The Dave Project was born out of To Speculate Darkly: Theaster Gates and Dave the Potter. In To Speculate Darkly, an installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum, contemporary-Chicago artist Theaster Gates celebrated the legacy of Dave the Potter, an African-American slave who made pots on a plantation in ante-bellum South Carolina. Dave’s pot, a 40-gallon storage vessel placed in the center of the installation, proved unexpectedly captivating.

The Art21:Exclusive series of online videos showcases Art21’s ongoing relationship to the artists it features in the Art21:Art in the Twenty-First Century television series. A blend of newly-shot, original filming and previously unreleased archival footage, videos focus on singular aspects of an artist’s process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes.

Get an inside look at pieces in the High's Permanent Collection. Personal insights are from the High's Curators. To learn more about the Permanent Collections and art at the High, visit High.org.

The program, hosted by DIA Director Graham Beal, and taped on location at the museum, covers a different portion of the Museum's large collection in each episode. Beal leads you through the world of the museum in a relaxed and easy-to-understand approach, making the art, the exhibits, and the artists come alive.

Dialogues is an initiative in which recognized artists and cultural practitioners from Mexico are invited to present a public dialogue with a foreign thinker of their choice. Dialogues exhibits, discursively speaking, projects and ideas that are shaping the social imaginary of this country and that also are responsible for the international perspectives in relation to Mexican culture that are being forged.

View videos of various special exhibitions at The Frick Collection.

To Speculate Darkly was an installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. It centered around a Dave Drake pot, exploring the history of craft, labor and race relations in America through contemporary objects ranging from art historical slides to ceramic speakers. Dave Drake was an enslaved potter in antebellum South Carolina who wrote couplets and signed his name on his pots at a time when it was illegal for slaves to know how to read and write.

AsiaAlive at the Asian Art Museum is a free, interactive, drop-in program for all ages featuring live artist demonstrations, hands-on activities, and information on rotating themes.

Experience mesmerizing performances, create your own art, embark on gallery tours, see the latest special exhibition, sit in on a talk, mingle with friends over cocktails, enjoy what the DJ is spinning, and much, much more. Each MATCHA event at the Asian Art Museum has its own unique flavor and vibe.

Creating opportunities for youth involvement at the Asian Art Museum, Art Speak engages young artists ages fourteen to eighteen who are interested in Asian art and culture, enjoy exploring new and different ideas, are self-motivated and independent but work well with others, and feel comfortable interacting with the public. From manga to Ming to samurai, Art Speak is a dynamic program that grows from year to year with each season offering new and exciting opportunities for creation and collaboration.

Members of the Bay Area Indian community describe the context of Hindu and Buddhist arts in India. Included are clips of temples, festivals, and worship at various sites in India.

Multiverse (2008), a site-specific LED sculpture by Leo Villareal, is on view in the Concourse walkway connecting the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. The sculpture, which includes approximately 41,000 LED (light-emitting diode) nodes controlled by custom-designed software, is Villareal’s largest and most ambitious work to date. Learn more about the artist’s programming method as well as his conceptual and technological inspiration in this studio interview. The sculpture was generously funded by Victoria and Roger Sant and Sharon P. and Jay Rockefeller.

Over the course of nearly half a century, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff acquired works by some of the most influential American artists in the postwar era, building a collection that bridges the divide between abstract and figurative painting. More than 40 artists are represented, with special focus on Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. Harry Cooper, the National Gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, gives a tour of the exhibition, which includes 126 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture.

The Magic of Illusion—presented here in a seven-part podcast series—is a film about how we see, what we see, or what it is we think we see. Al Roker guides us on a journey into the secrets of illusion, utilizing special effects to illustrate the artistic and visionary discoveries of the Renaissance. While Copernicus and Columbus were changing our understanding of the world, the Renaissance masters were dramatically changing the way we see that world. The film uses recent technology to look at old works in new ways.

Vermeer: Master of Light is a visual pilgrimage in search of what makes a Vermeer a Vermeer. It is a journey of discovery, guiding the viewer through an examination of three of Johannes Vermeer's paintings and exploring the "secrets" of his technique. Utilizing the potential of x-ray analysis and infrared reflectography as well as the power of computer technology, the program delves beneath the surface of the paintings to unveil fascinating insights into Vermeer's work. This film celebrates one of the most extraordinary painters in the history of art.

Previews of Art21's current and upcoming film projects, including the Peabody-award winning PBS series, Art in the Twenty-First Century, as well as PBS specials, including the full-length film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible.

Reinventing Ritual surveys the explosion of new Jewish rituals, art, and objects that has occurred since the mid-1990s. This period is defined by the urge to discover beauty and meaning in first premises--the roots and ruptures--when ritual could be radical. This attitude of innovation is shared by a wide range of artists inclusive of generation, nationality, and religion. Contemporary artists and designers focus on Judaism as a lived experience by transforming the physical acts of ritual into new forms.

A monthly Bay Area arts magazine featuring highlights, previews, and interviews with artists, curators, and artlovers on location in San Francisco. Hosted by YBCA staff and special guests, to share an inside look on what's happening now at YBCA and beyond.

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen presents in cooperation with RTV Rijnmond, Popov film and the RO Theater the new television series Boijmans TV. It is being broadcast from Wednesday 14 April 2010 by RTV Rijnmond; it can be seen weekly at 5.40 pm.
Boijmans TV is a new programme about art, based on an idea by Wilfried de Jong. It is more than an art magazine. We do not only meet the artist, but also the museum visitor, the attendant and the employee of technical services.

The Green movement used to be relegated to fringe makers and thinkers. But today it is a universally understood and lauded concept. All over the world innovative scientists, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and artists are exploring ways for all of us to live more responsibly and sustainably. The Green Furniture installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum featured the work of fifteen furniture makers who have been inspired by the call to be Green in different ways.

Between 1914 and 1919, Henry Clay Frick acquired twenty works by James McNeill Whistler: five paintings, three pastels, and twelve prints, a remarkable ensemble that represents the breadth of Whistler’s artistic activity and testifies to Frick’s taste as a collector.

Object Lab 1.1 was held at the Chipstone Foundation (www.chipstone.org) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in June of 2009. Nine talented undergraduates were in attendance from a variety of schools and many different disciplines--art history, history, studio art, industrial design, geography, and architecture . The overall goal of this intensive material culture program was to explore innovative ways to think about and look at old things.

ArtBabble Monthly Theme: From street style to the high fashion runway to the museum gallery, we've got you covered. Literally. But don't say we didn't warn you- watching this series may give you the sudden urge to express your fierce side.

Take a tour of the Milwaukee Art Museum's American Furniture galleries, which invert the nature of the museum by asking the visitor to look closely and provide information.

Watch artists Beth Lipman, BA Harrington and Sarah Lindley talk about their artworks in the Remains exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum, as well as explain how their contemporary art is informed by historical decorative objects.

Explore Martha Glowacki's cabinet of curiosities installation at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Learn about early American domestic objects as seen through an anthropological lens, revealing facets of the human experience such as power and death.

ArtBabble Monthly Theme for January, 2010

Conservation is a profession devoted to the preservation of cultural heritage for the future. Conservation activities include examination, documentation, treatment, and preventive care. Learn about the tools of the trade from x-rays to spectrometers to cotton swabs. The videos are really cool, we promise.

In general, fashion and art are considered to be totally different. Art is dealing with important issues; fashion with mere appearances. Fashion is temporal; art universal.

Still not all fashion designers are guided by what’s hot and what’s not. On the contrary. Some of them work with big and universal themes like identity and individuality.

They pose questions like: who am I and who do I become by what I wear? What is my relationship to my surroundings and to other people, who might wear a different type of clothes?

Carved carnelians, painted parchment, finessed flesh tones. . . explore art techniques in videos from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

ArtBabble Monthly Theme for December, 2009

Pack your bags- we’re going to do a bit of time travelin' for this month's ArtBabble theme. This December we're highlighting AB videos that have to do with the history of art in Italy, from Antiquities through the Renaissance. But since you can’t live in the past forever, have also thrown in some videos about Contemporary art inspired by ancient works. Now get in the DeLorean.

ArtBabble theme for November 2009

This month’s theme is all about the silver screen. Check out exclusive interviews with directors Eve Sussman and Spike Lee as well as some surreal works influenced by movie icon King Kong. Enjoy!

Video artist Pipilotti Rist installed a major retroperspective of nine spatial video works at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum. The spectacular immersive exhibition, titled Elixir, opened in the spring of 2009.
This series contains an interview with the artist, a video of the installation of the exhibition and eleven captivating excerpts from the lecture she gave about her work.

Dutch Design is supposed to be defiant: a book about colour could easily end up to be in black and white. But is it Defiance, that makes Dutch Design known all over the world? Or is it something else; idealism perhaps or a tendency to be frugal with materials.

Dutch designers may be social engaged or they might combine calvinism and creativity in an unexpected way. In this series, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen interviews a varied range of Dutch designers - upcoming and well known - about their work, their doubts and their ideals.

Art Museums bring in a wide variety of speakers to educate, inspire, or provoke thought. We know you can’t make every event in person, so that is why we bring to you our collection of talks ranging from topics like Contemporary Art, Hello Kitty, innovative performances and Gauguin. You can also hear from leaders of museums around the world on issues like globalization, the state of the economy, collecting practices, technology, and what the future holds for art museums.

The monthly theme for October 2009
May we present to you high quality video content involving the installation process. Check out the blood sweat and tears that go into making an exhibition live.

Artist William Wiley has generously allowed his film works to be published here on the occasion of his exhibition What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

Learn about current IMA events with the Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson.

This ongoing series pairs creative thinkers from a range of disciplines for engaging, provocative discussions on culture, science, and the arts.

Hammer Lectures include artist talks, gallery walkthroughs, and discussions by Hammer Museum curators and outside experts.

Gallery Crawl is a monthly snapshot of current activity in the San Francisco Bay Area's thriving gallery scene. Featuring interviews with artists, gallerists and curators, the program profiles the latest exhibitions and provides a glimpse into the curatorial philosophy of each space.

A new video series that documents the behind-the-scenes work and highlighted exhibitions, performances, film/video screenings, and community engagement programs presented by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco.

In 2008, 360 Degrees: Art beyond Borders brought together the Art Institute, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Poetry Foundation, and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for a globe-spanning array of concerts, lectures, performances, readings, and symposia. Watch as the Art Institute's director, James Cuno, speaks with several of the season's distinguished speakers.

The opening of the Modern Wing allowed the Art Institute to reinstall much of its collection, bringing out of storage several cherished masterpieces and many new acquisitions. Watch as stunning works of art are installed in new gallery spaces.

Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon examines the development of robot iconography in fine art over the past 50 years. The San Jose Museum of Art traveled to the studios of six artists in the exhibition to learn about their technique, art and interest in robots.

Todd Schorr: American Surreal is the first mid-career retrospective of the Los Angeles-based artist. Schorr is a leading figure in Southern California’s cartoon-based movement, dubbed “Pop Surrealism,” which embraces low-brow culture and a ribald graphic style indebted to pop sources such as Mad magazine. Schorr’s astonishing, highly polished realism, (inspired by Bosch, Brueghel and Dali), sets him apart from his best-known peers such as Camille Rose Garcia, Gary Baseman, and Mark Ryden.

An international symposium on recent European industrial and decorative design with a special strand for graduate and undergraduate design students, held Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, 2009 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Watch the process of installing various exhibitions at MoMA, from site-specific works by Dan Perjovschi and Sol LeWitt to reinstalling the Sculpture Garden.

“30 Seconds,” is an ongoing series created by artist and independent filmmaker Thilo Hoffmann in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art.

What happens when five artists come one of the world's largest libraries in search of inspiration for their next project? Hosted by Grace Bonney of the Design*Sponge blog, "Design by the Book" follows a glassblower, letterpress printer, ceramicist, pattern designer, and graphic designer as they uncover hidden treasures in The New York Public Library and then return to their studios ready to design... by the book. The artists are: Lorena Barrezueta, Rebecca Kutys, Mike Perry, John Pomp and Julia Rothman. Special guest Isaac Mizrahi will joins us in Episode 2 to share his sources of inspiration.

A lot of interesting people come into the museum, and they are not always working on an art installation or opening an exhibition. Sometimes they are poets, activists, writers, set designers, or politicians, who are involved in the museum on another level, outside of the studio, but still in the realm of creativity and personal expression. We invite these guests into the galleries to give us their view on the art they encounter and how it reflects the world as they see it.

Go behind the scenes at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to see what it takes to bring it all together. From Design to Education to Horticulture to Curatorial, these episodes will give you a never-before-seen look into the culture of a museum. Each episode highlights a different staff member at the IMA.

The 'In the Factory' series invites visiting artists to sit down in IMA’s production studio (aka The Nugget Factory) and answer a series of questions about their latest projects. This series uniquely captures artists talking about projects as they are creating them at IMA and makes connections to how these works relate to their careers and art viewers. The videos serve to document art at IMA, but also, more generally, provide insight into the world of 21st century art.

Informative. Innovative. Entertaining. The Roman Art from the Louvre Webisodes consist of (11) short video episodes highlighting various themes from the Louvre's collection and Roman history. View the Indianapolis Museum of Art -produced episodes of short videos—shot on location at the Louvre, in Rome, and in Indianapolis.