The world has gone online and interactive, and we have too. Following are multiple art opportunities to sooth your art-missing souls. See videos, audios and more. And once you have purchased your ration of toilet paper, the Manetti Shrem has a way to recycle the tube by making a Stephen-Kaltenbach-style time capsule. See the Manetti Shrem's video.
Written and compiled by Media Relations Intern Leigh Houck
Manetti Shrem At Home
This week鈥檚 Manetti Shrem At Home newsletter offers insight on the past, present and future of art at 嘿嘿视频 from The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Musuem of Art.
Do you feel like time in isolation is creeping by at a snail鈥檚 pace? Make the most of this time by creating a time capsule 鈥 out of a toilet paper tube! Learn how on this installment of the Manetti Shrem鈥檚 new seriesBuild it with .
Artist and critic Peter Plagens contemplates the unique factors that fueled the 嘿嘿视频 Art Department鈥檚 early days
Want to learn more about one of 嘿嘿视频鈥 pioneering art professors? Manetti Shrem Museum Curator-at-Large Dan Nadel explores the quietly radical nature of William T. Wiley鈥檚 holistic artmaking in magazine.
Artist Mary Heilmann traces her practice through different mediums, perspectives and ideas in this . Her exhibition Squaring Davis will open at the Manetti Shrem Museum later this year. Heilmann visited Bruce Nauman and William T. Wiley at 嘿嘿视频 back in the '60s.
Want to learn about a more recent 嘿嘿视频 alumna? Kathy Butterly remembers the aha moment when she saw the political possibilities of ceramics in this with her 嘿嘿视频 mentor, Squeak Carnwath.
invites you into Kathy Butterly鈥檚 New York studio for an intimate look at why she 鈥渢ortures鈥 her sculptures.
Speaking of the Manetti Shrem Museum, several artists whose work is featured in current exhibitions have been in the news lately. Both Stephen Kaltenbach and Roy De Forest have caught the eye of art lovers and art critics online. Read on for more...
嘿嘿视频 Artists in the News
An exhibit by 嘿嘿视频 alum Stephen Kaltenbach (Stephen Kaltenbach: The Beginning and The End) has been on exhibition at the museum. While you can鈥檛 visit the exhibition in person now, learn more about Kaltenbach on Square Cylinder and .
Roy De Forest was part of the funk art movement and a professor emeritus at 嘿嘿视频. His work is also part of the current retrospective at Manetti Shrem, Gesture: The Human Figure After Abstraction Selections from the Manetti Shrem Museum. Read a New York Times review of an online exhibition of Roy De Forest鈥檚 work Visit the online for this exhibition too.
Mondavi Center Virtually Continues
During the closures, Mondavi is offering free virtual concerts instead. The virtual concerts will be shared on the dates the shows were scheduled to occur. Click to view the full schedule of virtual concerts. This weekend, enjoy classical music by the quartet, Sandbox Percussion, on April 17 and 19.
Multiple Media at the Crocker and SFMOMA
Watch Art Impact Fellow Lorena Plasencia talk about her favorite pieces by Chicano artist Eduardo Carillo.
Learn more about Carillo and view a close up of his piece 鈥淭estamento de el Esp铆ritu Santo (Testament of the Holy Spirit)鈥 here on this Crocker Art Museum .
Kids can watch a short video in Spanish and learn how to make an too.
This week at SFMOMA you can choose your own medium and watch a video, listen to a podcast, or read an essay.
Human connection is the backbone of artist JR's work. Watch as he discusses his monumental interactive mural featuring photographs and audio recordings of 1,200 San Francisco residents and reveals what it鈥檚 like to create a deeply diverse 鈥減ublic mirror鈥 for the community. Watch the video here
SFMOMA's arts + culture podcast, Raw Material, is on season 6: Six Degrees. It asks: Is it really possible that any two people in the world are only six degrees of separation apart? Audio producer Sayre Quevedo tests that theory by setting out to reach a stranger eight thousand miles away via a network of artists and friends. Listen to the .
Rachel Jans, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA, explores video artist Nam June Paik's connection to his family and close friends and the impact those ties had on his art. Read that essay, 鈥淣am June Paik: Kinship, Collaboration, and Commemoration,鈥
Enjoy Regional Art Virtually
For a guide to other virtual art in the region, go to last week's Arts Blog.
Art Tweet of the Week: Do you live by the window now?
The SFMOMA this 1958 piece titled 鈥淲oman in Profile鈥 by the late American painter Richard Diebenkorn. It鈥檚 particularly relatable in these recent times of social isolation.
