Institution:  Indianapolis Museum of Art The invention in 1888 of the first manageable, easy-to-use camera for amateurs made spontaneous photography possible: the snapshot was born. What role did photography play in the lives of artists of the period and how did it influence their work? The exhibition Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard sheds a light on this creative process, presenting 200 photographs and 60 paintings, prints and drawings from seven artists

Institution:  Tang Museum at Skidmore College

Co-curators Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry discuss their ideas on abstraction and their collaboration for the Tang exhibition The Jewel Thief.

The Jewel Thief featured painting, sculpture, textiles, wallpaper, chandeliers, video, and photography by over fifty contemporary artists to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art. Using divergent forms of display, the exhibition focused attention on art’s intersection with the decorative and functional elements of architecture.

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Institution:  Indianapolis Museum of Art Collaborating since 1992, Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher are pioneers in the field of digital photography. Aziz + Cucher have created a new body of work for their immersive video exhibition at the IMA in the McCormack Forefront Galleries. Watch the artists in The Toby as they discuss their work.

Institution:  Indianapolis Museum of Art Anne Hawley is the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is at once an intimate collection of fine and decorative art and a vibrant, innovative venue for contemporary artists, musicians and scholars. Hawley visits the IMA to speak about an extension of the museum designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Renzo Piano, and preservation of the historic tapestry room, unveiled in January 2012. Hawley speaks about the challenges and excitement of marrying historical integrity with modern form in museum architecture.

Institution:  Corning Museum of Glass Min Jeong Song studies ornamental styles across time periods and geography, and her work explores how certain attributes of glass can be used to create ambivalent objects: objects that don't belong to pre-existing stylistic classifications. She is especially interested in cross-cultural stylistic developments between East Asia and Western Europe, a topic she explored during a month-long residency at The Corning Museum of Glass. Song holds a master's of fine art in glass from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in glass at the Royal College of Art.

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Institution:  Corning Museum of Glass Amie McNeel came to The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass as part of the joint Artists-in-Residence partnership with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. A sculpture professor for 20 years, McNeel is inspired by the formal symmetries of natural systems, which can be both subtle and severe, uniform and chaotic. She has recently begun incorporating blown and carved glass into her hand-formed steel sculptures.

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Institution:  Corning Museum of Glass Beth Lipman is known for her works in glass that generally pay homage to still-life paintings from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Continuing her exploration of material culture as a means to understand desire and consumption, she investigated and recreated Victorian decorative arts during her Studio residency, juxtaposing common 19th-century domestic objects with their contemporary counterparts. Lipman was the April, 2011, Artist in Residence at The Studio, the glassmaking school of The Corning Museum of Glass.

Institution:  Corning Museum of Glass A Berlin-based artist, Veronika Beckh has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe. Her work invites viewers to disconnect from the noise and chaos of everyday life and to find light, tranquility, and contemplation. Beckh used her residency at The Studio to expand her practice beyond smaller objects and ensembles toward room installations. She experimented with scale, combining blown pieces with float glass and mirror to integrate with and respond to space, light, reflections, and the viewer.

Institution:  Indianapolis Museum of Art Aziz + Cucher: Some People features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area.

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Institution:  National Gallery of Art, Washington

David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author and recipient of the National Book Award, discusses his new book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. In this video recorded on September 26, 2011, at the National Gallery of Art, McCullough tells the story of America's longstanding love affair with Paris through vivid portraits of dozens of significant characters. Notably, artist Samuel F. B. Morse is depicted as he worked on his masterpiece Gallery of the Louvre.

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