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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History presents James Perry Wilson. This 2-minute audio clip, narrated by Steve Quinn, gives an insider's view on James Perry Wilson's artistic background, painting technique, and his contributions to the art of the habitat group diorama. James Perry Wilson's great artistic skill and feeling are evident in many of the diorama backgrounds in the Hall of North American Mammals, including the majestic view of the Wyoming plains depicted in the Bison and Pronghorn Group. Wilson's views, whether of field, forest, or mountaintop, beautifully convey both the details and character of each scene and fuse imperceptibly with the scene's foreground. Each diorama represents a specific location, carefully selected in the field and faithfully depicted in the foreground exhibits and the background paintings.
 
 

American Public Media

Sister Corita was aired March 03, 2007. American Public Media says "When you think about pop art and counter culture, in all likelihood, you don't immediately think of a convent in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Sister Corita Kent was a nun at the Immaculate Heart Convent in Los Angeles, as well as a teacher in the art department at the Immaculate Heart College. She was also an artist whose screen prints garnered world-wide attention. At one point she was on the cover of Newsweek. But she was also criticized by conservative Catholics, including the archbishop of the Los Angeles archdiocese. Sister Corita Kent left the convent at the height of her fame but continued to live a fascinating life. Weekend America host Bill Radke visits the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles to learn more about her life and see some of her work."

 

Art a GoGo

The Art a GoGo web site contains a page with podcasts covering museum exhibits on the West Coast. Art a GoGO was created by Kathleen Lang, who obtained a graduate degree in art history from San Jose State University
 
Art a GoGo Podcast #6 - Soundseeing Tour of the Seattle Art Museum features the exhibit Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design. The narrators Kathleen & Doug also talk about The American Landscape's "Quieter Spirit" with A selection of nineteenth-century American landscape views, both paintings and photography.
 
Art a GoGo Podcast #8 - Museum of Art and History: Santa Cruz, CA provides an audio sightseeing tour of the exhibit Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, on display July 2 - September 25, 2005 at the Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz. The Museum says that "Material Terrain is one of the most exhilarating exhibitions to ever be mounted at The Museum of Art & History. Enormous sculptures entirely filling the Museum building are composed of surprising materials such as poured fiberglass, polyethelene, aluminum chain-link steel and even wheat grass! Ten of the most avant-garde American sculptors practicing today, including Ming Fay, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Donald Lipski and John Ruppert, are included in this over-size, over-the-top look at contemporary landscape based sculpture."
 
 

Bad at Sports

Duncan MacKenzie, Chicago artist, produces and co-hosts Bad at Sports, a weekly podcast about art in Chicago.  He is an occasional correspondent for the Boston-based art journal Big, Red and Shiny, Chicago's New City and the Los Angeles Critical Studies Journal Octopus. In 2002 MacKenzie received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute and currently works as an artist, art critic, art educator and occasional designer. He currently teaches classes on time based media, institutional critique, and printmaking at Columbia College and The American Academy of Art.
 
Bad At Sports is a weekly podcast about contemporary art. Founded in 2005, the series focuses on presenting the practices of artists, curators, critics, dealers, various other arts professionals through an online audio format. Some of the program's guests include Kerry James Marshall, Francesco Bonami, David Robbins, Carol Becker, James Rondeau, Jeff Wall, Hamza Walker, Lane Relyea, James Yood, Michelle Grabner, Gavin Turk, Dominic Molon, and Julian Myers.
 
In addition, contemporary art -- and frequently books and movies -- are reviewed on the program; contributions come from Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Cologne, Switzerland and Tokyo. Bad At Sports believes that podcasting brings a certain spontaneity and raw dynamic quality to the art interview and review; that feeling of casual conversation and spirited debate that is often lost in print format, is fully present in the podcast. (text courtesy Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, 2 November 2007)
 
 

Brandywine River Museum

The Brandywine River Museum home page as of May 2005 features three QuickTime and RealPlayer streaming audio tours that introduce viewers to the museum, the Andrew Wyeth Gallery and Portrait of a Pig, by James Wyeth. The 3-minute introductory audio tour, Brandywine River Museum, is narrated by Jim Duff, Director of the museum.
 
In the Visitor Information section of the museum's web site a page titled Audio Tours contains a menu of 14 audio tours including nine tours interpreting individual art works. Clicking on an individual tour's link causes an image of the tour's subject to appear along with an audio player control bar. The viewer may then either click on the image or the arrow in the control bar to play the audio segment. Mary Cronin, Supervisor of Education for the museum, selected the online tours, which are samples from a larger selection available to visitors through rental of hand-held wands. The wands, featuring random-access technology, allow visitors to navigate the museum's galleries following their individual interests.
 
Ms. Cronin explained to TFAO that the idea of including audio in the web site was conceived by Halsey Spruance, Director of Public Relations. Mr. Spruance thought that audio would enhance the web site's appeal, provide an additional tool for generating interest in museum visitation, and promote rental of the onsite audio tours. The audio enhancement of the web site was completed at a nominal cost.
 

Case Western University

Case Western University streams on its web site Minute on the Future audio files which are recordings developed by the Office of University Communication for radio broadcast. The Minute on the Future audio files are minute-long profiles of teaching, research and service activities at the University. While not focused on museum activities the Case Western web page shows another example of archived radio programming in the form of .mp3 audio files, which launch automatically. Case Western offers a similar page containing streaming QuickTime video files for "the Case-TV News Service of Case Western Reserve University [which] produces and provides television news features for broadcasters nationwide. These timely features offer cutting-edge insights into the latest medical and scientific research and other newsworthy topics and include interviews with Case faculty and research experts."
 
 

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

A Remington Looking West microsite contains a link to an audio tour accompanting the exhibit Remington Looking West (2/20/08) with seventeen audio selections courtesy of Acoustiguide.
 
 

Columbia Museum of Art

 
The Columbia Museum of Art offers its first-ever podcast and cell phone tour during the exhibition Material Terrain opening to the public July 6, and running through August 26, 2007. As of une 2007, the past 12 months have seen a dramatic rise in the number of museums using mp3 and mobile phone technologies. These devices allow the user to access content on demand, often for free, through their own device rather than traditional museum audio guides.
 
The tour features exclusive content about the exhibition not available anywhere else. Users can hear several of the artists in the exhibition talking about their work including John Ruppert, Ursula van Rydingsvard, James Surls, Michele Brody, Wendy Ross and Dennis Oppenheim. The cell phone tour also allows you to leave feedback.
 
The tour will be available for download as a free podcast through the Museum's Web site -- www.colmusart.org -- and is also available as a cell phone tour by calling 408.794.2804. There is no additional charge to use the cell phone tour; only minutes through the user's plan are used. Podcast users should download the tour to an mp3 player before arriving at the Museum.
 
When visiting the Museum, visitors may pick up an audio tour card listing the stops. There are 11 different stops in the exhibition. Next to the works, visitors will find an audio tour icon. They may choose the corresponding stop number on the card to hear this stop. Visitors may follow the stops numerically or in any order by selecting the number for each particular stop.
 

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1. TFAO's catalogue of audio on demand, free to viewers. All examples focus on American representational art.

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