The Dinner and a Mid-night Snack: Gifts of Contemporary Works on Paper from Don Mrozek and Scott Dorman exhibition features special in gallery programing. Guest curators Thomas Bell and Katie Kingery-Page host special performances by Kansas State University faculty and students for a series of salon style performances. February 12, 2015,we enjoyed KSU saxophone performances; see more pictures on our facebook page. In March you can look forward to poetry readings and a vocal performance and in April KSU Theatre students will perform.
March 12, 2015, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Drip Torch poetry reading & David Wood vocal performance
April 9, 2015, 6:30-7:30 p.m. KSU Theater and Dance student performances.
The Oxford Dictionary Online recently named “selfie” as its 2013 Word of the Year. Defined as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website”, selfies have quickly become the go-to way for people of all walks of life to document their every move.
Museums are no stranger to selfies. I’m definitely guilty of taking my fair share at art, science, and history museums. Based on the new tumblr, Museum Selfies, I’m not alone! And museums are increasingly encouraging people to document and share pics from their visits.
Source: Museum Selfies tumblr, seanjesusprice http://ift.tt/1c6SzeD
It seems like for as long as we have been able to reproduce images, humans have left physical proof of how our time on earth was spent. And if you consider self portraits (including the works from the Beach Museum of Art collection pictured below), visual artists have always been ahead of the selfie trend.
Joseph Piccillo, Self Portrait, 1982Edgar Degas, Self PortraitChuck Close, Title Unknown (self-portrait), 1992Ellen Lanyon, Self Portrait, ca. 1948Renée Stout, Self Portrait, 2011-2012
Happy Halloween! We’re celebrating by highlighting some of the eerie objects in our collection. If you want to see how other museums get into the spooky spirit, check out the #BOOseums hashtag on Twitter.
Albert Bloch, Lighted Windows, 1953-54.
Christian Breitkreutz, Death Visits Every Village, 2009.
John Steuart Curry, Death of Mahotoree - The Prairie, ca. 1940.
Lloyd Chester Foltz, Haunted House.
Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, A River Honoring, 2010.
Sven Birger Sandzén, Haunted Trees, 1934.
Andy Warhol, Witch, 1980.
About Us
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art furthers the teaching, research, and service missions of Kansas State University by collecting, studying, caring for, and presenting the visual art of Kansas and the region.
