Arts
Yes, Luna fete is still happening, but it’s smaller and socially distant this year.
Welcome back to the Yinzer Shopping Network, your go-to destination for Pittsburgh holiday gifts! In this installment, we’re recommending books and games that will make perfect gifts for all those literary and game-obsessed Pittsburghers in your life.
She’s making large-scale metal sculptures that are infused with a sense of place and storytelling
Dirty Funq’s murals have been popping up all around town these past several months. He enjoys collaborating, more than needing to be front and center, so if you see some graffiti writing that says “Love” or a piece by Mr. Balloon Hands, keep your eyes open: there’s likely artwork by Dirty Funq nearby. The person Dirty Funq enjoys collabing with the most, luckily, is the person he enjoys being around the most, the extraordinarily talented tattoo artist, Danika Brooke, a.k.a. feliine.
Stage’s novel Wonderland is one of the top horror novels for 2020 on Goodreads.
The Virtua Mall video game is a neon temple dedicated to community, complete with the cornerstone businesses that brought in stragglers and strollers during the real-world mall boom. There’s a movie theater that plays local music videos. There’s the arcade where you can drop a few quarters and blast aliens. There’s a club that hosts hologram performances. In the game, it seems like a perfect place for cyberpunk mallrats of a cleaner, brighter future to come together.
TJ Murphy, executive director of Reel Q, shares highlights of the organization’s 35 years and some of this year’s virtual programming
Karla Lamb speaks about the series and her own identity as a self-labeled Chicana and Latinx poet.
As part of our visual arts focus for Back to School week, we asked a Pittsburgh-based photographer to curate the best of what he’s seeing locally on Instagram.
We’ve rounded up a bunch of art classes you can take this fall. Get messy; get creative.