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| Arts and Culture |
| Wealthy area businessmen of the 19th century, including Andrew Carnegie, the Heinz family and Henry Clay Frick, donated large sums of money to local educational and cultural institutions. As a result, Pittsburgh is rich in art and culture. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is world-class. It owns and performs at Heinz Hall, which also plays host to a number of other events throughout the year. The Benedum Center and Heinz Hall provide venues for numerous musicals, lectures, speeches, and other performances. Pittsburgh is also home to one of only two professional brass bands in the world, the River City Brass Band. Also included in the Musical arts are the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra (PYSO, pronounced PIE-SEW) and the River City Youth Brass Band, both of which include top musicians from the Pittsburgh area. These programs are intensive and produce top-notch performances, usually viewable free by the public. |
| Fans of the visual arts and architecture are also well served by the region's offerings. The Warhol Museum (http://www.warhol.org/) is dedicated to the works of Pittsburgh native Andy Warhol, while the Carnegie Museum of Art is home to works by such luminaries as Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and many others, along with galleries of sculpture, modern art, the Heinz Architectural Center, a large film and video collection, and various travelling exhibits. The Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, Fallingwater (http://www.paconserve.org/index-fw1.asp), is a short drive from downtown, and the North Shore boasts an 1895 neogothic church, Calvary Methodist, whose interior was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany; the church's stained glass windows are some of the largest and most elaborate work Tiffany ever created.
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Sri Venkateswara temple in Pittsburgh attracts large Hindu/Indian immigrant crowds from
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| Pittsburgh Filmmakers teaches media arts and runs three "art house" movie theaters. The Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University has four resident companies of professional actors. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has extensive dinosaur collections on display, including the complete first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, and an Egyptian wing. The building may be distinguished by a life-size statue known as "Dippy the Diplodocus" to the right of the main entrance. Other dinosaur statues are visible around the Pittsburgh area, these decorated by artists nationwide and sold as a benefit to the Carnegie Museums. The Carnegie Science Center is more technology oriented. Pittsburgh also houses the country's only National Aviary (http://www.aviary.org/). Phipp's Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, in the Oakland region of Pittsburgh, feature seasonal and global plants in a recently-remodeled Victorian-style greenhouse. More additions to the Conservatory are scheduled to begin in 2005. Kennywood Park is widely regarded by rollercoaster connoisseurs to have one of the best collections of functional rollercoasters in the world, including several early 20th century wooden coasters: the Racer, the Thunderbolt, and the Jack Rabbit.
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| Recently, Pittsburgh has gained a reputation as a hipster city with a large indie rock scene. This is particularly true in the Garfield, Lawrenceville, and Wilkinsburg parts of the city which have blue collar histories and thus are the perfect setting for artists who appreciate Pabst Blue Ribbon. Several notable indie rock bands have come from Pittsburgh in recent years, including Don Caballero and The Modey Lemon.
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