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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 
In November 2005, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art launched a pilot podcast program as a way to further serve Museum visitors and foster involvement with the local and online communities. Dubbed SFMOMA Artcasts, these audio productions include exhibition features, artist interviews, and newly commissioned contributions by Bay Area music, sound, and spoken word artists. Co-developed in an innovative collaboration with Antenna Audio of Sausalito, the podcasts are available for download free of charge. (right: graphic courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Recent podcasts include:
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980 - 2005
Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967 -
2005
Sheldon Museum of Art
Recorded at the Sheldon, the audio files listed below enhance the understanding and enjoyment of visitors. Please click here to access the files which include:
John Twachtman's Bark and Schooner
1900
Sheldon Director Jan Driesbach discusses John Henry Twachtman's painting Bark and Schooner 1900 with Ashley Conaster, a senior majoring in Art History. Their talk is about three minutes.
Expressing Identity, American Prints
Since 1980
Jan Driesbach, curator for Expressing Identity, American Prints Since 1980, spoke about the exhibition to a gathering in the gallery on Sunday, November 12, 2006. Visitors may download this audio file to an MP3 player and listen as they view the artworks. Her talk lasts about 34 minutes. She discusses 11 of the 20 prints in the exhibition. For listeners with a Quicktime application, images of the prints will appear as she discusses them. The first print, which is on view during the introduction, is North by Keith Jacobshagen.
Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite
Brands
This audio records a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 24, 2006, in Ethel S. Abbott auditorium about the exhibition, Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands.Oyekan Owomoyela, professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, moderated the panel, which included Christin Mamiya, a UNL art historian, Wanda Ewing, an artist and art faculty member at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Dan Siedell, Sheldon curator. The discussion, which includes some questions from the audience, last about 54 minutes. Professor Owomoyela starts the discussion with a series of questions.
American Art, 1920s through the 1950s
Sheldon Director Jan Driesbach leads docents on a tour through two galleries with artworks from the 1920s through the 1950s. The pieces she discusses are part of the Sheldon's permanent collection exhibition, American Art, 19th Century to Present. Visitors may download this audio file to an MP3 player and listen as they view the artworks. The talk is about 42 minutes long..
Snite Museum of Art
The Snite Museum of Art announced in February, 2007 a new feature on its Web site. Twenty podcasts, or "SniteCasts," were added that can enhance a walk through the Museum's galleries or an Internet visitor's virtual experience of selections from the collection.
SniteCasts are three- to five-minute audio programs describing paintings and sculptures on view in the Museum's permanent collection galleries. They were produced by students in an Applied Multimedia Technology class taught by Chris Clark, associate professional specialist in the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. Each consists of three parts: a reading of the essay describing the artwork from the Museum's Selected Works, the student's own thoughts and personal reactions to the piece, and a background music track that can be legally shared.
SniteCasts are published online on a free subscription basis.through iTunes (free of charge), or via other podcast sites, all linked to the Museum's site. They can be downloaded through iTunes to a portable media player, such as an iPod, and then played as a self-guided tour when visiting the Snite Museum of Art. Some devices can display a small image of the artwork while playing the audio track.
As of April, 2008, the fifty SniteCasts describe works by artists including:
Speed Art Museum
The Speed Art Museum's web site contains a page highlighting examples of artworks in its collection of American Painting and Sculpture. Audio clips from the museum's onsite Passport to the Speed audio guide tour are included for these artworks:
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926),
L'Enfant
(The Child), 1905, oil
on canvas. Gift of Mrs. Blakemore Wheeler 1964.22
Paul Manship (American, 1885-1966),
Cycle
of Life (Armillary Sphere),
1924, gilt bronze. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jouett Ross Todd 1964.17.6.
Conservation funded by Dr. Charles F. Mahl and Louanne Mahl of Rostrevor
and by Louise Ross Todd.
Tacoma Art Museum
For the exhibition The Great American
Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1395, being held February
4 - May 21, 2006, the Tacoma Art Museum created a 12-part audio tour which
is available through its website's
Educational Resources section as mp3 files or by RSS feed. The Museum advised
TFAO that the audio files will be left on its website after close of the
exhibition. Segments include:
Taft Museum of Art
For the exhibition Michael Scott: Farny
Fables, the Taft Museum of Art developed an accompanying podcast.
Michael Scott's West is an intensely imaginary and personal place. It does
have cowboys, but they incarnate mercenary Dutch gamblers and art racketeers
trying to turn a greedy profit from sell-ing paintings. It has Indians,
but they are expert chefs named Blue Plate, Shortbread, Crisco, and Sourdough,
who work cosmic transformations in the kitchen. It has the requisite tough,
wise old matriarch, Grandma, who narrates the tale of the temptation of
Henry Farny (the real 19th-century painter of western scenes, who makes
an appearance in this invented tale) by the Dutch cowboys, who urge him
to sell out and paint for money, big money. It has a county fair, where
Farny's paintings will compete against Grandma's famous MoonPie cake recipe,
which has always won the Best of Show ribbon-until now, perhaps?
University of Virginia Art Museum
William
Christenberry: Site/Possession, June 11, 2007 - The University of Virginia
Art Museum and the Quality Community Council host an event featuring multi-media
artist William Christenberry, who discusses his Klan Room Tableau within
the context of over 40 years of art-making.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Art on the Air features two-minute radio artist and curator interviews narrated by Daphne Maxwell Reid, produced by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and New Millennium Studios, and directed by Ruth Twiggs and Anne Barriault, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The broadcasts focus on works of art and artists, materials, and techniques. Transcripts are also provided. (right: Art on the Air graphic courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts)
Selections include:
Deborah Butterfield (8/12/05)
Winslow Homer (8/15/05)
Mary Cassatt (8/17/05)
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center's Walker Channel provides archives of it's webcasts of artist talks, lectures and related topics. Titles include:
Two
or Three Things I Don't Know About Jasper Johns, with David Shapiro
(11/9/03)
Artist
Talk: John Baldessari (11/18/03)
Opening-day
Artist Talk: Chuck Close (7/24/2005)
Art On Call provides phone, podcast and
browsing options for its audience to hear to artists and curators discuss
works from the Walker Art Center's collection. Cell phone users call a phone
number to hear an audio segment. Listeners can also access an index of mp3
streams on the Art On Call home
page. Titles include:
West Bend Art Museum
The West Bend Art Museum placed on its
website samples of an
audio tour which may be likened to a virtual docent presentation. (Real
Networks RealPlayer).
WGBH/Boston Forum Network
The WGBH/Boston Forum Network includes a number of audio recordings and videos on Art and Architecture. Partners include a number of Boston-area museums, colleges, universities and other cultural organizations.
Boston Athenaeum partnered with the Forum Network for a series of lectures on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum. An art historian and curator, he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art. Titles include:
Hudson
River School of American Landscape Painting,
(1 hour, 11 minutes) a general introduction to the famous Hudson River
School of American landscape painting. [March 29, 2005]
The
Academy and Art in America, (1 hour, 5 minutes)
a lecture about the role of the formal art academy in the development of
American art and art criticism. [March 24, 2005]
Seen
But Not Heard: Images of Children in American Art
(1 hour, 27 minutes) uses nineteenth and early twentieth-century American
art to illustrate perceptions of childhood. Marmorean
Affair: Neoclassic Sculptors and Boston
(1 hour, 6 minutes) reveals the Bostonian obsession
with neoclassical sculpture from the 1820s through the 1860s. [May 6, 2004]
also from the Boston Athenaeum:
Life
Drawing in 19th Century America, (55 minutes)
an illustrated lecture by Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Cabot Chair, Museum
of Fine Arts, compares Darwin's evolutionary theory to the style of life
drawing taught in Boston and New York by William Rimmer (1816-1879). [February
24, 2005]
Boston College partnered with the Forum Network for:
Religious
Imagery in Navajo Textiles (1 hour, 11 minutes)
a lecture by Rebecca Valette, professor, french, Boston College, who explains
that seemingly abstract Navajo designs are, in fact, religious symbols
imbued with specific meanings. [November 7, 2002]
Harvard Graduate School of Education partnered with the Forum Network for:
Conversation
with Edmund Barry Gaither, (1 hour, 24 minutes)
a lecture by Edmund Gaither, director, Center Afro-American Artists and
co-founder of the African American Museum Association, discusses his experiences
as an art historian, lecturer, writer, and advocate for African American
artists. [April 10, 2002]
Paradigm
Spinning: Artists as Agents of Social Change,
(1 hour, 25 minutes) a lecture by Suzi Gablick, artist, art critic, cultural
philosopher, discusses the role that both art and the artist play in the
contemporary world, and how their work is vital to society and to social
change. [March 14, 2001]Museum of Afro-American History partnered with the Forum Network for:
Looking
For Mr. Gilbert: African-American Photographer,
(55 minutes) a lecture by John Hanson Mitchell., author, presents slides
of works by Robert Alexander Gilbert, who was a 19th century African American
artist. Mitchell talks about the life of this unassuming Renaissance man
who took haunting photos of the Boston landscape and its people. [March
30., 2005]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston partnered with the Forum Network for:
Modern
Art in America, (43 minutes) in which Heather
Cotter, Museum of Fine Arts Gallery Lecturer, gives an overview of the
roots of American modern art using examples from the Museum's collection.
This talk in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts investigates the
foundations of modern art in America, focusing on works by Georgia O'Keefe,
Arthur Dove, Charles Sheeler, and Stuart Davis. [September 28, 2003]
Picturing
Boston: Painting the Town, 42 minutes) a lecture by Erica Hirshler, senior curator, Museum
of Fine Arts, who uses images from the MFA's collection to explore how
artists represented Boston and its inhabitants throughout its history.
[April 13, 2003]
At
Home and Abroad: American Expatriate Artists,
(56 minutes) in which Heather Cotter, fellow, Adult Learning Programs,
Museum of Fine Arts, explores the various influences reflected in the art
of American expatriate artists -- including John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt,
and James McNeill Whistler -- working at home and abroad. [Spring, 2003]
Old South Meeting House partnered with the Forum Network for:
Deaf
Artist: The World of John Brewster, Jr.,(32 minutes) a lecture by Harlan
Lane, psychologist, historian and distinguished professor at Northeastern
University, examines this extraordinary American portrait artist and how
his memberships within multiple worlds (Puritan, Federalist elite, Deaf
and Art) converged to leave an enduring legacy. [September 23, 2004]
Wheaton College partnered with the Forum Network for:
Six
Good Reasons Not To Paint a Landscape, (51
minutes) with Wolf Kahn, landscape artist. [September 19, 2002]The WGBH
Archives contains a series of 22 original WGBH/FM radio essays by leading
thinkers in the 20th Century on the nature of creativeness in American arts,
sciences, and professions. One of the essays is titled Creative
Method: Edward Steichen on Photography, with Lyman Bryson interviewing
Edward Steichen, photographer and painter. [December 31, 1969]
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art's
online American
Voices audio tour presents numerous artworks in the Museum's permanent
collection. A transcript accompanies each audio clip. Voices include the
Museum's curators, other scholars, authors and artists.
WKSU/Kent State University
Arts
& Crafts Movement in Europe and America 1880-1920 at Cleveland
Museum of Art reported by WKSU's Mark Urycki.
WNET/New York
WNET/New York produced Religion &
Ethics Newsweekly: The Legacy of Howard Finster on October 26, 2001.
Tom Patterson, Howard Finster's biographer, provides insights into the life
and career of the acclaimed artist in two
audio clips:
Notes:
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