Art Beat 2013

Opening Reception May 3, 7-9 p.m.
Exhibition Open May 3-24

This spring, Shady Side Academy is hosting a professional art exhibition on its Senior School campus in Fox Chapel to bring top emerging and established Pittsburgh-based visual artists together in a multiple-site venue. Work includes a wide range of styles and mediums, both 2D and 3D.

Visit www.shadysideacademy.org/artbeat to learn more.

Monica Kapoor:

The Shape of Things: Scenes from new york's art world armory series

Displayed October 2012 through September 2013

Photography by Shady Side Academy alumna Monica Kapoor '97 is on view at The Hillman!

In an age when everything seems to have been done, does our need to go beyond the ordinary lose value? The debut of The Armory Show in 1913 helped position New York as the center of the art world. It introduced modern art to American masses, and pushed artists to take their work further. Today even though 65,000 people attend the Armory Show it is just one stop in the global art fair circuit, and the growing number of museums, galleries, and art-spaces in New York City.

Learn more about how The Armory Show of 1913 impacted art in America!