The fall semester is in full swing here on campus and at the Museum. We are excited to have opened two new exhibitions last week about art, photography, and propaganda in the former Soviet Union:
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars, curated by Dr. Kristina Toland, and
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging Soviet Reality, curated by Johna Cook '19. Please check the Museum's events calendar for various public programs related to these and other on-going exhibitions. See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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RECENTLY OPENED
Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging Soviet Reality
Dmitri Baltermants (1912-1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world. This exhibition includes more than twenty-four of Baltermants's most famous photographs and complements the concurrent exhibition,
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars.
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CLOSING SOON
Barkley Hendricks: "Let's Make Some History"
Closing October 29, 2017
Barkley Hendricks is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential American painters of his generation for his superlative talent, his evocative reinterpretation of portraiture, and his reckoning with contemporary life --- whether he assumes a critical or celebratory perspective.
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Collecting Soviet Propaganda Posters: An Interview with Eric Silverman '85, P'19
This fall the Museum is proud to present
Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars. This exhibition explores the remarkably wide-ranging body of propaganda posters created as an artistic consequence of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Svetlana and Eric Silverman '85, P'19 generously lent all of the works in the exhibition. Recently Eric discussed their collection.
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With the new school year underway, the BCMA is delighted to introduce its team of nine student employees. Ranging in academic study and professional interest, the new interns bring important and varied perspectives to their work at the Museum and to the Museum's larger role on campus. This semester the BCMA welcomes three Student Assistants to the Curator: Eliza Goodpasture '18, Kinaya Hassane '19, and Daniel Rechtschaffen '18; two Education Assistants: Julianna Burke '18 and Baz Gilligan-Kim '19; two Molinari Medal Research Assistants: Stephen Pastoriza '19 and Benjamin Wu '18; one Communications Assistant: Amani Hite '20; and one Collections Assistant: Amber Orosco '19.
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October 12: Jacqueline Francis
How do artworks address themselves to us? In her lecture on October 12, art historian and writer Jacqueline Francis will discuss
The Art of Hanging Pictures (2002), a wall-sized installation of photographs obtained, framed, and hung by artist Kerry James Marshall (born 1955). This work, which was included in the artist's recent traveling retrospective exhibition,
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, is uniquely photographic in a practice that is largely dominated by painting. Known for his large-scale, colorful paintings of dignified, hyper-black figures in commonplace settings, Marshall explores how notions of beauty reside in unexpected forms and places.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this fall! 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
October 3
Gallery Conversation- Alyssa Gillespie
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 4
Sharon Louden: "The Artist as Culture Producer"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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October 11
Jonathan Katz: "Queer Embodiment and AIDS"
4:30 pm
Kresge
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October 12
Remembering Barkley Hendricks
12:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 12
"Working from the Figure and from the Ground: Critical Race Art History and Visibility of Difference"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
October 17
"Monochrome Painting and the Street Spectacle in Renaissance Florence"
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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October 19
Gallery Conversation: Bowdoin Arts Society
7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 22
The Ivory Mirror Book Salon - Seth Ramus on Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"
2:00 pm
Beam Classroom
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October 24
The Ivory Mirror Film Series - "Night if the Living Dead"
7:00 pm
Beam Classroom
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October 25
Film and Discussion: "Fall of the Romanov Dynasty"
7:00 pm
Kresge Auditorium
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October 26
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
5:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Museum of Art
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October 31
Halloween and "The Ivory Mirror"
4:00 pm
Museum of Art
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