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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011Through the Rabbit Hole: Student Choreography & Flexibility
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
I really like watching dance performances at Skidmore, but I also really hate being reminded that people are capable of stretching and touching their toes – hey, jealousy. Thankfully, the desire to see the human form in artistic suspension usually wins out over insecurities about my useless hamstrings. That’s good, because Sabrina Lumbert ’12 and Emily Pacilio ’12 have worked really hard to choreograph two original dance pieces, and a bunch of their limber and emotive peers will be performing those pieces this weekend. It’s free, it’s fresh, it’s local, it’s organic, you’ll love it.
Two showings:
Friday Oct 21st – 8:00pm @ The Tang’s Payne Room (doors at 7:15)
Saturday Oct 22nd – 8:00pm @ The Tang’s Payne Room (doors at 7:15)
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Whiting Tennis At The Tang
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
'Boogeyman', 2007, plywood and hot tar.
This Saturday at the Tang Museum is the opening of Opener 22, an exhibit featuring the work of Whiting Tennis.
Seattle-based artist Whiting Tennis finds inspiration in the timeworn, provisional structures that populate the rural Northwest. From a paint-splattered blue tarp to a pieced-together shed, Tennis’s art celebrates the everyday materials and eccentric forms of often-overlooked objects and revels in the mystery and layers of usage embedded within them. <via TheTang>
Rumor has it the exhibit will include an outdoor sculpture, paintings, drawings and collages. The show, Tennis’ first solo exhibition, will run September 3rd – December 31st.
This is a perfect chance to show new (or remind old) friends just how cultured you are.
Dunkerley Dialogue With Egyptian Artist Lara Baladi
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Lara Baladi, Hope, 2010, Artistʼs book and CD, Courtesy of the artist, in collaboration with Tang Museum and Rautenstrauch Joest Museum of Ethnography, Cologne
This Wednesday at 7:30pm in the Tang artist Lara Baladi will have a public conversation with Lisa Araonson, curator of Environment and Object – Recent African Art.
The talk will focus on Baladi’s photography project Hope, which surveys the often desperate architectural and economic conditions of life on the periphery of Cairo and provides a backstory to Egypt’s recent revolution. The Tang’s press release calls the demonstrations in Tahrir Square the “most surprising historic upheaval of our time,” which seems like a stretch. Surprising? Seems like a weird thing for a museum displaying images of economic marginalization and governmental disenfranchisement to say but I guess not everyone believes capitalism mints is own grave diggers. Yadadamean?
So yea, go to this and educate yourself so you can make small talk at DAs and impress attractive Government majors.
Unstable Ground At The Tang
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
This week at the The Tang Museum Nick Liu-Sontag ’11, and Karen Kellogg, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, will present “Unstable Ground” a collection of early twentieth-century images of the Saratoga Lake watershed juxtaposed with contemporary views photographed during a 2010 summer collaborative research project.
By capturing nearly identical vantage points, they created vivid “then-and-now” contrasts. These paired images capture physical transitions in our local environment and also speak to the social and cultural intricacies often associated with landscape change. Tensions concerning land ownership and accessibility, human manipulation and ecological resilience, and the significance of environmental stability provide rich subtexts for the more conspicuous aspects of the images. <via TheTang>
The world is changing and we have proof. A dialogue and opening reception will be held at the show’s opening at 5:30pm on April 5th @ The Tang
Aronson To Lecture On “Being Green in Africa”
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Romuald Hazoume, Dan, 1992 From the exhibit
As part of the Tang’s exhibit on contemporary African art Object and Environment Art History professor Lisa Aronson will lecture on the relationship between environmentalism and art in Africa.
First, she looks at the work of Nigerian photographer Jonathan Adagogo Green, active between 1890 and 1905, whose photographs, she argues, played an important role in legitimizing British control of land and resource as the colonizers lay the foundation for Nigeria. Second, she explores several ways in which Africans, in recent years, have come to use textiles to address issues related to ecology and resource management as they seek to take control of their environment.” <via Skidmore.edu>
Tues. Feb. 22nd 5:30pm @ The Tang
Just Another Saturday Filled With Contemporary African Art At The Tang
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Barthélémy Toguo, Afrika Oil,
The Tang’s new and incredibly interesting looking exhibit of contemporary african art opens today with a series of lectures and events for you to enjoy.
Environment and Object • Recent African Art takes a look at the impact of the environment on contemporary African life, and the use of found objects and appropriated materials as a recurring presence in current African art. Environment and Object will include sculpture, photography, painting and video by well-known artists from Africa and contemporary African artists living abroad, including El Anatsui, Zwelethu Mthethwa, and Yinka Shonibare as well as emerging artists such as Bright Ugochukwu Eke, George Osodi, Nnenna Okore, and a bunch of other people you probably haven’t heard of.
At 5pm featured artists Viyé Diba, Bright Ugochukwu Eke, and Barthélémy Toguo will speak at the museum with art historian/curator Chika Okeke-Agulu of Princeton University. Following the lecture the Tang will host the opening reception which usually features free food and booze as well as the opportunity to impress that hot girl from English class with your new found interest in Contemporary African Art. More information at The Tang’s Event page.
Environment and Object • Recent African Art is curated by Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History at Skidmore, and John Weber, Dayton Director of the Tang.
The Tang’s ‘Jewel Thief’ Catches NYT’s Eye
Friday, January 7th, 2011
The New York Time’s Arts Review takes a brief sojourn out of the five boroughs this week to see the ‘Jewel Thief’ exhibit at our very own Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. The show, curated by the Tang’s associate director Ian Berry and sculptor Jessica Stockholder, runs through Feb. 27th and seems to have thoroughly impressed the grey lady, who says:
Such shows, whatever flaws they may have in execution, make art history, past and present, bigger and richer. They bring more guests — some still strangers — to the table. And they assure that art in its many forms is productively refreshed and promoted. <via NYTimes.com>
If you’re in town I suggest you make your way over to the Tang as soon as you can before our quaint campus is invaded by stroller pushing, fleece wearing, organic egg eating Times subscribers. Really, It is only a matter of hours before their Subarus clog perimeter road.
Understory Curator’s Tour @ The Tang
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Tang Museum curator Ian Berry will be giving a curator’s tour of Understory the Paula Hayes exhibit currently on display in The Tang’s Payne Room. While you’re there maybe check out some other stuff?
