Guest post by Nanette Esseck Brewer, The Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper at IU’s Eskenazi Museum of Art. The French-American modernist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) didn’t attend Indiana University or teach at the school and as far as I know never even visited Bloomington during his lifetime; nevertheless, IU has several important connections… Read more »
Guest post by Leah Marie Chizek. Postwar German art can be befuddling. In one of the more lighthearted sequences from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s film Never Look Away (Germany, 2018), the young artist and émigré Kurt Barnert, newly arrived from East Germany, wanders the halls of the famed Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he is now… Read more »
Guest post by Elliot J. Reichert. Ai Weiwei is perhaps one of the most famous—or infamous—living artists. Known internationally for his provocative and politically charged artworks and films, Ai has lived in exile since the lifting of a ban on his travel by the Chinese government in 2015. The Fake Case, a 2013 documentary by… Read more »
Guest post by Leah Marie Chizek. Ahead of the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s recent reopening, I had the opportunity to walk through the galleries, where I ran across Jim Dine’s 44-print Pinocchio suite just after it had been installed. Dine first saw Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) when he was six years old, and his prints… Read more »
Guest post by Alexander Landerman. Pressing On: The Letterpress Film is a documentary-based film, beautifully shot and produced by Bayonet Media located just north of us in lovely Indianapolis, Indiana. However, the connections to the state of Indiana and Indiana University don’t stop there. The film contains interviews with Indiana University faculty emeritus Paul Brown… Read more »
Guest post by Tyne Lowe. In the first thirty minutes of Miss Hokusai, artist O-Ei walks through Edo with her blind younger sister, O-Nao, and attempts to explain their father’s art to her. The viewer has been introduced to their father, Katsushiko Hokusai (referred to in the film as Tetsuzo), as a somewhat eccentric and… Read more »