Cezanne

Start by mentioning the class at MoMA and how one thing leads to another.

Paul Cezanne page at MoMA, which has a very good essay about him, and links to art, some with audio,

Cezanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, especially the Chronology section which gives links (how good are they?) to other artists.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The SmartHistory page for Cezanne starts with his Still Life with Apples, and then goes on to showcase four other of his works. Each of the pages have some links that are unique so it is worthwhile to explore all of them. While I find some of the [speaking during the videos] annoying, the information is quite good. On the first page, while 'Provence' is misspelled in the link, the website it leads to [] at the National Gallery of Art is (explore the site and see what's there)
Meyer Shapiro at Artchive

Maid in Cyberspace

Used to be  Maid in Cyberspace. This link http://www.htmlles.net/2003/e/index.html goes to the 2006 edition which may have some good files.

Latest festival is at  http://www.htmlles.net/2010/ and also might have files, at least history of the festival.

Rediscovering the past at the CBC

I love the CBC! Back in 2007 it made it easier to access its digital archive, although since it is now four years since I started this post, I don't remember how difficult it was before that.

For each audio or video clip, there is accompanying useful textual information and links to other resources, and, most helpful to students who have to figure out the correct way to cite a web page, a 'cite this page' link. Once you copy and paste, all the formatting is done for you.

For instance, I watched a video about Haight-Ashbury. The same page contains text about the clip and the historical context for the film, as well as the above-mentioned resources. The clip is to be cited as:

Haight-Ashbury: The birth of hip.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: June 28, 2005.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/youth/clips/3156/ [Page consulted on Sept. 24, 2011.]

I added in the links through the titles since the citing mechanism doesn't do that.

I did an advanced search to find the earliest clip and I believe it is this one from 1927. Grating to listen to, but that's how radio sounded in the old days.

Diamond Jubilee broadcast links Canadians.
The CBC Digital Archives Website.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: June 26, 2008.
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/celebrations/clips/13492/ [Page consulted on Sept. 24, 2011.]

Another feature(?), once I created my own archives, is a personal archives folder. It doesn't seem to work so well, since, while I can save to the folder, it seems to disappear every time I access it. It reappears with saved clips when I create a new folder with the same name, but that is really annoying.

The Archives has its own podcast, Rewind, where you can download whatever clips are listed for the past several months, or subscribe in several different ways. The Archives site is really best experienced, unless you're doing research, by clicking on links and seeing what you find. For instance, I found this television clip from 1955 showing A.Y. Jackson painting. The narration is a bit (okay, a lot) dated but still, it's pretty neat.

Conceptual Art - not very visible Traffic

The most aggravating aspect of the exhibit "Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980" is that it is impossible to find anything on the Web that shows comprehensive, or even more than sketchy, information about the show.  I searched Google using the title of the exhibit, and as far as I can tell, none of the galleries, and there were many, that showed the exhibit, did more than create a very basic website. One link I did find was to a lecture by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, who talk about their work, which was shown in the exhibit at Dalhousie Art Gallery.

The Wikipedia entry for Conceptual Art covers mostly American artists, a number of which are represented in the show. I am going to try and find more information about the art that was shown, since I have a copy of the catalogue (not the catalogue that the essay mentioned below appears in) that accompanied the exhibit at three university galleries in Halifax - Dalhousie Art Gallery, MSVU Art Gallery, which has some information and a link to a catalogue essay by Jayne Wark, and St. Mary's Art Gallery. I spent several hours at these wonderful, marvellous, exhibits, and include for now some images of the catalogue (with my own attempt at conceptual art through blacking out some of the text). I'll try and find more information about the artists who were included - I wrote down some of the titles (thank goodness there were lists of the artists represented in each gallery).

Kara Walker at the Met: After the Deluge

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as I've stated before, has a very good archive of past exhibitions. This particular exhibit, which appeared in 2006, has a very modest home page which includes some quite nice links. For instance, the audio file has an informative interview with Kara Walker (this Wikipedia entry has some very good links). The images are rather limited, but a search on the site will turn up a few more. The "Learn More" link has a bit more detail, but doesn't include links to the two works by other artists that are mentioned.

One is The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer and the other is The Deluge towards Its Close by Joshua Shaw. Both can be zoomed in on and the detail is still really good at close magnifications. Walker talks about "The Gulf Stream" in her interview, so it's a good idea to listen to that while viewing the painting. She also discusses Dressing for the Carnival, by Homer, which is well worth zooming in really closely on, to see the faces of the people, especially the children, standing around the central figure.

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf

Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={4945D204-CC0B-44DD-98D0-7D326DA23C2C}

I've already looked at this exhibit. Mention that the audio file gives important info about the exhibit.

Chris Burden

http://www.artbabble.org/video/lacma/chris-burden-and-michael-govan-lacma

This is the video I watched with additions from ArtBabble. Look at some of those and for video of his earlier performances, mention his hoarding.

My short visit to the Google Art Project

Along with stories of the situation in Egypt, I've been noticing posts on Twitter about the Google Art Project, so I decided to take a look. I wasn't too impressed on my first visit, but now that I've tried a second time, I'm quite impressed. cnet News has a pretty good description and slide show of the process and a few of the artworks.

One of the great features of the Project is that magnification of the art seems to really work, and gets the viewer much closer to examining the process than other attempts that I've seen. Sometimes this takes a long time to be obvious, but once the pixels clear, the results are pretty amazing. My collection, as of today includes a medium-distance view of the face of  "The Princess from the Land of Porcelain" by James McNeill Whistler, and a very close closeup of the canvas threads and paint strokes of Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night". And now the lion's head from Henry Rousaeau's "The Sleeping Gypsy", although the paint strokes aren't as visible here.

You can also walk down the halls, and around the walls of the art galleries and museums, much like on Street View, but so far that is mostly annoying, although you do get an idea of the layout of the galleries. I just got taken out the back wall of MoMA in New York, and into a street, so maybe this is more of an experiment in serendipity than an exploration of the building.

Piotr Szyhalski on the Walker Art Channel

I watched a webcast on January 18, 2007 of Piotr Szyhalski speaking with Steve Dietz on the Walker Art Channel. It took me four years to get back to find it in the archive, so finally here is the link, with more information about the Walker Channel. The performance/interview is ninety minutes long and, since there is an 'embed' button on the page, the embedded webcast is below.

I was so pleased to see a presentation by Szyhalski since he is my favourite digital/net/performance artist. It's great to see an artist explain his procedures and demonstrate his art. It's interesting that Szyhalski speaks about the use of the Web for art, and how much that usage has changed since then. He is on faculty at MCAD although you'll have to check my earlier post about him to see his webpage there. And see another post showing more of his work.

It was an interesting and informative presentation; fun to see him make mistakes when losing links to files, and clowning around with Steve Dietz. They never did explain the four men sitting on the stage, though.