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CREATIVITY + CONTEXT


The Carnegie Museum of Art aims to present "artworks from around the world to inspire, sustain, and provoke discussion, and to engage and reflect multiple audiences." This project investigates one aspect of this effort, exploring international representation within the museum's contemporary art collection.

Mapping Artists

What are the artists' nationalities?

Explore the nationalities of the artists and artworks through interactive maps and graphs that depict the percentage breakdown of the collection by nationality.

Acquistion Trends

What is purchased and what is donated?

Consider museum priorities through graphs that depict purchasing trends, as well as visualizations that show the time between an artwork's creation and its acquisition by the museum.

Items on View

Who is on view at the museum?

Perhaps the most important measure is whether or not an artwork is locked away in storage or on view at the museum for visitors to see. Learn what artworks are on view by nationality.

The Ambiguity of Nationality

What can't be captured in the data?

What are the limitations of examining an art collection by artist nationality? Tease apart what "nationality" means, and assess how much the data is able to capture.