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Imperial Post: Views of Colonial Delhi
May 4 - May 22, 2011
Imperial Post explores Delhi, India, through the lens of tourist souvenirs. The exhibition explores the rise and rapid dissemination of the picture postcard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Student Curated
Environment and Object
Recent African Art
February 5 - July 31, 2011
This exhibition examines the broad impact of the environment on recent African art, and the use of found objects and materials as media. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
February 5 - April 17, 2011
Unstable Ground pairs two complementary projects that visually present landscape changes over time. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Student Curated
September 7, 2010 - January 2, 2011
Eye Rhymes will introduce viewers to the intersections of text and image while serving as a classroom space for the fall 2010 Scribner Seminar, Ways of Seeing: Image, Text, Illumination. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Student Curated
November 14, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Thirteen African pots from the Tang's permanent collection, organized according to three gender-specific themes. Curated by Prof Lisa Aronson's Art History class Topics in Gender and Visual Culture: Africa. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Student Curated
July 18, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Lives of the Hudson explores the long history of one of America’s greatest rivers, surveying the natural river, the imagined river, the human river, and the working river. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated
January 31 - April 26, 2009
Visionary illustrations by William Blake on loan from Skidmore College’s Special Collections, Lucy Scribner Library, are joined by a new series of Blake-inspired works by Tim Rollins and K.O.S. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated
October 11, 2008 - January 23, 2009
This study exhibition highlighting the interdisciplinary work of 1997 Skidmore graduate Heather Hurst features large-scale renderings of Maya murals, original architectural drawings, and related historical objects drawn from the Tang Museum collection. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated
September 8, 2007 - April 13, 2008
Molecules That Matter showcases ten organic molecules that profoundly altered our world in the twentieth century. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling 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 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
Hair: Untangling a Social History
January 24 - June 6, 2004
From a hirsute Beasty Girl to a lock of George Washington’s hair, this project explores the significance of facial, head, and body hair in western society from the Renaissance to the present. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated
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
Dressed to Express: Costume in Victorian Illustration
March 19 - April 14, 2002
The phrase “clothes make the man” was a truth universally acknowledged in Victorian Britain. Dress expressed one’s place in a hierarchical society with limited opportunity for social mobility. This exhibition includes nineteenth-century novels, periodicals, and memoirs that illustrate how dress tran... See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Student Curated
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
Africa Embodied: The Language of Adornment
November 29 - December 21, 2001
This exhibition focuses on how various African cultures use body art to communicate ideas and beliefs related to social organization, spirituality, gender roles, and nonverbal expression. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Student Curated
Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art
June 30 - September 23, 2001
"Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art" proposed new ways of looking at familiar and beloved forms alongside contemporary avant-garde art. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science
March 3 - June 3, 2001
Focusing on two specific domains, the human body and northeastern North America, this exhibition examined how we depict realms inaccessible to our senses. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
