Today’s post comes from Kristina Arike, Class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent.
Friday, April 13, was the opening of the exhibition, “Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu.” The opening lecture, entitled “Julie Mehretu: Migrations,” was presented by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn ’89. Rohatyn is a gallerist, art advisor, independent curator, and collector, and even served...
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
Currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum is “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the U.S.” This exhibition includes works by female surrealist artists dating from the early 1930s through the late 1960s, and includes...
Today’s post comes from Emily MacLeod, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
At the opening of Mapping Gothic France, the newest exhibition at the museum, visitors were treated to medieval choral music from the Vassar Camerata, a student-run early music ensemble. The exhibition transposes cathedral architecture onto the existing structure of the Art Center....
Today’s post comes from Julie MacDonald, class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
While you may think of the Art Center as a place for quiet reflection or personal exploration, it is also a thriving educational center for Vassar students as well as the surrounding community. As a student docent I am frequently in contact...
Today’s post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
While reading Brian O’Doherty’s Inside the White Cube for an art history class I am taking this semester, I came across a section on how the work of Frank Stella operates within the gallery space. I was immediately reminded of Stella’s Slieve...
Today’s post comes from Joe Brichacek, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
I occasionally wander through the Art Center and attempt to view each of the paintings and sculptures as historical documents. Many paintings are explicitly historical, especially in the nineteenth-century gallery where we find Gustave Doré’s The Defense of Paris painted in 1871,...
Today’s post comes from Emily MacLeod, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
Occasionally the Art Center has the privilege of lending out works from our permanent collection to traveling exhibitions that can be seen across the country. Though we might miss seeing a given artwork on our wall everyday, knowing that we are sharing...
Today’s post comes from Lina Kavaliunas, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
This spring break I found my way back home to Chicago where I saw the exhibition MCA DNA: Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark became known for his “anarchitecture” works where he carved out sections...
Today’s post comes from Justine Paradis, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.
With more than 18,000 objects in the collection of the Francis Lehman Loeb Art Center, it is always a special treat to explore the rich resources held on site in storage vaults. On a recent day in February, Professor Mark Schlessman of...
Today’s post comes from Carlos Ignacio Hernandez, Class of 2014 and Art Center Multimedia Student Assistant.
At the Art Center we are very excited to officially make public our latest endeavor: our very first podcast! Listen to curator Mary-Kay Lombino as she guides us, together with Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi, through the Frances Lehman Loeb Art...
Today’s post comes from Emily MacLeod, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.
“What do you see?”
This is the first line of the play Red by John Logan—and a question that we as docents often ask when starting a dialogue about works in our collection. The plot follows Mark Rothko as he works on his...
Today’s post comes from Kristina Arike, class of 2014 and Art Center Student Docent.
On February 28, Mita Choudhury, Associate Professor of History, presented this semester’s final installment of the Artful Dodger. The subjects of her discussion were two seventeenth-century Dutch portraits painted by Paul Lesire, “Alida Pietersdr. Van Scharlaken, aged 25, 1637” and “Portrait of...
![[Extended through June 10th!] "Mapping Gothic France"](http://blogs.vassar.edu/fllaceducation/files/2012/04/10-640x290.jpg "[Extended through June 10th!] \"Mapping Gothic France\"")
Reading the Open Missal
May 15, 2012
Shakespeare, Shrines, and Sanford Gifford
May 14, 2012
Migrations and Excavations: Rohatyn Gives Lecture on Mehretu
May 8, 2012
Off-Campus: Loren MacIver’s Spring Forms at LACMA
Apr 19, 2012
[Extended through June 10th!] “Mapping Gothic France”
Apr 16, 2012
Notes on Art: The Visual and the Aural
Apr 10, 2012