VIRTUAL TOURS
September 12, 11:30 AM–1 PM EST
Whitney Musuem
"Untitled" (America)
September 19, 3–4:15 PM EST
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
A Baseball-Themed Tour
September 28, 3–4 PM EST
Guggenheim Museum
Community Call
To register, email access@guggenheim.org
September 29, 4–5 PM EST
Poster House
Virtual Vibrant Verbal Description Tour: From Monarchy to Modernity
IN-PERSON TOURS
September 10, 11–12:30 PM EST
Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
Tactile Transmissions
September 16, 2–4 PM EST
Jewish Museum
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte
September 17, 2–3:30 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Picture This!—Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the Present
September 21, 6–8 PM EST
Guggenheim Museum
Mind's Eye: Taryn Simon Father Country I Do Love You
September 25, 5:30–7:30 PM EST
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Disability Connections—Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
September 30, 11:30–1 PM EST
Museum of Arts and Design
Nike: Form Follows Motion
Note that this list might be incomplete.
To find more museums offering Zoom calls with expert verbal descriptions of artworks and exhibitions, check out the list on my Resources page.
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A visit to the Jewish Museum's exhibition Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte
Label read by Seeing AI:
The image shows a text discussing the variations of heads made by artists of the Wiener Werkstätte's ceramics department, first showcased at the Kunstschau exhibition in 1920. Vally Wieselthier initially created heads modeled after mythological and classical figures, later sculpting heads that satirized contemporary women, transforming them into god-like figures. These works used brightly-colored glazes to evoke makeup and fashion sensibility.
The Wiener Werkstätte faced criticism for supporting women as employees and patrons, and for the artistic freedom it provided. Critics, including architect Adolf Loos and artist Julius Klinger, disparaged their work, labeling it as "broads' applied art" and a "scandalous bimbo business." Despite this, the artists received admiration from well-regarded critics like Berta Zuckerkandl and others within the Wiener Werkstätte's inner circle.