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Arts Podcasts: Moving 100+ Monet Paintings To Denver Art Museum (NPR)
Audio January 6, 2020 boomersdaily Leave a comment
Visitors to the Denver Art Museum can currently see 120 different paintings by Claude Monet from all over the world. But how did they get there — like, literally get there?
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To find out, I talked with Sarah Cucinella-McDaniel, chief registrar at the Denver Art Museum. She's sort of like a travel agent for art — and for this exhibition she booked the itineraries for artworks from more than 70 lenders around the world: museums, as well as private collectors. (One of her recent days started unexpectedly, around 1:45 a.m., when one of her nine Monet shipments for the day arrived at the museum hours ahead of schedule.)
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Arts & Literature, Short Films
Museum Insider: How Composer Steve Reich Reads Sculpture (MoMA/BBC Video)
Video December 16, 2019 boomersdaily Leave a comment
In this episode of The Way I See It, our radio collaboration with BBC, we've captured composer Steve Reich's audible awe as he sees his friend Richard Serra's monumental 2015 sculpture Equal for the first time. As Reich puts it, he and Serra are "in tune to the same frequencies," so their meeting in Manhattan in the 1960s and subsequent friendship was both important and inevitable.
Working in sound and steel respectively, both Reich and Serra rejected traditional compositional structures—one of harmony and the other of form—to give shape to their work. Reich is the recipient of countless awards, including two Grammys, a Pulitzer, and, recently, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale. His works are performed in concert halls all over the world, and recently at Glastonbury Festival. Find "The Way I See It" on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000…
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Museum Insider: Van Gogh's "Starry Night" As Seen By An Astrophysicist (MOMA/BBC Video)
Video December 3, 2019 boomersdaily Leave a comment
In this episode of "The Way I See It," Janna Levin brings her celestial expertise to Vincent van Gogh's star-filled vision, in conversation with senior curator of Drawing and Prints Jodi Hauptman. Levin helps us see how certain features of the night sky, including "turbulent air," the light from a star, and the planet Venus, are rendered visible by Van Gogh's brush. She also points out that her approach is not so different from Van Gogh's: "People who observe the world, whether they are artists or scientists, are always on the cusp of what they see and then what is internal."
To read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009c2j
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Museum Insider: Curators & Artists Oversee New Frames, Placement Of Paintings At MoMA (Video)
Video November 4, 2019 boomersdaily Leave a comment
The new MoMA opens. Cherished works return to the walls of the galleries in brand new frames, while curators and artists watch the completion of the reinstallation. After being closed for four months, MoMA reopens its doors to the public.
0:13 – Associate sculpture conservator Roger Griffith and sculpture conservation fellow Joy Bloser clean Arthur Young's Bell-47D1 Helicopter.
0:52 – Senior curator of Painting and Sculpture Anne Umland and chief curator of Painting and Sculpture Ann Temkin oversee the hanging of Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
1:20 – Peter Perez, frame shop foreman, discusses "The Starry Night's" new, black frame.
2:53 – Artist Amy Sillman explains how she curated and arranged "The Shape of Shape," part of the long-running Artist's Choice exhibition series in which artists selects works to show from the Museum's collection
4:17 – Photography curator Sarah Meister and conservator Lee Ann Daffner adjust the lighting on Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey's "Rome. Arch of Septimus Severus and Capitoline Lion."
5:02 – Senior deputy director of exhibitions and collections Ramona Bronkar Bannayan and director of exhibition design and production Lana Hum make a final checklist of things to accomplish before the opening.
5:32 – Artist Betye Saar sees her exhibition for the first time.
7:11 – Manager of enterprise applications Rik Vanmechelen and developer Ryan Sprott check the new ticket machines.
8:04 – Chief facilities and safety officer Tunji Adeniji welcomes the public to the new MoMA on opening day.
8:30 – Silent film accompanist Ben Model improvises a live piano soundtrack for Frank Powell's 1915 film "A Fool There Was."
9:12 – Security supervisor Chet Gold greets volunteer Fred Liberman. Gold returns to his favorite room in the new MoMA.
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