“High Art” Inspiring a Reinterpretation of a Children’s Story
Today’s blog post comes from Angela Brown, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
Upon learning that this year’s Founder’s Day theme would be Alice in Wonderland, I
couldn’t help but consider how stories from childhood remain with us throughout our
lives. I wanted to explore the way the significance and meaning of these stories shift
according to...
Embracing His Work: Rembrandt’s Goldsmith
Today’s post comes from Alec Aldrich, class of 2015 and Art Center volunteer.
Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Goldsmith (1655) was the smallest work in the Art Center’s
winter exhibition, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, but it was well worth the
viewer’s attention. The intaglio print joins the ranks of numerous other intaglio prints
by the artist that are at...
Ship Masts and Telephone Poles: Sándor Bernáth’s Gloucester, Mass.
Today’s post comes from Natasha Mandell, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s Spring 2013 exhibition, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper, showcased some of the new additions to the Art Center’s collections. The exhibition covered a wide variety of time periods, movements, and media, including sixteenth- to twenty-first-century prints...
Podcast: The Sound of “An Aesthetic Ecosystem”
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is continuing its series of event podcasts, broadcasting various Art Center happenings to the cyberworld!
This time we bring you a lecture by museum director James Mundy and a panel discussion with art dealer Eric Brown (Vassar class of 1990) of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, Williams College...
“What Can You Give Me for Seven Dollars?”
Today’s post comes from Justine Paradis, class of 2013 and Art Center Docent.
From left to right: James Mundy, Deborah M. Rothschild, Eric Brown, and Jonathan Kagan.
Photo by Carlos Hernandez ’14
To enjoy a museum, you don’t need to know the work involved to put a collection together. However, the shape of a museum’s collection is almost...
Meet the Preparator
Today’s post comes from Margaret Vetare, the Art Center’s Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
It’s a poignant predicament: when museum preparators have done their job flawlessly, that’s when their hard work is least likely to be noticed in a museum gallery. All framed works hang true and evenly. Labels are just the right distance from...
Prometheus Bound for Catskill
Today’s post comes from Deborah Steinberg, class of 2014 and Art Center Student Intern.
If you are a frequent visitor to the Art Center, you may be wondering what happened to Thomas Cole’s oil painting, Prometheus Bound. A quintessential example of Hudson River School painting, this work can be seen in the section of the museum...
Shakespeare, Shrines, and Sanford Gifford
Today’s post comes from Emily MacLeod, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
On Monday, April 23rd, people around the world celebrated the four hundred and forty-eighth birthday of William Shakespeare. My professor brought a cake to class and led all the students of his Shakespeare survey course in a chorus of “Happy Birthday.” This...
Migrations and Excavations: Rohatyn Gives Lecture on Mehretu
Today’s post comes from Kristina Arike, Class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent.
Friday, April 13, was the opening of the exhibition, “Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu.” The opening lecture, entitled “Julie Mehretu: Migrations,” was presented by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn ’89. Rohatyn is a gallerist, art advisor, independent curator, and collector, and even served...
Playing with Space: Gordon Matta-Clark at Vassar and Beyond
Today’s post comes from Lina Kavaliunas, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
This spring break I found my way back home to Chicago where I saw the exhibition MCA DNA: Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark became known for his “anarchitecture” works where he carved out sections...
Ethnobotany and Native American Arts
Today’s post comes from Justine Paradis, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
With more than 18,000 objects in the collection of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, it is always a special treat to explore the rich resources held on site in storage vaults. On a recent day in February, Professor Mark Schlessman of...
First New Podcast!
Today’s post comes from Carlos Ignacio Hernandez, Class of 2014 and Art Center Multimedia Student Assistant.
At the Art Center we are very excited to officially make public our latest endeavor: our very first podcast! Listen to curator Mary-Kay Lombino as she guides us, together with Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi, through the Frances Lehman Loeb Art...
