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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens extended its Flowers Meet Fashion: Inspired by Billy Porter show due to high visitor rates. That means there is still time to see how local college and high school students became an active part of creating the exhibit’s dramatic, vibrant outfits.

When she got the invitation, Shannon Pultz thought she was too busy to participate in a student-teacher art exhibition at Seton Hill University. It took a sixth-grader at Pittsburgh CAPA, where Pultz is chair of the visual art department, to change her mind. Their work is showing in “Cultivations: Art

The Nostalgia for ART CLUB2000’s Cool Cynicism At Artists Space, New York, a retrospective of the collective’s body of work reminisces on the punkish criticality of the 1990s  Encountering the work of ART CLUB 2000 (AC2K) for the first time in 2021 feels a bit like someone telling you that your parents were cool when they were in their twenties. (I wasn’t even born when the group was founded in 1992.) Active until 1999, the collective of seven precocious students from C...

Supposedly, when he first saw the early-‘90s group photos by ART CLUB 2000, art dealer Colin de Land hated them. Not because the images were bad—quite the contrary. Because he knew that they were too good, that the group’s collective self-portraits would overpower everything else they tried to do. He was right, more or less. The cool retrospective of ART CLUB 2000’s work at Artists Space is sort of about the Monkey’s Paw curse of generational fame—a curse which the group was very m...