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Art 2010

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Art 2010 is a blog project on Head for Art, that’ll run from January 1 to December 31, 2010. It was just after moving to Washington, DC with my American husband that the idea for the blog came about. I’d been exploring the city’s art museums and galleries when the National Gallery of Art (or NGA) stopped me in my tracks. The masterpieces here are so stunning, staggering and extensive that it was here, after a day spent just scratching the surface of one the world’s greatest collections, that I decided to start Art 2010.

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1 VideoClosing the Circle I can’t quite believe I’m standing here still speaking to you all at the end of a year of Art 2010! I set out as a newbie in this city of Washington DC, clinging barnacle-like to the bows of the NGA, in hopes that by taking small steps in these soaring halls I’d find my feet in a new place and in a new life. 12/31/10 Free View In iTunes

2 VideoWild Thing If you like me are stuck in a post Turkey Day stupor, then I’ve just the thing to zing you back into consciousness. All I will say is I hope you didn’t have too much breast and thigh on Thanksgiving yesterday... 11/26/10 Free View In iTunes

3 VideoGrist for the Mill My Fast Favourite from the Gallery today is one a lot of you like as well. The Mill is by Rembrandt, who is one of if not the greatest of all Dutch masters... 11/19/10 Free View In iTunes

4 VideoItalian Masterpiece Given the general thrust of Art 2010, if I were to mention the words Italian masterpiece you’d probably expect me to start spouting about Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci. But not today. No Sir. Because today is in large part dedicated to another kind of Italian masterpiece... 10/15/10 Free View In iTunes

5 VideoIt's All Relative Today we’re talking lists, which of course we all love. I don’t mean the “shopping” or the “to do” kind though, but those top 10, 50, 1,000 lists that like to assemble the best books, the richest folks, the sexiest females, the top songs and so on. 10/8/10 Free View In iTunes

6 VideoPeep Show Both artists in this week's video opt for the bright and bold impact of yellow colour... just don't expect to find more similarities between a man who makes art from Peeps and New York Minimalist Robert Mangold... 10/1/10 Free View In iTunes

7 VideoFresh Flesh Come explore the fantastic new show at Hamiltonian Gallery in DC in this week's video... just be set for the flesh on show. 9/24/10 Free View In iTunes

8 VideoSpit it Out 100, 500 - that’s the number of words an average person consumes every day. That’s a lot of letters to be getting on with, an amount that has tripled from 1980 to 2008. So let's slow ourselves right down and sit with a word - just one word - from the artist Ed Ruscha today. 9/17/10 Free View In iTunes

9 VideoState of the Art The city of Washington DC is choc-full of memorials. Clustered mostly around the Mall, they commemorate important historical events and men who loom large in this country's consciousness. So thank goodness President Franklin D Roosevelt ruled one Thomas Jefferson as just as important as Abraham Lincoln and got the ball rolling on his memorial. 9/10/10 Free View In iTunes

10 VideoOn Tour Art 2010 followers! A super special video today, to present an exciting new initiative! Head for Art tours are, as of this moment, up and running! Watch this week's promotional video (shot in DC and Rome, no less) to find out more about what we can offer by way of beautiful, bespoke cultural travel experiences. And be sure to click on the new "On Tour" tab on our main menu in the next few days. Bon Voyage! 9/3/10 Free View In iTunes

11 VideoShop Don't Drop Pop to the shops with Art 2010 in this week's video and learn a whole new way to pick and choose a prime picture off the shelf. 8/27/10 Free View In iTunes

12 VideoNo Pane No Gane Prepare to be taken aback by this week's work: it's an icon of early modernism that shattered the way art was seen forever. 8/20/10 Free View In iTunes

13 VideoHands On “Everyone knows Italians don’t speak with their mouths: they talk with their hands!” Join me as I explore the meanings of hand gestures and find some expressive manual communication at the National Gallery... 8/13/10 Free View In iTunes

14 VideoPeachy We’re feasting our eyes on a Chardin today, but before we get to his pile of plump peaches, let me introduce my sister Meike, an accomplished and charismatic cook, who’s taking us through a truly tantalizing recipe here... 8/6/10 Free View In iTunes

15 VideoAround the World Madness or genius? Doesn't matter now, because I did it anyway! A photograph of every single work in the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art (except some small galleries on the main ground floor that are less interesting). For the first time, I felt the full force of the collections (and the breadth of the challenge of Art 2010). And I hope it’s a good chance for all of you (especially those living further afield) to explore the Gallery, top to bottom! So here it is, around my world of art in under 7 minutes. 7/23/10 Free View In iTunes

16 VideoPublic Love What’s the one thing more British than a bright red phone box? Or a bright red post box? Or a fistful of fish and chips wrapped in yesterday’s greased-stained newspaper? Even more English than sipping tea and nibbling scones with jam and clotted cream on a lawn trimmed to within an inch of its life? 7/16/10 Free View In iTunes

17 VideoCrossing the Line Barnett Newman was an Abstract Expressionist, working in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. After Rothko, he’s the pre-eminent Color Field painter, opting for large expanses of sensual color. Born in New York in 1905, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, he’d hit his 40s before he hit on his signature mark: the zip. Newman’s so-called “zip paintings” used thin stripes of color against plain backgrounds... 7/9/10 Free View In iTunes

18 VideoBlushing Blooms Today’s video is dedicated to M and N on their wedding day! Stevens’s wonderful Woman in White, clutching her bouquet of bright-colored blooms, brings to mind a bridal scene. And the ways she’s standing, on the threshold of that frame, speaks of the start of a new life, awaiting. Congratulations M and N! All love, from Art 2010. 7/2/10 Free View In iTunes

19 VideoOff the Wall The British anthropologist and Oxford professor Robin Dunbar has a theory that the number of people with whom we can keep up stable, inter-personal relationships is limited by the size of our brains. Dunbar’s magic friend number is set at 150. Now. Call me crazy (or friendless) but that sounds like a lot to me and to keep 150 friends in close calls for a serious case of the social butterflies. But of course since networking sites shoehorned themselves into our social lives, friend circles are spinning out of control. Facebook is the worst offender: they co-opted the word friend, created a new verb and make us feel frankly inadequate if our friend list sits in the double digits. 6/25/10 Free View In iTunes

20 VideoTech Support During a DC dinner the other week, our conversation was cut by the buzz of berries and the flash of phones, so talk turned to the tech that’s changing our times. One guest hated how hard it is to prioritize in the swell of a constant stream of emails. Another said she struggles to be in the moment, ever armed with an active device... 6/18/10 Free View In iTunes

21 VideoMaking a Meal of it Breakfast is ‘the most important meal of the day’, giving us a count of calories to keep going through to lunch. But setting that side of things aside for a moment, let’s talk about why breakfast is really important. Think about it: whether you’re a granola guzzler, a cereal and milk muncher, a fruit fan, a muffin man, a pop tart toaster, an egg eater, a pancake flipper or a syrup-on-anything slur-per, there are fistfuls of fun, flirty and fabulous dishes to choose from. And they all say something about who you are, at least on that day... 6/11/10 Free View In iTunes

22 VideoFast Love Introducing the first in the new Fast Favourites video series, which takes short-yet-satisfying looks at a the shiniest gems in the NGA collections. First up for the chop: The Lovers by Pablo Picasso. In 1907 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) had stunned the art world with what would later be recognized as the first Cubist painting: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was inspired by tribal art and proposed a new way of seeing reality, namely simultaneously from all angles. Our painting here, The Lovers (1923), was a complete departure from that work: Picasso never limited himself to a single style for long since he was so versatile and imaginative. 6/4/10 Free View In iTunes

23 VideoRubbish Art Two times a year, artists in the neighborhoods between Dupont Circle and Logan Circle throw open their studios and invite visitors in. The program’s called ‘Mid City Artists’ or ‘MCA’ and is a chance for city-dwellers to see where and how the artistic magic happens, right on their doorstep. I’ve chosen to have a nosey around Chuck Baxter’s studio today, so without further ado, let’s step on inside. 5/28/10 Free View In iTunes

24 VideoTake a Seat The Art+Media House is all about giving young people the training they need to create and express themselves. It introduces them to the basic skills of a specific artistic medium that interests, like drawing, painting, photography or graffiti. The project is also keen to get kids to focus on the subject they know best - themselves - so they can draw inspiration from their own lives, communities, and cultures. 5/21/10 Free View In iTunes

25 VideoOpposites Attract It seems that rather like the Little Black Dress, some themes in art fail to go out of fashion. No matter what decade we’re in, the same subjects crop up, re-thought, re-presented and in some cases literally given a new lick of paint. I’m here at the Hamiltonian Gallery this evening for the opening of their new exhibition, featuring three of their fellows. Let’s see what’s up for discussion inside. 5/14/10 Free View In iTunes

26 VideoMeat Feast Back home, a BBQ usually means waiting for the one vaguely warm, mostly dry day in August before shoving some mangey meat patties or Sainsbury’s sausages onto the grill-slats of a bashed-up backyard BBQ. That’s honestly as good as I thought it got. But then, that was before we moved to America and I discovered this country’s BBQ competitions! 5/7/10 Free View In iTunes

27 VideoLadies First I’m here at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, to see their brand new, bold public art project. Over the next five years, sculptures by renowned women artists will be exhibited in installations on New York Avenue right across from the museum’s front door. 4/30/10 Free View In iTunes

28 VideoHow to Slay a Dragon The NGA has numerous depictions of St George and the Dragon but this small work by Raphael is undoubtedly one of the best. Raphael was born in 1483 in Urbino, a central Italian duchy, the son of a painter Giovanni Santi. Urbino was a place noted for its cultural sophistication and burgeoning scholarship so from a young age Raphael was exposed to refining forces. He trained with his father and Perugino and was already working as an independent master in 1500, aged only 17. 4/23/10 Free View In iTunes

29 VideoA Case for Display Commercial art galleries are common in cities around the world, but there was a time in the not-so-distant-past when this wasn’t the case, since the commercial art gallery as we know it today only came into existence in the mid-19th century. Before that, people bought pictures directly from artists, or at annual exhibitions and auctions… 4/16/10 Free View In iTunes

30 Video¿Te Gusta? When was the last time you tucked into a tortilla de patatas, or piled some paella on your plate? Whether you’ve chomped on a chorizo or some hot, chocolate-dipped churros, the chances are that, even if you’ve never been to Spain, you’ll have sampled a Spanish speciality or two. 4/9/10 Free View In iTunes

31 VideoCross to Bear In the Christian tradition, Good Friday is the day of the crucifixion and burial of Christ. It falls on the Friday immediately preceding Easter Sunday, which of course celebrates the Resurrection. Ideally Good Friday is the day to make and or eat Hot Cross Buns. These delicious, spiced buns, marked with a cross and eaten warm with butter were already being made in England in pre-Christian times. 4/2/10 Free View In iTunes

32 VideoFlower Power Flowers – they’re everywhere! How many of us know a Rose, a Lily or a Bluebell perhaps? Let’s see: there’s Clover, Flora, Heather, Iris, Jasmine, Lavender, Lilac, Violet. My brother-in-law and his girlfriend are great friends with a lovely little lady called Petunia. And the UK chef Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools have three floral-named daughters: a Poppy, a Daisy and a Petal Blossom Rainbow. I wonder if they’ll stick with the theme when baby No. 4 arrives in autumn. 3/26/10 Free View In iTunes

33 VideoFrench Kiss Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, since the spirit was said to be carried in the breath. Now we might not believe that anymore but we’re no less enamored with the kiss these days. You just need to see the reams of movie kissing sequences on YouTube to get a taste of our obsession with a good smooch. So in the name of research I’m going to Georgetown today to talk about the highs and lows of a proper snog. 3/19/10 Free View In iTunes

34 VideoSun Worshipper Have you ever thought about how light can affect a building? Perhaps when you last saw a sun-beam beat through your bedroom window or the rising moon made your roof-gutters glitter? That power of light to totally transform a building is what I’m looking at today. 3/12/10 Free View In iTunes

35 VideoType Right Have you ever clicked “send” and thought, seconds later, hang on, what did I just do? Most email users could probably own up to a couple small online slip-ups. Like, sending a message to the “wrong John”, replying to the entire department instead of just one co-worker, attaching the wrong document or forwarding something with just a little too much information. The thing is, in the big scheme of things, these minor blunders will mostly blow over quite quickly and quietly. 3/5/10 Free View In iTunes

36 VideoDo Painter's Prefer Blondes The question “Do blondes have more fun?” has taxed some big brains over the years. Recently, top academics gathered at the Sorbonne in Paris to mull it over. A few years ago, Joanna Pitman’s book, On Blondes came out, with its detailed study of the significance of blonde hair through history. Even Charles Darwin turned his formidable grey matter to this matter, analyzing if hair color plays a part in choosing sexual partners. 2/25/10 Free View In iTunes

Customer Reviews

Great Art Appreciation Videos

by Eschlatt

These are very good, personable, concise, and informative videos about artworks through the ages, which are in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The host starts off each segment with a topic to make the artwork relevant to contemporary viewers. Sometimes those links are a bit of a stretch but they are all enjoyable, and the info about the NGA art is well-chosen and presented. I appreciate too how the host sometimes includes contemporary art in dc galleries.

Outstanding

by Matthew Schneider

What a refreshing and exciting look at art! I really love the way in which you have brought art and art history into such a such a relevant and daily context. So informative and interesting. Keep it up.

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