The new semester has begun, and we are excited to see faculty and students back at the Museum. If you haven't already seen
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars,
please do so shortly, as the exhibition closes on February 11. Also, we have recently installed a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first century paintings and sculptures from the Permanent Collection, including several important recent acquisitions. In conjunction with this new exhibition, Kelly Baum, curator of postwar and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will visit the Museum on February 8 to present the lecture, "Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980." Check out the new public program calendar for other exciting events throughout the semester. See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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CLOSING SOON
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars
Closing February 11, 2018
Constructing Revolution explores the remarkable and wide-ranging body of propaganda posters as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Marking its centennial, this exhibition delves into a relatively short-lived era of unprecedented experimentation and utopian idealism, which produced some of the most iconic images in the history of graphic design.
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Looking Anew: Art and Estrangement, 1900-2000
Many artists of the twentieth century purposefully made the familiar look strange, in order to challenge conventions. They prompted viewers to assume an analytical and critical role towards works and perhaps even towards society at large. This exhibition of highlights from the permanent collection of paintings and sculpture offers viewers the opportunity to trace twentieth-century artistic innovations and challenges them to look anew.
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New Acquisition: Apulian Red-figure Fish Plate
The Museum recently acquired a 4th century BCE Apulian Red-figure Fish Plate for the collection. The addition of this plate strengthens the Museum's holdings of artifacts from the Greek colonies in southern Italy and Sicily, which include sculpture, pottery and coins. The fish plate is one of the more iconic forms associated with this region's artistic production and, while the ceramic shape is fairly common, just over 1,000 decorated examples exist in collections today. Fish plates are found in various archaeological contexts that suggest uses connected to dining and meals associated with burial practice. The decoration on the most detailed plates, including this example, provide rare illustrations of Mediterranean sea life. As such, this vessel will serve as subject matter for classes in archaeology, art history, biology, environmental studies, history, religion, and visual arts.
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"Alternatively, we could say this is a CrossFit program and charge people to shovel our sidewalk." - Anonymous (Class of 2010)
Thank you to all who submitted suggestions! We appreciate the many original captions we received over the last several weeks. This month's anonymous winner receives a 20% discount in the Museum of Art shop. We'll hold another contest in the near future.
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Focus on Skowhegan Green II by Frank Bowling
Frank Bowling is one of the most distinguished artists of post-war Britain. Born in 1936 in British Guyana (now Guiana), he moved to London as a teenager and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1962. In 1966 he relocated to New York, both inspired by an earlier trip that exposed him to the work of abstract expressionist and New York School painters, and frustrated with being the only artist a
mong his peers to be singled out for his background.
His geographic departure signaled a stylistic departure away from British Pop, which was then on the rise, and a full-fledged embrace of abstraction.
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"Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980:" Lecture by Curator Kelly Baum
Visitors to the MetBreuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's venue for modern and contemporary art exhibitions, recently encountered a ladder in the galleries that was studded with bulbous protrusions. Women's shoes glued to the steps seemed to suggest an ascent not into the spiritual realm of art contemplation, but into a world of excessive, primordial physicality. In another gallery, a video loop on an old-fashioned TV recorded the endlessly repeated operations of a pocket calculator while a voiceover announced "times seven divided by eight, times seven divided by eight...," hypnotizing the audience.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll stop by the Museum this winter! There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment.
For more information, please check our home page, or contact Caroline Baljon, Membership and Programs Coordinator, at (207)-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public free of charge. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty who are actively engaged at the Museum. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by
joining today
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calendar
February 1
Bearing Witness: Gender Violence and Visual Art
6:30 pm
Museum of Art
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February 3
Family Saturday
10:00 am
Museum of Art
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February 6
Constructing the Soviet Industrial Revolution: Montage, Modernism, Modernization
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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February 8
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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February 13
Artistic Exchange on the Northern Plains
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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February 15
Artine Artinian '31: Shoeshine Boy, Literary Scholar, Drawing Collector
4:30 pm
Museum of Art
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February 16
Bowdoin Art Society Gallery Talk
4:00 pm
Museum of Art
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February 20
Looking Out, Looking Within
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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February 27
Drawing in Dialogue with Politics and Literature
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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