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Dear Colleagues:
I am delighted to send you the first in a series of "Bylines" on
Pittsburgh and the ARLIS/NA 2000 confernece that will be held there from
March 16-22, 2000. Ray Anne Lockard
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THE ARLIS/NA ANNUAL CONFERENCE:
It is an exciting day in Pittsburgh! The last Carnegie International of
the century opened to members of the Carnegie Museum of Art and your Local
Arrangements Co-Chair is attending many of the events. The Carnegie
International is being billed as "CI:99/00" and runs from November 6, 1999
through March 26, 2000. An exhibition of contemporary art of epic
proportions, it features the work of 44 artists from 22 countries.
People who attend the ARLIS/NA annual conference in Pittsburgh from March
16-22, 2000 will treated to their very own viewing of this important art
exhibition. The conference convocation will be held in the Carnegie Music
Hall, the reception in the Music Hall's grand foyer, and the Carnegie
Museum's galleries will be opened to us. The spaces have been donated to
ARLIS/NA courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art.
The conference will also feature a session on Andrew Carnegie's cultural
legacy that will include a paper on the history of the Carnegie
International. "Check out" CI:99/00 on the web at
http://www.carnegieinternational.org.
THE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE IN PITTSBURGH:
While the Carnegie International celebrates is opening to members today, a
two new shows are opening at The Andy Warhol Museum located across town.
The exhibitions, NADAR/WARHOL: PARIS/NEW YORK and ANDY WARHOL:
PHOTOGRAPHY, open today and run through January 30, 2000.
The city itself is reinventing itself as it faces a new century with plans
for Renaissance III. This city-planning project encompasses a variety of
projects, some completed and others in process.
The new Alcoa Corporate Center, located on the Northside across the street
from The Andy Warhol Museum and on the banks of the Allegheny River, was
featured as the cover story in the October 1999 issue of ARCHITECTURAL
RECORD (pages 88-91). The Alcoa building is one of two Pittsburgh
projects among nine winners in the third annual "Good Design in Good
business" awards, sponsored jointly by Architectural Record and Business
Week. Pittsburgh is the only city winning more than one award, from a
pool of 214 entries.
The second Pittsburgh building honored with the award is the Carnegie
Mellon University's Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace. The workplace
has attracted international attention and is included on one of our
conference tours!
The new O'Reilly Theater by Michael Graves is also rising in the Cultural
District. To be the new home of the Pittsburgh Public Theater is
scheduled to open next month. Graves received the National Medal of Arts
to honor his lifelong achievements this past September.
A sculpture park is being constructed adjacent to the new theater. The
site-specific installation, located on the corner of Seventh Street and
Penn Avenue, is site-specific is by Russian artist Alexandr Brodsky and
entitled "Palazzo Nudo," The installation is a symbolic recollection of
the Cultural District's past that features remnants from demolished
buildings that were previously located in the area. It is Brodsky's first
major public commission in the United States.
The autumn of 1999 has been an exciting time in Pittsburgh! Just last
month the newly formed Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance mounted a PR
campaign. The campaign tells people that the "Arts bring life to life."
ARLIS/NA members who attend the Pittsburgh conference will certainly
discover that to be true! We look forward to seeing you during March
2000 in America's great city on the Three Rivers!
Ray Anne Lockard
Head, Frick Fine Arts Library
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Voice: 412-648-2410
Fax: 412-648-7568
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A book should be a ball of light in one's hands.
Ezra Pound
