Blogs and Podcasts

An eagle-eyed curator just alerted me that a reproduction of the Carter’s painting Thunder Storm on Narragansett Bay guest starred in last weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live! See for yourself - the picture shows up around the 31-second mark and makes several more appearances throughout the sketch.

For reference, here is the image in its entirety:

Thanks to Jane for the tip!

“Washed out faces, disembodied hands, headless bodies and random odds and ends”…more commentary on Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision over at the KERA Art&Seek blog.

Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Eye Level blog has a substantial post covering a recent talk by photographer Frank Gohlke. The Carter organized Gohlke’s exhibition Accommodating Nature, which is on view at the Smithsonian (its fourth and final venue) until March 3.

The Carter’s painting, A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas, by Texan impressionist Julian Onderdonk is now at the Stark Museum of Art as part of the exhibition Bluebonnets and Beyond: Julian Onderdonk, American Impressionist (previously).

Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, the show is at its third and final venue in Orange, Texas through May 24.

Podcasts, interviews, and reviews for Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision have been popping up all weekend:

• Exhibition review in the Star-Telegram/Dallas Morning News
• West and Clear blog’sreview and podcast
• KERA Think video interview with Barbara Crane

Be sure to check out This Week in the Arts blog’s new podcast, an interview with photographer Barbara Crane. Crane’s first major retrospective, Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision, opens at the Carter this Saturday.

Don’t forget! The Carter’s first video installation ever, Mary Lucier: The Plains of Sweet Regret closes this Sunday. Stop by this weekend and you can see the two exhibitions – both by women photographers – before Lucier installation is shipped back home.

Barbara Crane, Beaches and Parks, 1972–78, Courtesy of the Chicago Cultural Center, © Barbara Crane, 1972–78

I hadn’t read the Art Blog by Bob in a while, so imagine my surprise when I saw the Carter’s own Thomas Cole painting, The Garden of Eden reproduced there in a post about Cole and European influence in the Hudson River School. It’s a great little article, BUT it is a pretty funky (very pink!) image of the painting. For the sake of Cole and his reputation, here is what the real thing actually looks like:

You can also see The Garden of Eden right now in the Carter’s main gallery.

While we’re on the subject of the midwest, you can also see one of the Carter’s 34 Arthur Rothstein photographs, Vernon Evans, Migrant to Oregon from South Dakota at the Des Moines Art Center’s exhibition, After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest through May. I don’t have an image of this photograph handy, but you can see a different print over at the “always interesting” Shorpy photography blog. (And if you don’t already know about Shorpy, definitely take a few minutes and look around).

If you missed it in Fort Worth…

…look no further. The Carter’s traveling exhibition, Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller opens tomorrow at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha and is up through May 10. The Joslyn is the show’s final venue, and your last chance to see these works all in one place.

One of the highlights of the Stock Show for me is the annual art contest for area K-12 students. Twenty-ish years after entering the annual Stock Show art contest as a kid, I had the pleasure of being one of three judges who pored over literally thousands of entries back in December. In short: it was a hoot. The awards ceremony was this past Saturday, so you can finally see the winners here, or in person over in the Justin equestrian building (near the candy! and saddles!).