NPR Museums in the 21st Century Series

Lectures curated around NPR's Museums in the 21st Century on the cultural influences and responsibilities of museums historically and in the digital future.

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Elizabeth Kostova: Art and Obsession
Elizabeth Kostova: Art and Obsession
Elizabeth Kostova
April 15, 2010
01:11:00
Author Elizabeth Kostova talks with NPR correspondent Lynn Neary about art, obsession, and other themes that inform Kostova's new novel, The Swan Thieves.
Taste for American Art: Heroes, Villains, and the Art Market Today
Theodore E. Stebbins Jr.
November 19, 2009
01:01:00
Harvard art professor Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. discusses the interests and the influence of such pioneering art collectors as William T. Evans, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Maxim Karolik.
Da Vinci's Sculptures Decoded
Gary Radke
October 3, 2009
01:00:54
High Museum of Art Exhibition Curator Gary M. Radke discusses how art historians try to reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's sculptural production. Da Vinci evidently made plans for and produced sculpture throughout his career, but little of it survives.
Sarah Brophy on the Green Museum
Sarah S. Brophy
June 8, 2009
00:49:42
Sarah Brophy, of the sustainable museum website bMuse.net, argues that museum curators are past Green 101, and that now is the time to innovate, learn, and lead simply to help save themselves. Historic sites and history museums have come a long way in the green revolution, even with a late start.
The Grand Picture Gallery at Bob Jones University
John Nolan
May 20, 2009
01:13:46
John Nolan, curator of the Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University, introduces the Grand Picture Gallery collection of over 400 Old Master paintings.
Museum of Fine Arts in a Time of Transformation
Malcolm Rogers
February 5, 2009
01:06:09
Malcolm Rogers, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, describes the MFA's extensive and visionary project, Building the New MFA. The core of the project is the Museum's new American Wing, scheduled to open in 2010.
The Art of the Steal
Spalding Nix
January 21, 2009
00:44:18
Spalding Nix, associate member of the American Society of Appraisers and proprietor of Spalding Nix Fine Art & Antiques, discusses infamous works of art and the daring criminals that steal them.
Russell Howze: Stencil Nation
Russell Howze
December 12, 2008
00:54:23
Russell Howze discusses his new book, Stencil Nation, and shows examples of the art he has collected over the years. Stencil Nation focuses on the mix of artists and gallery shows to reveal aspects of an intentionally secretive creative community.
Julia Forbes: The First Emperor
Julia Forbes
November 12, 2008
00:40:59
Julia Forbes, head of museum interpretation for the High Museum of Art, shares a glimpse into The First Emperor: The Terracotta Army of China, an exhibition inspired by one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.
Looking Deeply Into Louvre-Atlanta
David Brenneman
October 11, 2008
00:58:29
David Brenneman, the High Museum's director of collections and exhibitions, and Isabelle Lemaistre, the Louvre sculpture curator, talk about key points of Louvre-Atlanta.
Museums Online: New Ways to Visit Museums
Katherine Burton Jones
April 30, 2008
01:17:04
Katherine Burton Jones discusses how museums are serving and being shaped by new audiences, using Web 2.0 technologies. Burton Jones assistant dean of Media Services at Harvard Divinity School, discusses new multimedia approaches to the museum experience.
In Search of Culture: Birth of the Museum of Fine Arts
David Dearinger
December 13, 2007
00:52:13
David Dearinger discusses 19th century British tourists in search of culture in Boston, and Hina Hirayama discusses the Boston Athenaeum and the birth of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Inventing Concepts for a New Museum
Yves Abrioux
April 18, 2007
01:37:18
Yves Abrioux discusses the final of his three part lecture on the future of museums.
Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum
Jane Prophet
April 4, 2007
01:09:57
Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork.
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Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum
Barbara Stafford
March 22, 2007
01:12:40
Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience.
Thoughts on Large Format Photography
Julian Cox
July 20, 2006
00:58:21
Julian Cox addresses the prevailing taste for large scale images, and considers the choices that photographers make when determining the size of their prints.
Economics of Open Content: Archives, Museums, and Libraries I
Clifford Lynch
January 24, 2006
01:21:37
Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, reviews the progress made on day one of the conference, highlighting how academic and commercial thinking and markets ove
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Economics of Open Content: Archives, Museums, and Libraries II
Howard Besser
January 24, 2006
00:54:23
The archives, museums, and libraries panel continues with Howard Besser, Director of Moving Image Archiving and Preservation and Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University, describing work und
Renzo Piano: A New High In Atlanta
Renzo Piano
November 15, 2005
00:58:42
Architect Renzo Piano speaks about the three new buildings he designed which more than double the Museum's size to 312,000 square feet.
Building the High Museum's African Art Collection
Carol Thompson
September 13, 2005
01:26:30
Carol Thompson, Richman Family curator of African art discusses the evolution of the growing African art collection at the High Museum and her vision for the future. Thompson's goal is to create the most significant African art collection in the southeastern United States.