Calendar of Events

Calendar of Events

Spring 2008

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Jennifer Bird, Visiting Professor of Art History will speak on "Diana and Actaeon's Story on a Renaissance Birth Tray"
Bowdoin College Museum of Art for a gallery talk.
4:15 pm, Osher Gallery, Walker Art Building
Prof. Bird's talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

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Friday, April 11, 2008
Jerry Saltz, renowned art critic and columnist, will speak at Common Hour.

Jerry SaltzSaltz's talk is titled "The Good, the Bad, and the Very Bad; A Year in the Life of an Art Critic" and will look at where contemporary art is now, how it got here, and where it might be going. His talk will include slides, not only of paintings and sculptures, but of art openings, after parties, and other scenes less seen by the general public.

Known for his passionate opinions, lively, no nonsense writing, and insights about contemporary art, Saltz has been an active voice in the New York art world for more than two decades. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz is currently a columnist for New York magazine.

A three-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism, Saltz was named a finalist in 2000. He was also the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial.

He has lectured at Harvard, The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the St. Louis Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, and many others.

Common Hour is open to all Bowdoin students, faculty and staff.
12:30 p.m. , in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.

Charles DempseyWednesday, April 23, 2008
Charles Dempsey
Professor Emeritus, Department of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University
 The Adornment of Beauty
 Robert Lehman Foundation Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition "Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage." With support from the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship in the Humanities.
Dr. Dempsey is the author of The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s Primavera and Florentine Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent.

7:30 pm, Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
The event is free and open to the public.
Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

Maria RuvoldtWednesday, April 30, 2008
Maria Ruvoldt
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Music, Fordham University
A Pageant for a Prince: The Wedding of Francesco de' Medici and Joanna of Austria
With support from the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship in the Humanities Fund and in conjunction with the exhibition "Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage"

The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dream Dr. Ruvoldt is the author of The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams.

7:30 pm, Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Lecture: “Isabella Stewart Gardner”
Linda Docherty
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition, The Walker Sisters and Collecting in Victorian Boston.
7:00 p.m.
Zuckert Seminar Room, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Tuesday, February 12, 2008 Event Cancelled
 Anne Hoehn '76: M.A. Art Historian
It was the Best of Times, It was the Worst of Times
Ms. Hoehn will speak on the impact of the French Revolution on male and female artists in 18th century France.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Andrew Hare, Supervisory Conservator, Freer & Sackler Galleries,
Smithsonian Institution
Opening the Image: Appreciation and Care of Chinese Scrolls and Albums
Detail of Li Yunzhao (19th c.) "Five Boys" from an "Album of Sketches". Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of William Bingham II. 1942.039Andrew Hare apprenticed at the Usami Shokakudo studio within the Kyoto National Museum Conservation Center for Cultural Properties for ten years before accepting his current position at the Smithsonian Institution. His expertise include the materials, techniques and historic formats for mounting in China and Korea.

Location: TBD 7 pm
The event is free and open to the public.
Visual Culture in the 21st Century
Image: Detail of Li Yunzhao (19th c.) "Five Boys" from an "Album of Sketches". Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of William Bingham II. 1942.039

Konrad EisenbichlerWednesday, March 26, 2008
Konrad Eisenbichler
Professor of Italian and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
Marriage in Renaissance Italy: Patterns, Rituals and Depictions
Dr. Eisenbichler will speak on the variety and diversity of marriage practices in Renaissance Italy, both in practice and in literature, then focus on visual representations of marriage in the arts of the time with a final look at some of the objects associated with marriage.

7:30 pm, Kresge Auditorium in the Visual Arts Center
The event is free and open to the public.
Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage

Cary Liu, Curator, Asian Art, Princeton University Art MuseumTuesday, April 8, 2008
Cary Y. Liu
Curator, Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum
Chinese Art and the Art of Calligraphy
A specialist in Chinese art history, Dr. Liu has researched and published on Han dynasty funerary monuments, architecture for the living and the dead,and the art of Chinese calligraphy.

Image: Wang Xizhi (303-361), Ritual to Pray for Good Harvest7 pm, Kresge Auditorium in the Visual Arts Center
The event is free and open to the public.
Visual Culture in the 21st Century
Image: Wang Xizhi (303-361), Ritual to Pray for Good Harvest
Detail from a handscroll, Tang dynasty tracing copy, ink on ying huang paper
Princeton University Art Museum. Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (1998-140)