Lectures tagged "Sculpture"

Robert Craig on John Portman Art and Architecture
Robert M. Craig
October 17, 2009
01:20:57
Architectural historian and writer Robert M. Craig explores John Portman's architecture and art. An architect intent on designing buildings as places for people, Portman is also an artist who expresses himself through painting and sculpture.
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.
Moore in America
Mary Pat Matheson
June 17, 2009
00:49:23
Mary Pat Matheson, executive director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, discusses what TIME Magazine named as one of the top 10 Museum Exhibitions of 2008.
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Portraits from the Boston Athenaeum's Collection
David B. Dearinger
April 21, 2009
00:50:30
David Dearinger focuses on a small group of painted and sculpted portraits from the Athenaeum's collection, including Washington Allston's (1814) and Charles Robert Leslie's (1818) copies of Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the great history painter Benjamin West, Chester Harding's portrait of politici
Weaving Science into Sculpture
Nathalie Miebach
March 11, 2009
01:19:30
Artist Nathalie Miebach explains how she literally weaves scientific data related to meteorology, climate change, and astronomy into brightly colored, three-dimensional sculptures.
The Treasure of Ulysses Davis
Susan Mitchell Crawley
January 31, 2009
00:43:06
Susan Crawley, High Museum of Art curator of folk art, discusses the work of self-taught sculptor Ulysses Davis.
The Tiber
Philip Verre
November 1, 2007
00:37:02
Philip Verre discusses The Tiber, on loan to Atlanta's High Museum of Art from the Louvre in Paris. The colossal, 10-foot-long sculpture by an unknown artist is one of the largest in the Louvre's collections.
Sculptors and Their Patrons at Mount Auburn, 1820-1870
David B. Dearinger
March 1, 2007
00:47:27
David Dearinger, Susan Mores Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum, discusses American NeoClassic sculptors and their patrons that are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.