At the museum’s first in-person Purchase Party since 2019, the Friends voted to support the acquisition of a rare Gothic coffret dedicated to Saint Roch and adorned with a woodcut print depicting the saint. Coffrets were boxes made to carryRead More Th……Continue Reading The Friends’ Most Recent Gift: A Gothic Coffret with Woodcut of Saint Roch
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Wired Up
This summer, shortly following Reunion weekend, we received a note from an anonymous Middlebury alum with a brief account of personal musings they had shared with friends detailing their impressions of Fred Eerdekens’ illuminated copper wire installati……Continue Reading Wired Up
Protected: Shahzia Sikander’s The Perennial Gaze Takes Pride of Place in the Axinn Winter Garden
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Label Talk: Calligraphic tile and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s sketch for The Whirling Dervish
There are many ways to interpret a work of art. The museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this pairing of a lustreware tile created by an Ilkhanid artisan in the……Continue Reading Label Talk: Calligraphic tile and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s sketch for The Whirling Dervish
Label Talk: El Anatsui’s Untitled (with Red)
There are many ways to interpret a work of art, and the museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this stenciling and hand-painted enamel work by Ghanaian artist El ……Continue Reading Label Talk: El Anatsui’s Untitled (with Red)
Label Talk: George Osodi’s Oil Spill Near Farm Land Ogoni
There are many ways to interpret a work of art, and the museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this photograph of an oil spill by Nigerian artist George Osodi. Se……Continue Reading Label Talk: George Osodi’s Oil Spill Near Farm Land Ogoni
Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of 1964, and his w……Continue Reading Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive