Exhibitions

Caravaggio exhibition

To sign up or review Caravaggio Ask Me shifts, here is a link to the sign-up:

Sign up sheet for Caravaggio Ask Me shifts

 

Here are the videos of Rachel McGarry’s in-gallery training on 4.18.23:

Caravaggio Part 1

Caravaggio Part 2

 

Here are the panels:

CUR231906_Caravaggio_Intro_Texts_V3

Here are the labels:

EUR231905_Caravaggio_Wall_Labels_V4

 

Additional collection connections:

Essential Characteristics of Baroque Art

Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation

 

Research resources:

Barberini: CARAVAGGIO (MICHELANGELO MERISI) (MILAN 1571 – PORTO ERCOLE 1610): Judith Beheading Holofernes

Biography of Caravaggio on The Art Story

Biography from the National Gallery, UK

From Khan Academy, a great article that discusses his influence: Caravaggio and Caravaggisti in 17th-Century Europe

The story of Beatrice Cenci (mentioned by Rachel)

Sebastian Schütze, Caravaggio: The Complete Works (Taschen)

Catherine Puglisi, Caravaggio (Phaidon)

Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Guilio Mancini, Lives of Caravaggio (J. Paul Getty Museum)

Rosella Vodret, ed., Caravaggio The Complete Works (Silvana Editoriale)

Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred & Profane (W. W. Norton & Company)

Related books of interest:

Letizia Treves, Artemisia (National Gallery of London)

Mary D. Garrard, Artemisia Gentileschi (Princeton University Press)

Ludovica Rambelli’s Malatheatre Theater Company Caravaggio staging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeyulbiB0A&t=11s

 

Resource page for Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

This is our resource page for the Special Exhibition Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

Exhibition runs: March 4, 2023 – May 21, 2023

Stop and Chat station scheduled Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 3 PM, March 9 to May 14, 2023.

Stop and Chat training video 3.7.23

Stop and Chat Eternal Offerings (1)

 

This show does not have labels or panels inside. Here are the three panels at the entrance to the show:

EO_Panels_FINAL

Here are the poems shown on the walls in the intro gallery:

EO_Poetry_Installed FINAL

Eternal Offerings info sheet:

Eternal Offerings Info Sheet for guides

Curator Yang Liu’s lecture on 2.16.23:

Eternal Offerings exhibition lecture

 

Exhibition Guide, describing the different rooms within the exhibition:

EO_Exhibition Guide_FINAL

Exhibition checklist:

This is online, available at this link.

Gallery layout:

See exhibition guide for description of layout.

 

Didactics for the Stop and Chat:

Timeline:

EO_Timeline_Diagram_

Map of Bronze Age China:

EO_BronzeAgeChinaMap

Typology of bronzes and handout with information:

Vessel_Types_Diagram_45x36_ChineseTransl

Chinese Bronze Vessels with image

 

Stop and Chat information

pronunciation guide (1)

Touch Props on Eternal Offerings Stop and Chat (1)

Chinese Bronze Age_rev

 

Digital resource page for the exhibition:

Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes

 

Collection of 3D scans of Mia bronzes:

Sketchfab scans

Annotated bronze scans

 

Chinese ritual bells (video provided by Yang Liu):

Bianzhong of Marquis Yi – Traditional Chinese Bells

 

Previous video on Mia’s Bronzes:

Chinese Bronzes, Of Us and Art: The 100 Videos Project, Episode 19

 

Information about Chinese art is posted in two locations on the guide website:

China Art Cart Manual and training (2017)

Class sessions on Chinese art from 20015/2016:

Ancient China/Japan, October 2015

Han to Tang China, January 2016

Han/Yuan, May 11 2016

Ming/Qing, September 2016

 

Resources shared by Mia Educators:

Chinese Art Timeline

Chinese ritual bronzes AI

From Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (MMA):

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shzh/hd_shzh.htm

Orientations article by Yang Liu:

Yang Liu_Eternal Offerings_03Feb23

Orientations article by Matthew Welch:

Matthew Welch_Eternal Offerings_06Feb23

 

From the National Museum of Asian Art:

Bronze Age Casting

From the Metropolitan Museum, an exhibition guide:

The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Three short videos on bronze casting, good animations to illustrate casting process to visitors:

Harvard Online, shows how engravings achieved: How ancient Chinese bronzes were created

Asian Art Museum, better animation showing bronze flowing in: Casting Bronze Vessels: The Piece-mold Process

Art Institute of Chicago, shows how final vessel was golden: Mirroring China’s Past: The Piece Mold Process

From Khan Academy:

Shang Dynasty, an introduction (with bronzes discussed in a couple articles)

Zhou Dynasty, an introduction

From China.org.cn, some information on foods/drink prepared in the bronze vessels:

3,000 year old food for thought

 

Resources shared by guides:

From Mingjen Chen: Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

From your colleague Manju Parikh, a short video on the taotie from PBS.

Gallery 353 works on paper

From curator Dennis Jon, an illustrated list of works on paper in Gallery 353 (as of 9.14.22). The current rotation is up until January 29, 2023.

“I thought I’d share the checklist for the “Recent Acquisitions: Postwar and Contemporary Works on Paper” exhibition now on view in Gallery 353. With diversity in mind, you’ll note that there are a number of artists of color represented, plus Latin American artists, and others.

Black artists: Camille Billops, Rico Gatson, and Jack Whitten
Latin American artists: Luis Cruz Azaceta (Cuba), Teresa Burga (Peru), and Valeska Soares (Brazil)
Native American artist George Morrison (Grand Portage Anishinabe)
Lebanese-American artist Helen Zughaib

This exhibition will be on view through January 29, 2023.”

Gallery 353 Recent Acquisitions-Illustrated Checklist-040422

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi resource page

Here is our resource page for our Fall 2022 special exhibition: Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi

October 16, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Tours will run October 25 to December 22.

As materials become available, we will post them here.

The recording of the exhibition lecture on October 11. Please note that the AV technician discovered a problem with the sound 10 minutes into the recording, so the first 10 minutes are without sound. The lecture by Eike Schmidt on October 16 is also being recorded, and we’ll provide a link to that recording when available:

Lecture with Rachel McGarry, Eike Schmidt, and Roberta Bartoli 10.11.22

Here is a link to the recording of the lecture by Eike Schmidt and Roberta Bartoli, on 10.16.22:

Living in Florence in the Age of Botticelli

CHECKLIST, with images of objects:

A-September Checklist – Botticelli and Renaissance Florence reduced

LABELS:

EUR221594_Botticelli_Uffizi_Labels_V6_FINAL_HiRes

PANELS:

EUR221592_Botticelli_Uffizi_VINYLTYPE_V6_FINAL_HiRes

 

Exhibition Layout:

Uffizi – OBJ ID per Registration_9-27-2022 r

Key for layout: BOTTICELLI IN MINNEAPOLIS_for Educator

 

Audio Tour Transcript:

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_Audio Guide Transcript

and an information card on the audio tour: Audio Guide Card_Botticelli_Info Sheet

Catalog: digital version

mia_botticelli_DIGITAL low res reduced

Fact Sheet (updated on 10.31.22):

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence Info Sheet 10-31-22

Here is the Teacher’s Guide:

LIN221665-Botticelli-Teachers-Guide_FINAL

 

Here is the recording of our discussion of theme on October 20:

Botticelli theme discussion

Here are the slides:

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_ themes

 

Here is the recording of our debrief session on November 22:

Botticelli guide check-in

 

 

Resources shared by Mia educators

The Uffizi website

(Including Pallas and the Centaur)

From the National Gallery of Art, a wonderful online resource on the Italian Renaissance:

Italian Renaissance Learning Resources

From Khan Academy, historical background on the Renaissance in Florence, as well as information on Botticelli and his most famous artworks:

General information on Italian Renaissance for Early, and High periods

Florence in the Early Renaissance

VIDEO: A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

VIDEO: Botticelli, Primavera

Botticelli, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici

Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman

From ArtNews: From Medicis to Mythologies: How Sandro Botticelli Became One of History’s Most Influential Artists

From the Guardian about a previous Botticelli exhibition: The sword in the sky

 

Resources shared by guides

From the National Gallery of Art, a great video on metalpoint drawing: Metalpoint Drawing from Leonardo to Jasper Johns

From your colleague Bill Wilson, a recommendation for the PBS series, Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance.

From your colleague Terry Edam, a video from the Getty to connect to Botticelli’s training: “ In 1460 Botticelli’s father ceased his business as a tanner and became a gold-beater with his other son, Antonio. This profession would have brought the family into contact with a range of artists. Giorgio Vasari, in his Life of Botticelli, reported that Botticelli was initially trained as a goldsmith.”  Gold Ground Painting

From your colleague Lisa Mayotte, a video: Know the Artist: Sandro Botticelli

From Lyn Osgood, a book recommendation: Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

From Regina Sindalovsky, a video from a previous Botticelli exhibition at MFA Boston: Botticelli: The Curator’s View

From Anna Bethune: Watch three season Netflix 2016 series on the Medici: “It shows the garden of st Marco with many familiar pieces and many of Boticelli and other paintings hanging on the walls of the Medici palace. I am sure this is very fictionalized but it helps place everyone and our Sandro B is a main character ( doesn’t look as I imagined him neither does Lorenzo) but it helps remember the context !”

From Meg Ubel, a Met Museum “spotlight” on a bronze sculpture of Spinario, link here.

From Diana Beutner, a great video from the Getty on how Renaissance artists used cartoons: Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer

From Kat Christianson, a book recommendation: At Home in Renaissance Italy, by Marta Ajmar and Flora Dennis; Ms. Ajmar curated the related exhibition The Renaissance Home (2009) at the Victoria and Albert Museum and works in the V&A’s research department.

 

 

Resource page for Dressed by Nature: Japanese Textiles and Van Gogh Olive Groves

Welcome to our resource page for Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan (June 25, 2022 – September 11, 2022).

We will also post any relevant materials here for the Van Gogh and the Olive Groves exhibition (June 25, 2022 – September 18, 2022), for guides volunteering for the Stop and Chat station. As materials become available, we will post them.

Recording of Andreas Marks’ lecture:

Dressed by Nature exhibition lecture 06.16.22

Guide training resource document, with small pictures of artworks and labels:

Guide Training_Dressed by Nature_Textiles of Japan June 2022_v3

 

Stop and Chat training

Stop and Chat training 06.30.22

Stop and Chat slides

Stop and Chat DBN and VG (1)

Update on storage of Stop and Chat:

Storage of Stop and Chat cart and garment forms

 

Labels

DBN_Labels_3P_Combined

Panels

DBN_Panels_Mockup_Reference

Exhibition Layout (also a print version is posted in the Guide Lounge)

DBN for Educators

FAQ for Dressed by Nature:

Dressed by Nature Fact Sheet 5-25-22

Videos:

How to video: Bingata technique: 【Ryukyu Bingata】OKINAWA STRUCTURE Vol.1 – Resist-dye technique of Japan

How to process for banana fiber cloth (bashofu)

How to Video: Banana fiber cloth

Shibori (includes hari hitta shibori): The art of Japanese tie-dyeing (shibori)

Indigo dye process video: Short film (less than 2 minutes)

Indigo dye for ikat process: Long video of Japanese ikat process (29 minutes)

 

Van Gogh and the Olive Grove (see resources from Dallas Museum at end of page)

Lecture by Matthew Welch:

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves 06.23.22

Exhibition labels and panels:

EUR221407_VG_Scientific_Panels_V5

EUR221407_VG_INTRO_Texts_V4

EUR221409_VG_Wall_Labels_V2

Exhibition layout (also a print version is posted in the Guide Lounge)

VG for Educators

FAQs for Van Gogh

Van Gogh and the Olive Groves FAQs

All Olive Grove paintings, in chronological order, left to right, top to bottom:

olive groves grid

Peer resources

Dressed by Nature

Here are articles and videos shared by guides, connected to the exhibition:

Articles on Mia’s blog:

and

From Susan Arndt, the posted link to the May Friends’ lecture, by Anna Jackson: “Drawing on the works to be featured in the MIA exhibition Dressed by Nature, and on those in the V&A and other collections, this lecture will explore what these textiles they can tell us about the lives, beliefs and tastes of those who created and consumed them. In doing so, it will pull together the common threads that bound rural villages to fashionable city streets and connected farmers and fishermen to merchants and entertainers. It will also examine the value and meaning these works have today and the efforts being made to preserve the skills and artistry they embody.”

link to the May Friend’s talk by Anna Jackson, “The Social Fabric”

Susan Arndt also shares some great articles:

The Art of Turning Fish into Leather

From Prejudice to Pride (an article about the Indigenous Ainu culture)

The Secret Language of Salmon Skin Coats

From Kay Miller:

‘Kimono Style’: A Beautiful Painting You Can Wear

From Margie Crone, a site with some information on Ainu patterns: Ainu-Siriki are patterns inscribed on the tools and clothes of Ainu. Ay-us-siriki and morew-siriki, which are whirling designs, are the most popular patterns.

From Pat Gale, a long article on the Ainu, including information on the tattoos women received: AINU: THEIR HISTORY, ART, LIFE, RITUALS, CLOTHES AND BEARS

Peer resources

Van Gogh

From the Mia blog:

Touched by Van Gogh: What a newly discovered fingerprint tells us about a Mia masterwork

From the Dallas Museum of Art, a lecture: Exhibition Talk: Van Gogh and the Olive Groves

From Dallas Museum of Art, online article and images: Virtual Van Gogh and the Olive Groves

From the Van Gogh Museum:  Why Did Vincent van Gogh Cut off His Ear?

From Lyn Mierswa, an information page at the Van Gogh Museum:  Vincent van Gogh FAQ’s

Van Gogh and Japan (examples of the influence of Japanese art on Van Gogh)

From Lucy Hicks, a great podcast episode focused on Van Gogh’s sister-in-law:

Episode #96: Cherchez La Femme, or The Woman Behind the Art–Johanna Van Gogh (Season 11, Episode 5)

and another article about Jo’s efforts to publicize Van Gogh’s work:

The Woman Who Made van Gogh

From Pat Gale: How Japanese Woodblock Prints Transformed Van Gogh’s Dreams of Utopia

From Deb Baumer, a chapter from the book Vincent van Gogh in Saint-Paul de-Mausole concerning the options for treatment for mental illness in Van Gogh’s time:

Insanity History and Therapies in Van Gogh’s Century

 

 

Art in Bloom 2022 resource page

This is the resource page for 2022 Art in Bloom.

Lynn Dunlap’s plant and flower database, various updates:

AIB plant materials 1_1_2020 update

AIB plant materials 6_13_2018 update

Artists statements from PFAs:

2022 AIB PFA Inspiration for Guides report (version 1)

From your colleague Rose Stanley-Gilbert, some helpful tips for touring Art in Bloom:

AIB Tour guides — Orientation, Comments by Floral artists, Arrangements .docx

Ikebana:

IKEBANA Basics

We will also offer a virtual public tour each day at 2 pm. Registration is open on the Mia website and required for both virtual and in-person public tours. All tours are free.

 

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art

This is our exhibition resource page. We will be adding materials to this for touring guides as those materials become available. Please email Kara any additional resources you find which could help prepare for touring this exhibition, and we will add to this page.

Guides touring the exhibition:

Supernatural guides_final list (1)

Bob Cozzolino’s lecture on February 8:

Supernatural America Training 02.08.22

And here is the chat: Supernatural America training chat 02.08.22

Bob Cozzolino’s presentation slides:

guide training Supernatural

Gallery map of exhibition:

SA_Exhibition layout

Panels and Labels (on one PDF):

SA_Labels_2-16-22_Combined

Audio guide transcript:

to come

Front-of-house cultural fluency training (and note, the video requires this password to access it: VET#2.14:

Supernatural America cultural fluency training

 

Guide-recommended articles and other resources:

Supernatural America: The Paranormal In American Art

Ivan Albright biography by Bob Cozzolino

A research page on Macena Barton and her portrait of José Mojica 1928, from Rose Stanley-Gilbert: Portrait of José Mojica 1928 by Macena Barton 2018.69.1

A research page on Renee Stout, from Helen Leslie: Renee-Stout-Crossroads-extended

From Rose Stanley-Gilbert, the film with Agatha Wojciechowsky, from the American Folk Art Museum (and includes a biography): Agatha Wojciechowsky film

Also from Rose, some additional biographical information:

Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986)

From the Collection of Mediumistic Art: Agatha Wojciechowsky

Mediumistic Art: Agatha Wojciechowsky (1896 -1986) 

Information from Marne Zara on Chholing Taha: Info on artist Chholing Taha_

From Grace Goggin, an article: Artist Fernando Orellana is making work for a very specific audience: the recently departed. Inspired by paranormal research, spiritualism and ghost folklore, Orellana’s machines continuously search for the dead, attempting to allow the departed a chance to interact with the world they left. Art for Ghosts

When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration

Welcome to the exhibition page for When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration. Here is the introductory text on artsmia.org:

“When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Art and Migration” considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of people today. The world is currently witnessing the highest levels of movement on record—the United Nations estimates that one out of every seven people in the world is an international or internal migrant who moves by choice or by force, with great success or great struggle.

Through artworks made since 2000 by 20 artists from countries such as Colombia, Cuba, France, India, Iraq, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this exhibition highlights diverse artistic responses to migration. Ranging from personal accounts to poetic meditations, the artwork features a range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, painting, and video.”

Here are the FINAL labels and panels:

WHWLYS_Labels_02.12.20 final

Art and Migration text for Docents and Guides

Here is the gallery map (though the smaller flag of Pangea (Tania Bruguera) is not included in the exhibition:

Gallery map_A&M

Teacher’s Guide and Deep Dive (same content):

Mia_WHWLYS_TeacherGuide_Final

Mia_WHWLYS_Guide_DeepDive_Final

Here is a link to the video of Gabe Ritter’s lecture on February 6:

Art & Migration lecture video

Gabe’s PowerPoint:

GRitter_ArtMigration_TRAINING

(Concerning the map Gabe used in discussing Kallat’s Woven Chronicle, here is the map’s key:

RED: Industrialized (Manufacturing and services) High income economies
ORANGE: Newly industrialized (Manufacturing and mining) Upper middle income economies
BLUE: Industrializing (Mining industry–oil and mineral) Upper middle income economies
BROWN: Industrializing (Agriculture predominates) Middle income economies
YELLOW: Agricultural, low income economies
GREY: No data

Additional labels and curatorial information from Gabe Ritter:

Art and Migration DOCENT MATERIAL1 Mia specific installations

GRitter_Migration_AllStaff_notes

Ritter_Curatorial Statement Feb. 6_TO EDITOR

Materials from the February 17 FOH cultural fluency training:

VIDEO of the February 17 cultural fluency training

Jack DeWaard PPT slides Feb. 17

Art and Migration VETT PPT 2-16-20

Art and Migration Fact Sheet CONDENSED

Top 5 FAQ WHWLYS

From our Learning Innovation Fellow Tamira Amin, her article on How climate change and colonialism are spurring mass migration: The violent roots of today’s unprecedented displacement.

Local and national media on exhibition

KARE 11 interview with Gabe Ritter about the Ai Weiwei installation (video): Minneapolis Art Institute’s latest exhibit features thousands of life jackets worn by refugees

From Bruce Robbins, an article in the Pioneer Press: Thousands of life jackets…

Review of exhibition in the Strib: For exhibit about migration, Minneapolis museum wraps its white facade in colorful life jackets
Minneapolis Institute of Art opens a provocative exhibition.

A PBS Newshour story on the exhibition while in Boston from your colleague Barb Horlbeck: Memory, meaning and mortality at heart of migration exhibit 

Peer suggestions for additional information:

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, a book recommendation: Author Isabel Allende’s new book – Long Petal to the Sea tells an engrossing story of Refugees fleeing Spain and then Chile starting 80 years ago. She has been interviewed on PBS News hour but this one from a recent Amanpour show is longer and more in depth.

https://www.pbs.org/video/isabel-allende-immigration-loss-and-her-new-novel-cyzxrz/

From Shelly McGinnis, a really great conversation about immigrants & belonging: Flyover 2020: What does patriotism mean? (MPR News)

From Rose Stanley-Gilbert: an overview of the history of US Migration as background for touring. I thought some might want to pick and choose a few facts to give historical perspectives to their tour. This is pretty concise for a complex subject: Immigration Timeline

From Kathleen Steiger: This was just rebroadcast and it is great. A history of Landscape Painting starting with 10th century Chinese works and including Misrach (in the Migration exhibit). (TPT link here)

From many of you, an excellent interview with Kerri Miller: Author Dina Nayeri on breaking down stereotypes of the refugee experience

From Lynn Dunlap, a plethora of video resources!

Ai Weiwei drifting – art, awareness and the refugee crisis | DW Documentary

Carlos Motta – The Crossing

Artist Talk: Richard Mosse

Opening Exhibition Lecture » Richard Misrach on Border Cantos

Artists Take On Global Migration: ‘It’s Hard To Watch And It’s Hard Not To Watch’ (Kader Attia)

Rineke Dijkstra: Almerisa Series

From Margo Squire, a story on the current conditions on Lesbos: Migrants wait in bread lines while tourists dine on grilled octopus

From Manju Parikh, a POV public TV documentary (available in the library system): ” Well Founded Fear”. It was shown on POV (Point of View) series on Public TV on 2000. Description on DVD: (Immigrants apply for political asylum with the I.N.S. in pre-9/11 America.)

From Jan Lysen, What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts

and Measuring illegal immigration: How Pew Research Center counts unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo

From the curatorial department, here are training materials for the new exhibition “Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo,” up from December 14, 2019 – December 6, 2020 in Gallery 226, 227, 237.

Docent Training_Abstract Prints by Hagiwara Hideo, Rotation 1, Dec. 2020

From the artsmia website:

“Originally a painter trained in oil, Hagiwara Hideo (1913–2007) became ill with tuberculosis and turned to printmaking in 1954. From the start his prints were of an abstract nature, and for 50 years he was a constant innovator in his choice of motifs, style, and technique. This first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Hagiwara’s work showcases his enormous versatility. More than 30 prints span his early work of the 1950s to the Greek Mythology series in 1965, and from his celebrated series of novel views of Mount Fuji in the 1980s and 1990s to his enormously laborious prints of the Face, Memory, and Mandala series.

This exhibition will be presented in two rotations: Rotation 1: December 14, 2019 – June 21, 2020. Rotation 2: June 27, 2020 – December 6, 2020.”