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Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College to present "bio-inspired" artworks by Alyson Shotz SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—New York City artist Alyson Schotz replicates nature as many of us experience it nowadays—interfaced with technology and filtered through culture; tamed, trimmed, and patented. Opener 5: Alyson Shotz:... See more 

Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler retrospective opens at Tang During their 17-year collaboration, the artist team of Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most profound and influential conceptual art projects of the times. Their work has not been widely recognized, however--many of their strongest pieces... See more 

New Tang Exhibition Explores Nature of Human Consciousness In his 1637 treatise Discourse on Method, the French philosopher René Descartes coined a concise and enduring definition of what makes us human: “I think, therefore I am.” Taking Descartes's famous dictum as its springboard, a new exhibition, “And... See more 

Exhibition of contemporary academic Chinese artworks opens Oct. 16 at Skidmore’s Tang Museum SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China will be on view Oct. 16–Dec. 31, at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. The exhibition is presented in... See more 

Tang hosts retrospective of American artist Fred Wilson— Art that questions museums and their biases SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. —The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979-2000 from Oct. 26 to Dec. 31, 2002. The exhibition will include nearly... See more 

New Tang exhibition teases out the social meanings of hair, from the Renaissance era to the present SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—Hair might be defined in any standard dictionary as “a slender threadlike outgrowth of the epidermis of an animal.” But hair can also be a subtle and complex cultural signifier that... See more 

Joachim Schmid Photoworks to Feature Mid-Career Retrospective of Artist's Work As an artist who works in the medium of found photography, Joachim Schmid salvages photos from flea markets and archives, cuts them out of catalogues and publications, retrieves them from city streets, and finds them on the Internet. He... See more 

Kara Walker to exhibit powerful and elegant artworks at Skidmore’s Tang Teaching Museum Jan. 18–June 1 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. —The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress, from Jan. 18 through June 1, 2003. An exhibition of selected and new works... See more 

Master Ceramicist Kathy Butterly Is Focus of Tang Opener Small, quirky works by a master ceramicist will be on view in Opener 10: Kathy Butterly, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery Oct. 1 to Dec. 30, 2005. The latest in the Tang's series of exhibitions introducing new work and artists to... See more 

Marcel Duchamp and artistic descendants will be on view at playfully inventive Tang Museum exhibition this summer SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — In 1919, Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, signed it, and inscribed it L.H.O.O.Q. Pronounced in French, the letters sound like... See more 

Tang's Molecules That Matter opens More than 500 visitors checked out Molecules That Matter at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery on its opening day, Saturday, Sept. 8. There they could take in a discussion of art and science, attend an opening reception for all four current exhibitions, and click on to the... See more 

Nina Katchadourian Featured Artist in New Tang Exhibition The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery will present Opener 11: Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction, from June 24 through Dec. 30. Part of the Tang Museum's ongoing series exhibiting new artists and artworks, All Forms of Attraction... See more 

Tang's Heavyweight Champion Opener to Showcase Work by Martin Kersels Opener 12: Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion gathers thirteen years of mixed-media work by Los Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels into one gallery-filling installation, on view Feb. 3–June 17, 2007, at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum... See more 

Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College to present colorful, exuberant installation by Paul Henry Ramirez SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.—A new work by New York City painter Paul Henry Ramirez, described by Artforum magazine as “a sensual formalist and a formal sensualist,” will be on view Nov. 2, 2002, through Jan. 5,... See more 

Retrospective of Work by Richard Pettibone to Open at the Tang For the past 40 years, artist Richard Pettibone has made miniature replicas of the artworks he most admired, borrowing from Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Andy Warhol, among others. More than 200 of his exquisite homages to major modern artworks... See more 

Tang Museum at Skidmore explores race and sexuality with performance video and sculpture by New York artist Nayland Blake SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will present Opener 3: Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 from September 27 to... See more 

Tang Featured in New Book on Work of Architect Antoine Predock The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery figures prominently in a new book on the work of architect Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock: Architect (Vol. 4) by Brad Collins (Rizzoli Publications, 2006). According to the publisher, the... See more 

Tang celebrates fifth anniversary with ambitious plans Since opening in October 2000, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has attracted national and regional notice for its striking architecture, bold and often experimental exhibitions, award-winning catalogues and... See more 

Modern and Contemporary Drawings Featured in New Tang Exhibition Recent explorations of the medium of drawing will be the focus of Twice Drawn, a two-part exhibition of modern and contemporary drawings to be presented at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery from March 11-June 4 and Oct. 7-Dec. 30, 2006. Taken... See more 

Twice Drawn, a Drawing Exhibition, Opens Oct. 7 In an age of lightning-fast global technology, drawing might seem to be a painstakingly slow and intimate art form. But it is perennially popular among the many artists whose works will appear in Twice Drawn (Oct. 7-Dec. 30, 2006) at the Frances Young Tang Teaching... See more 

20th-Century Propaganda Featured in New Tang Exhibition When the major wars of the first half of the 20th century moved beyond the battlefield to engage the citizens as well as the military of warring nations, governments commissioned posters and other propaganda to support their war efforts. An array of these... See more 

Masquerade portraits from West Africa on view at the Tang The urge to dress in costumes--whether for celebration or ceremony--is a phenomenon that crosses cultures and frees the human spirit in ways that intrigue photographer Phyllis Galembo. For the past 20 years, Galembo has traveled to Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba,... See more 

Skidmore College has received a grant of $1.7 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support and enhance interdisciplinary liberal-arts teaching and learning. The Mellon Foundation grant will expand and consolidate Skidmore’s program of museum-based education, in which exhibitions at the college’s... See more