ArtBabble: Collecting

The Collecting of African American Art VIII: Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker in Conversation with Michael Harris

National Gallery of Art, Washington — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:16:30 +0000

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Recorded on February 26, 2012, as part of the National Gallery of Art lecture series The Collecting of African American Art, former National Basketball Association players Elliot Perry and Darrell Walker discuss their collections of African American art and art of the African diaspora with Professor Michael D. Harris. Perry and Walker began to collect art during their extensive travels for their professional sports careers, and both have amassed important holdings of modern and contemporary art that have been exhibited throughout the United States.

Art of Another Kind: Director James Johnson Sweeney's Legacy

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:35:52 +0000

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Since its beginnings as a private collection, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum collection has evolved to reflect the dramatic shifts in art making over the past 150 years. Art of Another Kind curators Tracey Bashkoff and Megan Fontanella explain the collection’s history and the contrasting yet synchronous visions of former directors Hilla Rebay and James Johnson Sweeney in making the Guggenheim a repository for the art of our time.

Behind the Scenes at the DIA: Part 2

Detroit Institute of Arts — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:30:56 +0000

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In The Frame: Exploring the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Detroit Institute of Arts

The DIA encompasses thousands of square footage of gallery space, the entire public portion of the museum allows for only a fraction of the total collection to be on display at any one time. So what's in storage? What's involved in storing thousands of items in the collection? What does it mean to deaccession a particular artifact or artwork? In this episode you get a behind the scenes glimpse of everything at the DIA that you don't usually see.

Daily Lives: Chinese Culture Center @ YBCA

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:25:06 +0000

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YBCA Now

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Inspired by artist Song Dong's investigations of family, consumerism, and the small meditative moments that punctuate an ordinary life, Daily Lives is an exhibition that considers the question of material objects in everyday life. The five artists showcased in this exhibition explore what is deeply personal about assortments of objects? Collections of scents, consumer goods, memories, secrets... What is it in human nature that compels us to gather objects, concrete or abstract, around us?

Behind the Scenes at the DIA: Part 1

Detroit Institute of Arts — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:30:32 +0000

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In The Frame: Exploring the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Ian Fraser Collects and Recollects

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:37:46 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Ian Fraser, former longtime curator of the IMA’s Clowes Collection, returned to Indianapolis to discuss his lifelong love affair with collecting decorative arts and, in particular, British silver. Fraser tells the story of his own origins as a collector, the process of discovering the treasures made by 17th and 18th-century English silversmiths, and his passion for collecting fine pieces made by female artisans.

Looted Art Part 2: Nazi Looted Art

Detroit Institute of Arts — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:54:21 +0000

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In The Frame: Exploring the Detroit Institute of Arts

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Whether stolen from ancient tombs or as recently as art looted by the Nazi's during WWII, this episode explores the problems presented to modern museums when trying to track the rightful owners of a particular work of art.

Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections

The Frick Collection — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:44:20 +0000

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Special Exhibitions at The Frick Collection

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The Frick Collection

February 15 through May 15, 2011 When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a great admirer and collector of works by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669); as a teenager he wrote a biography of the artist, illustrated with his own copies after Rembrandt's most famous works.

#6 Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries: Proof of a Pourbus

Detroit Institute of Arts — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:29:57 +0000

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Watch museum experts solve the DIA's greatest art mysteries! Visit dia.org today and get your tickets to see Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries.

#5 Fakes, Forgeries, and Mysteries: Hello Tewkesbury Road

Detroit Institute of Arts — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:36:59 +0000

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Watch museum experts solve the DIA's greatest art mysteries! Check back each week for a new whodunit. Visit dia.org today and get your tickets to see Fakes, Forgeries and Mysteries.