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Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China presented a selection of academic artists’ responses to the cultural changes occurring in contemporary China. These portraits, models, and still lifes included themes of globalization, the Chinese landscape, folk arts and legends, and traditional and new... See more 

From a hirsute Beasty Girl to a lock of George Washington’s hair, this project explored the significance of facial, head, and body hair in western society from the Renaissance to the present. Though primarily focused on paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, the exhibition also included objects made from... See more 

Since Skidmore College seeks to realize an innovative model for a teaching museum, the college has sought ways to provide faculty with opportunities to develop their interests and expertise in using the museum in teaching and research. Established to support this effort, The Program in Object Exhibition and... See more 

By the fourteenth century, Tibetan artists were very much aware of Chinese painting traditions and motifs. Over the course of several centuries, there were regular exchanges between the courts at the imperial capitals of China and the religious centers of Tibet. Integrating the gnarled landscapes, fantastic fauna,... See more 

Early twentieth-century photographer and amateur anthropologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), convinced the American Indian was doomed to extinction, made it his lifelong goal to create an exhaustive document of memories of this “disappearing race.” Between 1900 and 1930, he traveled the Western half of North... See more 

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