Articles by Julie Thomson

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

With the opening of Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (on view through July 26, 2009), I have been thinking about how to …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?

by Julie Thomson | Aug 13, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?

by Julie Thomson | Aug 13, 2008

Another exhibition of contemporary art to see this summer in Washington D.C. is The Cinema Effect Part II: Realisms through September 7, 2008 at the Hirshhorn. A two-part exhibition, the …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Positively Puryear

by Julie Thomson | Aug 8, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Positively Puryear

by Julie Thomson | Aug 8, 2008

There is no substitute for seeing Martin Puryear’s sculptures firsthand. Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., spanning the museum’s two buildings, offers such an opportunity …