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Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #139 (Grid and arcs from the midpoints of four sides)
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), one of America’s leading conceptual artists, believed that the idea of art is more important than its physical presence. His important early wall drawing, which was donated to the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) in 2000 by a Smith College alumna, has been installed at SCMA for the first time for this exhibit. To provide a context for LeWitt’s overall body of work, the installation will also contain a rotating selection of works in other media by the artist, including sculpture, drawings, and prints. February 1 through January 4, 2009
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum
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Celebrating a Transforming Legacy: Russian Art from the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937
Through January 4, 2009
The Thomas P. Whitney ’37 Collection of Russian Art at the Mead Art Museum includes more than 400 works of art dating primarily to the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
The Mead Art Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Thursday evening until 9 p.m. For more information, visit the museum’s Web site, www.amherst.edu/mead or call 413/542-2335.
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Coal Hollow
Forty black-and-white photographs by Kenneth Light depict residents of an archetypal coal mining town, a composite of real communities the artist visited in southern West Virginia during the late 1990s and first half-decade of the 21st century. Light’s photographs are paired with oral histories of the people portrayed, which were gathered and edited by Melanie Light (class of 1980) who spoke with the subjects while she and the photographer, her husband, traveled in West Virginia. These texts allow the people in the images to express themselves directly, providing an additional dimension to the photographs
Through Jan. 4, 2009.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum
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Movement
This installation by the Korean-American artist Yong Soon Min was originally commissioned by the Asia Society, New York, at the time of the opening of its new facility in 2001. It was selected and acquired for SCMA through a fundraising effort by KASS (The Korean-American Students of Smith), who approached Museum staff in 2005 with a proposal to purchase a work of art by a female Korean or Korean-American artist for the collection as one of the inaugural initiatives of the new Korean Arts Foundation (KAF). To celebrate the acquisition and the efforts of KASS/KAF, the installation of Movement at the SCMA will be complemented by a small exhibition of works by established and younger practitioners: Kyung Woo Han, Shin Il Kim, Eunsun Lee, Nikki Lee, Jiha Moon, Young Min Moon, Jean Shin, Jieun Shin, Do Ho Suh, and Haeri Yoo. This exhibition is supported by The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston. Through January 11, 2009.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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"the periodic table after primo levi"
An exhibit entitled "the periodic table after primo levi" will be on display from November 1st 2008 through February 28, 2009 at the National Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002. This exhibit is a series of narrative works on paper created by Claudine Mussuto in response to Primo Levi's memoir "The Periodic Table." The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Contact: 413-256-4900, or go to www.yiddishbookcenter.org for more information.
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