Museum Lectures
Art Matters Lecture: Julian Brooks - "Michelangelo: Burning Inspiration" Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents "Michelangelo: Burning Inspiration" lecture. Michelangelo is regarded as one of the most creative artists in western art history, using countless drawings to explore the dynamics of the human form and to solve compositional problems. Yet he is recorded as burning hundreds – perhaps thousands – of his sketches and cartoons. Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, looks into the extraordinary phenomenon of Michelangelo and his draftsmanship.
Virtual Conversations: The Obama Portraits The Art Institute of Chicago
Featuring Artists Kehinde Wiley And Amy Sherald.
A Historic look at the Presidential Paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama and their artists.
Van Gogh: Techniques And Methods Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lydia Vagts, Cunningham Associate Conservator of Paintings Presents an in-depth dissection into Van Gogh’s working style, techniques, and tools to gain a perspective into the artist’s studio.
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A Diverse Collection By A Diverse Library Audience The Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Library and Archives presents the importance of diversity in libraries in American Society by Dr. Carla Hayden.
Art History:
What Makes a Caravaggio?
Museum of Fine Arts
Frederick Ilchman, chair, Art of Europe; and Mrs. Russell W. Baker Curator of Paintings Despite a brief and controversial career, Caravaggio remains one of the most influential and absorbing of all Italian painters. The presence in Boston of four important works from Italy in “Visiting Masterpieces: Caravaggio and Connoisseurship” provides a rare opportunity to confront this artist firsthand, explore his artistic achievement, and consider the complexities of authenticity through a lesson in connoisseurship with curator Frederick Ilchman.
The DIA’s Van Gogh in America Exhibition Collection Detroit Institute of Arts
This virtual tour provides an overview and highlights of the DIA’s spectacular one-of-a-kind blockbuster exhibition Van Gogh In America
Venetian Painting,
1350-1800
The National Gallery of Art
The Smithsonian Library and Archives presents the importance of diversity in libraries in American Society by Dr. Carla Hayden.
Opening Lecture: The Dirty South Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
The Smithsonian Library and Archives presents the importance of diversity in libraries in American Society by Dr. Carla Hayden.
Dress and Status in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Pamela Parmal, Chair and David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts Explore markers of rank and status within the context of surviving textiles, lace, accessories, and jewelry as depicted by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others of the era.
“Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks” Houston Museum of Fine Arts
David Bomford, organizing co-curator of “Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples,” discusses the exhibition in this March 2018 lecture at the MFAH. “Michelangelo and the Vatican” featured masterworks by Michelangelo and his contemporaries, predecessors and successors, including Raphael, Rubens, Tintoretto, and Titian. The exhibition highlighted the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III and the vital role that drawing played in art production throughout Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries.
Casta Paintings
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In 18th-century New Spain (now Mexico), Casta paintings depicted the offspring resulting from the unions of Spaniards, Indians, and blacks Africans as different social groups called castas. This genre of paintings visualize a hierarchical social system that pinpoints race at the intersection of physical, economic, and social spaces. Magali M. Carrera discusses these paintings and their classification.
Archibald Motley Jr.'s Nightlife Art Institute of Chicago
On this episode of Art Institute Essentials Tour, take a closer look at Nightlife, painted by Archibald Motley Jr. in 1943. Chicago painter Archibald Motley represented the vibrancy of African American culture. Dig deeper into his electrifying portrayal of a Chicago jazz club and discover more about its dazzling color palette, compositional tricks, the South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville, and the fellow Art Institute artwork that inspired it.
Elegance and beauty in a timeless bronze bust Art Institute of Chicago
Kyla Thomas, manager of distribution operations, recalls encountering the bust of a black woman on a high school trip and the tremendous pull it had on her and her friends. This video is part of the Playing Favorites series, in which Art Institute of Chicago staff share their favorite works from the collection.
Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Immerse yourself in Frida Kahlo's vibrant artistry through our exhibition tour of 'Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving’. We’ll take a closer look at some of her personal items, photographs, and paintings that reveal the many ways Kahlo constructed her identity. This film was directed by Benjamin Michel, an award-winning filmmaker specializing in cinematography and directing. He has become known for creating beautifully poetic imagery coupled with imaginative storytelling.
art.jargon: Canon San Antonio Museum of Art
Reframing the Colonial Past Blanton Museum of Art
Opening Lecture: The Dirty South Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
Mapping Indigenous & African-American Stories The Walters Art Museum
"Queen Nefertari's Egypt" at NOMA New Orleans Museum of Art
Mapping Indigenous & African-American Stories The Walters Art Museum
Life And Afterlife In Ancient Egypt Art Institute of Chicago
The Archangel Gabriel By Luca Signorelli The Walters Art Museum
Nefertari’s Tomb 2-D Experience Kimbell Art Museum
Indigenous Perspectives The Gardner Museum
