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Greetings! April promises to be an exciting month with an assortment of public programs related to R. Luke Dubois --- Now, the first major new media exhibition in the Museum's history. Join us for a presentation by the artist on March 30 and for lectures about Dubois's work on April 7 with curator Matthew McLendon and on April 28 with scholars Jon Ippolito and Richard Rinehart. Also, be sure to set aside the afternoon of April 14, when acclaimed artist Titus Kaphar visits campus to speak about the intersection of art and social justice. A recent drawing by Kaphar is now on view in To Count Art an Intimate Friend: Highlights from Bowdoin Collections, 1794 to the Present. We look forward to seeing you at the Museum.
Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear
Co-Directors
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
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Closing September 4, 2016
The exhibition presents a survey of the work of R. Luke DuBois, a New York-based composer, computer programmer, filmmaker, and installation artist. Operating at the intersection of the visual, performative, and time-based arts, DuBois explores what it means to live in today's data-saturated world of globalized information. The exhibition includes video, sound, and print-based works ranging from the late 1990s through today. R. Luke DuBois --- Now was organized by the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.
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OPENING SOON
Beautiful Monstrosities, Elegant Distortions: The Artifice of Sixteenth-Century Mannerism
Opening April 12, 2016
This exhibition examines the work of artists employed by the European nobility of the 16th century, including the Medici in Florence, the French royalty at Fontainebleau, and the Holy Roman Imperial courts in Vienna and Prague. Artists catered to their refined tastes by inventing sublime distortions of the human body, allegorical monsters, and ornamental grotesques. This exhibition is curated by Susan Wegner, associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College, and students from Art History 2240, "Mannerism."
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New Exhibition: R. Luke DuBois --- Now
The exhibition R. Luke DuBois --- Now, which opens March 30, is the first survey of the New York-based artist. As the director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, DuBois works as a composer, artist, and performer. He designs generative multimedia works, such as using a software program that manipulates large data sets in real time to expose aspects of subjects that we don't often see.
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The Museum Beyond Brunswick
Be on the lookout for notable exhibitions and loans from the Museum beyond Maine this year. Two recent exhibitions, A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne and Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective, are currently on the road. The Richard Tuttle show, the first in-depth look at Tuttle's printmaking process, will be on view at the Oklahoma State University Museum of Art until May 7.
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Titus Kaphar: "Yet Another Fight for Remembrance"
On April 14, we welcome New Haven-based artist Titus Kaphar for a public lecture. The Museum recently acquired Kaphar's drawing, The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XI (2015), a triple portrait of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown, currently on view in To Count Art an Intimate Friend.
His lecture will explore the power of reimagining history with an eye on contemporary politics, race, and social justice.
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Become a Member of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
We hope you'll visit the Museum this spring! There are several exhibitions, featuring art from ancient times to the present, on view for your enjoyment. For more information, please check our home page, or contact Caroline Baljon, Membership and Programs Coordinator, at (207)-725-3276.
The support of our members helps us to realize future exhibitions, public programs, and educational offerings, which are always open to students and the general public free of charge. Membership offers special access to events and serves as a connection to a community of students and faculty, who are actively engaged at the Museum. If you are not already a member, we hope that you will show your support for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art by joining today!
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MARCH 30
"An Artist's View: R. Luke DuBois"
4:30pm
Kresge Auditorium, VAC
MARCH 30
Spring Open House
5:30pm
Museum of Art
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APRIL 5
Gallery Conversation: R. Luke DuBois --- Now with visiting artist Erin Johnson
12:00 pm
Museum of Art moreAPRIL 7"R. Luke DuBois: On Art and Performance" with curator Matthew McLendon
4:30 pm
Kresge Auditorium, VAC
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APRIL 12
Gallery Conversation: Beautiful Monstrosities with art historian Susan Wegner
12:00pm
Museum of Art
APRIL 14
Titus Kaphar: Yet Another fight for Rememberance
4:30pm
Beam Classroom, VAC
Family Saturday
10:00am - 11:00am
APRIL 19
Gallery Conversation: R. Luke DuBois --- Now with scholar Crystal Hall12:00pm
APRIL 21
Music in the Museum with George Lopez
6:30pm
"Collecting Time" with scholars Jon Ippolito and Richard Rinehart
4:30pm
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Banner image: Fashionably Late for the Relationship, video still, (detail), 2008, by R. Luke DuBois.
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