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Squares-Folds-Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert Lang IMA

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:29:08 +0000

http://www.imamuseum.org/
Indianapolis Museum of Art – IMA

Squares-Folds-Life: Contemporary Origami by Robert J. Lang
February 17-July 20, 2008

Star Studio will feature works by Robert J. Lang, a former physicist and engineer turned artist, whose innovative approach to the traditional art of Origami has earned him a reputation as one of the world’s most important Origami artists. The exhibition in Star Studio will include examples of Lang’s complex and realistic work, including monumental paper sculptures created at the IMA for the exhibition. The exhibition will also give visitors the opportunity to learn to make their own folded paper creations, which will be incorporated into a unique visitor-generated installation.

Duration : 0:1:9

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Contemporary Art Conservation at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum

admin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:13:58 +0000

Latex, chocolate, soap, and video game software are just a few of the non-traditional materials that have inspired contemporary artists. While they embrace the modern, synthetic and technologically advanced world in which we live, some of materials present significant conservation problems for museum conservators. Gwynne Ryan, a conservator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden discusses the challenges museums face with this issue: Should we keep art locked away to make it last? Or let it be experienced as it was intended while accelerating its natural degradation?
For more information about the Hirshhorn’s conservation program, visit: http://hirshhorn.si.edu/educate/page.asp?key=205&subkey=75

Duration : 0:3:53

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Howard Terpning, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:06:55 +0000

Howard Terpning was interviewed in his Tucson, Arizona home by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand and videotaped by Rogelio Garcia on November 12, 2004. In 1977 Terpning bid farewell to the world of illustration and began focusing his art work on the Native American people of the Great Plains. He has been a member of the Cowboy Artists of America since 1979. The National Cowboy Museum holds two of paintings, Moving Day on the Flathead and The Trophy. A New York Times article called Terpning “the most famous American artist you never heard of.”

The hour-long interview is available for viewing at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Please visit the following websites:
Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/cms/Projects/AKeithBrodkinWesternArtists/tabid/88/Default.aspx

Dickinson Research Center website:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum website:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

Duration : 0:9:55

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Exclusive Fine Art Prints on Canvas

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:28:10 +0000

What is a gallery wrapped canvas?
# It is a high quality print on artist canvas.
# The canvas is stretched over custom made wood supports.

# Its depth is 1.5″

What’s so cool about gallery-wrapped canvases?
# These images stand out boldly without the distraction of a frame
# They appear to “float” on your wall.
# You don’t need a frame for stability; the structure is inside the art.

Duration : 0:2:17

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Swoon presenting her work at MoMA, (Part 1 of 2)

admin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:01:08 +0000

The artist Swoon presenting her work as part of the Conversations with Contemporary Artists series at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Part 1 of 2 (edited for time)

Audio archives of the unedited presentation and discussion with Gretchen Wagner are available on moma.org/audio or through the MoMA Think Modern podcast in iTunes.

Duration : 0:7:52

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Art painter – Jamal Khamis – Pastel Art

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:50:48 +0000

A collection of pastel on paper from the well known, Professor & Maestro, Jamal Khamis.

Duration : 0:1:0

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Inside IRAN’s underground billion-dollar art gallery

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:27:31 +0000

It’s one of the finest collections of modern art anywhere in the world, but you won’t find it in New York or Paris.

Dozens of works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock — together valued at roughly $3 billion — are locked in a basement in Tehran.

Only a handful of westerners have had an up-close look at the underground archives in Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art. ABC News was granted exclusive access inside the vault that holds a priceless collection Iranian authorities choose to keep locked away.

What was revealed was astonishing: a series of paintings by Picasso; a wall’s worth of pop art by Roy Lichtenstein; Warhol portraits of Jackie Onassis, Mick Jagger and Marilyn Monroe; a Diego Rivera self portrait; and a painting many consider to be the best Jackson Pollock outside of North America.

The collection was supposed to be a gift to the Iranian people. It was assembled by the Shah of Iran and his wife using public funds during the oil boom of the 1970s. Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art was inaugurated in 1977, designed to be one of the world’s landmark modern art institutions, with an international collection worthy of that ambition.

But just months later came the Islamic Revolution. The Shah was deposed, Ayatollah Khomeinei was became the country’s leader, and in the Revolutionary, anti-American climate the museum’s western art was banished to the basement.

Why aren’t the pieces shown to the public? The reasons are a mix of ideology and practicality.

The collection is huge and the museum small. Museum director Dr. Habibollah Sadeghi, himself a painter appointed by conservative President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, says there is no space to properly put the works on display.

Others question whether the museum could properly protect the valuable pieces from theft or damage were they displayed openly.

Conservative Muslim ideology — a powerful governing force in Iran — has played a similarly forceful role in keeping the pieces underground. Aside from the anti-Western overtones of Revolutionary Iran many of the pieces are considered too racy for a conservative Muslim society. When some of the collection briefly went on display in 2005 Andre Derain’s “Golden Age,” a 1905 painting of female nudes, was notably absent. Also hidden was the centerpiece of a Frances Bacon painting triptych. The center panel could be taken as homoerotic, showing two naked men asleep in bed.

There are plans to display the collection permanently once museum space is expanded, Sadeghi said. If those plans materialize — full-time public access to view the pieces — it would fulfill the dreams of art lovers worldwide. “In two or three years we can improve the museum and have a permanent exhibition,” said Sadeghi, adding that the museum is hoping to buy more Western works in the coming years to fill out the collection.

Duration : 0:2:0

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Sherrie McGraw, Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:14:23 +0000

Sherrie McGraw was interviewed in her Des Montes, New Mexico, studio on May 7, 2009, by Dickinson Research Center Director Chuck Rand. Curator of Art Ed Muno videotaped the interview. Studying at the Art Students League of New York, Sherrie was exposed to chiaroscuro painting in the tradition of Rembrandt and Velasquez through the instruction of David A. Leffel. Her work has earned notice and respect with awards from New York art shows such as Grand Central Art Galleries, the Salmagundi Art Club, and the National Arts Club. Sherrie is the author of The Language of Drawing: From An Artists Viewpoint.

Film clips are from an interview with artist Sherrie McGraw as part of the A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project. The full interview is available for viewing in the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The A. Keith Brodkin Project facilitates the collection, preservation, and accessibility of primary resources such as personal papers, studio ephemera, photographs, libraries, and other items which are often overlooked and lost to posterity and which reflect the artists life and career. Additional resources are acquired through personal oral histories via recorded interviews. Collecting these resources effectively preserves artists careers for posterity and provides future artists, art historians, educators, and researchers with documentary evidence.

Please visit these websites:
The A. Keith Brodkin Contemporary Western Artists Project:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/cms/Projects/AKeithBrodkinWesternArtists/tabid/88/Default.aspx

Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/research/

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum:
http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/

Duration : 0:9:55

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Alan Moore #10 ~ Advice for young Artists

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:14:10 +0000

Alan Moore interviewed by LJ Pindling of Street Law Productions. Final part. Interviewed on 27 June 2008 in Spring Boroughs, Northampton, England.

Duration : 0:7:50

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Inside the Chinese Contemporary Art Scene

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:35:54 +0000

The hottest artists and multimedia art.See Zhang Huan, Xu Bing, Yang Fudong and more, presented by Asia Society’s Melissa Chiu, interviewed by BigThink.com – where you can find a variety of expert interviews.

Duration : 0:5:2

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