Exhibitions

Bold yet shifty, stripes are a powerful pattern. Their marks are found everywhere— zipping through toothpaste and across running shoes, coating neckties, spinnakers, and zoot suits. Hovering somewhere between line and shape, stripes might signal a disturbance or coax order from disarray. They seem to move quickly but... See more 

Atmospherics/Weather Works is a project that translates data collected from meteorological events into sound. Andrea Polli weaves information from a highly detailed meteorological model of Hurricane Bob, the storm that ravaged coastal areas of the Northeastern United States in August 1991, into a sound composition... See more 

Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba,... See more 

Alumni Invitational 2 The second Alumni Invitational organized by the Tang Museum includes the work of four artists that represent multiple generations and a variety of media. On view will be conceptual-rich systematic drawings and prints by Linda Karshan, aerial view landscape paintings and photographs by Diane... See more 

In 1989 Joachim Schmid coined the motto "No new photographs until the old ones have been used up!" This exhibition marks the first retrospective of Schmid's work, and indeed, in twenty-five years he has rarely shown images that he made himself. Instead, Schmid assembles related groups of found photos to reveal... See more 

For Martin Kersels, whose six-foot-seven-inch frame towers over most, size really does matter. His sculptures, photographs, and performances, though frequently funny and light-hearted at first reading, often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in. Kersels’s most recent works take... See more 

If a robot could dream, fall in love, feel pain, and even make art, must we fear it as in Hollywood depictions or might we celebrate its dreams instead? In a future where this is possible, let us consider what a sentient elevator might think about, dream about, or sing about. What would the Elevator’s Music be?... See more 

As part of its mission, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery provides Skidmore College students and faculty with first-hand experiences of original works of art and objects of material culture. The art works and artifacts on view here, drawn from the collections of the Tang and the Mount Holyoke... See more