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I recently sat down to speak with Douglas Fogle--the curator of the 2008 Carnegie International--in his office at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It was a fine, bright spring day about one month into the run of the latest version of the great survey exhibition of international artists that was first mounted in 1896, and Fogle, who left the Walker Art Center in 2005 after eleven years to take this job, looked relaxed--if somewhat more internally care-worn than the last time I'd seen him at the beginning of his stint in Pittsburgh.
On my first pass through the 2008 Carnegie International, the massive, just-mounted edition of the 112-year-old international art survey that runs through next January at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, I eighty-percent hated the show. It started with the forced theme, "Life on Mars"--the first time ever that the show has had a separate title and theme--which seemed just a tad mundane for this event.