Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

If you happen to be at the Indianapolis Museum of Art later today, say 5pm, you’ll have a chance of discovering Bloggers Anonymous.  It’s our third event of BA, and something pretty different from what we typically do regarding technology.  We’re actually meeting people face-to-face.  At the IMA, we kind of dig technology and spend a lot of time developing digital projects, like this blog, ArtBabble, TAP and a million other things.  We really love our work, but I guess there would be one draw back to what we do.

Hey, you get to hang out with me.

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The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia.

Blog: LaundroMatinee

The idea for LaundroMatinee.com came from the creators of renowned local blog  My Old Kentucky Blog when they started inviting bands in to record small radio sessions at Pendleton Heights High School in the small, quiet town of Pendleton, Indiana.  The founders  shared an equally passionate love of independent music as well as an overwhelming compulsion to share it with others.  Watch exclusive stripped-down and intimate recording sessions in sometimes unusual locations.

ArtBabble Video: Thought Process: An Interview with Joshua Mosley

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I’m such a sucker for good advertising. If a billboard catches my eye, a commercial makes me laugh, or an ad (gasp!) compels me to buy something, I can’t help but smile,  shake my fist at it and say ‘Ahhhh…ya got me!’

I mean, you can’t help but gawk at this guy as your driving down the street, right?

So we’ve seen how effective art on a billboard can be, but what about a billboard as art? Next time you’re driving south on Keystone on Indy’s north side, you can’t miss the two large billboards flanking the busy street. They feature murals with saturated colors and a loose, urban/graffiti vibe.

They are striking, artistic, and only subtly an ad.

from Flickr user DieselDemon

What’s kind of shocking about them is that they’re advertisements for Pabst Blue Ribbon. I thought they didn’t advertise? I thought that was their thing, their shtick.

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As you know the Sacred Spain exhibition is almost here at the IMA, and to put you in the right frame of mind Nourish Café is offering a special 2 week menu called Tastes of Spain!  As a food junkie, I am pretty excited to try everything and from what I’ve heard it tastes amazing. I’ve also been told the rest of October will have Spain inspired menu items and ingredients.

Check out the Tastes of Spain 2 week menu after the jump as I get back to Sacred Spain TAP design tasks and website updates. Stay tuned for Daniel’s post tomorrow with some exciting info about the multimedia goodies we’ve been working on!

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The IMA Blog Team asked Kyle Hodges of Indy Jazz Fest to give his perspective on art, music and inspiration.

As I look at this incredible wood engraving, I can’t help but think ‘What jazz musician inspired this artist?’  What song, what record, what style of jazz was this artist’s favorite to listen to while he created the masterpiece that we see?  I know music is an art form that is inspirational in the lives of nearly everyone on this planet: allowing us to dream, create, or escape.  But what if there was no jazz, what if it was replaced by some other genre of music in this artist’s life? Would he have decided to create something drastically different?

Jazz by Charles F. Quest

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