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Tang's Winter
Exhibitions to Feature Goldberg Cartoons and Curtis Photographs
The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery will showcase two exhibitions
this winter, one that features drawings by cartoonist Rube Goldberg,
while the other focuses on Edward S. Curtis's vintage photogravures
of Native Americans. The works of both artists will be augmented
with new artworks created by contemporary artists exploring similar
themes.
A reception to celebrate the opening of both exhibitions is scheduled
from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Tang. The College community
is welcome.
Chain Reaction:
Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art (Jan. 26 - April 14)
will present more than 50 original Rube Goldberg drawings, among
them "Invention for Keeping a Buttonhole Flower Fresh,"
an unlikely but hilarious contraption made up of a bow and arrow,
a pinwheel, a cigar lighter, a derby hat, and a block of ice. Juxtaposed
with the Goldberg drawings will be recent artworks created in various
media by a dozen contemporary artists: William Bergman, Steven Brower,
Diana Cooper, Roman de Salvo, Sam Easterson, Arthur Ganson, Tim
Hawkinson, Martin Kersels, Alan Rath, Jovi Schnell, Jeanne Silverthorne,
Dean Snyder, and the Swiss team of Peter Fischli and David Weiss.
Fischli and Weiss's classic 1987 film, Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way
Things Go), tracks the collapse of a careful arrangement of everyday
objects set up in an empty warehouse. Chain Reaction was organized
by Tang Curator Ian Berry in collaboration with the Williams College
Museum of Art.
Staging the
Indian: The Politics of Representation (Feb. 2 - June 2)
will juxtapose Edward Curtis's luminous images of the American Indian
as "a vanishing race" with new works of video, installation,
photography, painting, and sculpture by six contemporary Native
American artists: Marcus Amerman, Judith Lowry, James Luna, Nora
Naranjo-Morse, Bently Spang, and Shelley Niro. Niro's 1992 photographic
series, Mohawks with Beehives, plays Native American stereotypes
against contemporary glamour stereotypes. Staging the Indian was
curated by Skidmore Professor of Anthropology Jill Sweet and Berry.
Both exhibitions will offer a series of free public events including
curators' tours, family activities, and interdisciplinary dialogues
between Skidmore faculty and some of the artists and curators associated
with each exhibition.
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