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The long anticipated Senior Art Show holds its opening reception tonight from 6-8pm at the Tang.
The show features the work of 47 senior studio art majors. The show and the reception are free and open to the public and will be up till May 20th.
via: the tang
Smith's Untitled (Head of Kuan Yin)
On September 17th, I Myself Have Seen It—an exhibit of artist Kiki Smith’s photography—will open at the Tang. Though she is mostly known for her work in other media, Smith’s photography is pretty striking and provocative and radical and other artsy words.
Smith has a perennial interest in feminist, sexuality, and gender issues, and her work certainly reflects these themes. Take note, guys-doing-Intro-to-Gender-Studies-to-meet-girls.
The show will run through December 30th, with several complementary events scheduled.
Do you like art? Parties? Music? Standing on top of things? If so, you should go to the Tang Party tonight from 10pm to 1am. The party will feature nine outdoor art installations around the Tang grounds, including a giant Frankenstein bicycle, an enchanted flibber forest, and a feminist-postmodern-day-of-the-dead-altar-shrine. I have no idea what any of that means either!
The party will also feature a Nintendo 64 Mario Kart play station on the roof, video art projected on the outside walls, and three bands:
Honey: From what I understand, Honey is basically Mutual Friends with the addition of Alex Maddalena. Mutual Friends is great! Alex is great! Everything is great!
Twins: I don’t know anything about this band, but people in bands are generally cool. You should go and try to talk to the guys from Twins after their set. Don’t try to talk to them during their set, though, because playing music is difficult and requires concentration!
Dan$Club: This band is two guys named Dan who play music you can dance to. Is the Dan$ in their name because they are named Dan, or because it is some weird, German-y spelling of dance? Or both? This band has something for everybody. For you, dancing. For me, wordplay.
My only concern is that this party might be too fun and that people are going to overdose on fun and have to call an ambulance to rush them to Peabody’s so they can stop having so much of it!
The Tang Museum’s third annual Skidmore Alumni Invitational opens this weekend with work from four Skidmore graduates that bring a range of approaches and techniques to their work, from large-scale color photography to recycled furniture design.
Bradley Castellanos ’98, Josh Dorman ’88 Johnny Swing ’84 and Shellburne Thurber ’71 will each be showing several pieces in the exhibition, which opens with a reception this Saturday at 4pm. The Saratogain has a nice article with a more in depth look at the artists and their work.
Featured artists Bradley Castellanos ’98 and Johnny Swing ’84 will be on campus this Thursday as part of the Dunkerley Dialogue artist lecture series to give a short presentation of their work and have a conversation with the Tang’s Ian Berry.
I think working in a museum would be fun. I’m not talking about being one of those people that is always telling people to be quiet or like a docent or anything, I’m talking about being an intelligent curator or something cool and rich in cultural capital like that.
This would also be a great opportunity to do some networking. Thursday, Feb. 17th 6:00pm @ Tang- Somers classroom
Chic and Modern Gifts For The Chic and Modern Consumer
The SkidShop is a great place to buy gifts but my grandparents don’t really need a second set of Skidmore sweatshirts and all my friends from home go to Harvard so—unless irony is still cool there—I doubt they are going to want any Skidmore apparel.
That is why I’m doing my holiday shopping at The Tang (also because everything in the Tang’s gift shop is going to be 15% off on Wednesday Dec. 8th).
Tom Phillips, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, 1976/78, from the Tang's Eye Rhymes Exhibit
The Tang will host a panel discussion with students in “Ways of Seeing: Image, Text, and Illumination” Tuesday at 6pm. The panel will be headed by Michelle Rhee, Asst. Professor of English and, along with her Scribner Seminar, curator of Eye Rhymes–currently on exhibition in The Tang.
Eye Rhymes explores the tension between representation and text and all that juicy semiotic stuff English Majors love to talk about and Tuesday’s discussion looks like the perfect opportunity for you to pick over Saussure and Derrida without the whole class groaning.
6:00pm @ The Tang
Thomas Cole, Storm King of the Hudson, c. 1825-1827, Oil on canvas
Join Skidmore student docents on tours of the wonderful Lives of the Hudson exhibition at the Tang Museum. The Tang’s current main exhibition, Lives of the Hudson, has been getting lots of national attention recently and we have the rare opportunity to take a Student lead tour.
Join docents Yasmin Hormozi, Xan Goldberg and Katrina Puffer this Thursday evening at 7pm for a tour of this truly interesting exhibition.
Currently the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum is hosting 2 exhibitions. The Tang is free for students and like all museums is a great place to escape and nurse a hangover.
Lives of the Hudson focuses on the history of New York’s Hudson River. Organized into 4 themes the exhibition explores 200 years of the Hudson as the natural river, the imagined river, the human river, and the working river.
Amazement Park is a yearlong exhibition of work from artist Stan VanDerBeek, his daughter Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976) and son Johannes VanDerBeek (b. 1982). Based on a dream Stan VanDerBeek had in 1980 Amazement Park features an experimental studio space with drawing, sculpture, films, photography, stills, and collage from all three artists that will change each month. “Over the course of the year, a multi-layered picture of influence and experimentation will emerge.”
Scope Online has posted a (very) short Q&A with Ian Berry, Malloy Curator at the Tang Museum and member of the Museum Tang Clan. While it may not be as good, or as long or, as funny as last night’s Q&A with Ian Mackaye it is worth checking out if you have any interest in curation or this weekend’s YES Symposium.
Okay, I took a peek at some of Scope Q&As and they are actually pretty cool–at least for a Thursday afternoon. Check the rest out here.
