Art & Museums category, Page 22

After being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, Cafe Marchand at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will reopen Wednesday. The cafe will offer grab-and-go service with a limited beverage and snack menu. Because of covid-19 restrictions, food and beverages cannot be consumed inside the Greensburg...

The famous, flowing dress worn by Princess Diana on her wedding day will be featured in an upcoming royal style exhibition, the Historic Royal Palaces organization announced. Diana’s dress, with its 25-foot train, is part of the “Royal Style in the Making” display that will be opening at Kensington Palace...

After being closed for more than a year because of the pandemic, the galleries and visual arts spaces of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust will reopen on June 4. The first installation, “We Are The Global Majority,” will appear in the Space Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh. It will...

Tucked away on a Squirrel Hill back street, the top level of a two-story parking garage hums with activity — not that of cars, but of little hands, messing with paint. In the converted garage space, Laura Wagner and Kevin Wenner opened Raw Space Art in January with the motto...

Last year’s “Women’s Work” exhibition at You Are Here gallery proved so popular organizers decided to do it again. “We did the show without any preconceived ideas, and we didn’t expect such a positive response,” said gallery co-founder Jen Costello. “It really exceeded our expectations.” This year’s show, with works...

Being able to retain all staff during the pandemic played a role in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art again achieving accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums. Alliance accreditation brings national recognition to a museum for its commitment to excellence, accountability,...

Vandergrift’s annual Artfest is back, and organizers are seeking artisans and volunteers. In-person activities resume this year for the popular summer daylong festival scheduled for Sunday, July 25. Last year’s event was held virtually because of the pandemic. This year’s theme is “Art, Heart and Soul.” Art, Heart, and Soul:...

Art lovers know how easy it is to get lost in the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. Now they can be surrounded by the brush strokes of the Dutch master’s works in the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit, coming to Pittsburgh in September. The show promises “500,000 cubic feet of monumental...

PARIS — A rare painting by Vincent Van Gogh was sold at auction Thursday by Sotheby’s Paris for 13.1 million euros ($15.4 million). The sale of “Street Scene in Montmartre” was highly anticipated as it was one of the few paintings by the Dutch Impressionist master to still have been...

Literature is in the spotlight this week, with award-winning writers in conversation and reading from their works. There’s also new art, dance, film and music to enjoy. For the kids, there’s an ‘eggs-citing” adventure on the grounds of an area museum. The details are here, in this week’s Big List....

LONDON — A Banksy painting honoring Britain’s health workers in the pandemic has sold for a record 16.8 million pounds ($23.2 million), auction house Christie’s said Tuesday. Proceeds from the sale will be used to fund health organizations and charities across the U.K., it said. The work by the mystery...

The doors were open and music was playing as Vanessa German installed her latest works of art. “I could hear people asking about what was going on in the museum,” said German, of Homewood, who has been invited to collaborate with the Frick Pittsburgh museum. “Being around for the beauty...

A familiar face at Fort Ligonier will soon be a familiar face at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. Erica Nuckles, the fort’s director of history and collections, will join the Greensburg museum’s staff in April as director of learning, engagement and partnerships. “I am thrilled and honored to join...

Among the casualties that resulted from the start of the pandemic one year ago was the Carnegie Science Center’s Pittsburgh Regional Science & Engineering Fair, a tradition that began in 1940. The start of the covid-19 crisis made holding the fair, usually scheduled for March, impossible to do in person...

Butterflies are attracted to Virginia bluebells, the Royal Catchfly and rattlesnake master, and staff at the Ligonier Valley Historical Society believe area backyard gardeners also will like them. They’re just three of the 24 varieties of perennials the society is offering this year in its native plant sale, nearly doubling...

LONDON — Christie’s says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical works by many better known artists. The piece, titled “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold for...

NEMI, Italy — A looted mosaic that once decorated a ship of the Roman Emperor Caligula and ended up as a coffee table in New York City finally returned home Thursday, as details emerged about the lucky break in the investigation that got it there. Officials unveiled the mosaic at...

The Sweetwater Center for the Arts will host its first in-person art exhibition since canceling all shows about a year ago. “Trigger Warning,” a gallery that includes artwork focused on gun violence in America, will have an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 19. The exhibition will...

Outdoor tours at Fallingwater will begin for the season soon, but those wanting to see inside the famous Fayette County home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will have to keep waiting because of the coronavirus pandemic. The 58th tour season begins Saturday. Tickets are limited because of social distancing precautions....

Once upon a time — let’s say, about 90 million years ago — a juvenile pliosaur was swimming around the waters of western Manitoba in central Canada. If you were also in the water, it would be tough to miss, despite its young age: It would be about 18 feet...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Talk about your yard sale finds. A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a Connecticut yard sale turned out to be a rare, 15th century Chinese artifact worth between $300,000 and $500,000 that is about to go up for auction at Sotheby’s. The white bowl adorned...