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Marymount Manhattan College
David Gilbert, a professor of communications
at Marymount Manhattan College, worked
with his students in 2005 to produce unofficial audio
guides for art exhibited at MoMA. The audio guides are available as
podcasts and they may be played on iPods while touring the museum. RocketBoom
features a June 8, 2005 video
interview with Dr. Gilbert and two of his students, explaining the
project. BBC News television reported
on it June 2, 2005 and Randy Kennedy of the New York Times also
reported on the audio guides in a May 28, 2005 article titled "With
Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour." Audio guide
segments include Max Beckmann's Family Picture,
Tom Wesselmann's Still Life Number 30,
Robert Rauschenberg's Bed, plus others.
Millard Sheets Center for the Arts
A 31 track podcast tour is provided by
Millard Sheets Center for the Arts in the the Millard
Sheets Gallery website. The Millard Sheets Gallery began as the Fine
Arts Program of the L.A. County Fair -- art exhibitions have been an integral
part of the Fair since its founding in 1922. Each year, the exhibits produced
for the Fair have featured artists from not only Los Angeles, but also California,
the nation, and throughout the world, and have presented contemporary as
well as historical art in a variety of styles and media. In 1998, the Millard
Sheets Gallery was incorporated as a nonprofit organization with the purpose
of helping to fill a gap in the cultural opportunities available for Pomona-area
residents. Since then, the Gallery's vision is to become a year-round arts
venue, offering the people of Southern California an opportunity to experience
diverse and progressive art exhibitions combined with lively educational
programs, with the goal of encouraging new generations of art enthusiasts.
Mississippi Museum of Art
For its 2008 exhibition This Mississippi
Story, the Mississippi Museum of Art offers a
12-part audio guide tour for visitors that may be listened
to on a Web page or downloaded before visiting the Museum. The tour
may be played on an iPod or other portable device at the Museum. The audio
tour is created by Acoustiguide. The Museum says of the exhibition: "This
Mississippi Story exhibition portrays the history and culture of
Mississippi through art, reflecting the national and international context
of that story as well." The Museum says about the audio tours: "These
tours give you in-depth, background information on the works of art you
will see in the Museum's exhibitions, as well as information on the artists
who created the work, the time period in which the art was made, and the
broader context of life in that particular time period."
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mcast
Audio provides audio commentary for some of the exhibitions on view
at the museum. Listen to curators and other experts talk about the exhibitions
and the works included in them. For The Modern West: American Landscapes,
1890 - 1950, Emily Ballew Neff, MFAH curator of American painting and sculpture
and curator of The Modern West exhibition, Barry Lopez, nature writer and
author of one of the essays in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition,
and Richard Francaviglia, historian, geographer, and professor at the Center
for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography at the
University of Texas at Arlington, talk about the exhibition and some of
the works in the show.
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL
The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg
provides mp3 files on its web site
which can be downloaded by viewers. For example, in November, 2005 the
museum posted two audio components to accompany an exhibit on the photography
of Weegee: Herb Snitzer and Lucien Clergue meet Weegee (in Paris 1961)
- 2.1 MB file; Herb Snitzer on the attraction of the Village (It was cheap!)
- 2.4 MB file. More audio files will be added as exhibitions are held.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
MoMA offers the online service MoMAudio, featuring
Modern Voices, "commentaries by dozens of curators, artists, critics,
and conservators who share their perspectives on select artworks in the
Museum's collection," Several covered artworks are by American artists.
Web site visitors can download the complete Modern Voices audio
program for use with a portable MP3 player. The museum also offers Modern
Kids which "offers four fun ways for children to explore works
of art in the Museum's collection," and Special Exhibitions
"providing audio commentary for many special exhibitions on view
at the Museum." MoMA Audio is a collaboration between The Museum of
Modern Art and Acoustiguide, Inc.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art offers on its web site
the audio tour "The
Director's Tour" by Director Earl A. Powell III.
O'Keeffe
on Paper. Barbara Buhler Lynes, co-curator
of the exhibition, author of Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné,
curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and Emily Fisher
Landau Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, discuss
new insights on the stunning watercolors, charcoals, and pastels presented
in the exhibition of O'Keeffe's most innovative works on paper. Aired May
6, 2000. (description courtesy NGA)
Carleton
Watkins: The Art of Perception. Sarah Greenough,
curator of photographs, talks about works by celebrated nineteenth-century
photographer Carleton Watkins, on view in the first major exhibition of
Watkin's work in 20 years. Aired March 11, 2000. (description courtesy
NGA)
Martin Johnson Heade, Part Two. Franklin Kelly, curator of British and American painting, continues
the discussion of the exhibition, Martin Johnson Heade. Aired March
4, 2000. (description courtesy NGA)
Martin Johnson Heade, Part One. Franklin Kelly, curator of British and American painting, presents
an overview of the work of Martin Johnson Heade, one of the most innovative
and creative artists of the nineteenth century. Aired February 26, 2000.
(description courtesy NGA)
Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting,
19551965, press
event opening remarks from Earl A. Powell III and Jeffrey Weiss National Public Radio
National Public Radio provides archives of its radio program series. In the Programs Archive page, listeners can click on Archives and search using the keywords."visual arts" to retrieve art-related shows. Many of the audio shows are accompanied by images of artwork being discussed. Examples are:
William
Christenberry, from NPR's Studio
360, September 1, 2006
'Masters
of American Comics': A History of the Funnies from Fresh Air,
WHYY, January 3, 2006
Tim
Hawkinson: Creating Art with Moving Parts from All Things Considered,
August 16, 2005
The Story Behind American Gothic
from Morning Edition, July 12, 2005
Kim
Novak: Portrait of a Stipple Artist from All Things Considered,
July 4, 2005
Gilbert
Stuart: Views of George Washington by Linda Wertheimer, from Weekend
Edition, May 14, 2005; with link also to "Preserving George Washington's
Portrait" (March 16, 2001)
Photo
Op: John Szarkowski's Art Vision from Day to Day, February 10,
2005
National
Geographic Portraits in Focus by Alex Chadwick, from Day to Day,
November 14, 2004
View
of New York: Painter Red Grooms from Fresh Air, August 2, 2004
Painting
Clinton's White House Portrait from Morning Edition, June 14,
2004
Piecing
Together Joseph Cornell from All Things Considered, November
26, 2003
The
Photos of Edward Weston from Morning Edition, August 8, 2003
When
Insiders Define Outsiders from Studio 360, January 2003. Kurt Andersen
discusses the transformation of art and the development of outsider art.
Kinkade
Kitsch from Studio 360, August, 2002. Kurt Andersen discusses Thomas
Kinkade.
Diane
Arbus' Identical Twins: Listen to Madeleine Brand's report.
Margaret
Bourke-White's Photography of Design, February 26, 2003 with links
also to "Susan Stamberg reports on a Margaret Bourke-White retrospective
exhibit in New York" (February 28, 1998) and "Stamberg interviews
Vicki Goldberg, author of Margaret Bourke-White, A Biography"
(June 16, 1986)
American Gothic, Present at the Creation from Morning Edition, November 18, 2002 with links also
to "Centennial of Grant Wood's Birth" (June 6, 1991) and "an
interview with James Dennis, author of Grant Wood: A Study in American
Art and Culture". (February 13, 1976)
Rose
Bowl Floats from Weekend Edition, Saturday,
December 29, 2001. Susan Stamberg talks with Rose Bowl float designer Raul
Rodriguez about his many creations.
Black
Religious Art from All Things Considered,
April 13, 2001. On this Good Friday, Commentator Robert Franklin remarks
on the growing role of art in African-American churches.
Outsider
Art from Morning Edition, February 9, 2001. David D'arcy reports
on "outsider art" -- works produced by self-taught artists. The
work is known for its unconventional materials as well as for the unusual
biographies of some of its creators.
Nebraska Public Television / Museum of Nebraska Art
Nebraska Public Television provides on-demand
radio in a web
page that archives MONA Moments on Nebraska Public Radio, written
and narrated by Ron Roth, Director of the Museum of Nebraska Art. The NPTV
web site says that the Moments "...are designed to "educate
and inform NPR listeners on Nebraska's visual art heritage, and to promote
MONA." As of September 2004 there were about 80 archived Moments
on the NPTV web site. Each Moment, with 2 to 7 minutes of audio,
has a separate web page containing a link to enable the viewer to replay
the audio broadcast, a complete transcript of the audio, plus a thumbnail
image of the art subject being covered to provide context. The thumbnail
image is linked to a larger image with a caption on a separate page. [2]
Orange County Museum of Art
The Orange County Museum of Art is enabling
individuals to use iPods and other MP3 players to better appreciate its
exhibitions. For the Museum's Villa America exhibit (June 4 - October
2, 2005), the OCMA web site contained a 25-part audio tour of the exhibit
which could be be downloaded by individuals before they visited the exhibit.
The museum also made iPods available onsite for the use of visitors. Villa
America explores the evolution of American art through masterpieces
of America's foremost artists of the first half of the 20th century. The
exhibition begins with a look at key American modernists working in Europe
and New York during the first quarter of the century. In these early years,
artists such as Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley,
Gerald Murphy and Georgia O'Keeffe, to name just a few, were reshaping
American art.
Through grants from the Henry Luce Foundation
and the Getty Foundation the museum is placing its permanent collection
online in a creative manner. A feature of the Collection
Online is a section named "highlighted artists." As of March
2007 "highlighted artists" includes representational artists
William Wendt, Ed Ruscha and Helen Lundeberg. For each artist there are
sections including a brief biography, images of artworks, photo archives,
audio and video clips, quotes and readings about the artist, and resources
consisting of links to other websites.
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
The museum's first podcast was an overview
of Granville Bruce: Old Texas on exhibit July 30 through October
30, 2005. It was produced by Buster Ratliff, PPHM Operations Coordinator,
and includes a gallery talk by PPHM Curator of Art, Michael Grauer. Personal
impressions of the exhibit are expressed by Shianne McCracken and Ryan
Brantley, both students at West Texas A&M University and employees
of the museum. See an article and an essay on the
exhibit in Resource Library, a publication of TFAO.
Portland Museum of Art
The Portland Museum of Art offers podcasts
of Museum programs and exhibitions including 13 podcasts for a 2008 George
Bellows exhibition:
PBS
Artist Romare Bearden drew on his interests
in religious ritual and classic literature to create beyond what the camera
could capture in his depictions of urban African-American life in the 20th
century. Jeffrey Brown reviews the artistic achievements of Bearden, which
are celebrated in an exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C. This 8-minute
audio clip is from a 1988 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer segment.
Another 10-minute NewsHour segment includes a 1986 Charlayne Hunter-Gault
interview with Romare Bearden.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / Museum of Modern Art
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate
of the Museum of Modern Art, operates
WPS1, a Web-based radio station devoted
to the arts. WPS1 also serves as an audio digital library, with recordings
available through a page titled Historic
Audio from the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art. Some of the
recordings date back to 1952.
Notes:
1. TFAO's catalogue of audio on demand, free to viewers. All examples focus on American representational art.
2. The audio version of each Moment as presented on NPR is delivered on the Web in RealOne Player .ram file format.
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