Connections: On the Street
Today’s post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
This summer in the Focus Gallery we have installed Naked City: Photographs from the Permanent Collection. This exhibition of twenty photographs is a small selection of the collection representing photographic scenes of urban life and including some of the most iconic images...
Connections: Fathers and Sons
Today’s post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
This Sunday we will celebrate Father’s Day. Across the country, men will be rewarded for their paternal efforts with neckties, greetings cards shaped like neckties, and other “masculine” gifts. Walking through the galleries this morning, I was reminded of artists in our collection...
Happenings: Copies
Today’s post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
When Winslow Homer first travelled to France, he produced an engraving for Harper’s Weekly of students copying the masterpieces of the Louvre. It was understood that the aspiring artist had much to learn from imitating their forbearers. In a nod to this...
Connections: Immortal
Today’s post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
On June 1, 1928, Norma Jean Mortenson was born in Los Angeles. In 1946, she changed her name to Marilyn Monroe and began to appear in movies. Even after her death in 1962, Marilyn Monroe- her image and her biography- have remained...
Sesquicentennial Snapshots: Realism Then
Along with Vassar College, the Art Center is celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of our founding. In this weekly feature, we will look back on the rich 150-year history of the collection. Today’s post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information.
“Realism… has been relegated to the limbo of philistinism: the propaganda machines...
Connections: Caught in Action
Today’s post comes from Lina Kavaliunas, class of 2013 and Art Center student docent.
In 1952 the art critic Harold Rosenberg defined action painting – a method of painting employed by the American abstract expressionists of the 1940’s and 50’s – as the moment where “the canvas began to appear to one American painter after...
Senior Week: This Must Be The Place
This week we will be hearing from senior student docents before they graduate on Sunday. Today’s post comes from Sarah Harshman. Sarah has been a docent at the Art Center for the past year.
The day I moved in to Vassar as a freshman was hot. Very hot. 90+ degrees and humid. Oh, and stressful. There...
Senior Week: Raising Questions
This week we will be hearing from senior student docents before they graduate on Sunday. Today’s post comes from Sadie Burzan. Sadie has been a docent at the Art Center for the past year.
In my junior year, I learned that museums are not neutral. I was taking a class called Anthropology of Art (one of...
Senior Week: New Ways of Seeing
This week we will be hearing from senior student docents before they graduate on Sunday. Today’s post comes from Claudia Sanchez. Claudia has been a docent at the Art Center for the past year.
I have always found the experience of going to an art museum to be very personal. Even when I am in the...
Senior Week: Adventures in Wonderland
This week we will be hearing from senior student docents before they graduate on Sunday. Today’s post comes from Michael Reback. Mikey has been a docent at the Art Center for the past two years.
As May marches on, the Vassar campus comes to life — trees bloom, tulips pop up around Main Circle, and...
Last Night at Late Night: Our Time
Every Thursday night during Late Night at the Lehman Loeb we pose a question to our visitors. Read our favorite responses and let us know your answer in the comments section.
This week’s question: Tonight we are showcasing the songs of Thomas Rowlandson’s times. What do you think the song of our time is?
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Connections: A Little Madness in the Spring…
Today’s post comes from Emily MacLeod, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.
If you attended our screening of the uproarious Blackadder series last week, which followed the exploits of the bumbling Prince Regent, you will be in for a surprise when a completely different side of the story is unveiled in The Madness...
