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Art of the Month Club: Jonathan D. Secor
“I will meet you at the eyes” was what the nice Irish woman speaking from her office in mid-town Manhattan said shortly after Hurricane Sandy had devastated large swaths of New York, ending what had already been a somewhat bizarre conversation about post storm logistics of picking up eleven year old girls from Brooklyn, Manhattan and Westchester. “I will meet you at the eyes”.
Hopper in Paris
The Edward Hopper painting, Morning in the City, 1944, from the WCMA permanent collection is currently on view in a major Edward Hopper exhibition, now at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Art of the Month Club: Nicolas Tomczyk
As a Russian major who is intensely interested in history, I’ve been lucky to work with Elizabeth Gallerani and WCMA this semester translating a series of 26 Soviet Propaganda posters from the 1920s. The Alumni who donated these works many years ago, Telford Taylor, served in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials and one can only guess at how he came across such a collection.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt at WCMA: World AIDS Day 2012
A block of panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt was installed today in the atrium of the Williams College Museum of Art.
WCMA Close-Up Challenge!
This is a close-up shot of a painting in WCMA’s collection, currently on display. Do you know which one? Leave
Museum Visual Diary by Jenny Tang
Williams student Jenny Tang shares a visual diary of activities at the museum this season from her point of view, along with some reflections on what makes WCMA special.
Art of the Month Club: Steve Satullo
Among the many things that art can do, one of the most persistent is to provide a portal through time. Thus an art museum is a time machine, or a collection of them, and within the confines of WCMA, the most transporting art object for me is a piece of architecture, the original Lawrence Hall rotunda.
See Tony Orrico’s drawing from WCMA at Night
Visual artist, performer, and choreographer Tony Orrico spent four hours at WCMA last night doing a live performance drawing during the WCMA at Night event.