Plan for Carnegie International announced

PITTSBURGH, June 3 (UPI) -- The Carnegie International, a world-class art exhibit held every five years at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art, will include 200 works from 38 artists.

Laura Hoptman, the museum's curator of contemporary art, has spent three years and traveled tens of thousands of air miles to put together the show that opens Oct. 9, it was announced Wednesday.

Hoptman said she made hundreds of studio visits to organize the show. The artists range from Nick Relph, a 25-year-old British-born video artist, to 78-year-old Robert Breer, an American film animator.

"These are ready-for-prime-time voices," Hoptman said in making the announcement. "When he founded the show, Andrew Carnegie envisioned it as an exhibition of what he called the old masters of tomorrow." She said it was different from the Whitney Museum Biennial in New York in that it was not about discovering new talent.

The show will include mini-retrospectives of new works by three established artists -- sculptures and drawings by Lee Bontecou, sculptures and artists' book by Dimitrije Basicevich, known as Mangelos, who died in 1987, and drawings, strips and notebooks by comic book artist Robert Crumb.

The show will run through May 20, 2005.