Nan Brewer speaks at a pre-screening gallery talk at the Eskenazi Museum before a screening of Mapplethorpe at the IU Cinema (Photo credit: Brittany D. Friesner) Art and a Movie series partner Nan Brewer reflects on the program’s past 13 years as she prepares to retire this month. From us here at IU Cinema, thank… Read more »
Still from White Balls on Walls Carmen Henne-Ochoa looks at the documentary White Balls on Walls and how it spotlights one museum’s struggles with questions of gender bias, systemic racism, and colonialism. What does it mean to “decolonize” a museum? In 2022, when I began DEIJ professional development with staff at the Eskenazi Museum, I… Read more »
Cate Blanchett in Manifesto Guest contributor Taylor Zartman muses on Julian Rosefeldt’s film Manifesto and what it has to say about the possibilities of art and the complexities of doctrine. In 1942, Marcel Duchamp fired five shots into the foundation of Kurt Seligmann’s barn as Andre Breton looked on. Duchamp declared those shots the conception… Read more »
Guest post by Shawn Coughlin. In an interview with Film Independent, director Ondi Timoner recalls her decision to approach Mapplethorpe as a scripted drama rather than a documentary. She explains, “I wanted to bring [Robert Mapplethorpe] alive for you. You know, I felt like, ‘We want to see this man and we want to see… Read more »
Guest post by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert. I first saw the work of Swoon in the summer of 2008. I was in London on a small undergraduate research grant for my thesis. I was writing about the sudden attention being given to an emerging genre called Street Art. This was art that existed mostly outdoors… Read more »
Guest post by Jenny McComas. The inaugural exhibition of Der Blaue Reiter at Munich’s Galerie Thannhauser in December 1911 helped catapult avant-garde artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc to international fame. Although often described as German Expressionists, the artists of the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) were an international group. The… Read more »