Carnegie International 2013 schedule

October 5th - March 16th 

Well, you learn something new everyday. I moved here in 2010, missing the previous CI that took place two years before, so I had never heard of this before this year. This seems to be a great year for art in Pittsburgh with all these events going on at the same time. I've said it once, and I've said it before, Pittsburgh needs a renaissance. This area needs a new focus on the future, on arts, on the creative class and stear away from its industrial, sports obsessed past. But it won't happen overnight, more of an out like a lamb, in like a lamb situation I think. Most of the events are free, excluding the Opening Weekend Gala on October 4th where the tickets are (you sitting down?) $425. FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. I'm going to let that sink in. 

The website is kind of a mess but let me explain it like this, the exhibit is open in the Carnegie Museum in Oakland until March 16th. There are events going on the opening weekend and also events happening outside of the museum in the Pittsburgh artistic community at large until December (I thought until the exhibit was running but it doesn't look like it), they call this "An Engagement with the City of Pittsburgh". Then there is the Playground Exhibit, but I don't have kids so I don't give a shit.