Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog

Hello, my name is Kate… and I’m a social media addict. I blog, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr…you name it. Whew. I feel better.

Web 2.0 logos from Flickr user stabilo boss

Lucky for me, social media has become an integral part of the way museums create an interactive experience for the museum visitor, especially here at the IMA.

That said, we at the IMA would like to invite all our blog readers and fellow bloggers to peel your eyes from the computer screens for one night, and put a face to the local blogs you love to read. (Don’t worry, we’ll have wi-fi so you can live-blog and tweet to your heart’s content!)

Come one, come all...

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Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey opens tomorrow night at the IMA with a conversation with artist Dawoud Bey followed by an opening party. For the exhibition, Bey photographed young people from all parts of the economic, racial and ethnic spectrum in both public and private high schools. I had the pleasure of asking Bey about his work earlier this year:

Interview with artist Dawoud Bey
As published in the fall issue of the IMA’s Previews membership magazine

Q. Can you tell us when you became interested in portraiture?
As I began to figure out what I wanted to do as an artist, I was spending a lot of time going to museums and galleries looking at work by other photographers. The pictures that resonated for me most strongly were those that were of human subjects. There seemed to me something quite powerful about a person confronting the camera, returning the attention of the photographer. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent article on Cosmos online proclaimed that “developments in a number of scientific disciplines suggest that we may soon be able to increase life expectancies from the 70-to 80-year range already seen in the richest countries to well over 100 and, perhaps, to over 1,000. We shall, in one sense, have made ourselves immortal.”

Good news, right? Until the day when scientific advancements make living forever possible, everyday blogger-types like myself can pursue other life-extending options gleaned from those who do it best. Read the rest of this entry »

Last night was FIERCE! Between the drag show, the giant disco balls, the larger-than-life runway projection and the hundreds of guests, the party was a hit. Folks polished their stilettos, broke out their finest threads and didn’t disappoint. The fashion both inside and outside the galleries was stunning. I’ve posted some of the party pics on the IMA’s Flickr account. Check out who was there and what they wore by clicking here.

If you didn’t make it to the party, there’s still plenty of time to see the show. Breaking the Mode, Contemporary Fashion from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art is open to the public from March 16-June 1, 2008. Preview it online by clicking here.