Seen+Heard: Spring 2024

History In The Making

Donors and museum staff standing next to an easel with a large photo of a Science center. — From left: Daniel G. Kamin, Jason Brown, Steven Knapp, and Carole L. Kamin

In January, Carnegie Museums announced that the Science Center had received a historic $65 million gift—the largest since the founding of Carnegie Museums—from longtime supporters Daniel and Carole Kamin, which will go toward expanding programming and exhibitions and put the museum at the leading edge of its field. In recognition of the Kamins’ generous support, the Science Center will be renamed the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center.

“I vividly recall crafting my own telescope after many inspired visits to The Buhl, so I have a great appreciation for the role the Science Center plays in educating and inspiring our young people.”
–Daniel Kamin, at the Jan. 23 announcement of the Kamins’ transformational gift

A vintage photo of a teenage boy and a homemade telescope. — Daniel G. Kamin built his own telescope when he was a teenager.

Lord of the oasis discovered

an illustration of a large Titanosaurus.

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Matt Lamanna is one of the lead authors in a study recently published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology that formally describes Igai semkhu, a new titanosaurian sauropod unearthed in the Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt in 1977. Lisa Haney, assistant curator and project director of Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Egypt on the Nile, helped the team with the dinosaur’s name, which means “forgotten lord of the oasis” in transliterated ancient Egyptian.

A Tech Award for The Warhol

The tech entrepreneur news site Technical.ly named The Pop District—The Warhol’s initiative to transform its North Shore neighborhood through art and economic development—as its Culture Builder of the Year for the 2023 Technical.ly Awards. The awards recognize those going above and beyond in their local tech communities.

Spotlight on THE 59th CARNEGIE International Curators

Three curators dressed in brightly colored clothing. — From left: Danielle A. Jackson, Ryan Inouye, and Liz Park.

Less than a year after the 58th Carnegie International concluded, Carnegie Museum of Art has named the curators for the next iteration of North America’s longest-running survey of international art. Danielle A. Jackson, curator at New York’s Artists Space; Liz Park, the Richard Armstrong Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art; and Ryan Inouye, recently appointed Curator, International Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, were announced as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curators of the 59th Carnegie International, which will be on view from May 2, 2026, to January 3, 2027.