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Museum Minute
Fridays at 10:04 AM (during Performance Today) and Saturdays at 9:04 AM (during Morning Weekend Edition).

Produced in cooperation with the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. This feature airs on WUGA (91.7/94.5 FM or livestream at wuga.org) Fridays at 10:04 a.m. (during Performance Today) and Saturdays at 9:04 a.m. (during Weekend Edition). Different Museum staff members have been recording these scripts that focus on an artist, an exhibition, a program, behind the scenes work and more.
The painting: Pierre Daura (American, b. Spain, 1896 – 1976), “Clock,” ca. 1929. Oil, 14 15/16 × 18 1/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. GMOA 2003.412.

  • Walk into the museum’s H. Randolph Holder Gallery these days, and you’ll see an unexpected combination: three works by Atlanta-based contemporary artist Tokie Rome-Taylor in dialogue with colonial portraits.
  • Every spring, artists can sign up for 10 by 10-foot booths at which to display and sell their work at no cost to them, and they don’t have to be students or affiliated with UGA. Recent years have included musical performances, too.
  • Over the past decade, ATHICA has presented over 1200 regional, national, and international artists and hundreds of affiliated events.
  • Ralston Crawford painting
  • Coral exhibit at the Hargrett
  • We usually think of art galleries as intimidating, white-walled spaces with a snooty attendant at a desk, but Jaime Bull’s new gallery, Foyer, is in her house.
  • Artist Richard Prince has appropriated works from all over American culture throughout his career. He may be best known for his “rephotographs” in which he photographed existing photographs, then enlarged them.
  • In 2012, Larry and Brenda Thompson donated 100 works to the museum from their prominent collection of works by African American artists. But they didn’t stop there. They also funded an endowment to support a new curatorial position at the museum to study works by Black artists, both American and international.
  • Every year, the museum presents its Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award to a living African American visual artist with a significant Georgia connection.
  • Did you know that some photographs don’t use a camera at all? In fact, the very first photographs in history, taken in 1827, didn’t use one. Instead, they placed objects on chemically treated paper, and then exposed the results to light. Contemporary artist Kei Ito is doing the same thing two hundred years later, and you can see his work on view at the museum through July 14.