, patterns remaining in swept soil are translated into video, sound, and drawing, creating a space for intimacy and inward reflection.

During your next visit to the museum, sit, lounge, and settle into the relationships, rhythms, and aromas that emerge from the earth.

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Installation view of Dineo Seshee Bopape (Raisibe), Fiela, fiela (I've come to take you home), 2026, in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh