Current Exhibitions

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Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
Oct. 4, 2008–Jan. 18, 2008

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Carnegie International

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes
October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009
Heinz Architectural Center

Suburbia has long been perceived as a site of relentless homogeneity. In the last 30 years, this perception has eroded, as growing numbers of minorities, immigrants, and non-traditional families make their homes in the suburbs. Likewise, the repetitious subdivisions, shopping malls, and retail strips of suburbia have proven to be only the most immediately recognizable elements of a complex physical and psychic terrain. Through architectural models and drawings, installations, animations, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and videos, over 30 artists and architects reflect on and propose ideas for suburbs, provocatively exposing the fascinating layers of these deceptively familiar places.

Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes is organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in association with the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from John Taft. 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.