Art & Museums category, Page 41

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Megastar Michael Jackson’s musical legacy has been getting critically reappraised after a new documentary rekindled allegations of child sexual abuse, but at least two music museums in Detroit and Tennessee aren’t scrubbing the King of Pop from their exhibits. The National Museum of African American Music says...

The public is invited to explore Latrobe Art Center’s recently renovated galleries during an open house from 5 to 7 p.m., March 14. Located in three adjacent connected storefronts at 819 Ligonier St., at the corner of Latrobe’s Main Street, the center and its café were closed from Dec. 21...

Fort Ligonier’s director of history and collections, Erica Nuckles, will introduce rare artifacts Fort Ligonier is adding to its French and Indian War collection with a coffee lecture at 2 p.m. March 17 in its Center for History Education. Fort Ligonier was the successful bidder on several lots last September...

Children of all ages are invited to hop on over to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, 1 Boucher Lane and Route 711 South, on April 13, for the museum’s third annual Easter egg hunt. The 1 p.m. event will be held rain or shine. Eggs will...

Latrobe watercolorist Peg Panasiti will discuss her technique and give a painting demonstration at noon March 21 during the Lunch a l’Art program at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley in Ligonier Township. Panasiti is a painter with four decades of working in watercolor, according to the...

Photographer Harry Shipman still appreciates the purity of using film. “I have a dark room in my house,” says Shipman, as he stood in front of his work for the Focus On The Arts exhibit at Pittsburgh Mills. “With digital you can see if you got the shot, but with...

A sale is underway from 3-5 p.m. today and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. March 2 in the gift shop at Historic Hanna’s Town, 809 Forbes Trail Road, Hempfield. Merchandise will be discounted up to 70 percent in preparation for the shop’s move this spring to a new location in the Westmoreland...

“Things As They Are,” a solo exhibition of sculptures, assemblages and installation by artist-in-residence Morgan Rose Free, will open with a March 1 reception at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh. The reception is set for 7-10 p.m. at the artist-run nonprofit residency and experimental gallery at 5106 Penn Ave. “Free’s installation...

Gabi Nastuck, director of Miss Gabi’s Art is Good Studio in Latrobe, will mark a year of working with East Suburban Citizen Advocacy in April, and it has been one of the most rewarding years of her artistic career. Nastuck, 40, of Latrobe will host an all-inclusive art class, “Painting...

Kathleen Guglielmi Morrone views art as a communal language. “We may find it hard to express ourselves but art can give insight to how we’re feeling, what we stand for and our passions,” says the art teacher at St. Joseph High School, Natrona Heights. “Giving students a voice and a...

Need a rooting interest to get into the 2019 Academy Awards? Think local. Some household names with ties to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania have won Oscars for their on-screen performances, including Michael Keaton (Robinson), Holly Hunter (Carnegie Mellon University graduate), Shirley Jones (Charleroi-born, Smithton-raised), Frances McDormand (Monessen) and Jimmy Stewart...

The 57th Carnegie International , Carnegie Museum of Art’s signature exhibition comes to a close March 25. Find 'museum joy' at Carnegie Museum of Art's 57th Carnegie International in #Pittsburgh. WQED Pittsburgh (@wqed) January 28, 2019 Over the next four weeks, there will be artist talks, creative drawing sessions...

Members of the public are invited to join the Ligonier Valley Writers March 3 as the nonprofit group seeks inspiration for memoir pieces while exploring exhibits at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art. The writing workshop and art tour are scheduled for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the museum...

Irish genealogy experts Fintan Mullan and Gillian Hunt from the Ulster Historical Foundation in Belfast will host the Senator John Heinz History Center’s fifth annual Irish Genealogy Workshop from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. March 18. The workshop is offered in partnership with the Westmoreland County Historical Society. This in-depth, day-long workshop...

The landing of the first human on the moon is no less fascinating today than it was when it happened in 1969 — witness the popularity of the just-ended “Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission” exhibition in the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. The exhibition closed...

The Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society Heritage Museum in Tarentum is hosting a Black History Month event Sunday. Samuel Black, director of African American programs at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh’s Strip District, will speak on “African American Migration to Pittsburgh 1900-1950.” Jim Thomas, president of the Allegheny-Kiski...

A National Labor Relations Board investigation into alle­gations that the Mattress Factory violated federal labor laws has been closed, the museum’s acting director, Judith O’Toole, announced Thursday. The news comes more than a week after the Mattress Factory settled with a group of former and current employees who accused supervisors...

Latrobe Art Center will host Taste of the Neighborhood from 5:30-8 p.m. March 1. The event in the center at 819 Ligonier St. will feature pizza and appetizers from a variety of area restaurants, along with libations from area breweries and wineries. The Heavenly Biscuits singing duo will entertain. Food...

A Cafe Art open house is planned for 2-4 p.m. Feb. 17 in the Greensburg Art Center, 230 Todd School Road, Hempfield. The free event will feature “Mosaics With Rose,” with member artist Rosemary Sovyak demonstrating how to make colorful mosaic pieces such as suncatchers, decorative mirrors and hanging wall...

WASHINGTON — A new art exhibit at a Washington museum shows an Ivanka Trump lookalike pushing a vacuum cleaner and invites spectators to toss crumbs for her to clean up. The art piece by Jennifer Rubell, titled “Ivanka Vacuuming,” opened Feb. 1 and continues through Feb. 17 at the Flashpoint...

NEW YORK — We live with Andy Warhol in much the same way we live with the visual material he reproduced and exploited — the vast Americana of consumer products, movie stars and news. He sought to claim this iconography as art, to harness its seductive power and mimic the...

Associated Press Eds: APNewsNow. With AP Photos from Monday, Feb. 4 GENEVA (AP) — It seems Facebook can be friends with a topless Venus after all. The social media giant said Tuesday it mistakenly blocked a museum in Switzerland from using images of two statues — a marble Venus and...