Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…Lowry Burgess is an artist who has been exploring the earth, universe, cosmology, and humans' relationship to these elements since the 1960s. Four of his large-scale paintings, ranging from 15 to nearly 17 feet in height, will be on view in Carnegie Museum of Art's Forum Gallery in Forum 61: Lowry Burgess, November 10, 2007–March 23, 2008.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Carnegie Museum of Art's extraordinary Hall of Architecture, the museum's Heinz Architectural Center will present On a Grand Scale: The Hall of Architecture at 100, on view September 22, 2007–January 27, 2008 in the Center's galleries.

Carnegie Museum of Art's Women's Committee presents the 30th annual Decorative Arts Symposium, Meissen to MacKenzie: New Directions in Decorative Arts, on October 8, 2007. Independent scholar Letitia Roberts, known for her appearances on the "Antiques Roadshow," and the Art Institute of Chicago's Curator of European Decorative Arts Christopher Monkhouse, known to Pittsburgh for his role as founding curator of The Heinz Architectural Center, are the two distinguished speakers.

Carnegie Museum of Art announces the launch of its Hall of Architecture Centennial Initiative, a long-term strategy for both incorporating interpretive materials into the Hall of Architecture and caring for and preserving the cast collection for future generations.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologists Dr. David Berman and Amy Henrici are co–authors of a ground–breaking paper that offers, for the first time, evidence for matching fossilized trackways or footprints to the skeletal remains of reptile–like tetrapods that made them.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History unveils some of the most sparkling and dazzling pieces of its collection with the opening of Wertz Gallery: Gems and Jewelry.

In preparation of the November 21 opening of Dinosaurs in Their Time, Carnegie Museum of Natural History is asking owners of DinoMite Days Dinosaurs to help the museum locate the DinoMite Days dinosaurs. Many of those dinosaurs have changed hands since the original auction in 2003, or have been moved.

Though technology and design change, objects that house and direct light have been around for thousands of years. Designed to Be Lit, on view in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Treasure Room, through February 10, 2008, displays candlesticks, candelabra, and oil and electric lamps from the museum’s collection and examines both the functional and decorative aspects of lighting devices.

An exhibition showcasing modern and contemporary works in glass, Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America, will be on view at Carnegie Museum of Art through September 16, 2007.

International teams of paleontologists have discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era in what is now the Hebei Province in China. This new mammal issue of the prestigious British journal Nature, provides first-hand evidence of early evolution of mammalian middle ear - one of the most important features for all modern mammals.