There are two kinds of artists one encounters in contemporary exhibitions: those who exist on the superficial, apparent plane ...

On April 26, I got a brief email from Marty McGuinn complimenting me on a remembrance column I’d written a few days earlier ...

In his first nonfiction book, An Ignorance of Trees, touted as a “memoir in essays,” author Jim Daniels seeks to upend that ...

Editor’s Note: This article is based on the upcoming book published by Lyons Press: “From Swampoodle to Mellon Bank CEO; An Irish American’s Journey, the Autobiography of Martin G. McGuinn Jr.” When I ...

Pittsburgh Quarterly has once again been recognized as the leading magazine in Western Pennsylvania journalism, winning eight Golden Quills in the 62nd annual Golden Quill Awards, sponsored by the ...

Historian and biographer David McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential ...

When life events overwhelm me — family health issues, major expenses, needless arguments — I dream about skiing. For me, there is no better escape than soaring down a slope with nothing on my mind ...

It’s a hell of a thing to know your birth coincides with a line of demarcation in your hometown. On one side is prosperity. On the other, ruin. I was born in Youngstown in 1977. At the time, it was an ...

My twin brother, Allan Block, and I are the third generation in a family business that’s more than 100 years old. My grandfather, Paul Block, was an immigrant from East Prussia, and grew up, through ...

Like it or not, the Carnegie International eclipses everything the Carnegie Museum of Art does. Every director has grumbled about how it commandeers all available resources. But it’s a time-honored ...

Often when I walk through a gallery of contemporary art, I can hear a murmuring between the works that echoes journalist Herbert Morrison’s voice describing the crash of the Hindenburg in 1937: “Oh, ...