To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

When asked in an interview with writer Deborah Kalb about the significance of the title to his recent novel, Wildcat: An ...

That Kinetic Theatre Company’s “Embers” is such a moving play should be counterintuitive: it violates one of the most basic ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

Like it or not, the Carnegie International eclipses everything the Carnegie Museum of Art does. Every director has grumbled about how it commandeers all available resources. But it’s a time-honored ...

Everyone is born with a gift from God. Some people discover their gift, and use it to a positive end. Some discover their gift, but squander it. And others, for one reason or another, never discover ...

Often when I walk through a gallery of contemporary art, I can hear a murmuring between the works that echoes journalist Herbert Morrison’s voice describing the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937: “Oh, ...

Why is it that so many commentators insist that we live in a multipolar world? Part of it is simply ideological blindness. The university community, like it or not, is dominated by ideologues who are ...

I was born in Tlemcen, Algeria, a small city on the border with Morocco. My family is Jewish, of Spanish ancestry, and had been in Algeria for centuries. Both sides of my family were poor and ...