In some ways it feels like the semester went by in a blur. I want to thank you all for making this last version of the Art Documentation class such a joy to teach.
LIS 446 ART DOCUMENTATION F15
Monday, December 14, 2015
Art Mysteries
So, you want to know about art mysteries? I have a spreadsheet with over one hundred and seventy titles - not all of which I've read mind you - of mysteries with an art related theme. I go back to this regularly but have not updated it in a couple of years. Among my favorite authors who regularly include artists as characters, or artworks as central objects in the mystery are some of the major writers from the so-called "golden age" of the mystery, including Margery Allingham (particularly Death of a Ghost), John Creasy (The Baron and the Missing Old Masters), Michael Gilbert (Paint, Gold and Blood), Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon), Ngaio Marsh (A Clutch of Constables, and Artists in Crime), and of course the inimitable Dorothy Sayers (Five Red Herrings).
Series that feature art dealers, artists, curators and other insiders are fun especially if you like the main character and enjoy following their development as well as the mystery. I particularly enjoyed John Malcolm's series featuring Tim Simpson, a financial consultant and art investment specialist. His titles are all puns or word play - Whistler in the Dark, Simpson's Homer, or references to the art work at the center of the story. Iain Pears, who has branched out into some non-series novels lately, had seven books featuring Jonathan Argyll, an English art dealer, and Flavia di Stefano of the Art Theft Squad in Rome, Italy (The Bernini Bust, The Immaculate Deception).
Another interesting character is the dishonest art dealer, Charlie Mortdecai, who is the protagonist (I can't say hero in this instance really) of Kyril Bonfiglioli's quirky series (Don't Point That Thing At Me, and Something Nasty In The Woodshed). If you like antiques you might enjoy the Lovejoy series by Jonathan Gash. Lovejoy's antics can get annoying but the side lights on the antique business and the accompanying fakery is fascinating. (Vatican Rip, Gondola Scam and others).
Local writer Jane Langton has one book in her Homer Kelly series (he's a lawyer & former cop, set in Cambridge, MA) which is set at the Gardner - called, not surprisingly, Murder at the Gardner. And another local series set in Cambridge is by Kathryn Lasky Knight and features a children's book illustrator named Calista Jacobs (love the name!).
Neville Steed wrote a series that featured an antique toy collector, Peter Marklin. These are a little hard to find but worth the chase. Susan Wittig Albert actually has a series with Beatrix Potter as the main character (full disclosure - I haven't read these as they seem a little "twee"). Carolyn Coker wrote a series featuring Andrea Perkins, a Boston-based art historian and restorer, which weren't bad (The Other David, The Balmoral Nude). Nicholas Kilmer's art historian, Fred Taylor is also based in and around Boston (Harmony in Flesh and Black). Aaron Elkins has two series, one co-written with Charlotte Elkins, with art themes. In one, Chris Norgren is a curator at a museum in Seattle, Washington (Deceptive Clarity, A Glancing Light). In the other the main character is Alix London, a "young art consultant whose father was a convicted art forger" is also based in Seattle.
Robert Ross has a series featuring Leonardo da Vinci as the detective, in which he is billed as the James Bond on the Renaissance - I haven't been able to read these yet (I may never!) but thought you should know about them. Da Vinci also appears in Diane A. S. Stuckart's book which feature a girl dressed as a boy apprenticed to the great man. (Surely he of all people would have noticed!) Claude Monet is the detective in two books by Jane Jakeman, In the Kingdom of Mists (set in London), and In the City of Dark Waters (set in Venice). And finally, Canaletto! Janet Laurence has written three books with Canaletto as the detective - you'll have to take my word for it - and they are set in 18th century London: Canaletto and the Case of the Westminster Bridge, Canaletto and the Case of the Privy Garden, and Canaletto and the Case of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
There are lots more, but I really should be grading your papers.
NOTE:
An indispensable website for the true mystery-lover is Stop, You're Killing Me! which indexes by author and by main series character as well as by location, time period and jobs. If you are starting a series and want to read in order this is a great resource and links to Amazon for the books that are still in print and many that aren't.
Series that feature art dealers, artists, curators and other insiders are fun especially if you like the main character and enjoy following their development as well as the mystery. I particularly enjoyed John Malcolm's series featuring Tim Simpson, a financial consultant and art investment specialist. His titles are all puns or word play - Whistler in the Dark, Simpson's Homer, or references to the art work at the center of the story. Iain Pears, who has branched out into some non-series novels lately, had seven books featuring Jonathan Argyll, an English art dealer, and Flavia di Stefano of the Art Theft Squad in Rome, Italy (The Bernini Bust, The Immaculate Deception).
Another interesting character is the dishonest art dealer, Charlie Mortdecai, who is the protagonist (I can't say hero in this instance really) of Kyril Bonfiglioli's quirky series (Don't Point That Thing At Me, and Something Nasty In The Woodshed). If you like antiques you might enjoy the Lovejoy series by Jonathan Gash. Lovejoy's antics can get annoying but the side lights on the antique business and the accompanying fakery is fascinating. (Vatican Rip, Gondola Scam and others).
Local writer Jane Langton has one book in her Homer Kelly series (he's a lawyer & former cop, set in Cambridge, MA) which is set at the Gardner - called, not surprisingly, Murder at the Gardner. And another local series set in Cambridge is by Kathryn Lasky Knight and features a children's book illustrator named Calista Jacobs (love the name!).
Neville Steed wrote a series that featured an antique toy collector, Peter Marklin. These are a little hard to find but worth the chase. Susan Wittig Albert actually has a series with Beatrix Potter as the main character (full disclosure - I haven't read these as they seem a little "twee"). Carolyn Coker wrote a series featuring Andrea Perkins, a Boston-based art historian and restorer, which weren't bad (The Other David, The Balmoral Nude). Nicholas Kilmer's art historian, Fred Taylor is also based in and around Boston (Harmony in Flesh and Black). Aaron Elkins has two series, one co-written with Charlotte Elkins, with art themes. In one, Chris Norgren is a curator at a museum in Seattle, Washington (Deceptive Clarity, A Glancing Light). In the other the main character is Alix London, a "young art consultant whose father was a convicted art forger" is also based in Seattle.
Robert Ross has a series featuring Leonardo da Vinci as the detective, in which he is billed as the James Bond on the Renaissance - I haven't been able to read these yet (I may never!) but thought you should know about them. Da Vinci also appears in Diane A. S. Stuckart's book which feature a girl dressed as a boy apprenticed to the great man. (Surely he of all people would have noticed!) Claude Monet is the detective in two books by Jane Jakeman, In the Kingdom of Mists (set in London), and In the City of Dark Waters (set in Venice). And finally, Canaletto! Janet Laurence has written three books with Canaletto as the detective - you'll have to take my word for it - and they are set in 18th century London: Canaletto and the Case of the Westminster Bridge, Canaletto and the Case of the Privy Garden, and Canaletto and the Case of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
There are lots more, but I really should be grading your papers.
NOTE:
An indispensable website for the true mystery-lover is Stop, You're Killing Me! which indexes by author and by main series character as well as by location, time period and jobs. If you are starting a series and want to read in order this is a great resource and links to Amazon for the books that are still in print and many that aren't.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
For the Docents: Resources for Hokusai and the Art of Woodcut in Japan
From the Art Institute of Chicago and its Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
Kyle Huck, Reference Librarian
Print Resources Available from the Libraries:
Hokusai (exhibition catalog) by Sarah Thompson
Call Number: NE1325.K3 A4 2015The exhibition catalog for the original Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibit, this volume provides an able introduction to Hokusai and how he approached his art.
Looking East: Western Artists and the Allure of Japan by Helen Burnham
Call Number: N6447 .B799 2014A fascinating look at the Japonisme craze in Western art. This book explores a history the craze and the artists who participated in it, and juxtaposes their art alongside the work of their contemporaries in Japanese art, including Hokusai.
Hokusai’s Great Wave by Timothy Clark
Call Number: NE1325.K3 C53 2011A close look at the Great Wave in particular, analyzed by Timothy Clark and published by the British Museum.
Dreams and Diversions : Essays on Japanese Woodblock Prints from the San Diego Museum of Art edited by Andreas Marks
Call Number: NE1321.8 .D74 2010
Ten
essays on the culture and society that the ukiyo-e art form grew out of
and the long history San Diego has collecting Japanese work.
Japanese woodblock prints : artists, publishers, and masterworks, 1680-1900 by Andreas Marks
Call Number: NE1321.8 .M355 2010
A
detailed history on ukiyo-e in Japan and the relationship between
artists and publishers. Provides a survey on ukiyo-e artists including
Hokusai, and goes in depth regarding the publishers of the artworks.
Articles Available in the Libraries from Art Full Text
Hokusai's Lines of Sight by Timon Screech
This article explores the cultural impact of Hokusai in Japan and internationally. It also explores his 1834 project "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji," featured in the exhibit.
Hokusai's Great Waves in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Visual Culture by Christine Guth
Another exploration of cultural impact, this time more specifically in terms of "Under the Wave of Kanagawa," also known as "The Great Wave." The author discusses the original symbolism of the work and further explores how it is currently used visually in Japanese culture.
Useful Links
The original Boston Museum of Fine Arts Hokusai exhibit, which includes background information on Hokusai, as well as a look at the works featured in the exhibit and a couple of informational videos.
The Art Institute of Chicago's collection of Japanese artwork, including many works by Hokusai. Interpretive resources of the collection are also available, including the following:
The Floating World of Ukiyo-E, a showcase of the Library of Congress's collection of Japanese prints, books, and drawings. Also includes a history and overview of the art form.
Good luck in your research! As always, if you need any further assistance, or have any questions about the libraries and their holdings, feel free to contact us at the reference desk!
(As an aside, I have tried to fix the formatting of this post multiple times and it won't let me fix it. I don't know what's going on but it's driving me absolutely crazy, and I apologize for how it looks.)
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
The New Monuments Men?
Check out this little bit of news regarding new ways of preserving cultural heritage sites under threat of destruction by ISIL
http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/media/
This is the media page for the project, but there is more information on the site!
http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/media/
This is the media page for the project, but there is more information on the site!
Monday, December 7, 2015
Boston MFA -- Raven's Many Gifts: Native Art of the Northwest Coast
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Docent Research Guide
Raven's Many Gifts: Native Art of the Northwest Coast
Bella Bella, Mask, Carved wood, painted with a pegmouth grip. BC Canada. Photo: courtesy of PEM. |
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts will be hosting the traveling
exhibit, Raven's Many Gifts: Native Art of the Northwest Coast, this
upcoming summer, from June – September 2016. This exhibit was curated by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, and it
showcases some of the museum’s collections on Native Art in a variety of
formats including works on
paper, wood carvings, textiles, films, music, and jewelry from the 19th
century to the present. The exhibit both celebrates and explores the
ongoing artistic legacy of the Pacific Northwestern Native American people and
their artists. The artifacts within the collection are meant to examine the
ever changing relationships
between humans, their ancestors, animals, and supernatural beings found in
the culture of the Native American tribes of the Pacific West Coast. Special
attention is paid to artistic influences traced back to Raven, a Native
American trickster God. The curator of the exhibit, Karen Kamer extolls "Raven [is] an iconic
trickster and culture hero who appears in countless Northwest Coast origin
stories, is credited with carrying light into the world in his beak [and] despite
profound cultural changes over the past 200 years, oral histories such as the
story of Raven continue to inspire a rich and diverse array of creative
expression in tribal communities along the Northwest Coast."
We here at the MFA are greatly excited not only to host this
exhibit, but also to utilize it as an avenue to both publicize and showcase our
own Native Art collection. As a member of our Docent Program, the research
guide below has been provided to you in order to prepare you with the knowledge
necessary to provide a guided tour through this exhibit and field any questions
our patrons might have. The resources below can be found within either of our
two museum libraries, William Morris Hunt Memorial Library or the W.
Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, or the greater network of Fenway Libraries Online
(FLO). Additionally, through the FLO you can access the Commonwealth Catalogue
where some of the resources listed below are found. Resources available though
either of our two museum libraries will be on reserve for one month prior to
the start of the exhibition. Within
each category the resources are listed alphabetically, but any resource that
has deemed a ‘must-read’ is noted.
Exhibition
Catalogues—
These catalogues represent some of the most up-to-date scholarly literature
on the subject of Native Art, and as such will provide a wealth of information.
on the subject of Native Art, and as such will provide a wealth of information.
From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia
Edited by Sarah Milroy and Ian Dejardin
Location: MassArt
Main
Call
Number: ND249.C3 A4 2014
This was an international touring
exhibit featuring the work of Emily Carr, an artist known for her paintings
primarily inspired by the Native Art of the Canadian Pacific West Coast. Featured
with the paintings are numerous native artifacts to highlight the dialogue
between Carr’s work and that of native artwork. This catalogue features essays
from leading art scholars, native artists, and anthropologists who help to
interpret the native influences in Carr’s art. As our exhibit features not only
current native and native influenced artwork, this book will help you discover
the dialogue between the pieces for yourself.
Additional
Resource:
Here is a URL to a YouTube video
that introduces the exhibit at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quSq9_rlPmA
Gifts
of the Spirit: Works by Nineteenth century & Contemporary Native American
Artists
Foreword by Dan L. Monroe; exhibition curators, Dan L. Monroe ... [et
al.]
Location: MFA Main Library, Horticultural Hall
Call
Number: F72.E7 E81 v.132
While this is a dated exhibition
catalogue, it is from a past exhibit of the Peabody Essex Museum, and as such
has good representation of their collection of Native Art. A good deal of the
artifacts featured in this catalogue will also be in the current touring
exhibit. It is recommend that you familiarize yourself with the artifacts
within this catalogue.
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from
the Diker Collection
By David W. Penney
Location: FLO – Mass
Art Main
Call Number: E98.A7 P34 2015
This is a currently touring
exhibition of Native Art presently hosted at the American Federation of Arts in New York.
This exhibition of about 120 pieces showcases a variety of native artifacts and
artwork of the Pacific Northwest. It contains basketry, pottery, sculpture, ivories, kachina dolls, regalia, and
pictographic art pieces. Since most of this collection has been temporarily
gifted from private collectors, the exhibit is a treasure trove of extemporary
pieces not normally seen by the public or scholars. With an introduction by David Penney, renowned scholar of Native Art
and other essays by other prominent scholars, this book offers some of the most
compelling and up-to-date information in the field of Native Art.
Lines on the Horizon: Native American
Art from the Weisel Family Collection
By Matthew A. Robb and
Jill D'Alessandro.
Location:
MFA Main Library, Horticultural Hall
Call
Number: E78.S7 R58 2014
This is a current exhibition at the
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. It features Native Art provided by the
Weisel Family. While some of the artifacts displayed in the exhibit date from
over a thousand years ago, the majority of the exhibit is from the 19th
and 20th centuries. Some of the artifacts in this exhibit are from
tribes from the American Southwest, so please be selective in the information
you take from this exhibit.
Native
American Art: MFA Highlights
By Gerald
W. R. Ward, Pamela A. Parmal, Michael Suing, Heather Hole, and
Jennifer Swope
Jennifer Swope
Location:
MFA Main Library, Horticultural Hall
Call
Number: E98.A7 M87 2010
This book catalogues
over 100 of our Museum’s finest, and yet rarely displayed pieces of Native Art and is
a must read for every docent. In conjunction with the exhibit, our curators
will most likely be displaying some of the MFA’s pieces from our own
collection. At this time, the final choice of artifacts has not been
determined. We will provide a list of artifacts and information about them as
soon as possible.
Literature—
Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes
By Michael
Johnson & Bill Yenne
Location: Commonwealth Catalogue –Multiple Locations
Call
Number: See Catalogue Record for specific call number.
This is an illustrated reference
guide to various native arts and crafts. It gives an overview of styles, sorted
both by region and time, as well as provides an analysis of individual native
crafts such as pottery, basket weaving, spinning, metalwork, and decorative
art. When able, the book provides step-by-step instructions as to how the item
was created. It will help you to understand how some of the artifacts in the
exhibition were created so that you can pass that knowledge onto our
patrons.
Atlas of Indian Nations
By Anton
Treuer
Location: Commonwealth Catalogue –Brooks Library, Harwich
Call
Number: Adult 970.004 TRE
This book provides a comprehensive guide to Native American history and culture.
Featuring maps, photos, art, and archival cartography, this book is an
illustrated atlas and reference guide to native beliefs, culture, and history.
As it is organized by region, it is easy to focus solely on those tribes in the
Pacific Northwest in order for you to build a good foundation of knowledge
about the native peoples who created the art on exhibit.
Conversations
with Remarkable Native
Americans
By Joëlle Rostkowski
Location:
Electronic Resource, can access through MFA
Call Number: N/A
This book contains a series of
compelling transcribed interviews with leading Native Americans of today from a
variety of disciplines. Covering the major developments of the last thirty
years, these interviews showcase the trials and tabulations these individuals
have overcome, from discrimination to the tensions between cultures. The
interviewees are native
writers, artists, journalists, activists, lawyers, and museum administrators.
These interviews will hopefully provide some perspective to the exhibit, in particular
the modern pieces created by current native artists.
Indians on Display:
Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
By Norman K. Denzin
Location:
Electronic Resource, can access through MFA
Call Number: N/A
Hollywood and literature, both current
and past, are riddled with stereotypical views and ideas about America’s colonial expansion and the indigenous people
that colonists encountered. This book explores the commodification of those
people and provides a cultural critique to the effects colonialism had on both the
native people and America as a whole. As some of our patrons might still subscribe
to these stereotypical viewpoints, this book will allow you to both recognize
and hopefully educate these guests.
Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New
Approaches
Edited by Louise Tythacott and Kostas Arvanitis
Location:
Electronic Resource, can access through MFA
Call Number: N/A
At any exhibit on
Native American Art, you are likely to field some questions regarding the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). This book
explores the ways in which museums are approached for restitution and how museums across the
nation have dealt with such requests. Additionally, the book studies the idea
of ‘ownership’ and the benefits and drawbacks to NAGPRA.
Manifestations:
New Native Art Criticism
By Nancy Mithlo and Wil Wilson
Location: FLO – Emmanuel Main Stacks
Call
Number: N6538.A4 M88 2011
This book contains 60 essays from over
20 different curators,
historians, anthropologists, and scholars that provide not only a complete
survey of Native Art from antiquity to modern times, but also an overview of
the numerous complex issues surrounding Native Art and artifacts from the last
20 years. This includes both the realm of art scholarship and the variety of
different Federal and State laws that have had an impact on both the native
tribes of America and the field of Native Art. The topics covered in this book
will help you field many of the questions our patrons will have about Native
Art.
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form
By Bill Holm
and Burke Museum
Location: Commonwealth Catalogue –BPL
Call
Number: E78.N78 H6 2015
This
is the 50th anniversary edition of this book. The MFA does have a
copy of the original edition on reserve, however it is recommended that you get
the newer version as some updates have been made including a new preface as well as color
images, instead of the original black and white, of the artifacts used as examples have been added. Since it was first
published fifty years ago, this book has been hailed as an invaluable
foundational resource for Native Art of the Pacific West Coast. It provides an
extensive analysis of the use
of color, line, and texture in Northwest Native Art as well as an analysis of
the organization of space with in the art. This is a must-read for all docents
so that they understand the fundamentals of artwork featured in this exhibit.
The
Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
By Aldona
Jonaitis and Aaron Glass
Location: Commonwealth Catalogue – Acton Memorial Library & Newton
Free Library
Call
Number: ACTON/Adult 970.49 J76 & NEWTON/Adult 979.5 J69T
2010
This book reconstructs the history of
the totem pole and traces the influences of European culture on the depictions
from the 18th century to current times. As the totem pole is one of the most iconic
pieces of Native Art from the Pacific Northwest coastal tribes, there is little
doubt the topic will come up at some point during your tours.
Raven-Who-Sets-Things-Right:
Indian tales of the Northwest Coast
By Fran Martin and pictures Dorothy McEntee
Location: Wheelock Floor 2M
Call
Number: J 398.2 M36r
This book showcases
nine different tales of Raven, the trickster God of several native tribes of
the Pacific Northwest coast. As one of the main elements of this exhibit are
the depictions of Raven seen in Native Art, this is a must-read for all
docents.
Robert
Davidson: Abstract Impulse
By Barbara Brotherton, Robert Davidson and Sheila Farr
Location: FLO – Mass
Art Main
Call
Number: N6549.D39 A4 2013
Published by the Seattle Art Museum
in 2013, this book contains a series of essays by Barbara Brotherton, Sheila
Farr, and John Haworth about the artist Robert Davidson. Davidson is one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary Native Art. Descended from the
Haida people, sometimes spelled Hydah, a tribe from the Pacific Northwest, he balances
traditional Native Art with contemporary influences. His work is in a variety
of mediums, from wood sculpture
to ceremonial arts, jewelry, and prints. The essays explore the complex fusion
of traditional Native techniques and ideals with their more modern views. As
the touring exhibit showcases both traditional and modern Native Art, this is a
good resource for exploring the complexity of current Native Art.
Understanding
Northwest Coast Art: A Guide to Crests, Beings and Symbols
By
Cheryl Shearar
Location: Commonwealth Catalogue –BPL
Call
Number: E78.N78 S446 2000
While almost 15 years old, this resources
is a must-have for its dictionary-style
reference guide. This book will help you to not only readily identify the
symbols, crests, and beings depicted in Northwest Coast Native works of art but
also help you to understand them and place them within a larger cultural
construct. This is a good resource to have on hand while reading any of the
other resources on this list.
Internet
Resources—
A Time of Visions
This site contains a collection of interviews
by Larry Abbott with contemporary native artists. The goal of this initiative
is to help dismiss some of the misconceptions and stereotypes associated with Native
Art and artists. One of the main points that arises again and again in these
interviews is that the art created by these artist cannot be divorced from the
greater complex culture from which these works of art were inspired. This idea
is one that is also represented in our exhibit and these interviews will serve
to give you a greater contextual background on the issue.
Reciprocal
Research Network: First Nations items from the
Northwest Coast
This is a database that brings together the resources of
26 institutions. It allows you to search through their collections as well as
create a “project” that will allow you to have a discussion with other members.
This is a great resource for those docents that like to explore the topics of
this exhibition further on their own.
Virtual
Library - American Indians
While this site does look extremely dated,
it is actually still active, and is being updated frequently. This is a great
resource for a wealth of information on American Indians and can serve as a
general resource for any questions you might have.
Video Resources—
The Exploration of
Northwest Coast Indian Art
A lecture by Bill Holm (Professor Emeritus, Burke Museum, University of
Washington) that was a part of a greater lecture series entitled “Contemporary Issues in
Northwest Coast Native American Art,” that was sponsored by the Burke Museum.
In this lecture, Bill Holm analyzes how Native Art has changed over time and
through generations of native people. He uses over 100 photographs of Native Artwork
to exemplify his points. This lecture is
a great companion to Bill Holm’s book, Northwest
Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form,
found earlier in this research guide under Literature.
Northwest Coast Art Into the Future
This is a recent
discussion panel sponsored by the Sealaska Heritage Institute
and the University of Alaska Southeast and was part of a series of panels held in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. The panelists are artists Alison Bremner, David R. Boxley, Rico Worl, and Nick Galanin and it is moderated by Lance Twitchell. As the name implies, this video discusses several current topics such as education in Native Art, and the future of Native Art in general. Artist Nick Galanin will be featured in our exhibit with his performance art piece Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan (We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care) Part I & Part II. Those performance videos are on YouTube, if wanted to look at them in advance of the exhibit.
URL Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue30aKV1LF8
URL Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2c1jtm59o
and the University of Alaska Southeast and was part of a series of panels held in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. The panelists are artists Alison Bremner, David R. Boxley, Rico Worl, and Nick Galanin and it is moderated by Lance Twitchell. As the name implies, this video discusses several current topics such as education in Native Art, and the future of Native Art in general. Artist Nick Galanin will be featured in our exhibit with his performance art piece Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan (We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care) Part I & Part II. Those performance videos are on YouTube, if wanted to look at them in advance of the exhibit.
URL Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue30aKV1LF8
URL Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2c1jtm59o
This research guide is meant to give you a broad
overview of the topics found within our upcoming exhibition, Raven's
Many Gifts: Native
Art of the Northwest Coast. If you require any additional
resources or have specific questions regarding the exhibition please contact our head Art Librarian, Donna
Marchessault.
-- Boston Museum of
Fine Arts
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