Later this week we open the Museum's major summer exhibition,
Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts. Please join us on Saturday, June 29th for the opening program, when Joachim Homann, the exhibition's curator, will discuss this installation of global contemporary art with Bowdoin faculty member Shu-chin Tsui, together with three alumni in the arts - Roger Conover '72, Alvin Hall '72, and halley k harrisburg '90. Earlier this month we welcomed five students who are interning at the Museum this summer. Kira Cruz '21, Lauryn Dove '21, Sabrina Lin '21, Ayub Tahlil '22, and Alex Withers '21. They will be working on special projects with Museum staff and, beginning next week, leading a daily tour of the exhibitions on view. We're thrilled that they are here this summer. Also, importantly, we want to salute our colleague Honor Wilkinson. After four extraordinary years as the Museum's Curatorial Assistant and Manager of Student Programs, she will depart from her position at the end of this week. Our heartiest thanks to her.
See you at the Museum!
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
|
|
|
|
OPENING SOON
Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts
Opening June 29, 2019
Presenting exceptional works of art since 1970 from the collection, many on view for the first time, this exhibition highlights art's purposes as tools for observation, inquiry, and learning in a Liberal Arts context.
more
|
An overview of Bowdoin's outstanding collection of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century.
more
|
|
|
Joachim Homann: Curator, Scholar, Friend
The opening of
Art Purposes is bittersweet for the Museum of Art. It is both an opportunity to examine and celebrate sensational contemporary works from the permanent collection and a moment to bid farewell to the exhibition's curator, Joachim Homann, as he embarks on a new chapter. In this interview, Homann shares his thoughts on the exhibition and his time at Bowdoin.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Emerging Modernisms and
The Blind Man
Featured in the
Emerging Modernisms exhibition is a publication,
The Blind Man, launched in 1917. Though short-lived, it helped to spread the work of leading international avant-garde artists in New York.
|
|
|
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.
The support of our members helps realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty, who are actively engaged in 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
!
|
|
|
|
calendar
Family Art Night at the Museum of Art
4:00 p.m.
Museum of Art
JULY 13
Art and Music: A Family Program with the Bowdoin International Music Festival
10:00 a.m.
Museum of Art
JULY 16
Gallery Conversation: "When What is Old is New Again"
12:00 noon
Museum of Art
JULY 18
Music at the Museum
Museum of Art
JULY 25
Children's Hour at the Museum of Art
Museum of Art
JULY 27
Student Composer Concert
Museum of Art
JULY 30
Gallery Conversation: "How to Master a Contemporary Art Obstacle Course"
Museum of Art
|
|
|
|
|
|
