I woke at 7:30 a.m., much later than the people on the hunt for art. I took my time walking across the icy paths, and I was worried when I first got there. It didn’t seem like there was anyone in line. It turns out that was because they put everyone in line in a different room to wait. There were more students than there was art to take home.
Read moreThe Steep Cost of Fashion: A Dialogue on Dilara Begum Jolly's Activist Art
The Payne Room of the Tang Teaching Museum was filled with students, faculty, and Saratoga residents sat in slanted rows of multicolored chairs as yellow leaves grazed across the windows of the room behind the audience.
Read moreRee Morton’s Contemporaries: Feminist Video Art at the Tang
The Tang advertises their Whole Grain series as one that explores classic and contemporary work in experimental film and video, and after attending last Thursday’s screening, I can confirm this statement.
Read moreOn The Shelf: Remembering Forgotten Pieces
Much of the Skidmore community is familiar with the high-quality works cyclically displayed at the Tang Teaching Museum. Fewer know just how extensive the assemblage is, surpassing 14,000 objects, and only select staff can take in all the art as a whole—art that seemingly has only the title “permanent collection” in common.
Read moreInside Two of the Tang’s Spring Exhibitions
Now that the spring semester is up and running, the Tang Teaching Museum is preparing to unveil their new spring exhibitions. Two that are set to open on Feb. 9 are Like Sugar and The Second Buddha: Master of Time. These exhibitions will be on display until the end of May.
Read moreDown the Rabbit Hole and into Tim Davis' Mind
Now an accomplished photographer, videographer, and certified collector (among other passions), Davis will be showcasing much of his work in a new Tang exhibit titled When We Dance (I get Ideas), which opens Oct. 20. Here, viewers will get a look into his eclectic passions and unique approach to art.
Read moreArt and Activism: National Voter Registration Day
The Tang Teaching Museum, Student Government Association, and For Freedoms, the new Tang exhibit, worked together to register Skidmore students to vote on Sept. 25. The event was part of SGA’s new Votemore initiative to counteract the confusing time that is Midterm Elections.
Read more"This Place": 12 Artists' Takes on Israel and the West Bank
This Place, an exhibit in the Tang Museum until late April, is a multi- year project that invited a group of international artists to explore Israel and the West Bank between 2009 and 2012. Each of the twelve photographers in This Place spent an extended period of time in a place where Muslims and Jews, Palestinians and Isrealis, Africans, Bedouins, and others live side by side. What resulted is an exhibit as equally powerful as it is sentimental.
Read moreNight at the Tang Museum
Something just happened to me that I still cannot comprehend. Even as I write this, I cannot be sure the events I will soon describe were not side effects of bodily exhaustion combined with caffeine abuse. Yet I write anyway. Because maybe if someone finds this, that means it happened to them too -- that they saw the pictures move.
Read moreTang Teaching Museum Receives Gift of More than 500 Photographs from the Jack Shear Collection
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces a major gift of over 500 photographs from photographer, curator, and collector Jack Shear.
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