Celebrated master of Balinese shadow puppetry, I Wayan Wija performs Tantri, a collection of animal tales. Wayan Wija has created a new form of shadow puppetry, Wayang Tantri, by creating a set of characters based on the animals and human characters of the ancient Panchatantra tales.

View GALLERY CRAWL video featuring an interview with Eric William Carroll about PLATO'S HOME MOVIES, his November 2011 exhibition at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco.

View GALLERY CRAWL video featuring an interview with and short story by Courtney Johnson for her November 2011 exhibition, SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY at Park Life in San Francisco.

Erin Hogan, director of public affairs, and Jill Bugajski, research associate, walk through and discuss the origins and themes of Windows on the War, an exhibition of Soviet TASS posters from World War II, which ran from July 31 to October 23, 2011. An extensive online archive of TASS posters and the exhibition can be found at www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS

At her home and studio in Connecticut, Beryl Korot discusses how she turned away from video in the 1980s towards older forms of technology and information. Using the biblical story of the Tower of Babel as both source and inspiration, Korot developed her own code-based language for a series of weavings and paintings.

Abstract Expressionist New York
The Museum of Modern Art, October 3, 2010–April 11, 2011

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Images courtesy of Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko; The Franz Kline Estate; The Willem de Kooning Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Nina Leen; Fritz Goro; Gjon Mili; Fred W. McDarrah; John Loengard; Arnold Newman; Kate Rothko; Time & Life Pictures; Apic; Getty Images; and The Museum of Modern Art and The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York

May 25, 2011
In Bellini’s great masterpiece, the traditional relationship of figure to setting has been reversed, thus engaging us in a way that transforms our experience of the picture and our understanding of the artist’s creative genius. Keith Christiansen will discuss the impetus behind this transformation and its implications for interpreting the picture’s much-discussed subject. This lecture was made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.

Publications production manager Peter Antony revels in the drama running throughout the history of the Tudors.