Smithsonian Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Art Conservation
Mon, Feb 1 2010
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?Length: 3:52
Lecture with Kristen Hileman: Arriving at an Art Historical Anne Truitt
Tue, Dec 15 2009
Baltimore Museum of Art's Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman gives an overview of the career of Anne Truitt and discusses the artist's unique approach to inflecting her minimal forms with allusive references, personal memories, and emotional power.Length: 40:46
friday gallery talk: Larry Bird, Senior Curator at National Museum of American History, on James Rosenquist
Thu, Nov 19 2009
Larry Bird, Senior Curator at NMAH, Division of American Politics and Reform on James Rosenquist
Length: 22:41
Meet the Artist: Yinka Shonibare MBE
Fri, Nov 13 2009
During the opening week of the artist’s major midcareer survey at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare visits the Hirshhorn to discuss his work with NMAfA curator Karen Milbourne. Like the Hirshhorn’s “The Age of Enlightenment—Antoine Lavoisier” (2008) on view in “Strange Bodies” until Nov. 15, much of Shonibare’s work poses questions about politics, identity, and cultural authenticity in a postcolonial world. “Yinka Shonibare MBE” is on view at the NMAfA Nov. 10, 2009– Mar. 7, 2010.Length: 1:00:44
friday gallery talk
Emory University art historian James Meyer on "Anne Truitt"
Fri, Nov 6 2009
Length: 53:10
Friday Gallery Talk: Air and Space curator Dominic Pisano on Roszak's "Ascension"
Thu, Oct 29 2009
Dominick Pisano, Curator, Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, on Theodore J. Roszak's "Ascension."
Length: 24:22
meet the artist: Brian Jungen
Thu, Oct 22 2009
The Vancouver-based artist Brian Jungen discusses the work featured in his solo exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and future projects with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, chief curator at Castello di Rivoli and the artistic director of Documenta 13.Length: 1:29:04
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