A Panorama of Pittsburgh
at the Frick through 10/5
Learn about Pittsburgh's past by viewing more than 130 printed views of the city.
Meissonier masterpiece
now on view at the Frick
1806, Jena is on view at the Frick through May 31, 2009.
This Sunday is
RADical Day at the Frick
Visit the Frick on 10/5 for a full day of activities and fun!
Rob Rogers discusses
political cartooning on 10/12
The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
Music for Exhibitions
begins new season 11/18
Join Katherine Soroka and Chatham Baroque for an evening of memorable music.
View photos from the 2008 H. C. Frick Horseless Carriage Tour
Twenty-six teams of drivers made it a day of fun.
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at the Frick through 10/5
Learn about Pittsburgh's past by viewing more than 130 printed views of the city.
Meissonier masterpiece
now on view at the Frick
1806, Jena is on view at the Frick through May 31, 2009.
This Sunday is
RADical Day at the Frick
Visit the Frick on 10/5 for a full day of activities and fun!
Rob Rogers discusses
political cartooning on 10/12
The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
Music for Exhibitions
begins new season 11/18
Join Katherine Soroka and Chatham Baroque for an evening of memorable music.
View photos from the 2008 H. C. Frick Horseless Carriage Tour
Twenty-six teams of drivers made it a day of fun.
Sign up for the
Frick e-newsletter
Each month, receive the latest information about exhibitions; programs for adults, families, children, and teachers; events; specials at The Café and the Museum Shop; and more.
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Internationally-Acclaimed Camera Artist The Frick Art & Historical Center presents its first exhibition of contemporary art, with a major body of new work by internationally-acclaimed camera artist Vik Muniz. Comprising sixty-five photographs created in 2000, Clayton Days. Picture Stories by Vik Muniz inaugurates the Center’s artist-in-residence program, in which contemporary artists are invited to respond to the collections at the Center. The exhibition is on view at The Frick Art Museum from September 9 through October 22, 2000. While at the Frick, Mr. Muniz became fascinated by the concepts, histories, and collections contained in and around Clayton, the restored nineteenth-century estate of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. The photographs in Clayton Days—elaborately staged still lifes and genre scenes—constitute Mr. Muniz’s carefully constructed, personal vision of how life might have been in the twenty-three rooms and on the grounds of the Victorian-era house. It is the ‘incredible presence of children’ that Mr. Muniz felt most vividly at Clayton. He decided that, in the absence of photographs documenting a child’s point of view in the nineteenth century, he would take on the task of exploring such a perspective, along with its psychological and visual complications. For Clayton Days, Mr. Muniz’s work is displayed to tell his own version of the history of life at Clayton. Indeed, the pictures remind us that, with our twenty-first-century point of view, we can never truly understand Clayton as it actually was. For all the apparent authenticity of these images, the viewer remains aware of the pictures’ artifice, and thus of the fact that photography can only express the personal vision of the photographer, and not “objective” reality. Mr. Muniz’s vision is complex and multi-layered, drawing viewers into the world he has created, and intriguing them with its mysteries. In addition to Clayton Days, the Frick will present Mr. Muniz’s Flora Industrialis series, as well as Dying Rose and his Brooklyn, NY (Earthworks) photographs. Flora Industrialis, consisting of twenty works, takes on the form of a botanical field guide. Brooklyn, NY (Earthworks) is a series of photographs based on re-creations of famous large-scale man-made structures, like Stonehenge and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an interview with Mr. Muniz by Linda Benedict-Jones, executive director of Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, and an essay by Andy Grundberg, consultant to the Frick’s artist-in-residence program. Mr. Grundberg was a photography critic and columnist for The New York Times from 1981 to 1991 and is currently an arts writer and consultant living in Washington, D.C. The ninety-six page, limited-edition, soft-cover catalogue will be distributed by Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. and will include sixty-four photographs from the exhibition. Clayton Days. Picture Stories by Vik Muniz is supported in part by a generous grant from The Heinz Endowments and with additional support from Larrimor’s at the Union Trust Building, Downtown Pittsburgh, and at The Galleria, Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. The Heinz Endowments’ funding includes the production of the exhibition catalogue. The Frick Art & Historical Center is located at 7227 Reynolds Street. The Museum is open Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Sunday, 12:00 - 6:00 p.m. Admission is free. Free, docent-led tours are offered Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. The public should call 412-371-0600 for information, or visit the Frick online at www.frickart.org. For more information, please contact Dede Acer, Director of External Affairs, at 412-371-0600/556 or Kirsten Liddicoat, External Affairs Associate, at 412-371-0600/584. Related Links: www.mixedgreens.com |
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