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Installing Maya Lin’s Sculpture in Neilson Library
On the Threshold
The Sublime in the Mundane: Human Encroachment in the Natural Landscape
Lavinia Fontana: Renaissance Artist
Defiant Vision Q&A: Final Questions
This is the final Q&A post for Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry by Munio Makuuchi before it closes exhibition closes on Sunday, December 8. Be sure to check it out if you haven’t already had the chance!
In this series, Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs responds to visitor questions from the exhibition’s comment book. Accompanying images are in the slideshow above.
Piet Mondrian's Chrysanthemum
Remembering Iwami Reika (1927-2020)
Today's post is from Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
I was saddened to hear of the recent death of the Japanese printmaker Iwami Reika. Hilary Tolman, Smith class of 1987, in whose honor twenty-three of the artist’s works have been donated to the SCMA collection, gave me the news, as she knew of my particular interest and high regard for Iwami’s work.
Staying Inside | Learning Something New
Staying Inside is a series on SCMAinsider, the museum’s blog, that regularly features contributions from SCMA staff and students about what we are into right now, be it a book, a work of art, a song, a podcast, a recipe, a way to get outside, a performance; anything, really, that we are holding close or that brings us comfort and connection right now. Today's post is from Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Defiant Vision Q&A: Nudes and Midwesterners
Question: Why are there mostly naked girls [in the images] and why are there not that many boys?
Answer: That’s a good question!
Defiant Vision Q&A: Paintings or Prints?
Questions and answers from Defiant Vision: Prints & poetry by Munio Makuuchi
Witchcraft and Superstition in Goya's Los Caprichos
Honoring Kurt Lang (January 25, 1924—May 1, 2019)
Henriette Kets de Vries is the Cunningham Center Manager and Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the SCMA. She worked closely with Kurt Lang and featured works from his collection in the exhibition No Man's Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI.