Wfiu: Angles From The Iu Art Museum Podcast

The Indiana University Art Museum celebrates Limestone Month with four rare watercolor paintings by noted Hoosier artist, Otto Stark.

An exhibition of fifteen prints by the internationally renowned photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is currently on view at the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington. A fixture of the contemporary art scene for more than three decades, Sugimoto's photography has recently surfaced in the pop music world as well, as the cover image of U2's newest album, No Line on the Horizon. WFIU's Yaël Ksander spoke with curator, Nan Brewer.

Straddling that threshold between art and nature was Albert R. Valentien, a Cincinnati native who, from the age of nineteen, had specialized in floral decoration for the city's world-renowned Rookwood Pottery. Valentien's works are on display as part of "Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A.R. Valentien." WFIU's Yaël Ksander has more.

Max Beckman’s “Hope Family Portrait”

An exhibition featuring contemporary versions of the ritual designs known as “Aepan.”

IU Press has recently published “Masterworks from the IU Art Museum,” a catalog of objects representing the full range of the museum’s collection, along with essays by its curators. WFIU’s Yael Ksander speaks with several of those involved in the publication.

WFIU’s Yael Ksander speaks with Leo Mazow and Nan Brewer about the traveling exhibition, Shallow Creek: Thomas Hart Benton and American Waterways.

IU Press has recently published “Masterworks from the IU Art Museum,” a catalog of objects representing the full range of the museum’s collection, along with essays by its curators. WFIU’s Yael Ksander speaks with several of those involved in the publication.

IU Press has recently published “Masterworks from the IU Art Museum,” a catalog of objects representing the full range of the museum’s collection, along with essays by its curators. WFIU’s Yael Ksander speaks with several of those involved in the publication.

Margaret Contompasis describes the restoration of two well-known sculptures on the Indiana University Campus with WFIU’s Yael Ksander.

IU Dept of Theatre Professor Robert Shakespeare talks about his new installation at the IU Art Museum in celebration of the museum’s 25th anniversary.

Museum Curator of Western Art after 1800, Jenny McComas talks about the museum’s ongoing research into the provenance, or ownership history, of items in the permanent collection

Curator Diane Pelrine talks about the special exhibition at the IU Art Museum, “Architecture: Real and Imagined.”

Jeffrey Wolin, Professor of Photography in the IU Hope School of Fine Arts, gives an unflinching account of fifty men and women who fought and lived the war in Vietnam.

Curator Jenny McComas talks about a special loan of a recently discovered painting by French Romantic master Eugene Delacroix.

Curator Diane Pelrine talks about “African Art Today,” a new exhibition of works by Tijani Sitou and Kalidou Sy at the IU Art Museum.

Adelheid Gealt, Director of the IU Art Museum talks about 18th century Venetian master Domenico Tiepolo. His New Testament cycle is the subject of a book by Gealt and scholar George Knox, as well as a special exhibition at the IU Art Museum.

For Women’s History Month, Adelheid Gealt, Director of the IU Art Museum talks about women in art.

Museum Curator of Education and Tour Coordinator Joanne Cross talk about an exhibition of art by students from the Monroe County Community School Corporation.

Photographer Tyagan Miller talks about his work “Covenant: Scenes from an African American Church”.