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February 9 - April 20, 2008
Whether jarring or soothing, dissonant or melodic, sound results from action. The artists in Smack use distinct actions, like scratching, stomping, or dragging, to explore specific sounds. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Student Curated
August 4 - December 30, 2007
Bold yet shifty, stripes are a powerful pattern. The striped works on view here are by a select group of contemporary artists investigating the tensions, both visual and psychological, that the pattern can provoke. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
May 17 - August 12, 2007
The second Alumni Invitational organized by the Tang Museum includes the work of four artists that represent multiple generations and a variety of media. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions
Contexts: Writing in the Museum
March 9 - April 22, 2007
Can the writing we encounter in museums radically shift our understanding of the objects on view? Students in English 205D, "Writing for Museums" explore this question in this exhibition and the accompanying web feature. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
October 7 - December 30, 2006
"Twice Drawn" returns in a new iteration, revisiting the spring 2006 eccentric survey of modern and contemporary drawing to explore how context affects our understanding of art. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
June 24 - October 15, 2006
In our dreams, the familiar becomes strange and the bizarre is made believable. "Somnambulist/Fabulist" is a selection of works from the Tang's collections that explores the creative links between dreaming and storytelling. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
March 11 - June 4, 2006
Two drawings by over forty artists comprise this eccentric survey of the last half-century of modern and contemporary drawing. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
February 11 - September 10, 2006
Encompassing painting, video, sculpture, audio-video installation, and conceptual art, “And Therefore I Am” presents contemporary art about the experience of human consciousness, including thought, perception, and the workings of the mind and brain. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War
June 24 - October 30, 2005
"Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War" presents an historic portrait of wartime culture, while inviting the spectator to reflect on the critical role that design plays in our lives, especially during times of conflict. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
October 23, 2004 - June 5, 2005
Through historical artifacts, star charts, maps, globes, and contemporary art, this exhibition poses questions regarding the nature of time, the constancy of experience, and the human perception of change. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Paradise and Plumage: Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting
September 25, 2004 - January 2, 2005
This exhibition featured Chinese and Tibetan versions of identical compositions and juxtaposed paintings and objects of the fourteenth through eighteenth centuries from China and Tibet. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
June 26 - September 26, 2004
Featuring a diverse and eccentric group of artworks by seventy artists from the United States, Europe, and Asia, About Painting explores the legacy and developments of the medium in the twenty-first century. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
June 26, 2004 - January 2, 2005
About Sculpture accompanies the large-scale exhibition About Painting and features artworks from the Tang Collection as well as several on extended loan, including work by Jean Blackburn, Beverly Semmes, Dorothy Dehner, Charles Long, Richard Pettibone, and others. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
May 1 - June 6, 2004
The Tang’s first Alumni Invitational features new work by four artists, all Skidmore College alumni — ceramic artist David Dalva ’85, photographer Susan Lipper ’75, and painters Sarah Lutz ’89 and Susan Rabinowitz Malloy ’45. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions
Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China
October 18 - December 31, 2003
This exhibition presented a selection of academic artists’ responses to the cultural changes occurring in contemporary China, including globalization, the Chinese landscape, folk arts and legends, and expressions of Buddhism. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
June 27 - September 28, 2003
Over one hundred artworks by more than fifty artists inspired or influenced by Duchamp were brought together in an imaginative installation whose design took its cues from the trickster mentality of the artist’s own curatorial practice. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives
October 12 - December 16, 2002
Approximately two hundred vintage news photographs from the New York Times photo archives focus on a decade distinguished by such transforming cultural phenomena as McCarthyism, space travel, the civil rights movement, bebop and cool jazz, and Beat poetry. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection
June 22 - September 29, 2002
Featuring approximately one hundred works by more than forty-five artists, "From Pop to Now" offered the most comprehensive survey to date of works collected by international gallery owners Ileana and Michael Sonnabend. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation
February 2 - April 2, 2002
For this exhibition, the Tang invited six contemporary North American Indian artists to make works that would respond to Edward Curtis's controversial photographic representations of American Indians . See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art
January 26 - April 14, 2002
"Chain Reaction" looked to the influential early twentieth-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg to set the stage for contemporary artists engaged with humorous explorations of mechanical devices and functions. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
