2017 Events

Jan 12. Unveiling a Rare Image of Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural
Jan 26. Roundtable Discussion: "Iconoclasm and the Power of Images"
Jan 26. Winter Open House at the Museum of Art
Jan 31. Michael Amano '17 - Gallery Conversation: "Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima"
Feby 4. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Feby 7. James Higginbotham - Gallery Conversation: "AEGYPTUS: Egypt in the Greco Roman World"
Feby 9. Panel Discussion and Book Signing - Michael Kolster: "Take Me to the River: Photographs of Atlantic Rivers"
Feby 10. Gallery Conversation: "Artistic Expression in Modern Japanese Prints"
Feby 11. "We Love our Members" Sale
Feby 12. "We Love our Members" Sale
Feby 15. Helen Levine and Joachim Homann - Gallery Conversation: "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"
Feby 16. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Feby 16. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Feby 17. Gallery Conversation with Bowdoin Arts Society
Feby 21. Gallery Conversation: "Modern Medieval: Materiality and Spirituality in German Expressionism"
Feby 23. Open House at the Museum of Art
Feby 23. "Performing Art": Bowdoin Student Performances in the Museum Galleries
Mar 1. Marilyn Reizbaum and Ellen Tani - Gallery Conversation: "What Art Resolves: Fact and Fiction in the Work of Adi Nes"
Mar 3. Pamela Fletcher and Ellen Tani - Gallery Conversation: "Art & Resolution: 1900 to Today"
Mar 4. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Mar 7. Frank Goodyear and Laura Sprague - Gallery Conversation: "Art & Resolution, 1900 to Today"
Mar 28. Kendall Brown: "Japanese Prints Renewed: The Agents and Tangents of Sosaku Hanga"
Mar 30. Gallery Conversation: Urban Impressions: New York City in Prints, 1900-1940
Mar 31. Symposium: "Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution"
Mar 31. Reception: Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution
Apr 4. Ada Cohen: "From Nimrud to (New) England: Assyrian Art Over Time"
Apr 6. Tour and Reception: Traveling Artists/Circulating Images-Tracing Eighteenth-Century Networks
Apr 8. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Apr 11. Gallery Conversation - Mary Hart: "Urban Impressions"
Apr 13. Robin Reisenfeld: "The Presence of Spirituality in German Avant-Garde Responses to World War I"
Apr 20. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Apr 20. Music in the Museum with George Lopez
Apr 25. German Expressionist Film and Visual Art - Screening and Discussion: 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'
Apr 27. Elliot Bostwick Davis: "Reimagining 'American' Art: The MFA, Boston, and Museums of the Future"
May 2. Why Draw? Artist Natalie Frank on Drawings and their Subtexts
May 2. Opening Reception for "Why Draw?" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
May 6. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
May 9. Members' Evening at the Museum
Jun 9. Second Friday Brunswick!
Jun 24. Stephen Perkinson: "Lessons for Living: The Macabre in Renaissance Art"
Jun 24. Opening Reception: "The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe"
Jun 29. Music at the Museum
Jul 11. "Sketch, Study, Cartoon - Workflow in the Studio"
Jul 14. "Growing/Drawing-Translating Nature into Art"
Jul 15. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Jul 18. "Winslow Homer-Drawing and Watercolor"
Jul 20. Music at the Museum
Jul 20. Children's Hour at the Museum of Art
Jul 25. "John Smibert, James Bowdoin III, and the First Public Collection of Drawings in America"
Jul 27. "Why Collect? An Introduction to Collecting Old Master Drawings and Prints"
Aug 1. Gallery Conversation: "Death Personified"
Aug 3. Movie Night! "'Ghostbusters II' and the Macabre in Popular Culture Today"
Aug 5. Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Aug 8. Anne Collins Goodyear: "The Moment of the Memento Mori: The Past as Prologue for Contemporary Art"
Aug 11. Family Art Night at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Aug 15. Stephen Perkinson: "Reflections on the Ivory Mirror"
Aug 17. Craig Grimes and Stephen Perkinson: "Art and Anatomy: A Physician's Perspective on Renaissance Depictions of Mortality"
Aug 24. Workshop with Artist Elise Ansel: "Tracing the Artist's Hand"
Aug 25. Joachim Homann: "Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore: The Figure in Drawings of the European Avant-Garde"
Aug 31. "Appreciating Paper: Art's Best Supporting Actor"
Sep 7. A Conversation With Sir Paul Ruddock: "The Pleasures of Collecting, the Delights of Medieval Ivories, and the Importance of Art to Civilization"
Sep 8. 'Second Friday Brunswick!' at the Museum of Art
Sep 10. Book Salon: 'The Ivory Mirror' and Memento Mori in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'
Sep 12. The Ivory Mirror Film Series - 'Suspiria' - Modern Day Macabre: Ghosts, Zombies, and the Supernatural in Cinema
Sep 13. Panel Discussion: "Exhibiting Ivory Today: Historical Artifacts in a Contemporary Context"
Sep 16. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
Sep 19. Dallas Denery: "The Devil Lies, and So We Die: A Historian's Perspective on Memento Mori"
Sep 23. Exhibition Tour and Reception: "Constructing Revolution"
Sep 24. Page Herrlinger: "A Revolution in Images: Poster Art and the Socialist Imagination in Early Soviet Russia"
Sep 27. Thomas Laqueur: "What is the Work of the Dead?"
Sep 27. Reception: Thomas Laqueur and 'The Ivory Mirror'
Sep 28. George Keyes: "Why Collect? An Introduction to Collecting Old Master Drawings and Prints"
Oct 3. Gallery Conversation - Alyssa Gillespie: "Soviet Posters between the World Wars"
Oct 4. Sharon Louden: "The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life"
Oct 11. Jonathan Katz: "The Unknown Queer Warhol"
Oct 12. Remembering Artist Barkley Hendricks
Oct 12. Jacqueline Francis: "The Way Things Are Presented: Kerry James Marshall's Art of Hanging Pictures, 2002"
Oct 17. Patricia Reilly: "Monochrome Painting and Street Spectacle in Renaissance Florence"
Oct 19. Gallery Conversation: Bowdoin Art Society and Artist Carmen Papalia Focus on "Open Access"
Oct 22. The Ivory Mirror Book Salon - Seth Ramus on Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End"
Oct 24. The Ivory Mirror Film Series - 'Night of the Living Dead' - Modern Day Macabre: Ghosts, Zombies, and the Supernatural in Cinema
Oct 25. Film and Discussion: "Fall of the Romanov Dynasty"
Oct 26. Music at the Museum with George Lopez
Oct 26. Music at the Museum with George Lopez
Oct 31. CANCELED DUE TO POWER OUTAGE - Halloween and "The Ivory Mirror"
Nov 2. Bowdoin Slam Poets Society at the Museum
Nov 3. Symposium Keynote Lecture: "Last Things: Luxury Goods and Memento Mori Culture in Europe, c. 1400-1550"
Nov 3. Symposium Opening Reception: "Last Things: Luxury Goods and Memento Mori Culture in Europe, ca 1400-1550" Symposium
Nov 4. Symposium: "Last Things: Luxury Goods and Memento Mori Culture in Europe, c. 1400-1550"
Nov 9. "Death, Beauty, and Metaphysics: Art, Science and Memento Mori in Early Anatomical Representation" with Joanna Ebenstein
Nov 11. Concert Performance: Vocal Ensemble Blue Heron
Nov 14. The Ivory Mirror Film Series: 'It Follows' - Modern Day Macabre: Ghosts, Zombies, and the Supernatural in Cinema
Nov 16. "Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality," a Gallery Conversation with Frank Goodyear and Johna Cook
Nov 18. Family Saturday at the Museum of Art
Nov 29. Members' Preview Day at the Museum of Art
Nov 29. Members' Evening at the Museum of Art
Nov 30. "How an Uprising Became a Revolution, Or, What (Leading) Historical Actors Wanted Posterity to Remember About the Overthrow of Russia's Old Regime in February 1917" with Semion Lyandres
Dec 5. "Looking Anew: Modern Art and Estrangement" with Curator Joachim Homann
Dec 7. "The Cold War Between the Medium and the Message: Avant-Garde vs. Socialist Realism": Santagata Memorial Lecture with Boris Groys
Dec 14. Russian Music at the Museum with Pianist George Lopez
Dec 14. Music at the Museum with George Lopez