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Silver Clouds shown in New Harmony, IN and featured in The Christian Science Monitor
The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in historic New Harmony, IN, is showing the Silver Clouds. MOCRA's staff played a consultative role for the New Harmony installation. MOCRA Director Fr. Terrence Dempsey comments on the Silver Clouds in this Christian Science Monitor article. Read the article here.
Day With(out) Art featured on KWMU's "Cityscape," in Post-Dispatch
St. Louis NPR affiliate KWMU (90.7 FM) interviewed MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J. and photographer Carolyn Jones about MOCRA's December 1, 2006, Day With(out) Art observance. MOCRA will project images from Jones's "Living Proof" series of remarkable portraits of people living with (not simply dying from) HIV/AIDS. Hear the segment here (scroll to Segment B).
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlighted Day With(out) Art at MOCRA in its Sunday Arts & Entertainment section on 11/26/06. Read the featurette here.
Learn more about Day With(out) Art at MOCRA here.
Silver Clouds featured on KETC's "Living St. Louis"
St. Louis PBS affiliate KETC (Channel 9) recently profiled the Silver Clouds exhibit at MOCRA on its award-winning program "Living St. Louis." See how MOCRA's galleries were modified for this exhibition, learn how a Cloud is born, and hear from MOCRA staff what life is like "in the Clouds." Watch the segment here.
The link should launch in Windows Media Player. If you have difficulties, try visiting the Living St. Louis Video Archive. Look in the Recent Episodes and click on "Clouds."
Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds draw attention to MOCRA
St. Louis Post-Dispatch features the Silver Clouds on the cover of its weekly Get Out culture and entertainment guide on September 14. The article features a conversation with MOCRA Director Fr. Terrence Dempsey, SJ. Read the article here.
The Riverfront Times features the Silver Clouds in its September 6-12 issue, noting that "something as elegant and magical as Silver Clouds is welcome anytime." Read what the RFT has to say here.
Where Magazine names the Silver Clouds as one of "5 Exhibits Not to Miss" in its September issue (click here to read the feature--navigate to page 15 after the magazine image appears). We're happy to note that the Saint Louis University Museum of Art's exhibition The Lincoln Legacy: Presidential Years was also selected. Learn more about SLUMA's exhibit here.
The West End Word also features the Silver Clouds in this week's Art and Entertainment calendar. Read the entry here.
artdaily.net posted a news article about the Silver Clouds at MOCRA. Follow this link.
Learn more about the Silver Clouds at MOCRA here.
KETC's "Living St. Louis" profiles The Celluloid Bible
St. Louis PBS affiliate KETC (Channel 9) recently profiled The Celluloid Bible exhibition at MOCRA on its award-winning program "Living St. Louis." Collector Michael Morris, O.P. gives host Patrick Murphy a tour of the exhibition and talks about the history of Bible on film. Watch the segment here.
The Celluloid Bible on KDHX's "Arts Interview"
MOCRA Director Fr. Terrence Dempsey joins host Nancy Kranzberg on community radio KDHX 88.1 for an "Arts Interview" about The Celluloid Bible. Listen online here. (Look for Wed., Oct. 10.)
The Celluloid Bible featured on KWMU's "Cityscape"
St. Louis NPR affiliate KWMU (90.7 FM) hosts a discussion of The Celluloid Bible with collector Michael Morris, O.P. and MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J. Listen to "Cityscape" online. (Scroll down to Segment B.)
The Celluloid Bible covered in The University News
SLU's student newspaper says The Celluloid Bible is an exhibition that "everyone should check out." Read the article here.
The Celluloid Bible previewed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Riverfront Times
MOCRA's new exhibition was picked as a must-see by both the Post-Dispatch (scroll down to "Sunday") and The Riverfront Times.
Movement and Spirit reviewed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"For anyone who appreciates geometric abstraction, discovering Fischinger's little-known paintings is bound to be a revelation," writes critic David Bonetti. Read more ...
Movement and Spirit featured in Sauce Magazine
MOCRA 's Oskar Fischinger exhibition highlighted in Sauce Magazine's April 2007 "Arts Essentials."
Advance notice for Movement and Spirit in Post-Dispatch, Riverfront Times
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch describes Fischinger as "so far ahead of his time that time never really caught up with him." Read more ...
"So timeless and beautiful are Fischinger's abstract films," says The Riverfront Times, "that it's hard to believe that they were made in the '30s and '40s — and not just this morning." Read more ...
Movement and Spirit featured on KWMU's "Cityscape"
St. Louis NPR affiliate KWMU (90.7 FM) hosts a discussion of Oskar Fischinger with Los Angeles-based art critic Peter Frank, Los Angeles gallery director Jack Rutberg, and MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J. Listen to "Cityscape" online.
