Today’s post comes from Ruby Mayer, class of 2020 and Art Center Summer Docent
Every Thursday evening in July, at 6:00 pm, the Powerhouse Theater Training Company will present “I’m Trying to Tell You Something Important,” a Soundpainting performance in the Art Center galleries. Spontaneously composed and directed by Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher, Max Reuben, the performances will be generated in the galleries, on the spot
Category Archives: Site Feed
Column Like You See ‘Em
Today’s post comes from Isabel Long, Art Center Summer Docent and Skidmore College class of ’21.
Before this summer I had only ever been to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center as a visitor, but with more experience and education I have made new fascinating connections about, and with, the collection
A New Acquisition, Allegory in Rococo
Today’s post comes from Sergio Lozano, class of 2021 and Art Center Student Docent
One of our most recent acquisitions at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is an eighteenth-century painting by French artist Jean-François de Troy (1679-1752) titled Allegory of Sculpture. De Troy was the son of portraitist François de Troy, whose connections allowed his son to obtain a post at the French Academy of Rome and later return to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France
Rural Landscape goes to the Whitney
Today’s post comes from Claudia Ashworth, class of 2019 and Art Center Student Docent
From March 2-June 10, the Art Center’s painting Rural Landscape (1931) by Grant Wood will be on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of their retrospective, Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables. The exhibition consists of an extensive overview of Wood’s work and illuminates his less-known content
Writing Box
Today’s post comes from Bella Dalton-Fenkl, class of 2020 and Art Center Student Docent
The following poem should be read from bottom to top