Category: Blog
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
The Concept of a Teaching Museum
Here at WCMA, we take our role as a teaching museum seriously. Check out some interesting links about the concept of a teaching museum.
WCMA at Night Postcard Drawings, Part II
As part of WCMA at Night the third Thursday in October, students made up their own LeWitt inspired drawing directions and had the option of following the directions created by others. This is the second post displaying these drawings.
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.