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library has a two minute July 29, 2006 report of a Diane Arbus exhibit
at the Walker Art Museum.
The WGBH/Boston
Forum Network is an audio and video streaming web site dedicated to curating
and serving live and on-demand lectures, including a number of 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:
- Sculptors and Their Patrons at Mount Auburn, 1820-1870 (47 minutes). David Dearinger discusses the American NeoClassic
sculptors and their patrons that are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. [March
1, 2007]
- 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. [November 30, 2004]
- 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:
- Familar Faces: Gilbert Stuart's George & Martha Washington (53 minutes) is an illustrated lecture by Ellen Miles, curator,
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian in which she "... discusses
Gilbert Stuart's creation in 1796 of his very familiar life portrait of
George Washington, together with its companion portrait of Martha Washington,
often known as the 'Athenaeum portraits' because they were owned by the
Boston Athenaeum for more than 150 years. Ellen Miles describes the relationship
between the Washingtons and the artist, the reason for the incomplete composition
of the two portraits, and the immediate and lasting success of the portrait
of the President, in contrast to the relative obscurity of the portrait
of Martha Washington."
- The White House: A Pop-Up Book (38
minutes) is a lecture by Chuck Fischer, pop-up book artist. Chuck Fischer
is one of the most talented and sought-after artists in America today and
is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed Great American Houses
and Gardens: A Pop-Up Book and Wallcoverings: Applying the Language
of Color and Pattern, both published by Universe. His wallcovering
and fabric designs are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt
Museum, and he has recently been a visiting artist at the American Academy
in Rome. [March 22, 2005]
- 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]
- Banjo-Wielding Women (56 minutes)
is a lecture by Leo G. Mazow, curator, American Art, Palmer Museum of Art,
who discusses the many female banjoists that appear in myriad American
paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements through history.
[September 19, 2006]
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]
Cambridge Forum
- Art, Women, and Power (61 minutes)
a lecture by Jill Medvedow, director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
in which she discusses the current wave of women artists and trends in
the contemporary art world. [March 20, 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, who 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]
High Museum of Art partnered with the Forum Network for:
- American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery, (2 hours, 10 minutes) American Artists and the Louvre: Morse
Gallery. Lectures and panel discussion by Paul Staiti, professor, art history,
Mount Holyoke College, Jean-Philippe Antoine, senior fellow, Terra Foundation,
Olivier Meslay, curator, Musee du Louvre, Sylvia Yount, curator, American
art, High Art Museum. Paul Staiti and Jean-Philippe Antoine discuss early
nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris and the
artistic practice of copying. (Lecture contributed by WABE/AFN) [February
24, 2007]
- Winslow Homer's Watercolors: Markers in a Life Journey, (52 minutes) a lecture by Elizabeth
Johns, professor emerita, art history, UPenn. in which Dr. Johns discusses
the relationship of Homer's watercolors and some of his oils to his life's
journey. (Lecture contributed by WABE/AFN) [May 11, 2006]
- A Conversation with Chuck Close in
which internationally recognized artist Chuck Close talks with Jeffrey
D. Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art about working
with photographs, painting from the grid, and collaboration with master
printers and papermakers. Close reflects on his forty year career and discusses
his continuously innovative approach to portraiture with particular emphasis
on his self portraits.[March 24, 2006]
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]
Museum of Science, Boston partnered with the Forum Network for:
- Extreme Makeover: Mural Edition, (1 hour, 17 minutes) in which Gianfranco Pocobono and Richard
Wolbers discuss what happens when the conservation choices are not clear
cut and the world is watching. In 'One of the most significant restoration
projects anywhere in America', science and art merged to conserve the John
La Farge murals at Trinity Church Boston. Art and science have continually
flirted over the centuries. Both investigate. Both involve theories and
transforming information into something else. This lecture is a part of
a Museum of Science series 'When Science Meets Art', which examines the
mysterious symbiosis of science with art through the ingenuity of those
shattering the boundaries between the two fields. [January 11, 2006]
New England Aquarium partnered with the Forum Network for:
- Fish Worship and Art by Ray Troll,
fin artist (50 minutes) From his tree-top studio, high above the Tongass
Narrows in rainswept Katchikan Alaska, Ray Troll draws and paints fishy
images that migrate into museums, books and magazines and onto t-shirts
sold round the globe. Basing his quirky, aquatic images on the latest scientific
discoveries, Ray brings a street-smart sensibility to the worlds of ichthyology
& paleontology. Over the years, Ray has done artwork for various conservation
organizations including the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and the Southeast Alaska
Conservation Council. [April 30, 2007]
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]
Palmer
Museum of Art partnered with the Forum Network
for:
- Banjo-Wielding Women, (57 minutes) a
lecture by Leo G. Mazow, curator, American Art, Palmer Museum of Art in
which he discusses the many female banjoists that appear in myriad American
paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements through history.
[September 19, 2006]
Simmons College
Institute for Leadership & Change
- Drawing Diversity with Jennifer Camper,
(56 minutes) is a lecture by Jennifer Camper, comic artist and editor of
the new comic anthology Juicy Mother, who brings contributing artists
together to discuss comics as an expressive medium that is not representative
enough in terms of diversity of perspectives. [June 2, 2005]
-
Washington Pavilion of Arts
and Science Visual Arts Center presents CityLink,
Sioux Falls' local government information cable channel 16. 
- Washington Pavilion Presents: In My Lifetime: Illustrations by
Tony Fleecs in which the local artist discusses
his work
- The Washington Pavilion Presents: Oscar Howe - American Master
- The Washington Pavilion Presents: The Meeting Point, Part II:
Paintings by Fatih Benzer (10 minues)
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]
WGBH/Boston also presents a 3-minute QuickTime video
clip in which John Wilson talks about his sculpture Eternal Presence,
being installed on the lawn of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
in Roxbury. The original airdate of the program containing the segment was
October 1, 1987. In another 2 1/2 minute clip,
artist Sidewalk Sam works with Boston schoolchildren to create a mural.
WTTW11
is producing a series of original "Artbeat"
segments, a regular feature on its nightly newsmagazine Chicago Tonight,
to help audiences learn about and connect to the variety of activities that
are part of American Art American City. For more than 50 years, WTTW11 has
served the Chicago community and beyond as the nation's most watched public
television station, earning a reputation for providing outstanding programming
in many areas, including the arts. (text courtesy Terra
Foundation for American Art). Recent programs include:
- Vandepoel Art Collection 05:43 4/7/08
- Edward Hopper 12:13 2/21/08
- Winslow Homer 06:34 2/14/08
- Henry Darger 07:16 1/22/08
- Roger Brown 06:31 12/12/07
- Jasper Johns 03:58 11/7/07
- Alfred Jurgens 07:42 10/18/07
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