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deYoung Museum
The deYoung Museum website has a podcasts
page (Link found expired as of 4/24/09 audit. Source
site may contain this content via a revised URL) which
is a series of free monthly audio segments offering news, features, and
"hidden treasures" from the de Young museum. The February 2006
(Link found expired as of 4/24/09 audit. Source site may
contain this content via a revised URL) podcast contains
a tour of the American art galleries.
Duke University Library
The Duke University Library web site
contains audio recordings of lectures from the Engaging Faculty Series,
which are "informal, interdisciplinary conversations that provide
an opportunity for faculty to hear about the work of their colleagues in
other departments and give students and the general public a chance to
learn about research going on at Duke." One of the lectures in the
series is by Stanley Abe, assistant professor in the Department of Art
and Art History. His November 2000 lecture,"The Bright Leaf: Xu Bing
and Tobacco at Duke," (Link found expired as
of 4/24/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL) was the second in the Friends of the Library's 2000/2001 Engaging
Faculty series. The lecture "focused on the development of the Tobacco
Project, a series of installations created by New York artist Xu Bing on
the Duke campus and in Durham during the fall of 2000." The web page
for the lecture contains both a text summary and a one hour RealAudio stream.
FLUXLIST
William Woods of radio station KRAB interviewed
George Maciunas in a 55-minute
broadcast separated into 8 audio clips following a Fluxus Festival.
This was the last Fluxus Festival to be organized and directed by Maciunas,
who died eight months later at the age of 46.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
The Frist
Center for the Visual Arts is among the first major visual arts institutions
to take advantage of new podcasting technology with the posting of three
podcast programs at its web site in June, 2005.
GalleryCast
GalleryCast is a worldwide
guide for museum, exhibit, and art gallery podcasts. Podcasts are included
from several American art museums covering topics in American representational
art. (Link found expired as of 4/24/09 audit. Source
site may contain this content via a revised URL)
J. Paul Getty Museum
Accompanying the page
on the Getty web site for the exhibition Edward Weston: Enduring Vision,
showing July 31 - September 25, 2007, in an audio clip Weston's grandson,
photographer Kim Weston, discusses the photograph Nude, Bertha Wardell.
The Getty says: "After seeing an exhibition of his photographs at
the University of California at Los Angeles, the dancer Bertha Wardell
volunteered to model for Edward Weston. She soon became a friend and lover,
modeling for him in the spring of 1927 at his Glendale studio. Weston particularly
admired her dancer's combination of strength and grace, writing that 'her
beauty in movement is an exquisite sight.'"
Accompanying the page
on the Getty web site for the exhibition Three Roads Taken: The Photographs
of Paul Strand, showing May 10 - September 4, 2005, an audio clip explains
how Strand incorporated modernist ideas into "Still Life with Pear."
Other clips talk about Strand's message in "Blind Woman," the
photographer's interest in rural Scotland in the photograph titled "White
Horse, South Uist," and how strand created the image "Seated
Man, Uruapan del Progreso Michoacan, Mexico."
The page
for the exhibit The Photographs of Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute,
showing May 10 - September 4, 2005, contains three audio clips interpreting
the photographer's images.
The page
for the photography exhibit Close to Home: An American Album showing
October 12, 2004 - January 16, 2005 contains an audio clip with curator
Weston Naef introducing the exhibition.
Georgia Museum of Art
The Grace Museum
Visitors to The
Grace Museum have the opportunity to download to their MP3 player audio
segments posted on the museum's web site prior to visiting a related exhibit.
The page containing the MuseCasting
section of the Museum's web site says: "We want you in our galleries
with headphones on! Here at The Grace we strive to bring you the best podcasted
programming possible. Follow the link to the exhibits where podcasts are
available! "
Notes:
1. TFAO's catalogue of audio on demand, free to viewers. All examples focus on American representational art.
TFAO catalogues:
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