Shared Videos


PBS special on Snow Monkeys

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:

I just watched the PBS Nature episode on Snow Monkeys and would recommend it to ALL Docents and Guides planning to use the Minol Araki piece: Snow Monkeys at Play in Autumn and Winter.
In the frigid valleys of Japan’s Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a complex society of rank and privilege where each knows their place. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. But one little monkey, innocently unaware of his own lowly social rank, reaches out to this lonely leader, forming a bond with him that manages over time to warm his less than sunny disposition. It is a rare and remarkable gesture that alters both their lives. Changing seasons bring new babies to care for, a profusion of insects and blossoms to eat, family disagreements to squabble over and tragedies to overcome. Mating season brings competition for females as the days grow shorter and colder in a rush toward winter. But with their now confident leader to guide them and their families to shelter and care for them, this troop of snow monkeys is ready to face the world.
 
Check it out!

ArtBabble

From Kara, ArtBabble collates video content from museums around the world! You can search video content by theme or by period/style. Have fun exploring!

ArtBabble


Chipstone Foundation (Decorative Arts resources)

The mission of The Chipstone Foundation is to promote and enhance appreciation and knowledge of American material culture (emphasizing the decorative arts) by scholars, students and the general public.

They do this through various means, some of which are publications (Ceramics in America and American Furniture) and also videos posted on ArtBabble.

Ceramics in America and American Furniture offer excellent online articles. Click on the journal you would like to explore, and separate issues are posted with articles.

Direct link to the publications page

One of the many ways Chipstone Foundation reaches out to the decorative arts, material culture and cultural history communities is through ArtBabble. ArtBabble is a cloud based video hosting service for art content and has been called the “YouTube of the Arts”.

Link to ArtBabble contents (direct links to video series are listed on the right)

Direct link to:  The Minds of the Makers series


The Audacity of Christian Art

From Kara, an interesting video series from the National Gallery, London:

“‘The audacity of Christian art: The problem of painting Christ’ is a seven-part series in which Dr Chloë Reddaway, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Curator in Art and Religion at the National Gallery, explores the theological and artistic challenges involved in painting Christ as fully human and fully divine, and reveals some of the ingenious and surprising ways in which Renaissance artists responded.”

Check out the video series:

The problem with Christ, first video

 


Aziz Osman

From your colleague Angie Seutter, here is a link to a MN Original segment that was filmed on the painter Aziz Osman, whose work is currently featured in the exhibition I Am Somali:

Aziz Osman MN Original


Takashi Murakami video

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger, here’s a video interview with Takashi Murakami, including “Great Manga shots and a wonderful interview with the artist and shots of his workshop.” The video was uploaded by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Takashi Murakami video interview

 


Vera Lutter and Camera Obscura

From your colleague Kathleen Steiger:

This video “is a wonderful 6 to 7 minute interview with Lutter and the folks from LACMA and includes some nice graphics on the pinhole camera/Camera Obscura that she builds and uses.
I would recommend that EVERY DOCENT watch it especially if they intend to use our Lutter object on any tours!”

Lutter LACMA video

 


Bonnard’s Dining Room in the Country

“An extraordinary loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this work represents Pierre Bonnard’s dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective responses over an optical experience of the interior and landscape.”

http://www.worcesterart.org/exhibitions/pierre-bonnard-dining-room-in-the-country/