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San
Antonio American Family Portraits is produced
by produced by television station KLRN9 in San Antonio. Actor and art collector
Cheech Marin speaks on aspects of Chicano Art in a 4-minute video.
The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art web site contains an interactive online
exhibit titled Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective. which
contains movies. In one movie the artist describes
how he paints motion and stillness and in another he discusses still life
vs. landscape painting. In another movie, Ansel Adams describes how he photographed
"Moonrise" in a 1980 video
clip from the exhibit Ansel Adams at 100.
Seattle
Community Colleges Television is an educational and community television
service from the three Seattle community Colleges. Art
Work is a rare visit to the human side of the art. Individual artists
allow SCCTV cameras, and often an artist-host, in to their working studios
while they're in the middle of building on an idea. ArtsLink
features noted National Public Radio Arts Reporter, Marcie Sillman, who
takes to the field and talks with the visionaries and workhorses that make
the arts accessible. Issues of politics, education, limited funding, censorship;
partnership and innovation are explored each month as we're taken inside
the process of nurturing Seattle Arts.
The Seattle
Channel features City A Go Go with five minute monthly programs
designed to draw people out of their living rooms, into Pacific Northwest
art venues. See Gretchen Batcheller in the December 2004 edition. Nancy
Guppy interviews Seattle artist Anne Baumgartner's new show of paintings
and collages at Cafe Lulu in the October 2004 edition. A Frye Art Museum
photographic exhibit of 19th century American Landscape photographs is in
the September 2004 edition. (Links found expired as
of 8/12/09 audit. Source site may contain this content via a revised URL)
Recorded at the Sheldon, the Audio/Video
Library enhances the understanding and enjoyment of visitors. Recordings
include:
The Signilar
Video Collection offers instructional videos in VHS and DVD by master
artists for art students. There are several videos by American artists in
the series. Video clips of the presentations are available online.
Simmons
College Institute for Leadership & Change partnered with the WGBH
Forum Network for:
Paul Smith, afflicted with severe cerebral
palsy, has created many art works through use of a typewriter over a span
of seven decades. The Paul Smith Foundation web site offers six video clips from
a segment that ABC produced about the artist in 1988 and broadcast on the
program Incredible Sunday.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
provides streaming media programming:
Introspective
Art Account: Personal Entitlement October 10,
2007. Distinguished scholar and curator David
Driskell is cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject
of African American Art. He currently holds the title of Distinguished
University Professor of Art, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, College
Park. Upon his retirement from the University of Maryland in 1998, The
David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora was founded
to promote his scholarship and service to the University. Driskell is the
recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees in art, and has authored numerous
books, essays, and catalogues including Narratives of African American
Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, published in 1998.
In 1997, he received the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton.
A highly regarded artist working in collage and mixed media, Driskell has
exhibited his work in museums and galleries worldwide. Text courtesy Google
Video
Until 2006 Smithsonian TV was a central index of multimedia content and a multimedia hosting service of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Smithsonian TV was streaming programs on its web site until the service was discontinued.
The State
Museum of Pennsylvania offers a
guided exhibit tour of A Common Canvas or Pennsylvania's Heritage
with editor Michael O'Malley's interview with curator David Lembeck.
The exhibit runs November 23, 2008 through May 17, 2009: Videos include
a Full Presentation (1:50:30 length), Preview (7:50 length), Just the Tour
(1:31:07 length), Short Tour (20:00 length), and Just the Interview (18:01
length).
The Stillman-Lack
Foundation presents two streaming RealMedia videos:
Ary Stillman: 58 Years of Painting, narrated by Frances Stillman, in which she discusses her husband's paintings as they are shown.This 55-minute video is produced and directed by Henry L. Thomas.
A Conversation, contains excerpts of a conversation Sid Lash held with Frances Stillman on Ary Stillman's paintings for KHOU-TV, Houston, TX., February 20, 1969. This 10-minute video is produced by Pearlman Productions, Houston,TX
Thanks to a team of conservators from
the Straus
Conservation Center at Harvard University, Edwin Austin Abbey's murals
depicting the Holy Grail are becoming visible to Sir Galahad -- and to the
many visitors to the Boston Public Library -- who will be able to enjoy
the room's refurbished splendor. The Straus Center, which previously completed
a restoration of the Library's celebrated John Singer Sargent murals, has
been working alongside other contractors dedicated to returning the room
to its original glory, from its gold-leaf ceilings to the rich oak paneling
and extravagantly carved marble fireplace to the Italian marble floors.
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