Carnegie Museum of Art

08/31/2026

Last call: today is the final day to get early-bird tickets to Untitled (Art Party)!

On October 2, Untitled (Art Party), Pittsburgh’s most unforgettable night out, returns to Carnegie Museum of Art. Explore the galleries after hours, dance to beats from DJ TIZA, enjoy cocktails, spark conversation, and discover something unexpected around every corner.

More than a party, Untitled (Art Party) is Carnegie Museum of Art’s annual fundraiser directly supporting the museum’s Exhibition Fund. Every ticket helps bring ambitious exhibitions and artistic experiences to life.

Get your tickets before early-bird pricing ends tonight: https://carnegieart.org/

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Untitled (Art Party) is presented by PNC

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Video: Warhol Creative

08/27/2026

Today we remember Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026).

Kusama first exhibited at Carnegie Museum of Art when she participated in the 1961 Carnegie International. Silver Coat (1962) is currently on view in our collection galleries.

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Yayoi Kusama, Silver Coat, 1962, Carnegie Museum of Art, A. W. Mellon Acquisition Endowment Fund, © Yayoi Kusama

08/26/2026

For , we’ve dug through the Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive to spotlight a few of the very good dogs that Harris photographed over the years.

A lifelong Pittsburgher born and raised in the Hill District neighborhood, Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998) chronicled the city’s ever-changing communities as well as the fullness of Black life and experiences in midcentury America.

To learn more about Harris and explore the archive, visit us online: https://carnegieart.org/art/charles-teenie-harris-archive/

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[1] Ira Vann Harris and dog in front of Harris home, 7604 Mulford Street, Homewood, ca. 1960
[2] St. Bernard dog, "Big Boy", standing on lawn with brick sidewalk and railing in foreground, possibly at Harris home on 7604 Mulford Street in Homewood, ca. 1968–1970
[3] Young woman with two dogs, ca. 1940–1946
[4] Two Afghan hounds, Chupressi and Tachi, posed in front of brick house or building, front view, August 1946
[5] Portrait of young woman, possibly Dolores Penn, seated on bench with Scotty dog, in Harris Studio, ca. 1939–1945
[6] Profile portrait of light colored dog facing left, seated on bench in front of dark curtains in Harris Studio, ca. 1945
[7] Woman, and man wearing fedora, sunglasses, moustache, striped shirt, and suit, holding onto Great Dane dog, on sidewalk in front of fenced brick building and trees, possibly outside Kay Boys Club, ca. 1961
[8] Portrait of a Collie dog standing on a porch with decorative planters, possibly Vann estate
[9] Dark shaggy dog seated on lawn with trees, June 1971
[10] Young woman wearing light colored sweater and dark pleated skirt, seated on lawn with dog in front of brick building with door and windows ca. 1940–1950

All photos by Charles “Teenie” Harris, Heinz Family Fund, Carnegie Museum of Art

08/24/2026

On view in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, artist Chung Seoyoung's sculptures explore how objects transform, occupy space, and contend with gravity.

Featuring works spanning two decades, including Campfire (2005), Sink (2011), Drive slowly (2025), and the new drawing Who best serves the moment? (2026), this presentation highlights the artist's signature blend of curiosity, wit, and rigorous inquiry into the material and immaterial qualities of sculpture.

Whether attempting to capture the shifting form of a flame or suspending a table between floor and ceiling, her works invite us to consider the relationship between objects, space, and the unseen forces that animate them.

Visit us online to learn more about If the word we, 59th Carnegie International and plan your visit to the museum: https://carnegieart.org/

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Installation view of If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027), featuring works by Chung Seoyoung; photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

08/19/2026

Hyun Nahm’s Puppeteer (Archipelago) (2024/2026) explores the interconnected relationships between geology, industry, and human experience. Inspired by his 2024 residency in Indonesia, the sculpture combines a sulfur-cast, melted motorcycle with suspended resin cubes containing insects, minerals, and toys that resemble geological specimens.

Installed for the 59th Carnegie International, the cubes trace constellations visible only in the Northern Hemisphere, drawing attention to the often unseen connections between resource extraction, global labor systems, and the places that benefit from them. Through the work, Hyun invites us to consider how landscapes, industries, and histories are intertwined across borders.

Learn more about the 59th Carnegie International and plan your visit online at

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Installation view of Hyun Nahm, Puppeteer (Archipelago), 2024/2026, in If the word we, the 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (May 2, 2026–January 3, 2027); photo: Zachary Riggleman / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

08/14/2026

We're thrilled to share that Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery has been awarded the 2026 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award which recognizes a catalogue that makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of modern art or modernism.

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery (Carnegie Museum of Art/Colby College Museum of Art/DelMonico Books) is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary, and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist.

The catalogue was edited with texts by Eric Crosby and Sarah Humphreville. Other contributors include Katie Anania, Donna M. Cassidy, John Corbett, Cynthia Stucki, and Jacqueline Terrassa.

08/13/2026

“Slowness, mundanity, ineptitude, boredom: these are things that they’re typically not given as qualities to work through. Duration allows them to access that, and it tends to be extremely liberating for them.” —Jonathan González

Jonathan González’s The Strikebreakers premieres at Carnegie Museum of Art tomorrow, Friday, August 14 at 11 a.m. as part of If the word we, 59th Carnegie International.

Recently hailed by ARTnews as “the Performance Artist of the Moment,” González’s most recent work draws its title from the complicated history of labor, industry, and Western Pennsylvania.

Taking place in the Grand Staircase of Carnegie Museum of Art, The Strikebreakers is performed by five dancers over five consecutive days.

The work does not seek to reenact a historical event. Instead, it approaches the figure of the worker as a choreographic proposition: a body shaped by repetition, endurance, care, fatigue, solidarity, and the continual negotiation between individual agency and collective responsibility.

The Strikebreakers will be performed daily from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday, Aug. 14 through Tuesday, Aug. 18. This performance is free with museum admission.

Learn more online: https://carnegieart.org/event/strike-breakers-jonathan-gonzalez-aug-14/

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Photos of rehearsals for Jonathan González, The Strikebreakers, 2026, commissioned for the 59th Carnegie International; photos: Zachary Riggleman.

08/12/2026

Ginger Brooks Takahashi's Perilla People's Garden (2026), commissioned for the 59th Carnegie International, is an expression of the artist's intersecting interests in gardening, culinary arts, ethnobotany, colonial histories, and contemporary conditions of migration.

Taking Perilla frutescens, known as deulkkae in Korean and shiso in Japanese, as its starting point, the garden creates a social space where different cultivars of the plant offer ways to consider what it means to long for home across the diaspora.

Join the artist on Saturday, August 15, from 6-8 p.m. to celebrate Korean Liberation Day (Gwangbokjeol) with a gathering in the garden and ice cream featuring the flavors of perilla seeds.

This event is free and open to all. Admission to the 59th Carnegie International is free from 5-9 p.m.

Korean Liberation Day (Gwangbokjeol) commemorates the liberation from Japan's colonial rule of 35 years. To celebrate Korean Liberation Day, we will host an ice cream party in the garden. The ice cream features the flavors of perilla seeds.

08/11/2026

Jonathan González’s The Strikebreakers is coming to Carnegie Museum of Art beginning on Friday, August 14.

The Strikebreakers, a new site-specific, four-hour performance by artist Jonathan González, commissioned for If the word we, 59th Carnegie International.

Conceived for the Grand Staircase of Carnegie Museum of Art, and performed by five dancers over five consecutive days, the work unfolds as a slow transformation of bodies, relationships, and collective attention, using the museum’s architecture as both stage and collaborator.

Rooted in Black performance traditions while engaging histories of the avant-garde, The Strikebreakers asks how choreography can function as a living archive: carrying memory, transmitting relation, and making visible forms of collective life that often remain just beyond perception. The work ultimately proposes the museum not as a container for completed history, but as a place where bodies, architecture, archives, and audiences continually remake one another through the shared experience of time.

Friday, Aug. 14–Tuesday, Aug. 18
11 a.m.–3 p.m., daily
Free with museum admission

Learn more online: https://carnegieart.org/event/strike-breakers-jonathan-gonzalez-aug-14/

08/10/2026

On Saturday, August 15, True T PGH is coming together with Carnegie Museum of Art to give you a late night of art and ballroom under the stars.

Beginning at 7 p.m., we will dance in the Sculpture Court for an open-air celebration of style, joy, and community.

Featuring the True T Artist Group and hosted by GiGi, Rian, Mochi Babyphat, and Naheen, the night brings friendly competition with open-to-all categories, chances to win prizes, and more. Expect live sets from DJ Malibu and Maya Universe, plus a special live performance by “Mean Girl” Manny Dibiachi.

To celebrate the final Inside Out of the summer, from 5 to 9 p.m., admission to the 59th Carnegie International is free.

📅: Saturday, August 15
⏰: 7 p.m.–midnight
🎟️: Free
📍: Carnegie Museum of Art

Strut, sway, and slay into a summer night where art meets ballroom. True T PGH is coming together with Carnegie Museum of Art to give you a night of art and ballroom under the stars. Join us in the museum to see the 59th Carnegie International for free from 5 to 9 p.m., then beginning ... We Are Sta...