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June
Present through June 14, 2009 Oliver
Herring: Me Us Them Me Us Them weaves
together fifteen years of work by New York-based artist Oliver Herring
(b. 1964). His ever-expanding body of work explores many media, from
sculpture and performance to photography and video. The exhibition
includes several of Herring’s early knit-Mylar objects, experimental
videos, complex photo-collages, and documentation of recent TASK events,
which invite participants to entirely shape the work. Herring’s larger
pieces orbit around a central gallery space meant to simulate an
artist’s studio. Since 1998,
Herring has regularly involved other people in his work. From
stop-motion videos to scrupulously rendered photo-sculptures, these
intimate interactions have expanded Herring’s practice into new realms,
culminating in the more open series of TASK events. His many and varied
projects share a common focus on social interactions, human
relationships, and creative experimentation. Oliver Herring was
born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1964, and lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York. He received a BFA from the University of Oxford (Ruskin School
of Drawing and Fine Art), Oxford, England, and an MFA from Hunter
College, New York. Tang Museum
Present through August 23, 2009
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
February 28 - August 23, 2009
This retrospective examines the unique collaboration
between Rollins, an artist, activist, and educator, and the Kids of
Survival (K.O.S.), a group of artists originally made up of Rollins’s
special education students from Intermediate School 52 in the South
Bronx. The exhibition will present over twenty-five years of work
collaboratively produced by Rollins and his students from the Bronx and
from workshops conducted nationally and internationally. Based on
literary texts, musical scores, and other printed matter, these works
comprise one of the most celebrated and controversial art projects of
the past quarter century. Artist, activist, and teacher, Tim
Rollins (b. 1955) began his career in 1980 as a co-founder of Group
Material, a corps of young New York artists who pooled their money to
rent a space in the East Village and mount critical exhibitions that
addressed social themes and subjects like alienation, consumerism,
fashion, music, and gender. Group Material organized exhibitions that
sometimes involved collaborations with the local community and provided
an early precursor for Rollins’s later work with K.O.S.
Present through August 30, 2009
Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
February 28 - August 30, 2009
This retrospective examines the unique collaboration
between Rollins, an artist, activist, and educator, and the Kids of
Survival (K.O.S.), a group of artists originally made up of Rollins’s
special education students from Intermediate School 52 in the South
Bronx. The exhibition will present over twenty-five years of work
collaboratively produced by Rollins and his students from the Bronx and
from workshops conducted nationally and internationally. Based on
literary texts, musical scores, and other printed matter, these works
comprise one of the most celebrated and controversial art projects of
the past quarter century. Artist, activist, and teacher, Tim
Rollins (b. 1955) began his career in 1980 as a co-founder of Group
Material, a corps of young New York artists who pooled their money to
rent a space in the East Village and mount critical exhibitions that
addressed social themes and subjects like alienation, consumerism,
fashion, music, and gender. Group Material organized exhibitions that
sometimes involved collaborations with the local community and provided
an early precursor for Rollins’s later work with K.O.S.
Present through December 30, 2009 Horse Racing Simulator The simulator is an interactive exhibit, whose software package links video on a 50-inch screen and an electronic horse to give visitors the experience of riding a Thoroughbred. Riders will be able to choose from three levels: Warm-up, Apprentice and Jockey. The simulator will operate daily from noon to 4pm (9 to 5 during the racing season) or by reservation by calling 518-584-0400 ext. 124. Please call ahead for reservations if you have a large group since staff is limited. The cost of a ride is $5 in addition to the price of admission to the Museum. Riders must be at least 48 inches – or 12 hands – tall. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame/518-584-0400 June 6 through April 25, 2010
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek
A yearlong exhibition combines work by influential
avant-garde filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) with work by his
daughter Sara (b. 1976, photography and collage) and son Johannes (b.
1982, sculpture and collage). One work by each artist will be on view in
the gallery at any given time. Works will rotate each month. The
changing nature of the project mirrors the spirit of the many of the
works, which reveal common interests in re-combination, collage,
ephemeral materials, and architectural forms and spaces. Over the course
of one year a complex picture of influence and experimentation will
emerge.
For more information
call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
June 13 through August 22
Family Saturdays
June 13
– August 22 (no program July 4)
Saturdays, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Suitable for children ages 5 and up with their adult companions, this
program offers a brief tour followed by a hands-on art activity.
Reservations strongly suggested, please call (518) 580-8080.
June 12 through August 28
UpBeat on the Roof
June 12
– August 28
Fridays, 7:00 PM
Free
music series on the Tang rooftop
Rain
location: Payne Room, Tang Museum
June 13 at 1pm
Curator’s Tour
Oliver
Herring: Me Us Them
Saturday, June 13,
1:00 PM Wachenheim Gallery
For more information
call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
July
June 13 through August 22
Family Saturdays
June 13
– August 22 (no program July 4)
Saturdays, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Suitable for children ages 5 and up with their adult companions, this
program offers a brief tour followed by a hands-on art activity.
Reservations strongly suggested, please call (518) 580-8080.
June 12 through August 28
UpBeat on the Roof
June 12
– August 28
Fridays, 7:00 PM
Free
music series on the Tang rooftop
Rain
location: Payne Room, Tang Museum
July 18 through March 14, 2010
Lives
of the Hudson
This
continent’s great rivers have in large measure defined and shaped our
history and culture. Far more than a short river flowing through New
York State, the Hudson is a thread that runs through the fabric of
centuries of history, through the development of American
civilization--its culture, its community, and its consciousness. The
exhibition will be a unique exploration of several themes that trace
their way through the history of the Hudson River including the natural
river, imagined river, human river, and working river. In addition to
important works by Hudson River School painters such as Thomas Cole,
Sanford Gifford, and Thomas Doughty, Lives of The Hudson will include
objects of material culture and tourism, science, and contemporary art
by artists such as Jason Middlebrook, An My-Le, Matthew Buckingham, Kysa
Johnson, and Yvonne Jacquette.
For more
information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
July 18 at 5pm
Writing the River Readings and conversation with authors from the forthcoming book Lives of the Hudson, which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Tang Museum. Moderated by Tom Lewis
Saturday July 18, 5pm
Payne
Room, Tang Museum
For
more information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
July 18 at 6 to 7:30pm
Summer
Opening Reception
Saturday,
July 18, 6:00 – 7:30 PM
For
more information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
July 21 at noon
Curator’s Tour
Tim
Rollins and K.O.S.: A History
Tuesday,
July 21, Noon
Malloy
Wing Galleries
For
more information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
august August 18 at noon
Curator’s Tour
Lives
of the Hudson
Tuesday,
August 18, Noon
Wachenheim Gallery
For
more information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
June 12 through August 28
UpBeat on the Roof
June
12 – August 28
Fridays, 7:00 PM
Free
music series on the Tang rooftop
Rain
location: Payne Room, Tang Museum
June 13 through August 22
Family Saturdays
June 13
– August 22 (no program July 4)
Saturdays, 2:00 – 3:30 PM
Suitable for children ages 5 and up with their adult companions, this
program offers a brief tour followed by a hands-on art activity.
Reservations strongly suggested, please call (518) 580-8080.
June 12 through August 28
UpBeat on the Roof
June 12 –
August 28
Fridays,
7:00 PM
Free
music series on the Tang rooftop
Rain
location: Payne Room, Tang Museum
For more
information call (518) 580-8080 or visit the Tang online at
www.skidmore.edu/tang.
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