Cartoon History Down on Liberty: Toonseum

Toonseum Cartoon Museum in Pittsburgh

Under a banner of comic-book sound bytes in otherwise Boring Pittsburgh lies Toonseum (945 Liberty Ave.), our museum of comics and animation. At the membership desk, you can take a laminated comic that explains Toonseum’s mission: “to celebrate the art of cartooning.” Comics, we learn here, ain’t just funny books – and cartoons aren’t only for the kids.

Like a well drawn comic panel, Toonseum makes the most of a small space. You enter into the visitor station / gift shop, with a gallery a half-step away. Toonseum’s two galleries are connected through an art-bedecked hallway.
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Isaly’s Chipped Chopped Ham

Pixburgh, PA

Isaly's Chipped Ham Sammich

ISALY’S – CHIPPING MAKES IT HAMMIER

This picture was originally the cover of a 1922 edition of Vogue Magazine. Burgh Verified Pittsburgh artist Danny Devine (aka @TagBattle20010) repurposed it in a way only a true Pittsburgher could appreciate. He has an art show on 1/21 where you can see it in person and place an offer to buy it.

Quantum Theatre Presents “Fat Beckett” (show review)

Quantum Theatre Pittsburgh presents "Fat Beckett"

“Perspective…an inescapable truth.”

Samuel Beckett is most noted for his play Waiting for Godot, where his two main characters wait endlessly for a man who never comes. By the wishes of Beckett, his plays must be performed without changes to his tedious stage directions and under no circumstances can male characters ever be played by women. This set writer and lead actress Gab Cody and her counterpart Rita Reis on a mission: to find the “existential clowning piece” for women. In her own words Cody “set out to create a piece of highly physical theater that poses existential questions in the most ridiculous of situations.” In seeing the opening night of Quantum Theater’s “Fat Beckett” it seems that Cody and director Sam Turich have succeeded.
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David Calfo’s Steel City Salvage Art Goes Upscale at Arbor Aid

Arbor Aid 2011 with art by Dave Calfo presented by Tree Pittsburgh

This Friday’s Arbor Aid 2011 fundraiser will feature a variety of artwork for sale from over 40 local artists, but there’s one sculptor in particular whose work you’re going to feel like “salvaging.” David Calfo, an unboring Pittsburgh native, salvage artist and nature enthusiast, has contributed three sculptures, two of which are composed exclusively of materials reclaimed from the historic McBride Log House.
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The Warhol Art App Available Now

By now, all of our readers should have the Warhol Museum’s DIY POP app, especially since it was free for a while. This new product caters more to the left-brained crowd and invites users to go behind the scenes to see Andy Warhol’s career as never seen before. This app is the closest you can get to Warhol without actually stepping foot in his museum. Perfect for fans living outside of the Burgh. Enjoy an in-depth multimedia collection that gives you the opportunity to peer into archival items not normally on display, as well as video clips, audio descriptions, letters, and over 50 art works from the 1920′s to the 1980′s.
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