The summer is in full swing here in Maine and at the Museum of Art. We are thrilled by the large number of visitors who have been touring the exhibitions this summer. In the month ahead, there are many exciting programs, especially related to
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe. As noted on the calendar below, we will feature discussions and tours in
The Ivory Mirror with the exhibition's curator Steve Perkinson, the Museum's co-director Anne Collins Goodyear, and curatorial assistant Honor Wilkinson. Be sure to join us as well for Movie Night on August 3rd, as we screen
Ghostbusters II and discuss contemporary popular culture's lingering fascination with the memento mori. See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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RECENTLY OPENED
Barkley Hendricks: "Lets Make Some History"
Barkley Hendricks is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential American painters of his generation. His reinterpretation of portraiture and his reckoning with contemporary life were ground-breaking. For younger artists today, Hendricks's work provides an important touchstone as they articulate their own identities and question perceptions of race in America.
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CONTINUING
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawings and Watercolors at Bowdoin College
Closing September 3, 2017
Presenting historic and contemporary selections from one of the nation's oldest collections of drawings, this exhibition explores the significance and pleasures found in tracing movements of the hand on paper by asking the question "Why Draw?"
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Favorite Pick from The Ivory Mirror
Two young lovers, elegantly dressed and carved delicately in ivory, share a tender embrace, a singular but perhaps final moment of romantic ecstasy. For behind this couple lurks Death, waiting patiently for these two who remain bound by their earthly appetites, naively ignorant of Death's presence.
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John Walker's Botanical Creations Augment Museum's
Why Draw? Exhibition
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Researching the Molinari Collection
: Ben Wu '18 and Amber Orosco '19
For our summer fellowship, we are researching the origin and nature of the portrait medal and its history during the Renaissance. Inspired by the fascination with antiquity that arose during this period, artists intended portrait medals to be a modern revival of Ancient Roman coins. Portrait medals were extremely popular throughout the Renaissance for those aspiring to glorify themselves at the Roman Emperors once did.
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The BCMA recently joined museums at Colby College, Mount Holyoke College, Brandeis University, and Skidmore College to acquire Ana Mendieta's film
Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette) (1975). In
Silueta Sangrienta, the idea of blood and body converge as Mendieta inserts her body, both literally and metaphorically, into the land as a blood-like liquid fills the surrounding impression in the earth.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this summer! 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
August 1
"Death Personified"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 3
Movie Night! Ghostbusters II and the Macabre in Popular Culture Today
7:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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August 5
Family Saturday
10:00 am
Museum of Art
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August 8
"The Moment of the Memento Mori"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 11
Family Art Night
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 15
"Reflections on the Ivory Mirror"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 17
"Art and Anatomy: A Physician's Perspective on Renaissance Depictions of Mortality"
7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 24
"Tracing the Artist's Hand"
6:30 pm
Museum of Art
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August 25
"Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore: The Figure in Drawings of the European Avant-Garde"
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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August 31
"Appreciating Paper: Art's Best Supporting Actor"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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