At a Glance
Spring Events 2012

February 11 – April 21
2:00 – 3:30pm
Family Saturdays
(No program on April 7)
Suitable for children ages 5 and up with their adult companions, this program offers a brief tour followed by a hands-on art activity. Reservations strongly suggested, please call (518) 580-8080.

Saturday, February 18
5:00pm
Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Nancy Grossman and Elizabeth Streb
Join us for a conversation with choreographer and performer Elizabeth Streb and visual artist Nancy Grossman, whose work is featured in the Tang survey Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary. Sharing similarly uncompromising artistic visions, Streb and Grossman have been in dialogue for many years about their work.

Saturday, February 18
6:00 – 7:30pm
Opening Reception
Celebrating the spring exhibitions, Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein, Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary, Elevator Music 20: Sharon Hayes I March In The Parade Of Liberty, But as Long As I Love You I'm Not Free, Opener 23 Pam Lins: Denver Gold and Extensions of the Eye: Three Women Photographers.

Wednesday, February 29
Noon
Curator's Tour: Donald Moffett: The Extravagent Vein
Join curator Rachel Seligman for a tour through this 20-year survey of the work of Donald Moffett. The exhibition provides insight into the extraordinary breadth and range of Moffett’s practice, revealing a sustained political engagement and a decidedly non-traditional approach to painting in terms of both materials and strategies.

Thursday, March 1
7:00pm
Artist talk with Pam Lins
Brooklyn-based artist Pam Lins explores the psychological and aesthetic potential of objects and images. While Lins refers to her work primarily as sculpture, she consistently questions traditional notions of the medium through its relationship to other forms of representation, most notably photography and painting. Mixing a love of formal, modernist art with a madcap, idiosyncratic sensibility, Lins’s work interrogates both itself and its engagement with architecture and viewers.

Tuesday, March 6
Noon
Curator's Tour: Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary and Pam Lins: Denver Gold
with Ian Berry, Malloy Curator

Thursday, March 22
7:00pm
Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Donald Moffett and Mason Stokes, Associate
Professor and Chair of the English Department at Skidmore College
Join Mason Stokes in conversation with artist Donald Moffett as they discuss ideas, catalysts, and the context in which Moffett has been making art for the past twenty years. Stokes, an Associate Professor of English and chair of the English Department at Skidmore College, teaches courses in African American Literature and the history of sexuality.

Tuesday, March 27
Noon
Curator's Tour: Donald Moffett: The Extravagent Vein
Join curator Rachel Seligman for a tour through this 20-year survey of the work of Donald Moffett. The exhibition provides insight into the extraordinary breadth and range of Moffett’s practice, revealing a sustained political engagement and a decidedly non-traditional approach to painting in terms of both materials and strategies.

Thursday, April 5
7:00pm
Gallery talk and reception for Extensions of the Eye: Three Women Photographers, curated by Laura Mintz ’12
Extensions of the Eye, curated by Laura Mintz ’12, presents photography by Barbara Morgan, Naomi Savage, and Kunié Sugiura from the Tang Collection. Using the body as a point of departure, these three artists explore issues of identity, process, and space.

Tuesday, April 10
Noon
Gallery talk in Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein with Douglas Crimp
Join author and art historian Douglas Crimp for a gallery tour and discussion of the Moffett exhibition. Crimp is the author of On the Museum’s Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, as well as a contributor to the exhibition catalogue for Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein.

Tuesday, April 10
8:00pm
Reading with Douglas Crimp
Douglas Crimp, author and the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the
University of Rochester reading from his new book: Our Kind of Movie: The Films of Andy Warhol.

Wednesday, April 11
Noon
Curator's Tour: Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary and Pam Lins: Denver Gold
with Ian Berry, Malloy Curator

Thursday, April 12
7:30pm
An Evening of Spoken Word with Caroline Rothstein and Jared Paul.
Co-sponsored by the English Department, Gender Studies, Honors Forum, ICC/OSDP, Speaker's Bureau, Student Entertainment Committee, and the Tang Museum at Skidmore College

Opening musical performance by Artifacts

Wednesday, April 25
Noon
Curator's Tour: Donald Moffett: The Extravagent Vein
Join curator Rachel Seligman for a tour through this 20-year survey of the work of Donald Moffett. The exhibition provides insight into the extraordinary breadth and range of Moffett’s practice, revealing a sustained political engagement and a decidedly non-traditional approach to painting in terms of both materials and strategies.