Smithsonian American Art Museum Lectures and Symposia
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Podcasts of lectures and symposia at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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| 1 | CleanVideoKirk Savage - When the Ivory Tower Meets the Real World: Monument Wars a Year Later | The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2010 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art to Kirk Savage for his book Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of California Press, 2009). It is recognized as a “beautifully written and cogently argued book that recounts the creation and re-creation of the memorial landscape of Washington, D.C., where generations of designers, engineers and artists have given concrete form to the imagined community of the nation.” Savage is professor and department chair in the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a doctorate degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1990. Savage began writing about public monuments and public space in the United States when he was a freelance writer in the early 1980s. The Eldredge Prize, named in honor of the former director of the museum (1982-1988), is sponsored by the American Art Forum, a patrons’ support organization. This annual award, initiated in 1989, seeks to recognize originality and thoroughness of research, excellence of writing and clarity of method. | 12/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | CleanVideoSarah Sze | Sarah Sze constructs extraordinary sculptures through an intricate assemblage of household objects. Her site-specific installations defy gravity in towering formations of mixed materials, and the contrast between small objects and large compositions explores the boundaries between art and everyday life. Sze was born in Boston and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally for over a decade, and she is the 2003 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She currently lives and works in New York. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | CleanVideoSmithsonian's Haiti Cultural Recovery Project | The January 12, 2010, earthquake decimated Haiti's cultural institutions that housed the country's artwork, artifacts, and archives. Learn how the Smithsonian- in partnership with the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), American Institute for Conservation (AIC), and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - is helping the Haitian government assess, recover, and restore Haiti's cultural heritage.Moderated by Richard Kurin, Smithsonian's under secretary for history, art, and culture, today's program features the following presenters: Hugh Shockey, conservator, Smithsonian American Art Museum; Corine Wegener, president of the U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield; Stephanie Hornbeck, principal of Caryatid Conservation Services, Inc.; Dr. Diana N'Diaye, cultural heritage specialist /curator, Smithsonian Institution; and Mike Bellamy, director, Smithsonian's Office of Engineering, Design, and Construction. Sponsored by the Lunder Conservation Center of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoConversation with John Gossage. | Photographer John Gossage finds moments of grace and elegance in even the most mundane places. Join the artist and curator of photography Toby Jurovics for a conversation about The Pond and its role in the history of American landscape photography. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | CleanVideoMark Feeney: "Four Photographers on Three Wheels: William Eggleston's Tricycle and Before". | Mark Feeney is the arts and photography critic for the Boston Globe and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. His essays on visual culture range from photography to painting and film. At the Globe, he has also served as book editor and editor of the weekly section of news analysis and political commentary. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Scholar. His latest book, Nixon at the Movies: A Book about Belief (2004) was called "transfixing" by Vanity Fair. Feeney was the 2007 Robbins Professor of Writing at Princeton University and currently serves as a lecturer in American Studies at Brandeis University. This fall he will serve as a lecturer at Yale University. | 11/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideoIntersections / Intersecciones | An enlightening and candid conversation as three exceptionally gifted and talented Latina artists come together to discuss the intersection of Latino culture and gender identity. Participants include artists Maria Martinez-Cañas, Martina Lopez, and Kathy Vargas. Moderated by yet another exceptional artist, Muriel Hasbun, the Associate Chair and Professor of Fine Art Photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Taped September 10, 2010 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | CleanVideoErica Hirshler: "Looking at John Singer Sargent". | Erica Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has written and lectured widely on American paintings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, particularly on American impressionism and the Boston School. Her most recent book, already in its second printing, Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting, examines the history of Sargent’s masterpiece, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. Hirshler also organized and wrote the accompanying books for the exhibitions A Studio of Her Own: Women Artists in Boston 1870–1940 (2001) and Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist (1995). She has contributed to exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts and other institutions, among them Americans in Paris, 1860–1900 (2006) and Sargent and the Sea (2009). Hirshler spoke at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on September 15, 2010 as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | CleanVideoLatino Art in Transition | Speaking at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on October 9, 2009, renowned artist Pepón Osorio and emerging artist Miguel Luciano discuss ways in which Latino art is changing. | En Octubre 9 de 2009, en una presentación del Smithsonian American Art Museum, el célebre artista Pepón Osorio, junto al incipiente creador Miguel Luciano, analizaron las distintas formas en las que está cambiando el arte latino. | 1/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | CleanVideoCécile Whiting, "California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s" | Cécile Whiting is the winner of the 21st annual Eldredge Prize for her book, Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s. Whiting is chair of the department of art history and a member of the faculty in the graduate program in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. In her lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on December 3, 2009, she spoke on "California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s." | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | CleanVideoLinda Nochlin, "Consider the Difference: American Women Artists from Cassatt to Contemporary" | Linda Nochlin, the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts, spoke at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on November 18, 2009 as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art. | 1/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | CleanVideoStaged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009. Artists' Roundtable. | Ceramic artist Christyl Boger, fiber artist Mark Newport, glass artist Mary Van Cline, and ceramic artist SunKoo Yuh discuss their visions on this roundtable moderated by Kate Bonansinga. | 11/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 21/21 | Bert Winther-Tamaki, associate professor of art history, University of California, Irvine, moderates the closing discussion for the Symposium. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 20/21 | David Cateforis teaches the history of American, modern, and contemporary art at the University of Kansas. His lecture concerns the work of transnational avant-garde artist, Wenda Gu (b. Shanghai, 1955). In this talk, he analyzes two of Gua??s recent series that explore creatively the problems and paradoxes of attempts to translate between Chinese and English languages and cultures. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 19/21 | Jennifer Way is associate professor of art history in the College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas. In this talk, she discusses the 1955 commission of Russel Wright Associates by the International Cooperation Administration to study the possibilities for exporting handicraft items created in Southeast Asia to American markets. She considers Wrighta??s journal articles, photographs, exhibitions, and product lines as a means to reconstitute unstudied relationships of culture and consumption linking the United States and the Republic of Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 18/21 | Hiroko Ikegami is art historian who specializes in posta??1945 American art and teaches on the Faculty of Human Sciences at Osaka University. In this talk, she examines Robert Rauschenberga??s involvement with Asian art and culture, with a particular focus on China, during his ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange) tour in the 1980s as a precedent for todaya??s globalized art practice. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 17/21 | Jenni Sorkin is a Leylan Fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University. In this talk, she discusses the seminar a??Eastern Center for Interchange of Work and Ideas: East to West,a?? held at Black Mountain College in 1952 and led by potters Shoji Hamada, Bernard Leach, and Marguerite Wildenhain. Focusing on the concept of a??live forma?? and avant-garde Zen aesthetics, she relates the pottery seminar to the work of Black Mountain alumni Franz Kline and John Cage. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 16/21 | Lee Glazer is associate curator of American art at the Smithsoniana??s Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. In this podcast, she moderates a discussion among the speakers and audience following the morning lectures on the second day of the symposium a??A Long and Tumultuous Relationshipa??: East-West Intersections in American Art. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 15/21 | Gordon H. Chang is professor of history at Stanford University. He is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford and specializes in the history of American foreign relations and in American ethnic history. In this talk, he examines nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century notions of Chinese art and its relationship to American artistic tastes and political beliefs, and then focuses on the life and career of his father, Zhang Shuqi, one of the first Chinese artists to have had a direct impact on Americans and their understanding of Chinese painting. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 14/21 | John P. Bowles is assistant professor of African-American art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this talk, he examines several lesser-known works by sculptor Sargent Johnson that evince Asian styles or subject matter, questioning why the artista??s profound interest in Asian art and culture has been marginalized by art historians. He considers how Johnsona??s work may have negotiated between his San Francisco Bay Area home and his role in the Harlem Renaissance. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 13/21 | Nicole Fabricand-Person is Japanese Art Specialist at the Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, at Princeton University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2001. In this talk, she examines the exportation of American images of racial stereotypes of the American Indian and the Native American and the effect they had on both Japanese art and culture in the late nineteenth century. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 12/21 | Virginia Anderson is the Diane and Michael Maher Assistant Curator of American Art at the Harvard Art Museum. In this talk, she examines two curious portraits of the Empress Dowager of China produced in 1905 by Hubert Vos, a society portraitist working in New York. She discusses Vosa??s invitation and reception by the Chinese imperial court, and situates these paintings in their historical context, the aftermath of the Boxer Rebellion. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 11/21 | Patricia Johnston is professor of art history at Salem State College. In this talk, she discusses the East India Marine Society and the global circulation of culture in the Early Republic. She examines the types of materials collected; exchanges between merchants; museum donations; methods of display; and public impact. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 10/21 | Franklin Odo is director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program and a curator at the National Museum of American History. He looks back at the birth and growth of ethnic studies in the United States, and notes in particular the expansion of Asian Pacific American art history. (Day 2) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 09/21 | Anthony Lee is chair and associate professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College. In this podcast, he moderates a discussion among the speakers and audience following the first day of lectures at the symposium a??A Long and Tumultuous Relationshipa??: East-West Intersections in American Art.(Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 08/21 | Jacquelynn Baas is director emeritus of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and an independent scholar. In this talk, she asserts the importance of Asia for the early American modernists associated with Alfred Stieglitza??s circle. She illustrates how the work of Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and others associated with American Dada helped make Asian, specifically Daoist, theories of reality and perception available within the American context. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 07/21 | Bert Winther-Tamaki is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Irvine. In this talk, he argues that in the mid-twentieth century, concepts of Japan were referenced in Japanese American painting in three ways: overtly, covertly, or not at all. He investigates historical shifts in these three modes of Japanese referentiality through the work of four Japanese American paintersa??Chiura Obata, MinA(C) Okubo, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Mike Kanemitsu. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 06/21 | Eunyoung Cho is associate professor of art history at Wonkwang University in Iksan, South Korea. Trained as a historian of American art in the United States for a dozen years, Professor Cho has been teaching Korean, Japanese, and Chinese students in East Asia ever since. In this talk, she discusses her experiences and challenges in teaching American art and visual culture to these diverse student bodies. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 05/21 | Ding Ning is professor of art history and theory at Peking University in Beijing. In this talk, he describes the under recognized influence of Chinese art and artists on American artists Mark Tobey, Isamu Noguchi, and Philip Guston. He also looks at the impact of America on Chinese art, focusing on a group of contemporary Chinese painters who found their inspiration in the works of Andrew Wyeth. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 04/21 | J. M. Mancini teaches American and world history at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. In this talk, she examines the visual and cultural dimensions of the long and tumultuous relationship between the United States and the Philippines. She looks at several objects created in the Philippines, from picture postcards to photo albums to schoolhouses, to illuminate U.S. efforts to create an a??instrumental aesthetica?? for the figuring of geopolitical relations with the Philippines. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 03/21 | Partha Mitter, Hon.D.Lit. (London) is emeritus professor, University of Sussex. His work has focused on East-West mutual representations and global modernism. In this talk, he explores India in American thought and its counterpart, the impact of America on Indians from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, the era of western colonial supremacy followed by global decolonization. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 02/21 | Alexandra Munroe is senior curator of Asian art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In this talk, she reflects on the exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860a??1989, which was on view at the Guggenheim in New York in spring 2009. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | CleanVideoEast-West Interchanges in American Art: 01/21 | Valuing world cultures and understanding the American experience: conference connections with the Smithsonian's strategic planning initiative. (Day 1) | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanArchitectural History of the Renwick Gallery | The Renwick Gallery has been the American Art Museum's showcase for contemporary crafts and decorative arts since 1972, but the landmark building has an intriguing history of its own. In 1859 banker and art collector William Wilson Corcoran hired noted architect James Renwick Jr. to build the city's first art museum for his collection. Located steps from the White House, the building housed art collections, the Union Army during the Civil War, and the U.S. Court of Claims. In the 1960s First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy led the effort to save this architectural and historical gem. On Sunday August 3, 2009, Judith Capen spoke at the Gallery and revealed its secrets, hidden by time but rediscovered through recent surveys of the building. | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 33 Episodes |
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It's so refreshing to see the Smithsonian American Art Museum releasing podcasts of academic conferences and high-level lectures. Too many other museums just post short "audio-guide" fluff that really isn't worth listening to, but this is wonderful. Keep it coming!
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