The exhibition of charcoal drawings by Emily Nelligan and etchings by her late husband Marvin Bileck celebrates the natural beauty of Great Cranberry Island, where the couple summered for more than 50 years.
Before The Clock, the 24-hour filmic montage by Christian Marclay that proved to be a runaway international success in 2011, there wasTelephones (1995). A 7 1/2 minute compilation of Hollywood film clips, Telephones demonstrates the transformative power of Marclay’s editing.
Building on the foundational gifts of the Bowdoin family and other generous donors, the Museum collection has grown to encompass over 20,000 objects. This exhibition highlights some of the recent gifts and purchases expanding the Museum's encyclopedic holdings. This installation will feature select sculpture, paintings, photographs, works on paper, and decorative arts. Among those artists represented are Ansel Adams, Eva Hesse, Ando Hiroshige, Henry Moore, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Puryear and Man Ray.
This stellar selection of works by ten of the most discussed contemporary artists explores the subtle relations between the suggestion of physical movement in a work of art and the experience of the viewer of being moved by it. Artists include Chakaia Booker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Mitch Epstein, Christine Hiebert, Rob Pruitt, Gerhard Richter, Alyson Shotz, and Leo Villareal.
This exhibition explores the nature of divinity in the Ancient Mediterranean, the relationships between gods and the realms they control. The installation organizes around select realms (Eros and Love, Fertility and Nature) and explores the myths and iconography that connect these spheres of divinity. On view are some of Bowdoin's finest examples of Ancient sculpture and pottery, not often seen.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art announces the arrival of ten masterpieces of Italian, Dutch, and Spanish painting on long-term loan from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, one of the nation's premiere museums.