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Think Video: Barbara Crane

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How should photographers challenge their audience and how has the practice of photography progressed in the last several decades? One of those agents of change – artist Barbara Crane – discussed the topic with Think host Krys Boyd during Friday’s episode. Her groundbreaking work [...]

Tuesday Morning Roundup

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BOB ROSS, HE’S NOT: If you are headed out to Gerald Peters Gallery to take in “Tony Foster: Searching for a Bigger Subject,” you owe it to yourself to read this recent feature on the artist in The Wall Street Journal. The story talks with the English painter about the daring adventures he endures in [...]

The Plains of Sweet Regret at the Amon Carter Museum

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The KERA radio story:

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The expanded online story and video:

The Amon Carter Museum in Fort worth has opened its very first video installation. It takes up an entire gallery with four projection screens, two plasma TVs and four surround-sound [...]

Video: "Arabesque" from The Plains of Sweet Regret by Artist Mary Lucier

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The Amon Carter Museum will present its first-ever video installation beginning November 15 — a single, 18-minute, five-channel work occupying an entire gallery. Originally commissioned by the North Dakota Museum of Art as part of its series on the “Emptying out of the Plains,” [...]

Think Video: Early American West at the Amon Carter Museum

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Sentimental Journey: The Art of Jacob Miller runs at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth through Jan. 11.
Think airs on KERA Television Friday night at 7:30 p.m.

The Wired-Up and Wireless Museum

KERA radio story:

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Expanded online story:

[UNDER: sounds of museum gallery]
At the Dallas Museum of Art, there’s an nkisi nkondi [pronounced en-keesee enkondee]. It’s a wooden statue from the Congo that bristles with iron nails hammered into it. It stands in the Center for Creative Connections, the museum’s new learning center, [...]

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