Local-Pittsburgh

08/08/2024

TAKE A BREAK and get Artspired ...

“AUGUST IS the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.” — Victoria Erickson * * * * * In Pittsburgh, August brings plenty of festivals with plenty of Art. Visit them all! * Aug. 2, 6-9 p.m. […]

07/05/2024

IN THE SUMMER, Art in Pittsburgh moves outside. And starts a party!

IN THE SUMMER, Art in Pittsburgh moves outside. And starts a party. * * * Fri. July 5, 5 p.m. to late night. Unblurred First Friday Art Crawl is hosted by Bloomfield Garfield Corporation. It’s a monthly art and entertainment stroll spotlighting an eclectic blend of galleries and art retailers alon...

06/03/2024

INNOVATION/CHANGEMAKER ALERT – TEDxPittsburgh will convene at CCAC main campus, Northside –

SOMETIMES, big change grows out of small conversations. You can listen in to the chat (and start your own) this June 13 when TEDxPittsburgh: Weaving […]

06/01/2024

“HOT WEATHER OPENS the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.” ―Truman Capote, "Summer Crossing"

AND IN PITTSBURGH, you get a lot of amazing Art alongside the inevitable sizzling, exuding and pulsing.

https://local-pittsburgh.com/out-and-about/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-june-2024/

05/03/2024

EVER WANTED TO run away with the Circus?

Mike Perry did ... and he'll tell you all about it this Monday May 6 at New Hazlett Theater –

GIVE A MAN A MASK, said author Oscar Wilde, and he’ll tell the truth. * In Saving Face: Memoir of a Circus Clown, storyteller Mike Perry […]

05/02/2024

MAY SUMMONS UP a lot of Art around Pittsburgh ... are you ready to experience it?

The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, returns to downtown Pittsburgh May 31-June 9. Open 12-8 p.m. daily, […]

04/13/2024

LOCAL PITTSBURGH THEATRES offering new ways to support innovative stage arts ...

AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT of financial planning for today’s arts and nonprofit organizations is The Benefit. Wherein, the organization offers a unique, one time only, 100% […]

04/04/2024

“THE ARRIVAL of Spring can’t be done in one picture.” – David Hockney

Sir David should stop into Pittsburgh this month … many pictures and more in Local-Pittsburgh galleries –

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and […]

03/09/2024

“There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.” — Leonora Carrington (“Britain’s Lost Surrealist”).

This month, see what Pittsburgh artists say to you ...

“There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.” — Leonora Carrington (“Britain’s Lost Surrealist”) * * * Galleries & Exhibits 937 […]

02/01/2024

FEBRUARY MAY BE a short month, but in Pittsburgh it's long on Art. https://local-pittsburgh.com/arts/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-february-2024/

01/06/2024

STARTING JAN. 6, John A. Hermann Jr. Memorial Art Museum in Bellvue hosts 8 consecutive art shows in 8 weeks from the vast and variegated collection of Pittsburgh art presenter P.J. McArdle ...

THIS SATURDAY Jan. 6, one of Pittsburgh’s most eclectic and prolific art collectors presents the first of 8 weekly shows featuring 70 artists in a […]

12/01/2023

A VERITABLE BLIZZARD of visual arts circulating through Pittsburgh the final month of the year – https://local-pittsburgh.com/arts/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-december-2023/ ... Happy Holidaze!

“Nothing could exceed the brilliancy and gaiety of the scene by day. But it was at night that the carnival was at its merriest. For […]

11/02/2023

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” — Émile Zola

NOVEMBER's Local-Pittsburgh Gallery Roundup is your guide to Living Out Loud, visually speaking — /local-pittsburgh.com/arts/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-november-2023/

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you … I am here to live out […]

10/21/2023

IF YOU'RE IN Lawrenceville this Thursday, there's an amazing night of musical appreciation set to occur at Thunderbird Cafe and Music Hall 4053 Butler St, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 – and it all started 50 years ago with a humble harmonica looking for a new home –

CONDENSING FIVE DECADES of an international music career into one 3-hour stage show is a daunting challenge few performers would undertake. Pittsburgh harmonica virtuoso Marc […]

10/09/2023

LEAVES FALLING, EXHIBITS RISING in Pittsburgh art galleries – https://local-pittsburgh.com/arts/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-october-2023/ ... get out and see the colors!

“Art is not a privilege, it’s a right. It’s a fundamental part of being human.” — Carmen Lomas Garza, artist-illustrator * * * * * […]

09/21/2023

This place honestly has amazing food and drinks. I ordered the “Broccolini”, “ Foie gras Nigiri” and the most awesome “Crab & Bacon Hushpuppies” (not pictured). Tried several drinks off their menu and loved them all. Hemlock House in Regent Square

09/17/2023

Looking forward to their restaurant opening on the northside. If you love scrapple, and I do, you’re not gonna find better scrapple than this.

08/04/2023

AUGUST IS AN eclectic and lively month for Visual Arts in Pittburgh – https://local-pittsburgh.com/arts/localpittsburgh-gallery-roundup-august-2023/ ... often a fair amount of music, food and general public merriment involved as well!

“I’m a multidisciplinary person. I never have been able to decide what kind of artist I should be, and so I just keep doing what […]