Beautifully shot in 35mm film and transferred to digital file, The Hardly Boys In Hardly Gold is a high-comedy action adventure written and directed by William Wegman, starring his well-known Weimaraners: Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky, and Chundo. The Hardly family spends its summers at the Hardly Inn in Maine, where the Hardly Boys play tennis, […]
Listen now! KCHUNG Radio is taking over the Telfair Museums’ airwaves this Spring! KCHUNG is a cooperative broadcast platform based in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Placing a premium on ease of participation from as wide a community as possible, KCHUNG views broadcasting as an ideal form for gathering and amplifying a multitude of diverse voices […]
Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) is an internationally-renowned artist living and working in Chicago. As an artist, an educator, and foremost a messenger, Cave works between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. Cave is well known for his soundsuits, sculptural forms based on […]
Featured works include London-based artist Robin Baumgarten’s ingenious, internationally-exhibited Line Wobbler, an abstract dungeon crawler game played with a spring controller and a 15-foot-long LED strip. Also on display is art collective Kokoromi’s Superhypercube, a beautiful virtual reality puzzler recently released for the PSVR system, as well as Mason Lindroth’s strange and surreal game Hylics. […]
Telfair features selections from Alt-AI, an exhibition that explores artificial intelligence and machine learning through art. Presented works at Telfair include Gene Kogan’s Cubist Mirror, which transforms the viewer’s image into the style of a cubist painting, as well as Melanie Hoff and Druv Mehrotra’s Doppelcam, an app that matches your photograph with an image […]
Featuring Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s unnerving portrait sculptures based on DNA information extracted from materials that people leave behind (e.g. chewing gum or hair). Plus, Courtney Brown and Sharif Razzaque’s RAWR! A Study in Sonic Skulls builds upon scans of a hadrosaur to create a sculpture that allows participants to recreate the sounds of an extinct creature.
Savannah-based artists’ show their distinctive points-of-view in the special setting of the National Arts Club! October 18-28, 2016 The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003 FREE Telfair Museums is thrilled to announce an exhibition with Savannah-based artists Betsy Cain, Marcus Kenney and Cedric Smith on view from October 18-28 at […]
The Tsars’ Cabinet illuminates a period of sociopolitical change and comments on the fascinating personal lives of the members of the Romanov dynasty through a display of superbly crafted objects. Spanning 200 years of Russian history—from Peter the Great in the early 18th century to Nicholas II in the early 20th century—these objects, used both publicly and privately […]
Artist Gari Melchers played an invaluable role in shaping the collection of Telfair Museums. During his tenure as fine arts advisor from 1906 to 1916, Melchers facilitated the purchase of many of the best-known works in the permanent collection, including iconic canvases by artists such as George Bellows, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, and many others. Yet Telfair did not acquire […]
Jennifer Levonian’s work transforms the fabric of the everyday into the fantastical—or at the very least, the hilarious. In the exhibition Shake Out Your Cloth, Levonian presents a recent cut-paper animation titled Xylophone, as well as three quilts loosely inspired by the protagonist of the video. Painstakingly crafted from hundreds of individual watercolors, her stop-motion animations often feature […]
