Exhibitions
Direct Line to the Rubber Duckie
The few exciting “artworks” I saw as a child were the covers for records (also fondly known as albums or LPs) that I owned in the ’70s. Growing up in the Australian outback with no local museum or gallery, album covers were a visual connection to a different, exciting, impossible life. Music from a record took me to the outside world in a way our old wireless radio couldn’t.
Postcards from the museum
Visitors to the exhibition “Color Balance” are decorating blank postcards with materials in the gallery. They are creating abstract designs inspired by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas or writing about what they like best in the show. The Nasher Museum staff is mailing the addressed postcards back to their creators. See some of our favorites here.
All the Little Pieces
Mr. Severson decided that to stabilize the lekythos and restore its shape he would entirely disassemble the vessel, clean the 34 individual pieces, reassemble them with a stable and safe adhesive, and place infills in two large holes that had threatened the structural integrity of the object. His tools ranged from the thinnest paintbrushes to cotton swabs, from acetone to acrylic paints.
Such a Vibrant Thing
On a recent Thursday, local art lovers joined the Nasher Museum of Art for the debut of a new exhibition – which featured a perfect example of various hues placed on equilibrium. I adore pop art, but “Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas” took me on a voyage that included a whole new understanding of bubbly colors and odd shapes. I’ve gained a way to utilize my mind and appreciate what is classified and known to the masses as abstract art!
A view from the trenches
My time at the Nasher Museum, both during the spring seminar and my summer internship, has given me a new appreciation of ancient material culture. Prior to this experience, I would always focus on single, stellar pieces in an exhibition and pay little attention to the rest of the objects. Now I have a new perspective: I want to look at a museum with a range of views, working my way from the smallest details rarely noticed by anyone other than a conservator, to the objects in their entirety, to the groupings and their meaning, to the exhibition and its intention as a whole, and finally to the museum itself.
Audio guides in the making
One of the really exciting things about contemporary art is talking to the artists who created it. It’s fascinating to hear about their creative process, what they hope visitors will get out of their work and their memories about vinyl records.
Vinyl nostalgia
I close my eyes and let his voice wash through me and I know that I was right: My father was an imperfect man, but he was not a monster. And more important, in the glide and glow of his golden voice, I sense that even before I was born, he loved the very idea of me.
A Student’s Perspective
By Christina Kaplanis
This spring, the Classics and Art History departments came together to offer a fascinating, exciting and relevant course, Greek Vase Painting, taught under the instruction of the Classics department chair, Professor Carla Antonaccio.