Conserving the Contemporary
The unusual materials used by some contemporary artists pose great challenges to the museum conservators who try to preserve their pieces.(Originally aired: February 3, 2001)
View ArticleCommentary: Admission-Free Museums
Kurt Andersen has a cultural suggestion for President Bush: free museum admission for everybody.
View ArticleSean Ramsey
Storyteller and museum exhibition designer Sean Ramsey tells a neighborhood story from the days after September 11.
View ArticleNow Playing: Holter Museum of Art
Usually museum galleries are hushed places, where people walk silently around the art. But visitors to the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana this fall will discover that wherever they walk, the...
View ArticleLet the People Decide
With Arnold Schwarzennegger's election, we may be increasingly comfortable choosing our leaders from the ranks of pop culture and entertainment. At the same time museum curators and television...
View ArticleArt Guard
Meet the guy at the other end of that security camera. Bob Rini is a security guard at Seattle's Henry Art Museum. He spends his days watching people who are watching art. Then he goes home and makes...
View ArticleLet the People Decide
With the success of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governorship in California, we may be increasingly comfortable choosing our leaders from the ranks of pop culture and entertainment. At the same time museum...
View ArticleThe National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian opens in just a few days on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The building itself is strikingly different from the marble halls that surround it, and its...
View ArticleCommentary: Free Museums For All
As President Bush sets the agenda for his second term in office, Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen offers a modest proposal for the chief executive, a plan that would invigorate the arts in America forever.
View ArticleStealing Beauty
Scandals are rocking America’s biggest art museums right now. It seems that the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts may own a lot of...
View ArticlePodcasts for the People
Remember the old museum audio tours? The big clunky tape recorder slung over your shoulder, telling you to visit the artwork in a strict sequential order? Times have changed. Today’s audio equipment is...
View ArticleBill and Dick's Excellent Adventure
There's one guide museum-goers in Philadelphia should not be without: Travels With Dick And Bill. It’s a self-published packet of stapled Xeroxed pages, and a huge endeavor. Dick Hughes and Bill...
View ArticleDown and Dirty at the Museum of Math?
For a long time, just about the only serious math museum in America was in New Hyde Park, New York — a Long Island suburban town you’ve probably never heard of. Then it closed in 2006, leaving no...
View ArticleHas Art Become Too Popular?
All over the country this month, 50,000 billboards and bus shelters and video screens will display images of famous American works of art. The project is called Art Everywhere, a push by an outdoor...
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L.A.'s New Museum on the Block
Over the past couple of decades, the American art scene has been shifting from New York to Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Los Angeles has been amassing an impressive collection of museums, turning the...
View ArticleThe Business of Art: A Panel Discussion
We broadcast a panel discussion on artists and the business of art from our recent show in the Greene Space. Gallery owner Sean Kelly,Whitney Museum of American Art curator Carter Foster,and artists...
View ArticleNational Gallery Director J. Carter Brown, 1971
Views on Art host Ruth Bowman interviews J. Carter Brown (1934-2002), the director of the National Gallery from 1969 to 1992. J. Carter Brown came from a prominent New England intellectual family who...
View ArticleTiny Museums: Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
Meg Ventrudo, executive director of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, discusses the museum's Tibetan and Himalayan art collection located in Staten Island.
View ArticleDan Flavin, March 3, 1970
American artist Dan Flavin is well known for his often temporary, site-specific installations composed of fluorescent light tubes. In this 1970 episode of Views on Art, host Ruth Bowman interviews the...
View ArticleMuseums Free to Military Personnel and Their Families
The Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim and the New Museum are among the roughly 40 museums in New York City that will offer free admission to active-duty military service members and their families —...
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