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Exhibitions

Elevator Music 12: Jessica Rylan

May 24, 2008 through September 20, 2008
Jessica Rylan is a sound artist, electronic musician, and instrument maker who lives and works in the Boston area. Her various installation and performance projects often feature analog modular synthesizers of her own design and construction. Performing nationally and internationally as Can’t, her one-woman... See more >

Opener 14: Dean Snyder: Almost Blue

May 17, 2008 through August 31, 2008
Born in Philadelphia in 1953, artist Dean Snyder grew up on a farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and spent family summer holidays on the boardwalks and arcades of the New Jersey shore—where the bright lights and seductive displays of the carnival sideshows left lasting memories. The tidal push-pull between... See more >

Opener 15: Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular

July 19, 2008 through January 4, 2009
Amy Sillman is an uncompromising painter. The Brooklyn-based artist’s widely influential body of work has built on familiar formats such as landscape, portraiture, abstraction, and caricature, only to move past them, pushing these motifs and categories into new places. Since August 2006, Sillman has engaged a very... See more >

Things Remain

May 24, 2008 through September 7, 2008
A painted chair, a cupboard, a lacy dress, a teacup—such objects of daily life bear witness to the events and interactions that take shape around them, acting as archives of the past. Things Remain brings together works by a select group of contemporary artists who seek to validate this notion, while also... See more >

Receptions

Summer Opening Reception

July 19, 2008
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Summer Opening Reception Opener 15: Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular Opener 14: Dean Snyder: Almost Blue Things Remain Elevator Music 12: Jessica Rylan Saturday, July 19, 6:00 - 7:30 pm Location: Tang Atrium See more >

Family Events

Family Saturdays

June 14, 2008 through August 16, 2008
2:00pm to 3:30pm
In keeping with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery’s mission to foster interdisciplinary thinking and studying, to invite active and collaborative learning and to awaken the community to the richness and diversity of the human experience through the medium of art, we offer a series of family and adult programs.... See more >

Curator's Tours

Curator's Tour: Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular

July 29, 2008
Begins at 12:00pm
With Ian Berry, Malloy Curator, Tang Museum Tuesday, July 29, Noon Location: Wachenheim Gallery See more >

Concerts/Recitals

Music for a Sunday Afternoon

July 6, 2008
Begins at 2:00pm
Theano and Chuck Lamb World Music and Jazz Duo Location: Tang Museum- North Entrance Rain location: Inside museum Free and open to the public. See more >

Upbeat on the Roof

June 6, 2008 through August 29, 2008
Begins at 7:00pm
Upbeat on the Roof A free music series presented each Friday night on the roof of the Tang. Musical styles include jazz, folk, swing and others. Location: Tang Rooftop Rain location: Payne Room, Tang Museum Phone: 518.580.8080 See more >