Current Exhibitions

Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People

Architecture Explorations

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room

Upcoming Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Carnegie International

Digital to Daguerreotype: Photographs of People
Through January 31, 2010
Works on Paper Gallery

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 explored the human subject, through an exceptional range of practices: from daguerreotypes, to black-and-white silver gelatin prints and color chromogenic prints, to digital inkjet prints. Included are rarely exhibited gems by masters of the medium—such as Julia Margaret Cameron, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Frank, and Garry Winogrand—alongside the work of little-known photographers.

General support for the museum’s exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.

Architecture Explorations
Through August 14
The Heinz Architectural Center

The Heinz Architectural Center’s collection is comprised of more than 5,000 drawings, models, photographs, rare books, games, and other material made between the 1780s and the present. The collection encompasses the full range of architectural representation, from roughly sketched concepts to carefully detailed models, and from the handmade to the digitally rendered. This exhibition presents a small selection of objects chosen to enlighten and inspire participants in Architecture Explorations, a program of camps and workshops for kids ages six through high school that takes place each summer in the Center’s galleries. Architecture Explorations is a collaboration of Carnegie Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture.

The programs of the Heinz Architectural Center are made possible by the generosity of the Drue Heinz Trust. General support for the museum’s exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Opera for a Small Room
Through July 26
Heinz Gallery A

Opera for a Small Room, a collaboration between Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, introduces visitors to the quirky world of a man named R. Dennehy, the owner of a collection of opera records that the artists purchased at a second-hand store in British Columbia, Canada. The installation, which Cardiff and Miller describe as “a small room for the opera of Dennehy’s life,” features a structure filled with records, lights, and other knickknacks. Visitors can peer into the ramshackle room through holes in the walls, but are not able to enter it. Music pouring out of 24 antique loud speakers permeates the gallery, echoed by the rhythm of pulsating lights. The music, record players, and lights become the “actors” in this theatrical and durational work that conveys a dramatic and individual narrative portrait.

Carnegie Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges Jill and Peter Kraus for the loan of Opera for a Small Room. Major support for this exhibition is provided by William I. and Patricia S. Snyder. Additional support is provided by the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation and by The Associates of Carnegie Museum of Art. General support for the museum's exhibition program is provided by The Heinz Endowments, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Allegheny Regional Asset District.

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