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Smith College Museum of Art.
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Yong Soon Min (1953-2024)
By Aprile Gallant, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs
Etched in Memory: A Cataloguer's Perspective
The usual suspects of 19th Century printmaking were all represented; I could immediately find Pissarro, Whistler, and Goya in my game of artistic Where’s Waldo. Yet, the spreadsheet also listed many artists, primarily female, whose names I had never heard before. Who were Minna Bolingbroke and Bertha E. Jaques? Why was I unfamiliar with their artistic output?
Eddie Arning and “Outsider Art”
Although it only lasted for a decade, Eddie Arning’s brief period of drawing is remarkably compelling.
The Works of Barry Moser
Barry Moser is one of the most well-respected wood engravers and book designers working today. What’s most interesting, though, is how he reached this point in his career.
"To Ramble On Copper": Prints from The Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang Collection at the Smith College Museum of Art
During the summer of 2015, Hampshire College student Jacob Edwards built "To Ramble on Copper": Prints from The Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang Collection at the Smith College Museum of Art, a WordPress website to host digital projects and resources focused on the Lang Collection.
Student Picks: Workers in the Shadows
Cities are a subject that continue to fascinate artists. Urban photographers have long been trying to capture the “essence” of the city by emphasizing qualities such as scale, speed, and connectivity. There are some features, however, that go very much unnoticed.
T. Frantisek Simon
Simon was known as a painter, but became intrigued by the new methods of printmaking—etching, aquatint, dry point, and woodcut— which were just starting to gain popularity in Bohemia
Death Intoxicates
Like many soldiers who would keep a diary or write poetry to help make sense of the utter madness and atrocities of war, Smith wanted to record his experiences on the battlefield.
Student Picks: The Human Spectrum
What motivates us? What taps into our varied emotional states? How does our biology influence our experience?
Fighting Injustice on a Cultural Front
This fall, the Smith College Museum of Art is showing an exhibition of second wave feminist artists, among them a group of artists known as Guerrilla Girls
José Luis Cuevas
Instead of focusing on a heroic vision of Mexico’s past and present, Cuevas and artists of “La Ruptura” (Rupture) turned their attention toward psychological states and the seamier sides of contemporary life.
Dislocation/Urban Experience
"Dislocation/Urban Experience: Contemporary Photographs from East Asia" is the first exhibition in SCMA’s new Carol T. Christ Gallery for Asian Art which opened Friday, October 9.
Announcing the Student Picks 2015-16 Winners!
The Student Picks Sweepstakes ended last Friday, and we have our six winners!