Mount Holyoke College Department of Art History and Architecture

04/01/2020

An excellent creative outlet and coping method is to find space 'between art and quarantine':

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01/22/2015

Ever wondered about the origin of these distinguished fellows?
What a way to represent the meaningful relationships that students form with their professors, particularly advisors.

An inspiring thought for the beginning of the semester!

Professors of art history, Bettina Bergmann and Jessica Maier, shared an advisor while at Columbia (most appropriately named Richard Brilliant), who years later sent them cards, from which they cut out the figures and now display them on their office doors.

Dr. Bergmann’s is of Socrates, taken from an 18th century painting, and Dr. Maier’s is a Renaissance depiction of Dante.

05/30/2014

Congratulations to Class of 2014!

04/17/2014

Suzanne Schleck Icons has made an image of Frances Perkins to be presented later this month to the Frances Perkins Center in Newcastle, ME.

Just completed icon of Frances Perkins - not varnished yet.

04/15/2014

Leading Women in the Arts
The Leading Women in the Arts series was launched at the Weissman Center for Leadership in Spring 2006. This engaging program reflects the center's support of public presentations by scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners that engage the academic work of the college with the public sphere.

Invited guest artists are featured in public campus discussions about the interconnections between creative expression of all forms and cultural transformations.

Billie Tsien

A Building is a Verb
Spring 2014

Thursday, April 17
7:00 PM
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
Free and open to the public

Student Leadership and Careers Luncheon with Billie Tsien
Thursday, April 17
12:15 PM
Willits-Hallowell
Preregistration required for students

Billie Tsien, Leading Women in the Arts guest-artist in residence, recently attended a lecture where the writer Seamus Heaney was quoted as saying that as he got older he felt more like a noun than a verb. Tsien started to think about architecture and decided that for her and her partner, Tod Williams, buildings are verbs. Their work is less and less interested in buildings as objects (nouns) and more and more interested in buildings as experiences (verbs). Tsien will present several of their recent projects including the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the process of crafting these experiences.

Billie Tsien was born in Ithaca, New York. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from Yale and her Masters in Architecture from UCLA. Billie Tsien has worked with Tod Williams since 1977 and in 1986 they formed the partnership of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York City.

Their compelling body of work includes Hereford College at the University of Virginia, the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California, the Cranbrook Natatorium in Michigan, the American Folk Art Museum in New York, Skirkanich Hall Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, two additions to the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the CV Starr East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the David Rubenstein Atrium at New York’s Lincoln Center, and the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College. Projects including the Asia Society Center in Hong Kong, the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington DC, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, and a dormitory at Haverford College in Philadelphia were completed between 2011 and 2012. An information technology campus for Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai, India is under construction, in addition to two new skating rinks for Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. The firm, with Davis Brody Bond, was recently awarded the commission to design the New Embassy Compound in Mexico City.

In addition to practicing, teaching and lecturing, Tsien serves on the advisory council for the Yale School of Architecture, and is a Director of the Public Art Fund, the Architectural League of New York, and the American Academy of Rome, where she was in residence in 1999. In 2007, Tsien was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

03/25/2014

Art History Tea tomorrow!! Please come!!

02/28/2014

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum/anthropology-301-01-student-projects

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01/22/2014

Happy new year, everyone, and welcome back for spring 2014!

THIS FRIDAY is the exhibition opening of "El Anatsui and the Reinvention of Sculpture" at the MHCAM: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/artmuseum/events.

Also, registration of "Crafting a Life in the Arts" is open: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/cdc/cala.
Don't miss it!

El Anatsui and the Reinvention of SculptureFriday, 24 January 2014 at 5:30 p.m.Chika Okeke-AguluAssociate ProfessorPrinceton UniversityGamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke CollegeReception to follow

01/07/2014

D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts Exhibits

INTENT TO DECEIVE: FAKES AND FORGERIES IN THE ART WORLD

January 21st, 2014 through April 27th, 2014

Changing Exhibitions Gallery, Second Floor
Michele & Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts

Intent to Deceive: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art World
This ground-breaking exhibition explores some of the most infamous scandals of the past century and the forgers that perpetrated them.

The art world's most notorious con artists are profiled, including Elmyr de Hory, the subject of Orsen Welles’ film F is for Fake, and Mark Landis, a serial counterfeiter recently profiled in The New Yorker. View masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, and Mirò alongside examples of ingenious fakes that confounded the experts. The techniques and amazing skill employed in creating these forgeries are also explored, as well as detailed descriptions of how art experts use the latest technology to reveal these hoaxes.

The exhibit also delves into the mind of the serial forger, including examples of their legitimate original works as well as their personal effects and ephemera related to their ­­­­­­­lives as master con artists.

Organized by International Arts & Artists and Colette Loll

Media sponsor: WGBY Public Television for Western New England

12/02/2013

Hello Majors and Prospective Majors!

We hope that you will attend the Art History Internship Presentation on Tuesday, December 3rd at 4:30 pm in room 221 of the Art Building.

Several majors that have had internships will speak about their experiences, and snacks will be served.

We hope to see you there!