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MATCHA: Taking Up Space

Asian Art Museum — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:30:35 +0000

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Asian Art Museum

For one night only, artist led project Space Bi brought together 28 local artists in a friendly takeover of the museum. See their works inspired by and sometimes critical of the museum (it's tough love). Enjoy solo shows in the store, pop up karaoke, fruit costumes, printed tortillas, alternative tours of the collection galleries, participatory activities, and more.

The Jackie Look: Branding a Presidency Through Fashion

Indianapolis Museum of Art — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:49:06 +0000

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

What unspoken messages do First Ladies send with fashion? And how did the unforgettable Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy break the mold to present her husband's candidacy and presidency as progressive and modern?

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

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

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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.

Daniel Silva - Arts & Letters Live

Dallas Museum of Art — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:16:45 +0000

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Dallas Museum of Art

Author Daniel Silva in conversation with Dr Maxwell L Anderson, the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Arts and Letters Live July 21, 2012

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.

Sitting for Vuillard

The Jewish Museum, New York — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:07:48 +0000

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The Jewish Museum, New York

Madame Claude Dalsace, née Bloch, recalls what it was like to sit for the artist Edouard Vuillard as a child (interview, 2012).

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Vuillard and the Photograph

The Jewish Museum, New York — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:51:27 +0000

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The Jewish Museum, New York

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Artist Talk: Lisa Yuskavage on Edouard Vuillard

The Jewish Museum, New York — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:50:53 +0000

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The Jewish Museum, New York

Artist Lisa Yuskavage and Chief Curator Norman Kleeblatt discuss the paintings of Edouard Vuillard and his impact on contemporary art. The conversation highlights Vuillard's influence on artists from after World War II to those working today, and examines Yuskavage's own complex art.

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
The Jewish Museum, New York
May 4 - September 23, 2012
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/vuillard

Sacred Arts of Tibet

Asian Art Museum — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:23:35 +0000

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Asian Art Museum

Learn about the sacred arts of Tibet.

The Dave Project- Teacher's Video

Chipstone — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:20:06 +0000

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The Dave Project

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Chipstone

The Dave Project celebrates the legacy of Dave the Potter, a slave potter and poet from Edgefield, South Carolina. Dave is best known for inscribing couplets onto his pots. The Dave Project took Dave's story on the road. In collaboration with Chicago poet, Orron Kenyetta, clay expert Jeremy Stepien, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chipstone Foundation developed a 2-hour program that was brought to different communities around the city.