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a catalogue of online lectures and conversations with artists, scholars and others
with content focusing on representational art presented free of charge
The Mandelman-Ribak Foundation sponsors
on its website an Oral History Project originated in 1999 in collaboration
with Douglas Dreishpoon, Senior Curator at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
in Buffalo, New York. The Project concerns artists who have worked in Taos,
NM. As of 2011 the Foundation reports on its website recordings of 41 interviews
of which 32 have been transcribed. Each interview runs about an hour in
length and develops around a set of questions researched and conducted by
Douglas Dreishpoon. The video sessions were recorded by award-winning videographer/director
Doug Crawford. Some of the interviews are with artists who create representational
works. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving
the citation for use by researchers.]
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 [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO
is saving the citation for use by researchers.]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."[Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO
is saving the citation for use by researchers.] Audio guide
segments include Max Beckmann's Family Picture,
Tom Wesselmann's Still Life Number 30,
Robert Rauschenberg's Bed, plus others. Accessed May, 2015
The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
presented "American Edge: Photographs by Steve Schapiro," from
February 1 through March 23, 2003. An interview with Steve Schapiro with
nine one to two minute video clips was produced in connection with the exhibit.
[Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation
for use by researchers.]
Dr. Mark Sublette, owner of Medicine Man Gallery in Tucson
and Santa Fe, has created a channel
of YouTube online videos on topics relating to Native American baskets,
weavings, pottery and carvings. As of 2011, titles included:
For pottery:
For weavings:
For carvings:
For baskets:
General:
Accessed May, 2015.
Mefeedia featured New Jersey artist Anne
Dushanko Dobek who speaks to L. Craig Schoonmaker briefly of a Livingston
institution. Craig mentions in error being on the cover of VFW magazine,
which should have been AMERICAN LEGION magazine. [Link found to be
expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art website contains many video
presentations. Selecting the "American Wing" portion of the
videos accesses numerous videos on several aspects of American art. Accessed
June, 2015
Note: In two 2005 video clips the Met introduced the 25 foot tall large-scale sculpture Plantoir and Corridor Pin, Blue by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, installed on the roof of the museum. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
Milderd Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington
University in St. Louis presents Marsden Hartley's The Iron Cross
from YouTube 02:33 Accessed May, 2015.
Milford Zornes is the subject of a 3-minute
video by Bill Anderson of Anderson Art Gallery in which he familiarizes
the viewer in this short video with the works for the 99-year-old artist,
Milford Zornes. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO
is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
The Mint
Museum of Art / Mint Museum of Craft+Design website contained a page
dedicated to changing video and podcast presentations. [Link found
to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
Minnesota
Historical Society Paintings, Online video episode #230. from MN Original
Accessed May, 2015.
Monterey
Museum of Art presents as of June 2011 "Installing Gottardo Piazzoni's
Final Murals" a 08:12 "Behind the Scenes" YouTube video
introduced by the museum's director, E. Michael Whittington, in connection
with the exhibition From Dawn to Dusk: Gottardo Piazzoni's Final Murals,
on display April 27, 2011 - December 2012. As of 2013 the Museum had uploaded
16 videos concerning artist interviews, conservation work and installations.
Accessed May, 2015.
MSN Video offered a 7m26s clip from the
Today Show in which "NBC's Jamie Gangel talks with the famous, but
reclusive American painter Andrew Wyeth about a retrospective of his work,
his career, and his 'Helga' paintings. [Link found to be expired
as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
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 museums, colleges,
universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos
in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum
of Afro-American History partnered with the WGBH 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] Accessed
May, 2015.
In 2002 the Museum of Contemporary Art
of Georgia produced a 4-part video documentary with commentary by John Howett,
Professor of Art History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA on an important
Georgia corporate art collection. Dr. Howett connects the "amalgam
of artistic influences" of historic art with the work of contemporary
Georgia artists. Another video discussed a commissioned work by African
American artist Benny Andrews [Link found to be expired as of 2015
audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles produced a video titled JR
/ "The Wrinkles of Los Angeles", available online through
ArtBabble. According to ArtBabble,
"This new film by theonepointeight shows street artist JR during the
making of "The Wrinkles of Los Angeles" in Los Angeles in early
2012. This work 'links the memory of the elderly and the architecture of
the cities marked by the scars of history, their economic development, and
their socio-cultural changes. By meeting and photographing these people
to paste their portraits on the walls, JR imagines the wrinkles on their
faces as the marks of time, traces of life mixing with the history of the
city.'" This is episode 2. Accessed June, 2015.
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 museums, colleges,
universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos
in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Miami partnered with the WGBH Forum Network
for:
Accessed May, 2015.
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 museums, colleges,
universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos
in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for: 
Accessed May, 2015.
In 2004 the Museum
of Glass in Tacoma, WA hosted the "Summer Hot Shop Artists Series"
that ran from May 14 through September 7, featuring seasonal residencies
by glass artists in the Museum's Hot Shop. During the residencies the Museum's
Web site featured a special section devoted to the Summer Hot Shop Artists
Series including biographies, images and streaming video of the artists
in the Hot Shop..[Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO
is saving the citation for use by researchers.] The museum
also offers the Upstream Video Channel. Accessed May, 2015.
The Museum
of Indian Arts and Culture website includes a link to the museum's YouTube
channel. The channel contains numerous videos featuring Native American
speakers. Accessed May, 2015.
From the Museum
of International Folk Art, the online exhibition Sin
Nombre: Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era includes
the curator's video introduction of the exhibition. Accessed May,
2015.
New
Mexico History Museum presents Tesoros
de Devoción (Treasures of Devotion), a website that features
devotional objects created in New Mexico and biographical information on
the artists who created them. The site contains three interpretative
videos by the curator on the exhibit. Accessed May, 2015.
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 museums, colleges,
universities and other cultural organizations. See listings of related videos
in this catalogue indexed by partner name. Museum
of Science, Boston partnered with the WGBH 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] Accessed
May, 2015.
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