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Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:09:10 +0000

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Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29–October 8, 2012

This video focuses on Rineke Dijkstra's series of portraits of Almerisa, whom the artist met as a child in a refugee center for Bosnian asylum seekers in the Netherlands. Dijkstra and Almerisa each describe the experience of taking their first photograph together and discuss how the series has evolved over the course of Almerisa's life as she grows from a young Bosnian girl into a Dutch woman with her own child.

Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye: Maxwell Anderson with Krys Boyd

Dallas Museum of Art — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:18:06 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art

Dr Maxwell L Anderson, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, joins KERA Think host, Krys Boyd in a conversation about the release of Anderson's new book, The Quality Instinct.

Floor

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:12:17 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Floor demonstrates many characteristic elements of Do-Ho Suh's broader body of work. The artist uses installations to integrate his artwork with the architecture of a gallery or public space. He has engaged the tensions between collective action and individual identity in other pieces, using his miniature figures to support a heavy stone pedestal or to form a tremendous screen with their interlocking bodies.

A Conversation with the Curators about Snapshot: Painters and Photography

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:45:23 +0000

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Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

Join Ellen W. Lee, Wood-Pulliam Senior Curator at the IMA; Elizabeth Easton, Director of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator of The Phillips Collection; and Edwin Becker, Head of Exhibitions at the Van Gogh Museum, for an informal discussion exploring the artists' intriguing experiments with snapshot photography.

Monkey Remix

Chipstone — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:49:11 +0000

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Object Lab

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Chipstone

Object Lab 4.0's students were asked to create a video Remixing a work from Chipstone's collection. They had free range of the Chipstone Foundation's grounds and objects to illustrate new ways of understanding a historic ceramic. In this video, Adriana Vazquez, Lauren Applebaum and Morgan Anthony examine different contexts that affect the interpretations that can be gleaned from this 18th century ceramic monkey.

Dallas Museum of Art Collection: The Icebergs

Dallas Museum of Art — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:42:53 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art Collection

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Dallas Museum of Art

When The Icebergs was first exhibited at a Civil War fundraising exhibition, critics hailed it as "the most splendid work of art that has yet been produced in this country." Both sides of the Atlantic thrilled to this dramatic scene, which was based on sketches made by the artist during a month-long chartered boat trip in the North Atlantic, off the Canadian coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Dallas Museum of Art Collection: Nkisi Nkondi

Dallas Museum of Art — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:34:16 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art Collection

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Dallas Museum of Art

Minkisi (sing. nkisi) contain magical substances (“medicines”) that, depending upon the context, are used for protection or devastation. Carved wood human figures like this one hunt wrongdoers in matters of civil law. He is simultaneously chief, doctor, priest, and judge. The figure is studded with nails and blades, which indicate how often it has been used.

Dallas Museum of Art Collection: Paul Signac

Dallas Museum of Art — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:25:09 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art Collection

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Dallas Museum of Art

This painting shows a sweeping view of a verdant valley from Comblat, a small town in the Auvergne, where Signac spent about six weeks in the summer of 1887. Signac described it in a letter as "a fairy-tale valley enclosed between splendid mountains." He painted outdoors, alarming villagers with his startingly modern images.

At the time, Signac was working directly under the influence of George Seurat, the innovator of neo-impressionism, and painting in Seurat’s laborious and exacting pointillist technique.

Lecture: The Many Faces of Renoir's Lise Tréhot

Dallas Museum of Art — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:22:06 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art

Art historian John House discusses paintings made by Pierre-Auguste Renoir of his favorite model, Lise Trehot. Two of these paintings are in the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Lise in a White Shawl and Lise Sewing.

This lecture is part of the Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series, which invites notable scholars of 19th- and 20th-century European art to present new research and fresh interpretations of the DMA's modern masterworks.

Tang Museum: Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry on Abstraction and "The Jewel Thief"

Tang Museum at Skidmore College — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:14:28 +0000

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Tang Museum at Skidmore College

Co-curators Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry discuss their ideas on abstraction and their collaboration for the Tang exhibition The Jewel Thief.

The Jewel Thief featured painting, sculpture, textiles, wallpaper, chandeliers, video, and photography by over fifty contemporary artists to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art. Using divergent forms of display, the exhibition focused attention on art’s intersection with the decorative and functional elements of architecture.