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Lecture
“American Artists as Collectors and Tastemakers: Objects, History, and the Imagined Self”
Isabel L. Taube, teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts, New York.
7:00 p.m., Main Lounge, Moulton Union, Bowdoin College
After graduating from Bowdoin College, Isabel Taube served as the Museum of Art's first Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow. Using William Merritt Chase and Walter Gay as examples, she discusses the role of the artist as self-promoter, tastemaker, and interior designer during a period when art and decorative objects took on deep personal significance.
Sponsored by the Museum of Art and the Department of Art History
Gallery Talks
by the students of Art History 261
4:30 p.m., Bowdoin College Museum of Art
The students in the Bowdoin Art History course, Art History 261 "Private Treasures; Public Gifts," curated the exhibition Insight Out: Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collections.
Gallery Talks
by the students of Art History 261
2:00 p.m., Bowdoin College Museum of Art
The students in the Bowdoin Art History course, Art History 261 "Private Treasures; Public Gifts," curated the exhibition Insight Out: Exploring Gifts of Art from Private Collections.
Symposium
“Bowdoin Women in the Visual Arts”
Pamela M. Fletcher, Associate Professor of the History of Art, Bowdoin College is moderator of the discussion.
4:00 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College
Jointly organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Department of Art, the symposium brings together alumnae who operate in the art world in many professions. In this conversation, they share insights and stories that shed light on the myriad contributions of women to the visual arts.
Sponsored by Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art, and Department of Visual Arts, Bowdoin College
Lecture
“Private Collecting in the Age of Museums”
Andrew McClellan, Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences, Professor of Art History, Tufts University
4:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College
Andrew McClellan is a leading scholar of the history and theory of art museums. Among his ground breaking publications are “Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Creation of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth Century Paris” (1994) and “The Art Museum From Boullée to Bilbao” (2008).
This Museum of Art Bicentennial Lecture is made possible with generous support from the Robert Lehman Foundation.
Lecture
“The Museum of Art as Sensory Environment”
Barbara M. Stafford, Distinguished University Visiting Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology
4:30 p.m., Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College
Barbara Maria Stafford’s work has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Her most recent book, Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images (2007), charts the revolutionary ways the neurosciences are changing our views of the human sensorium.
This Museum of Art Bicentennial Lecture is made possible with generous support from the Robert Lehman Foundation.
