The Carnegie International takes on the era of US superpower

Photo caption: James “Yaya” Hough’s newly commissioned community mural, A Gift to the Hill District. Photo credit: Sean Eaton. Courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art. Article by Benjamin Sutton. The Art Newspaper – September 23, 2022.

Works in the 58th Carnegie International range from an exploration of America’s geopolitical influence to a tree that owns the plot of land it occupies in Pittsburgh

At the 1895 opening ceremony for his museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie—who later sold his steel company and became the richest man in America—set out a vision radically different from his museum-founding contemporaries Andrew Mellon and Henry Clay Frick. […]

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