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What Does a Pencil Know?

Platform 477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, United States

"What Does a Pencil Know?" is an exhibition of sculpture, drawing, and video by three MFA candidates: Huidi Xiang, Lau Hochi, and Max Spitzer.

Lecture Series: Walid Raad

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Walid Raad's work examines the role of documentation in the representation of collective traumatic events and their use in the construction of memory and narrative.

Doomproof

The FRAME Gallery 5200 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

It's simply easy to see that not everything lasts forever. Problem is, you do want your things to last. You want YOU to last. But do you know how? Let's make that easier for you, together.

America’s Next Top Performance Art Superstar 2020

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Students in Performance Art (In The Expanded Field) will be “competing” for the title of America’s Next Performance Art Superstar 2020.

CANCELLED: Lecture Series: Renée Stout

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Renée Stout's work in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation encourage self-examination, self-empowerment, and self-healing.

CANCELLED: Lecture Series: Stephanie Syjuco

Kresge Theatre 4919 Frew Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Stephanie Syjuco creates large-scale spectacles, often with an active public component, that investigate issues of economies and empire.

TQ Live!

Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

TQ Live! presents a queer evening of dazzling performance, dance, poetry, comedy, resplendent fantasies, music, and more.

Solmaz Sharif & Negar Azimi

Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. Negar Azimi is a writer and editor and occasional curator.

Tishan Hsu & Ryan Inouye

Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Tishan Hsu is an artist who has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives since the mid-1980s. Ryan Inouye is associate curator for the 58th Carnegie International.

James “Yaya” Hough & Let’s Get Free

Carnegie Museum of Art 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

James “Yaya” Hough has created more than 50 works installed at PA State Correctional Institutions. Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee works to end perpetual punishment and build a pathway out of the prisons