“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...
Laylah Ali: Bridging the Gap Between Two- and Three-Dimensional Space
Today’s post comes from Olivia Zisman, class of 2016 and Art Center Student Docent.
Laylah Ali’s print, Untitled, in the Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper exhibition, brings three-dimensional motion to a two-dimensional space. The image itself suggests flatness, showing round creatures suspended in space right up against the picture plane. The creatures—although somewhat simple-looking—are meticulously rendered...
Post-War Culture of the Defeated
At the conclusion of World War I, Germany suffered terrible financial and social backlash from the rest of Europe. Veterans and civilians alike struggled to pick up the pieces and move on from wartime. War profiteers in Berlin lived sumptuously, in high contrast with the wounded veterans and families who outlived their primary breadwinner. Impoverished...
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...
Reading the Open Missal
Today’s post comes from Joe Brichacek, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
The Open Missal has long been a favorite in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center’s collection. It is both stunningly realistic and highly symbolic. Indeed, the more time you spend with the work, the more details you find, and the more insight...
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...
Off-Campus: Loren MacIver’s Spring Forms at LACMA
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum is “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the U.S.” This exhibition includes works by female surrealist artists dating from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and includes...
![[Extended through June 10th!] "Mapping Gothic France"](http://pages.vassar.edu/fllaceducation/files/2012/04/10-290x290.jpg "[Extended through June 10th!] \"Mapping Gothic France\"")
[Extended through June 10th!] “Mapping Gothic France”
Take a look at some photographs of one of our current exhibitions, Mapping Gothic France, featuring students from Professor Andrew Tallon’s spring seminar on French gothic architecture.
© Vassar College / Photographer Andrew Tallon
