Illustrated Audio Online [1]

 

Ansel Adams from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, includes a seven-slide narrated slide show. (Macromedia Flash and QuickTime)

 

 

Gordon Parks Photography from the Grand Rapids Art Museum provides a narration over a series for photographs by the artist. For more on Gordon Parks and other African-American artists please see African American Art.

 

 

Nebraska Public Television has a web page that archives "MONA Moments on Nebraska Public Radio," written and narrated by Ron Roth, the director of the Museum of Nebraska Art. The MOMA Moments page lists about 80 brief audio presentations, each presentation being a Moment. There is a link to a separate page for each Moment. A Moment page contains a link to enable the viewer to replay the audio broadcast, a complete transcript of the audio, plus an image of the art subject being covered.

 

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art offers audio clips with images from an Acoustiguide audio tour. One of the audio clips features Thomas Moran, another Dale Chihuly.

 

 

The Peacock Room from the Smithsonian Institution is an illustrated audio presentaton. According to John Gordy, Head of Digital Media, Smithsonian Institution Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, the content for the online presentation came from a book by the former American art curator, Linda Merell titled "The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography." The Freer Gallery's Peacock Room is where James McNeill Whistler transformed his patron's dining room into a landmark of interior design.

 

Washington University in St. Louis developed a Graduate Online Lecture Project. Click on "to the lectures," then "Humanities," then "Art History," then "Mike Murphy - Art History - A Double Vision: Stereoscopy, Urban Modernity and Childe Hassam's 'Rainy Day, Boston' " (2002) The site contains another art history lecture by Felicia Else titled Territorial Currents: Waterways and River Gods, (2001) on water-related imagery in 16th century Florence. These lectures are components of doctoral dissertations by the lecturers.

 

The West Bend Art Museum placed on its website samples of an audio tour which may be likened to a virtual docent presentation.

 

 

Winslow Homer's Right and Left from the National Gallery of Art is a narrated show interpreting one painting. Narration is by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., senior curator of American and British paintings. A transcript is included in the presentation.

 

 

The Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Elizabeth Broun, narrates a multi-part slide show about thirteeen favorite art works in the Museum's collection. As an example, there is a five part narration on Vegetable Dinner, a 1927 painting by Peter Blume. (QuickTime)

 

 

A Q Media Productions web page contains online examples of interpretative audio segments produced for Flint Institute of Art.

 

 

The Whitney Museum of American Art's American Voices audio tour introduces many of the art works in the Permanent Collection. The tour features the voices of notable artists, authors, and scholars as well as Whitney curators, all of whom bring multiple perspectives to the works. The Story of America tour features 27 key works in the museum's collection. Each audio clip is accompanied with a transcript and image of the art work being discussed. The program uses RealPlayer.

 

 

Note:

1. Illustrated audio is the synchronizing of digital slide images with sound clips.

Camera image is of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30.

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