The Museum of Art recently purchased a porcelain sculpture by the noted contemporary artist Kiki Smith entitled Alice I (with Crossed Ankles), 2005. The work can be seen in Becoming a (Woman) Artist, one of the Museum’s reopening exhibitions, through November 25, 2007. Kiki Smith is an acclaimed artist whose work explores themes of female body politics, birth, death, and regeneration.
Exciting gift of 21 Japanese prints dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries donated by Robert Rothschild and his late wife Maurine who for many years taught Japanese history at the Fieldston School in New York.