This year’s artists-in-residence present seven distinct worlds, with their own unique aesthetic and material qualities, nevertheless united by a focus on the past—through memory, history, and found materials. The works in I Remember It Better show that the past is not a fixed reality, but is actively constructed through looking backward as well as looking forward, and in making space for the dissonance of being in-between.

Organized every four years by Carnegie Museum of Art, the Carnegie International is the longest-running exhibition of international art in North America. The 59th edition is the most collaborative and far-reaching to date—a clear expression of the museum’s founding commitment to the art and artists of our time, at once grounded in our locality and extending globally.

Featured photo is a view of Silät, Tewok: the river we weave (2026), in If the word we, 59th Carnegie International, taken on an AE&E Fund team outing!

Experience the world’s most beloved love story as you’ve never seen it before! Resonance Works presents Gounod’s Roméo & Juliette, bringing one of opera’s most beautiful scores to Pittsburgh for the first time in 20 years.

Drawing from the artist’s experiences across various creative communities, residencies, and partnerships, this exhibition celebrates Bey’s return to his hometown and the wealth of techniques, connections, and artistic insights he brings back with him. Bey creates complex sculptures inspired by modernism, functional pottery, and Oceanic and African art.

Photo credit: Crown Series installation view, (from left) Crown Series: Iris, 2024, Crown Series: Sadie, 2024, Crown Series: Opal, 2024; Photo: Kohler Co., courtesy of John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

Shakespeare’s last play is Karla Boos’s swan song as Quantum Theatre’s Artistic Director. By ‘this rough magic’ are we drawn back to the Carrie Blast Furnaces, where once we made King Lear and Hamlet, for an ultimate rumination on ‘our little lives... rounded with a sleep.’

This summer, Alumni Theater Company brings the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Once On This Island to Pittsburgh’s Cultural District in partnership with Pittsburgh Public Theater July 31 through August 2!