Free loans by mail of DVD, teaching packets, videos, and guides relating to Art

The US Government's National Gallery of Art has a program that allows individuals the ability to borrow various media about art. I have borrowed several dozen items, and have really been impressed with most of the material. All you need to do is complete an online shopping cart process. Then the materials arrive (usually sooner than one month) and you have 2 weeks from the date requested to use the material. It is a free service, except that you have to pay the return postage. It's usually been about a dollar or two as they urge you to use the book rate method of delivery, which costs less than first class mail. Enjoy

overview of the program:
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/loanfinder/about.htm

how to order:
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/loanfinder/order.htm

online catalog:
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/loanfinder/index.mhtm#resourcefinder

Art Podcasts

Who doesn't love to watch or listen to a renowned artist discussing their inspiration and their process, a curator discussing how they created an exhibit, an artist interviewing another artist, or a critic discussing trends in the art world?

Here are some links to sites that offer free podcasts (some audio-only, and some with video). You do not need an iPod to listen to and view these. You can listen and view on your computer using a standard media player: Real, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, etc. This list is by no means complete; so if you know of other sites with interesting art-related podcasts, please post them. Enjoy.


MFA has only 2 posted so far.
http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/index.asp?key=2725
Ø A Brief History of the MFA
Ø "Domains of Wonder: Masterworks of Indian Painting"

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian's museum for contemporary art)
http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/programs/podcast.html
This one is the best one I have found so far. Lists 43 lectures, discussions, and presentations by artists, curators, critics, and media luminaries. Examples include
Ø Artists' Voices: Special After Hours Edition with Virgil Marti and Pae White
Ø Artist on Artist: Iona Rozeal Brown and Zoe Charlton
Ø Meet the Artist: Matthew Barney Webcast
Ø Anne Ellegood and Andrea Cohen Video Podcasts
Ø Third Annual James T. Demetrion Lecture: Robert Storr "Opposites Attract"
Ø In Conversation-The Current State of Sculpture

SF MOMA about 80 podcasts. Some are audio only, but most are enhanced with visuals
This is one of the best museum sites for Podcasts
http://feeds.feedburner.com/SFMOMAArtcasts
Ø Podcasts by or about artists like Fra Angelico, Brice Marden, Anselm Kiefer, Shomei Tomatsu, Richard Long.

Philadelphia Museum of Art 7exhibit, 5tours, 2 lectures
http://www.philamuseum.org/visit/25-61.html?page=3
Ø lectures on Diego Rivera and Pataphysics from Max Ernst to Thomas Chimes

Guggenheim 4 items (mostly site-specific)
http://www.guggenheim.org/podcasts/index.html

Metropolitan / NYC (13 podcasts, mostly about exhibits on display)
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_podcast.asp#episodes

Art Institute / Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/podcasts/#categories
http://www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/podcasts/artist_talks/index.html
Ø Sally Mann, Philip-Lorca dicorcia, Bibiana Suarez

MOMA / NYC
http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/audio.html
http://redstudio.moma.org/ This one is designed for teens, but I think it is one of the better sites for free artist interviews over the web. It does not have too may artists yet, but it does have Shahzia Sikander and Vito Acconci, and Ralph Eggelston. And what they do have isquite in depth and well illustrated with examples of the artwork.

Tate Modern/ London
http://tate.org.uk/podcasts


Here are some links to other podcastings about art:
http://www.idiotvox.com/All_Podcasts_About_Art_85.html - 48 links on this page, stack-ranked best to worst by listeners. These are about the visual and performing arts.
http://www.podcastshuffle.com/podcastdirectory.cfm?catid=40 - 19 links

favorite artists

I am very curious which art styles and which artists the Art as Process participants admire the most.

To launch the discussion here are a few of mine:

• Anything ancient, especially Egyptian, Assyrian, and Greek Geometric
• Hindu, Persian, and Mughal miniatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_miniatures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_painting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_painting
  
• Anything Buddhist, particularly Gandharan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara#Gandharan_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art
  
• Japanese woodblock prints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukiyo-e

• Shahzia Sikander (contemporary) -- http://www.shahziasikander.com/ http://www.sdmart.org/exhibition-shahzia.html
  
• Picasso (who doesn't love Pablo Ruiz?) -- http://picasso.tamu.edu/picasso/
• Laurel Burch (contemporary designer) -- http://www.laurelburch.com/
• El Greco (Spanish Master) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Greco
• Cezanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Chagall, Matisse, Rivera, Kahlo, O'Keeffe, Warhol
  
• Rockwell Kent (illustrator/artist) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent http://clubs.plattsburgh.edu/museum/rkent1.htm
  
• Tamara de Lempicka (art deco) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_De_Lempicka
  
• Takashi Murakami (superflat -- he's also the guy who designed the colorful Louis Viutton handbags) -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami