Tang Museum, Schick Art Gallery list holiday schedules

Even art museums take some time off to celebrate the season. Here are the holiday schedules for both the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and the Schick Art Gallery.

The Tang Museum will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and 25, for Christmas, and closed again Monday, Dec. 31, and Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2008, for New Year?s. For the rest of the holiday season, the Tang will follow its regular winter schedule: open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and closed Mondays and major holidays. Open during the museum?s regular hours, the Tang Museum Store stocks unusual and eclectic items suitable for holiday shopping, such as beaded Zulu-grass necklaces, recycled tin angels from Bali, Tibetan hand-felted doves, Watson and Crick bobblehead dolls, and jewelry handmade by local artisans.

Three of the four Tang exhibitions currently on view will close Dec. 30: Stripes, West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, and Elevator Music 10: Atmospherics/Weather Works. The art-and-science exhibition Molecules That Matter will remain on view through April 13, 2008, to be joined Feb. 8 by a new Opener exhibition featuring works by Joseph Grigely on view through June 8, 2008. Deaf since childhood, Grigely has created notable works on paper and in video that explore the failures, idiosyncrasies, and ruptures of language and communication.

For more information, call the Tang at 518-580-8080 or click here.

The Schick Art Gallery takes a longer holiday hiatus that reflects the College?s academic schedule?it?s closed Dec. 17-Jan. 28. The gallery?s current exhibition, Eve Aschheim: New Drawings, will be on view through Sunday, Dec. 16, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The Schick will reopen at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, with a public reception from 6:30 to 8 p.m. for the 2008 Skidmore Student Exhibition. On view through Feb. 24, the popular student show will feature original student works completed during 2007 in a wide range of media. New York City artist (and former Skidmore faculty member) John Moore will jury the selection.

For more information about the Skidmore Student Exhibition or to check the Schick?s complete spring schedule, click here.