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Exhibitions
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Exhibition: The Minox & the Big Shot -- Andy Warhol’s Photography (1970-87)
Exhibition runs September 23rd through December 13th, 2009. Opening: Wednesday, September 23rd, 5-7:30 pm. The University Gallery proudly presents its acquisition of 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 original black and white gelatin silver prints dating from 1970 to 1987 granted through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. These photographs were given to the University Gallery as part of an unprecedented gift in honor of the Andy Warhol Foundation's 20th anniversary. The aim of the Photographic Legacy Program is to provide greater access to Warhol's artwork and process, and to enable a wide range of people from communities across the country to view and study this important yet relatively unknown body of Warhol's work.
An obsessive photographer, Warhol took more than 100,000 photographs between 1976 and 1987, most with his SX70 Polaroid camera (which Polaroid kept in production just for Warhol) and black and white prints with a pocket-sized Minox 35 mm camera. Some Polaroids served as source material for large, silk-screened portrait paintings for which Warhol is famous. These photographs range from celebrities to unidentified acquaintances or patrons. The black and white snapshots offer a fascinating glimpse of the people and places of Warhol's life. In the end, some of the most captivating photographs are not the celebrities, but rather those of everyday objects and people.
As the University Gallery’s first Curatorial Fellow, Kathleen Banach (M.A. candidate in Art History ’09) will work in consultation with the staff of the University Gallery and art history professor Mario Ontiveros to focus her research on these photographs. She will be the first to study this relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work.
Seen in conjunction with this exhibition is CONNECTING THE DOTS….. THE WARHOL LEGACY: TOM FRIEDMAN, ELLLEN GALLAGHER, VIK MUNIZ, ROB PRUITT, an exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice.
Check the University Gallery’s website for related panel discussions, guest speakers, and film screenings.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Exhibition: Connecting the Dots….the Warhol Legacy: Tom Friedman, Ellen Gallagher, Vik Muniz & Rob Pruitt
Exhibition runs September 23rd through December 13th, 2009. Opening: Wednesday, September 23rd, 5-7:30 pm.
An exhibition of work by four acclaimed contemporary artists who explore themes and ideas central to Andy Warhol’s artistic practice, demonstrating how Warhol’s legacy continues to influence and shape the content of the work of a new generation of artists. Rather than look strictly at artists who have been stylistically influenced by Warhol, this exhibition focuses on the work of four leading artists where the Warholian impulse is more conceptual and subtle.
Tom Friedman transforms mundane consumer products into playful yet meticulously crafted artworks of almost obsessive intricacy. Friedman’s art is characterized by its attention to process and use of modest, ephemeral materials. Friedman also displays a sly, almost scientific interest in systems of representation. Works in the exhibition will include the serial sculpture 9 Lives and two digital prints, Dollar Bill (2000) and Mandala (2008), commissioned by University Gallery and UMass Art Dept.
Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements that she appropriates from popular magazines such as Ebony, Our World, and Sepia. Her medium of printmaking, immersed in ideas about process and the mechanics of transformation, echoes some of Warhol’s themes. However her aesthetic strategy differs from her predecessor in its autobiographical dimension and focus on the issue of racial identity, while at the same time suggesting a more formal reading with respect to materials, processes, and altered states.
Vik Muniz defies traditional concerns over appropriation and authorship to reveal the power of images in our collective memory. Creating images made of dust, chocolate sauce, sugar, or thread, his work is informed by media and popular culture. This exhibition will include The Best of Life (1989 – 2000), a portfolio of ten Memory Renderings, which are photographs of drawings he drew from his recollection of photographs from Life magazine between 1936 and 1972.
Rob Pruitt’s work is rooted in a pop sensibility and a playful critique of art world structures. His conceptual projects have encompassed sensational staged events as well as simple gestures that promote possibilities for creativity in everyday life. Pruitt’s work is always characterized by an incisive humor and exuberant visual flair. This exhibition will focus on iPruitt (2008), snapshots taken with his mobile camera.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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William Kentridge: What Will Come
This installation features the debut of an important new addition to the SCMA collection, “What Will Come” (2006), a major film by the South African artist William Kentridge. One of the most innovative aspects of Kentridge’s work is his hand-drawn films. “What Will Come” takes its title from a Ghanaian proverb: “What will come has already come," a sentiment reflected in the imagery of the film, which speaks to the range of conflicts that have marked modern human history. This work also displays Kentridge’s keen interest in optics. The film is projected from the ceiling onto a round metal table which bears a polished circular column in its center. The images are reflected on the surface of the column, which corrects the perspective of the drawing for the viewer. The images circumnavigate this column, changing form as they move to a haunting musical track. Through Dec. 31. For more information abou this exhibition, museum hours and other museum information, see www.smith.edu/artmuseum/.
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Exhibit: The Making of a Picture Book: The Marriage of Text and Art
Exhibit runs 9/14-12/18. Showcasing the works of local authors/illustrators: Leonard Baskin, Kathryn Brown, Corinne Demas, Patricia MacLachlan, Richard Michelson, Dennis Nolan, Jane Yolen.
Info: 545-3971 or http://tiny.cc/picturebook. Gallery hours follow library hours: open Saturdays 9 am-9 pm, then Sunday from 11 am onward, open 24 hours a day through Friday (www.library.umass.edu/hours.html). Handicap accessible.
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Exhibit: All Roads Lead Back to Amherst
Exhibit runs 9/15-12/11. Nature photographs by Annie (Fournier) Tiberio Cameron ’73, UMass Amherst.
Opening reception 9/15, 4:00-6:00 pm, refreshments.
Handicap accessible. More info: www.library.umass.edu/news
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Touch Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics by Women Artists
Composed of more than 90 vibrant and dynamic ceramic sculptures, this exhibitition features leading contemporary Japanese women artists working within and transforming a medium traditionally associated with men. The accompanying catalogue, with an essay by ceramics specialist Todate Kazuko, Chief Curator at the Tsukuba Art Museum (Ibaraki, Japan) and artists biographies by Wahei Aoyama, provides the first in-depth study of the phenomenal rise of women ceramic artists in Japan. Oct. 9-Feb. 28, 2010. See http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/general/ for Museum hours and other information.
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Sergie Rachmaninoff and Sophie Satin at Smith College
Exhibition of photographs and memorabilia of Sergei Rachmaninoff and his cousin Sophie Satin during their time at Smith College. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/rachmaninoff/. For library hours, see http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/hours/
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A Plantsman in Asia
Compelling color photographs by Paul W. Meyer tell vivid stories about the importance of plants in the lives of Asian peoples. The photos were taken over a period of 20 years of plant exploration in the Far East. Meyer, a
leader in the field of plant exploration and evaluation, will be speaking at Smith Nov. 13 in conjunction with Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall Chrysanthemum Show at Smith Nov. 7-22. The photographs will be on exhibition October 17 through December 15.
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Bamboo and Blossoms: Fall Chrysanthemum Show
Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall Chrysanthemum Show, featuring bamboo sculptures by Nancy Moore Bess and Harry Bower. Members only hours 9:00 - 10:00 am (please bring your membership card). For more information please visit us online at: http://www.smith.edu/gardens/Home/events.html \7-22\\
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Lecture/Reading
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Fireside Chat Lecture Series
Help us welcome Lucy Hurston, sociologist and author of "Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" in the Charles Drew common room.
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Rachmaninoff Anniversary Event-Lectures
Smith College will mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's first concert in the United States, performed in the recital hall then situated in College Hall. Events will celebrate both Rachmaninoff and his cousin and sister-in-law, Sophie Satin, who worked at Smith College from 1943 through 1955, first as research associate at Albert Francis Blakeslee's Genetics Experimental Station (1942-1945), then as visiting associate professor of botany and assistant director of GES (1945-1955).
On Friday, November 6, Francis Crociata will deliver a lecture "Rachmaninoff: the Musician behind the Brand Name."
On Saturday, November 7, Joan Afferica, Professor Emerita of History, and C. John Burk, Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences will present: "Sophie Satin: Life and Work." Sophie Satin prepared the first major study of Rachmaninoff's professional life, a principal source for all subsequent biographies of the celebrated composer and performer.
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“Sophie Satin: Life and Work.”.
Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, and C. John Burk, Elsie Damon Simonds Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, will talk about Sophie Satin, cousin, sister-in-law, and a key source of biographical information about the composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. Satin arrived at Smith in 1942 as a research associate and became a visiting associate professor of botany in 1945, remaining at Smith for 10 more years. See http://www.smith.edu/rachmaninoff/ for more information.
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Music
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Double Reed Day
For high school/college double reed players, teachers, and adults.
Hosts: Fredric T. Cohen, Professor of Oboe, UMass Amherst & Stephen Walt, Artist-Teacher of Bassoon, UMass Amherst.
Guest Artists & Presenters:
Robert Williams (Principal Bassoon, Detroit Symphony Orchestra),
Robert Sheena (Oboe & English horn, Boston Symphony Orchestra),
Alan Fox, President, Fox Products, Nora Post, oboe technician(presentation on oboe adjustment & repair),
Master reedmakers: Stuart Dunkel (oboe) & Frank Wangler (bassoon).
Bring your instruments for a Double Reed Band blowout at the end of the day. Bring your reeds to our reed workshops.
Cost: Adults - $30 ($25 if paid in advance); Students - $20 ($15 in advance).
Sponsored in part by a generous contribution from Fox Products
Visit our vendors to try instruments and see the latest reed tools!
Vendors: Fox Products, Nora Post Inc., Miller Double Reeds, Bel Canto Reeds
For more information: swalt@music.umass.edu or fcohen@music.umass.edu
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Choral Society's Family Weekend Concert
Choral Society will give it's annual Family Weekend Concert at Noon on Saturday November 7th.
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Rachmaninoff Anniversary Event-Performances
Smith College will mark the occasion of Rachmaninoff's first concert in the United States, performed at Smith College in the recital hall then situated in College Hall. Events will celebrate both Rachmaninoff and his cousin and sister-in-law, Sophie Satin, who worked at Smith College from 1943 through 1955, first as research associate at Albert Francis Blakeslee's Genetics Experimental Station (1942-1945), then as visiting associate professor of botany and assistant director of GES (1945-1955).
There will be two performances:
Friday, November 6:
“Rachmaninoff in Songs and Dances: Vocal and instrumental music performed by faculty and Students."
Saturday, November 7:
Concert given by Vladimir Tropp, Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Preceding the concert at 7:30 p.m. will be the dedication of Rachmaninoff Bust, Gift of Vladimir Tropp, by President Carol Christ.
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Chamber Choir
Tony Thornton, director.
Including oratorio choruses from Handel’s Solomon, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Romantic selections by Brahms, Rachmaninoff & Schumann, music by Vivaldi & Frank Ticheli, plus folk songs & spirituals.
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Kehkashaan: Live Bollywood Band
Kehkashaan is an extraordinary eight member band with male and female vocalists, guitars, keyboards and world percussion who play sizzling hits from popular Hindi movies. For more information visit: www.fineartscenter.com/asian and select Calendar of Events.
Ticket information: $25, $20; Five College students and youth 17 & under $10. Call 1-800-999-UMAS or 413-545-2511. Online: www.umasstix.com
Sponsor: Asian Arts & Culture Program in partnership with UMass Indian Students Association and South Asian Students Association.
Handicapped accessible.
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Bohemian Rhapsodies
The Amherst Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Family Weekend concert with works by Dvorak, Weber and Rossini.
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