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  Co-Hosting the Ninth Biannual Symposium of the Association of Historians of American Art

  At the end of September, Bowdoin College and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art co-hosted the Ninth Biannual Symposium of the Association of Historians of American Art. The symposium was organized in collaboration with Colby College and the Colby College Museum of Art, and the Portland Museum of Art.
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  Building Community and Joy Through Art 

  Edwin Kim ’27 is the student curator behind the upcoming exhibition hyperVISIBLE: Building Community in Diaspora through Contemporary Art, opening on November 19, 2026. We spoke with Edwin and supervising curator Cassandra Mesick Braun to learn how hyperVISIBLE came together.
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  “What Did They Wear?” Opens at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art

  Curator Professor James Higginbotham discusses the new exhibition What Did They Wear? The Art of Personal Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean and how clothing, jewelry, fragrance, and accessories reveal the social lives of ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Perhaps the ancient world is not as distant as we might think.