Calendar

June 6, 2009 through April 25, 2010
In 1980, artist Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) recalled a dream he had of the ideal exhibition space: a dark room with “projected images, movies, and stills everywhere,” which he playfully referred to as “amazement park.” Suspended by a wire device, the viewer swings through the space as “images like snowflakes…fly... See more 

May 30, 2009 through November 1, 2009
British Pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005) pioneered commercial silkscreen methods for fine art, simultaneously exploiting technology to make art and satirizing the exploitation of images by our technology-driven culture. Curated by Skidmore MALS graduate Michelle Paquette ’08, this exhibition from the Tang... See more 

July 18, 2009 through March 14, 2010
Elevator Music 15 features Annea Lockwood’s A Sound Map Of The Hudson River, an aural journey spanning from the source of the river—Lake Tear of the Clouds in the Adirondack peaks—downstream to the Lower Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean. Originally commissioned by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, the piece is... See more 

July 18, 2009 through March 14, 2010
Lives of the Hudson explores the long history of one of America's greatest rivers. Four themes have guided us in our organization of this exhibition: the natural river, the imagined river, the human river, and the working river. Along with important works by Hudson River School painters, Lives of the Hudson... See more 

September 26, 2009 through January 3, 2010
The Way We Weren’t features a recent series of paintings that continues artist Nicole Eisenman's almost two decades-long exploration of our social and psychological lives. This new body of work explores ways we cope with sadness, hardship, and depression in a culture engrossed with happiness. Surly and melancholic... See more 

September 26, 2009 through January 3, 2010
Arlene Shechet’s recent glazed ceramic objects float, twist, and puff up atop stacks of unadorned concrete, plaster, wood, and steel. While Shechet has worked in sculpture for over two decades, these new works shift away from her earlier explorations of iconographic Buddhist imagery toward more abstract forms and... See more 

September 26, 2009 through January 3, 2010
Fences to prevent loitering; spikes on building ledges to deter sitting; pylons to direct traffic flow—all ways of controlling our physical movement in a city’s supposedly public spaces. With the heightened anxiety and climate of fear that grew after the World Trade Center attacks, these structures sprung up in... See more 

October 14, 2009
Begins at 7:00pm
With Robert Boyle, founder of Riverkeeper, the Hudson Fisherman’s Association, and the Water Keeper Alliance and Tom Lewis, co-organizer of the exhibition and Professor of English, Skidmore College. Wednesday, October 14, 7:00PM See more 

October 17, 2009
Begins at 3:00pm
With artists Bob Braine and Leslie Reed, Judy Halstead, Professor of Chemistry at Skidmore College and Karen Kellogg, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program at Skidmore College. Saturday, October 17, 3:00PM See more 

October 8, 2009 through November 12, 2009
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Join Skidmore student docents on tours of Lives of the Hudson Thursday, October 8, 7:00PM Student docents: Yasmin Hormozi, Xan Goldberg, and Katrina Puffer Thursday, October 22, 7:00PM Student docents: Adam Friedgen, Morgan Long, Dan Fisher Thursday, November 12, 7:00PM Student docents: Stefan... See more 

October 30, 2009
Begins at 2:30pm
With Henry Drewal, Patricia Simons and Skidmore College Faculty Friday, October 30, 2:30 PM See more 

October 29, 2009
Begins at 5:30pm
With Patricia Simons, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Michigan Thursday, October 29, 5:30 PM See more 

October 28, 2009
Begins at 5:30pm
With Henry Drewal, University of Wisconsin-Madison Wednesday, October 28, 5:30 PM See more 

October 10, 2009 through December 12, 2009
2:00pm to 3:30pm
In keeping with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery’s mission to foster interdisciplinary thinking and studying, to invite active and collaborative learning and to awaken the community to the richness and diversity of the human experience through the medium of art, we offer a series of family and adult programs.... See more 

October 13, 2009
Begins at 12:00pm
With Ian Berry, Malloy Curator, Tang Museum Tuesday, October 13, Noon See more 

October 8, 2009
Begins at 12:00pm
With Ian Berry, Malloy Curator, Tang Museum Thursday, October 8, Noon See more 

October 28, 2009 through October 30, 2009
Alfred Z. Solomon Residency: “Gender Studies and Art History” October 28-30, 2009 Titled “Gender Studies and Art History,” the three-day residency will include two lectures and a panel discussion that are free and open to the public. The events will take place in the museum’s Payne Presentation Room, and will... See more