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.
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If there’s one thing we all know about art museums, it’s that you’re not supposed to touch the paintings. But what about visitors who aren't able to see the art?
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An exhibition on display at the University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries takes music lovers on a tour through some of the legendary locations of Athens’ house parties all in one spot.
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Art has the power to inspire, and it can help us better understand the world around us, but we don’t always think of museums as teaching institutions.
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As hundreds of thousands of Georgia Bulldog fans pour into Sanford Stadium this fall, the UGA Special Collections Libraries are featuring an exhibit focusing on the life and legacy of late UGA football coach Vince Dooley, who led the team to win six SEC Championships and the 1980 National Championship.
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As the Georgia Museum of Art celebrates the 75th anniversary of our museum, with an open house and birthday party scheduled for November 5, we’re looking back at our history. This time: the 2000s.
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“Through Lines” traces the artist’s evolution and artistic practice as she moves from traditional modes of artistic production into technologized ones, translating drawn lines into other forms of art and challenging the limits of 2-D drawing.
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Perhaps the museum’s best-known work is Elizabeth Jane Gardner’s “La Confidence,” a large 19th-century painting of two young women seated on a fountain.
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At the beginning of the decade, the museum began an internship program that is still going strong more than 30 years later.
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Participants in short-term art workshops and classes visited the doctor less often, had better measures of mental health, increased their involvement in other social activities and reported improvement in their social lives.
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In 1982, thanks to the efforts of state representative Louise McBee, the Georgia General Assembly named us the official state art museum.