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  Indiana University Art Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Indiana University Art Museum was designed by I.M. Pei and Partners as a commission by the board of trustees of Indiana University, USA.
The museum's permanent collection includes works by Jackson Pollack, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, and Andy Warhol.
Art museums and galleries in the United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indiana_University_Art_Museum   (125 words)

  
 University Press of Florida: African Art at the Harn Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Robin Poynor, associate professor of art at the University of Florida, is guest curator of the "Spirit Eyes, Human Hands" exhibition of the university's Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.
He is the former curator of the Tweed Museum at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
He has written principally on the art of the Yoruba Kingdom of Owo, Nigeria, where he did field research, and he has curated a number of exhibitions of African art, writing essays, catalogues, and display texts for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, and Indiana University Art Museum.
www.upf.com /book.asp?id=POYNOS95   (320 words)

  
 William Paterson University
Prior to that, he was a professor at Nanjing Arts Institute from 1980 to 1988, a guest artist at the Chicago Art Institute in the summer of 1992, and an instructor at Indiana University from 1989 to 1994.
Cong's group exhibitions include the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Newark Museum, the Nanjing Museum, the Shanghai Art Museum, and the National Fine Art Museum in Beijing, China.
He also was a consultant and project coordinator for the Indianapolis Museum of Art for an art project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a director of the Summer Art in China program at William Paterson in 2001.
www.wpunj.edu /coac/art/fcong.htm   (338 words)

  
 Indiana University Art Museum
From world-renowned architect I.M. Pei's soaring triangular atrium, to galleries filled with extraordinary works of art from all corners of the globe, the IU Art Museum will engage, stimulate, and satisfy your curiosity about the worlds of art.
Since its establishment in 1941, the IU Art Museum has grown from a small university teaching collection into one of the foremost university art museums in the country.
The IU Art Museum’s mission is to preserve, exhibit, collect, research, publish, and interpret original works of art to advance the academic goals of Indiana University and to enrich the cultural lives and spiritual well-being of society.
www.iub.edu /~iuam/section.php?navSection=about_museum   (191 words)

  
 School of Fine Arts
Indiana University artists and researchers, in collaboration with the Indianapolis Museum of Art, have developed new technologies that may revolutionize the museum experience while improving public access to art.
The Indiana University Art Museum has organized the first-ever retrospective of the career of photographer Art Sinsabaugh, whose innovative, large-format photos capture the ever-changing face of the great American landscape.
Oversees the 25,000 art works housed in the Art Museum, which is ranked among the top five university museums, with particular strengths in the art of Africa, Oceania, the Americas, Ancient Greece and Rome, and Early Modernism, and its collections of works on paper (prints, drawings and photographs).
newsinfo.iu.edu /group/page/normal/196.html   (550 words)

  
 Newswise
The retrospective includes nearly 100 images, the majority of which were drawn from the Art Sinsabaugh Archive at IU Bloomington.
In 1978, the IU Art Museum established the Art Sinsabaugh archive.
The IUAM exhibition surveys all aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from his early design studies through his late work in the American Southwest.
www.newswise.com /articles/view/514544   (768 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Rachel Perry on Thomas Hart Benton and the Indiana Murals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Not only were the Indiana murals a turning point in Benton's own methods and intellectual growth, his work influenced the content and composition of murals for artists nationwide in subsequent WPA and Treasury Department projects.
Art critic Thomas Craven wrote in 1937 that "Thomas Hart Benton is more than a painter: he is a social historian, anthropologist, cultural irritant, and a vivid exponent of the American civilization" (p.
Richard Lieber, the director of Indiana's Department of Conservation who proposed the idea of the murals as well as the artist to paint them, was decidedly unapologetic about the state of Indiana and simultaneously open-minded enough to allow Benton's inclusion of controversial subjects.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=41741011803026   (1246 words)

  
 BEDC - Play - Inside - The Arts
Indiana University Auditorium -- See a Broadway show or a live concert in this beautiful performing hall, located in the heart of campus.
Indiana University Musical Arts Center -- Visit this acoustically refined auditorium for eight full-scale operas each year, as well as world-renowned jazz, classical and ballet performances.
Mathers Museum -- Take a trip around the world and discover over 20,000 objects and 10,000 photographs representing cultures from each of the world's inhabited continents.
www.comparebloomington.org /arts.html   (263 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Press Room - Current Press Releases
The art on Easter Island both embodied and signified the supernatural power of the gods and the chiefs who were believed to be their direct descendants.
Makemake was associated with the annual birdman ritual in which athletes competed on behalf of individual chiefs by descending a 1,000-foot cliff face and swimming to an offshore island in search of the first egg of a migratory seabird.
The exhibition is organized by Eric Kjellgren, the Evelyn A. Hall and John A. Friede Assistant Curator for Oceanic art in the Metropolitan's Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
www.metmuseum.org /news/newspressrelease.asp?PressReleaseId={98ED1CC5-5015-11D5-93F5-00902786BF44}   (767 words)

  
 Genders OnLine Journal - Feminist Art and (Post)Modern Anxieties: The Judy Chicago Retrospective
This is taken as evidence that the museum "seems to be at the mercy of powerful egos and constituencies who have underestimated its cultural integrity and importance to the people of Indiana" (October 10, 1999).
Kathleen A. Foster, a curator at the IU Art Museum and one of the organizers of the Chicago exhibit, clarifies the museum's policy regarding faculty exhibitions, saying that the museum does in fact hold faculty retrospectives, which require considerable and often difficult fundraising efforts.
Whereas great art is timeless and universal, "Chicago likes to define issues as important according to her own timeline and priorities and to give 'right' answers from her perspective" (Finkelstein, October 10, 1999).
www.genders.org /g32/g32_bailey.html   (8936 words)

  
 Thimme exhibition to open Jan. 20 at IU Art Museum
The collection was bequeathed to the museum by his wife, Danaë, at her death in 1998.
She became the museum’s first conservator in 1970 and then served as associate director for conservation from 1990 until 1998.
The IU Art Museum, located on 7th Street in Bloomington, is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
www.homepages.indiana.edu /011901/text/thimme.html   (303 words)

  
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first ever American exhibition devoted to the art of Easter Island—one of the most remote inhabited places on earth—is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through August 4, 2002.
Focused on religious imagery, their art embodied and signified the supernatural power of the gods and the chiefs who were believed to be their earthly descendants.
The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press.
www.metmuseum.org /special/Splendid_Isolation/Easter_Island_more.htm   (1249 words)

  
 Foulke Considered One of America's Greatest Painters
It has been said that Davis started to develop his appreciation for art when his father was said to have illustrated the bedtime stories he told him as they went along and it was expected that Stuart would do the same thing for his younger brother, Wyatt.
In developing his art for geometric shapes, Davis spent the year 1927 painting the same simple subject time and time again in order to develop the relationship of lines, plane and color.
It was the expression of ideas and emotions about the life of time." Recently, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibition for the first time in over a quarter of a century, bringing together a real portion of Davis' work in celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth.
www.foulke.org /history/essays/painter.shtml   (1051 words)

  
 Indiana University Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Indiana University Art Museum was unable to detect the latest version of the Flash Player on your computer.
In order to take advantage of the new enhancements to the IUAM website, you should upgrade your computer with the latest version of the Flash Player.
This free, one-time upgrade to your computer will install in less than 1 minute and is available from Macromedia.
www.indiana.edu /~iuam/iuam_upgrade.htm   (85 words)

  
 Lowe Poster Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As a genre, Indian poster art traces its roots to the Victorian era, when the romantic pictorial conventions brought by the British found ready acceptance by certain Indian painters.
Today, Indian poster art brandishes subject matter far beyond those early canonical representations of the gods, and incorporates film stars, local and national heroes, holy men, religious icons, and Mother India herself with equal elan.
In 1995-96 she received a Fulbright grant to study British picturesque art and tourism imagery in India.
www.maxwell.syr.edu /southasiacenter/Newsletter/99Spring/GodPosterExhibit.htm   (406 words)

  
 IUP University Museum Leon-Litton Exhibit
The University Museum is located in John Sutton Hall, a beautifully restored and nationally registered historic landmark built in 1875.
The University Museum is dedicated to providing leadership in the development of quality collections, exhibitions, and educational and public programs that challenge how we see ourselves and the social and natural world in which we live.
To achieve these goals, the Museum annually mounts a series of original exhibitions, related cultural events, and educational activities designed to appeal to the university and the local and regional community that it serves.These shows generally concentrate on contemporary and historic fine and folk art and material history.
www.arts.iup.edu /museum   (295 words)

  
 Indiana Guide - United States of America - General Information - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel ...
Located downtown are the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art and the Indianapolis Zoo, which is renowned for its large collection of dolphins and whales.
Further out are the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Krannert Pavillion, with an extensive display of modern art.
Other local highlights are the Bloomington Antique Mall, Indiana University Art Museum and Lake Monroe, which lies just south of the town.
www.worldtravelguide.net /data/idi/idi.asp   (378 words)

  
 Entertainment: Graduate Programs: Academics: Department of Chemistry: Indiana University
The Indiana University Art Museum is located on 7th Street.
The Mathers Museum of World Cultures is located at 416 N Indiana.
WonderLab is a hands-on science museum located at 116 W 6th Street.  Their hours are 2pm to 5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well as 10am to 5pm on Saturdays.
www.chem.indiana.edu /academics/grad/entertainment.asp   (1327 words)

  
 Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Museum and art library functions are housed in two triangular wings, executed in buff-colored concrete to match the linked Fine Arts Building and other masonry neighbors.
Unifying the whole is a 110-foot high skylit atrium — a pivotal campus landmark that emphasizes the museum's importance.
A 90,000-volume Fine Arts Library on the top two floors of the east triangle reinforces the museum's educational commitment.
www.pcfandp.com /a/p/7422/s.html   (280 words)

  
 The Politics of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Americans are particularly generous in their support of the arts, spending $10 billion annually on galleries, theater, symphonies, etc. State and local governments chip in with nearly $900 million in additional art funding.
In fact, the arts flourished before the advent of the NEA in 1965.
It's hard to justify subsidizing wealthy patrons who attend fine arts events in big cities on the coasts while many working families are struggling just to get by.
www.house.gov /hostettler/Issues/Hostettler-issues-1997-04-24-national-endowment-for-the-arts.htm   (699 words)

  
 Greater fame may be on the horizon for American photographer Art Sinsabaugh
Three photos from the IU Art Museum's collection of Art Sinsabaugh's photography.
The Indiana University Art Museum has organized a retrospective that represents the first complete survey of Sinsabaugh's career ever assembled.
The retrospective includes over 85 images, the majority of which were drawn from the Art Sinsabaugh Archive at Indiana University Bloomington.
newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/1649.html   (652 words)

  
 Thomas Eakins - Scenes from Modern Life: Biography: 1900 - 1915: Portrait as Self-Portrait | PBS
You might say, to put it another way he fell more and more in love with humanity and what is required of human beings as they journey through a life that offers what they do not expect.
I've often felt and I do feel particularly with these late pictures, that you reach a point where Eakins is not only seeing so powerfully what's going on in the faces in front of him, those who are sitting for him, but you also feel that these are expressions of himself.
Eakins very knowingly painted Tanner in profile with the near side of his face in shadow to suggest the inner life of the man that would forever remain hidden because of all that he had suffered.
www.pbs.org /eakins/t_1900_self_portrait.htm   (1108 words)

  
 AOL City Guide: Southwestern Indiana - Area Highlights
Dubois County Museum traces the area's history from the Ice Age to the present.
Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame honors state residents who excelled at the national pastime.
Indiana University at Bloomington is the main campus of the IU system.
cityguide.aol.com /evansvillearea/areahighlights/main.adp   (346 words)

  
 BEDC - Play - Compare Bloomington - Facts and Figures
Indiana University's School of Music is one of the nation's top-ranked music schools.
Annual festivals and art fairs include HoosierFest, the 4th Street Festival for the Arts, Lotus Fest and Taste of Bloomington.
The Indiana University Art Museum is recognized as one of the world's top university art museums.
www.comparebloomington.org /factsFiguresPlay.html   (127 words)

  
 Philadelphia Museum of Art
This special loan from the Indiana University Art Museum, where the mural has been held since 1941, offers a rare opportunity to appreciate Davis’s masterpiece in the context of American abstract painting of the mid-twentieth century.
His mother was a sculptor, and his father, most notably, was the art editor of the now defunct Philadelphia Press, a newspaper that included among its employees several of the artist-reporters now known as "The Eight" (e.g., Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, and William Glackens).
Jazz and swing music, which Davis saw as a musical counterpart to abstract art, were especially significant factors in his artistic development.
www.philamuseum.org /exhibitions/exhibits/stuartdavis.shtml   (692 words)

  
 Articles about the IU School of Music
It's tempting to call the Indiana University Art Museum's Jazz in July series one of the great but lesser-known events of every summer.
As with all four shows in the Jazz in July series, the Caswell Sisters' performance is free and open to the public, with refreshments available for purchase.
In case of rain, concerts will be moved inside the IU Art Museum.
www.music.indiana.edu /publicity/press/ArticlesPreviews&Reviews/articles/2004-07/2004-07-08-HTLeonard.htm   (568 words)

  
 Namos - Natural Art Museum of Sport
It is a national treasure we share with the 130,000 who attend 1300 conferences each year at University Place and with the general public who are invited to the Museum free of charge.
In founding the Museum in 1959 artist - sportsman Germain G. Glidden of Norwalk, Conn., was inspired by bringing people together for better understanding through two universal languages: sport and art.
In 1979 it moved to the University of New Haven and, in 1990, to Indianapolis, the "Amateur Sports Capital of the World." Since being in Indianapolis the collection has nearly tripled in size.
www.namos.iupui.edu   (228 words)

  
 Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
MuseumsUSA has listings for more than 15,400 museums and indexes the contents of their web sites daily.
Find and explore a museum in your area.
Museum Info courtesy of Association of Indiana Museums.
www.museumsusa.org /museums/info/1166717   (137 words)

  
 Krannert Art Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This exhibition encourages a dialogue in which viewers are asked to explore their impressions of the works by formulating personal opinions about abstraction through individual interpretation and interaction.
The exhibition is organized by the Indiana University Art Museum in collaboration with Keith Davis at the Hallmark Fine Arts Program.
The Krannert Art Museum Council sponsors a series of lectures by Marcel Franciscono, professor emeritus of art history.
www.art.uiuc.edu /galleries/kam/exhibitions/exhibitions.html   (1442 words)

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