The Bowdoin art museum's "Ivory MIrror" show, examines how mortality played into Renaissance culture. This macabre genre, with its portrayal of decaying corpses, skulls and skeletons, is described by the reviewer as "oft-misunderstood."
Exhibition Tour and Reception: "Constructing Revolution"
September 23, 20175:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Guest curator Kristina Toland leads a tour of the new exhibition "Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars". A reception will follow.
September 24, 20172:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Page Herrlinger delivers the opening lecture for 'Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from between the World Wars.'
Thomas Laqueur: "What is the Work of the Dead?"
September 27, 20174:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at Berkeley, Thomas W. Laqueur specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. Why do the living need the dead and therefore care for their bodies? Join us as Laqueur explores this question. The talk will be followed by a reception at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Reception: Thomas Laqueur and 'The Ivory Mirror'
September 27, 20175:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
A reception in the Museum of Art following Thomas Laqueur's lecture, "What is the Work of The Dead."
George Keyes: "Why Collect? An Introduction to Collecting Old Master Drawings and Prints"
September 28, 20176:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
George Keyes, former chief curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, leads a workshop about collecting works of art on paper.
Gallery Conversation - Alyssa Gillespie: "Soviet Posters between the World Wars"
October 3, 201712:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Alyssa Gillespie, associate professor of Russian, discusses a selection of Soviet posters from between the World Wars.
Sharon Louden: "The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life"
October 4, 20174:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Artist and educator Sharon Louden will discuss her new volume, 'The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life'.
Jonathan Katz: "Queer Embodiment and AIDS"
October 11, 20174:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Jonathan D. Katz, Director, Visual Studies Doctoral Program, Department of Art, University at Buffalo and a leading scholar of the intersection of art history and queer studies, offers his perspective on the embodiment of queerness in art of the past of century.
October 12, 201712:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Friends and collectors of artist Barkley Hendricks share their memories of the late artist.
October 12, 20174:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Jacqueline Francis, California College of the Arts in San Francisco, considers the representation of the figure in the work of contemporary artists.
"Monochrome Painting and Street Spectacle in Renaissance Florence"
October 17, 20174:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Patricia Reilly, Swarthmore College, addresses the important role monochrome painting played in Florentine religious and triumphal street spectacles
Gallery Conversation: Bowdoin Arts Society
October 19, 20177:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Members of the Bowdoin Arts Society will use works in the Museum to lead a public discussion about a current topic in the art world.
October 22, 20172:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
A discussion of Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" led by Seth Ramus
October 24, 20177:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Many films deal with death, the afterlife, and the macabre. Night of the Living Dead, 1968, the classic zombie film directed by George A. Romero, will be screened as the second of three films in this series shown in conjunction with the exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe. Greg Beckett, assistant professor of anthropology, sociology, and anthropology, and Dallas Denery, professor of history will lead a discussion following the film.
Film and discussion: "Fall of the Romanov Dynasty"
October 25, 20177:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
The 1927 classic film, "Fall of the Romanov Dynasty," followed by discussion
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
October 26, 20175:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
George Lopez performs music associated with the exhibition, "The Ivory Mirror"
Music at the Museum with George Lopez
October 26, 20177:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
George Lopez performs music associated with "The Ivory Mirror."
Halloween and "The Ivory Mirror"
October 31, 20174:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Celebrate Halloween with a spooky program in the exhibition "The Ivory Mirror"
November 3, 20175:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Opening reception for symposium, "Last Things: Luxury Goods and Memento Mori Culture in Europe, ca. 1400-1550"
"Death, Beauty, and Metaphysics: Art, Science and Memento Mori in Early Anatomical Representation"
November 9, 20174:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Joanna Ebenstein, co-founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, explores the intersections of art and medicine, and death and culture, and their resonating effects on our culture and history.
November 11, 20172:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Bowdoin Chapel, Chapel
A concert by vocal ensemble Blue Heron, presented in conjunction with the exhibit The Ivory Mirror. Blue Heron combines a commitment to a vivid live performance with the study of historical performance practices, and the ensemble is established as the finest of its type in North America. Sponsored by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Departments of Art History and Music
November 14, 20177:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium
Many films deal with death, the afterlife, and the macabre. It Follows, 2014, the striking American horror film by David Robert Mitchell, is the final of three films in this series shown in conjunction with the exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe. Aviva Briefel, professor of English and cinema studies, and Ann Kibbie, associate professor of English, lead a discussion following the film.
Gallery Conversation with Frank Goodyear and Johna Cook
November 16, 20174:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Museum of Art, Pavilion
Frank Goodyear and Johna Cook '19 discuss "Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality"
