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Simon Schama Presents Van Gogh and the Beginning of Modern Art

From Open Culture

Simon Schama Presents Van Gogh and the Beginning of Modern Art:

We like to think of Vincent van Gogh as the archetypal tortured artist. While perhaps he fits the bill, there’s more to the story, and this episode of Power of Art (above) takes pains to fill out the Dutch painter’s character. He didn’t slice off his entire ear, we learn — just part of it. And while he did indeed enjoy his peaks of creativity between agonizing ”spasms of craziness,” he experienced both as an “insatiable bookworm” fueled by a deep-seated religious drive. All this information comes from the mouth of historian Simon Schama, author of popular books and host of television programs including Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes, and this particular video’s source, Power of Art. The series enters the world of eight artists through eight paintings. Van Gogh’s 1890 Wheatfield with Crows, according to Schama, marks the start of modern art.
Two personalities take us through the story of painting and painter: Schama and van Gogh himself, portrayed in dramatic scenes that come between sections of Schama’s narration. The program doesn’t keep these two time frames strictly separate: while we hear Schama describe van Gogh’s peculiarly energetic use of the brush, we also hear the brush itself, loudly and clearly, as we watch van Gogh wield it. (Power of Art’s sound design shows an uncommon attention to detail.) Later, we see van Gogh lament the episodes of insanity that have him eating dirt off the floor. Cut to Schama: “It’s worse, actually.” A harrowing extended shot follows of the painter eating his paint. Never has television taught art history quite so dramatically.
All episodes of The Power of Art are available on YouTube. It’s also available in one tidy collection on Amazon:

• Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows
• Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath
• Picasso’s Guernica
• Rembrandt’s Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis
• Jacques-Louis David’s The Death Of Marat
• Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Theresa
• Turner’s The Slave Ship
• Rothko’s Seagram Murals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Related content:
The Art History Web Book
Robert Hughes, Famed Art Critic, Demystifies Modern Art: From Cézanne to Andy Warhol
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
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CALL for ENTRIES: SNAP Mail Art in Canada

CALL for ENTRIES: SNAP Mail Art in Canada: "

SUGARY

GREEN-NESS

Remember when green beens were everyone’s “go to” vegetable? They were in every frozen meal and stocked in everyone’s pantry for a quick addition to any meal. I suspect that’s how they got their bad reputation with kids. I have noticed lately that sugar snap peas seem to be the new green beans. Luckily, I love them, and kids seem to like the fact that they are a little sweeter than tried-and-true green beans. Deciding to enter this next exhibition should be (you guessed it)… a snap. Take a look…

Check out this Call for Entries from the Society of Northern Alberta Print Artists (SNAP Artists) for their Mail Art Exhibition This all hung exhibit has no entry fee. Here’s another great way to get an international show on your resume. Entries are limited to three…

CALL for ENTRIES:

SNAP Mail Art

ELIGIBILITY: Local, provincial, national and international (all) artists

MEDIA: Text or image based work of mail art. Submissions must fit be packaged to fit through their mail slot 3.81 x 25.4 centimetres (1.5 x 10 inches).

DEADLINE: September 7, 2011

NOTIFICATION: None. This is an all-hung exhibitition.

ENTRY FEE: No entry fee. Please limit submissions to 3 per artist.

For more information, Read the Full Call!

*Editor’s Note: At the time I wrote this submission, their website www.snapartists.com was down, but you can read the full call on their Facebook page that is linked to Read the Full Call above.

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Free NYC Museum Hours (Pass what you wish too!)

Everyday Free and Suggested Admission NYC Museums

Museum website	Hours or Special Conditions
African Burial Ground Memorial Site
American Museum of Natural History
American Numismatic Society
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum	Grounds ONLY
Brooklyn Museum
Bronx Museum
Center for Book Arts
Drawing Center
el Museo del Barrio
Federal Hall
Federal Reserve Bank of NY
Fisher Landau Center for Art
Forbes Galleries
General Grant National Memorial
Goethe-Institute
The Grolier Club
Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton
Herbert and Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica
Historic House Trust	Some free, some donation, some set fee
Hispanic Society of America
Maritime Industry Museum at the State University of NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Museum of Biblical Art
museum of Bronx History
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
National Jazz Museum in Harlem
National Museum of the American Indian
New York Public Library
New York Tolerance Center
Nicholas Roerich Museum
The Onassis Cultural Center
P.S. 1 MoMA
Queens County Farm Museum
Queens Museum of Art
Sandy Ground Historical Museum
Scandinavia House
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Sculpture Center
Society of Illustrators’ Museum of American Illustration
Socrates Sculpture Park
Staten Island Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem
Swiss Institute
The Cloisters
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace

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Monday

Museum at Eldridge Street
Yeshiva University Museum

Tuesday

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
China Institute Gallery	6-8pm
Staten Island Museum	Noon-2
Wave Hill	9-Noon

Wednesday

Queens Botanical Garden	3-6
Bronx Zoo
Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust	4-8
Staten Island Zoo	After 2pm
Yeshiva University Museum	5-8pm
NY Botanical Garden	Grounds Only
Van Cortlandt House Museum
El Museo del Barrio	6-9pm

Thursday

China Institute Gallery	6-8pm
Museum of Arts & Design	6-9pm
New Museum	7-9pm
Museum of Chinese in America
Children’s Museum of the Arts	4-6

Friday

Museum of the Moving Image	4-8pm ONLY
Museum of Modern Art	4-8pm ONLY
New York Aquarium	After 3
Morgan Library & Museum	7-9
Whitney Museum of American Ar	6-9
Yeshiva University Museum
Japan Society	6-9
International Center of Photography	5-8
Folk Art Museum	5:30-7:30
NY Hall of Science	2-5 EXCEPT July & Aug
Rubin Museum of Ar	6-10pm
Asia Society	6-9 (does not apply from July 1 through Labor Day)
Neue Galerie	6-8 First Friday ONLY
The Noguchi Museum	First Friday ONLY
Children’s Museum of Manhattan	5-8 First Friday ONLY

Saturday

Brooklyn Botanic Garden	10-noon only
NY Botanical Garden	10-noon only Grounds Only
El Museo del Barrio	THIRD Saturday ONLY
Guggenheim	5:45 to 7:45
Jewish Museum	11-5:45
Wave Hill	9-noon

Sunday

Queens Botanical Garden	4-6pm
Frick Collection	11-1
Studio Museum in Harlem

Art Opening on Friday June 3 in Williamsburg

Come see me and 4 brand new pieces.

Billy Collins poetry and animation.

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I think I might want to be an action poet when I grow up.