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Bowdoin College Arts and Culture Events Fall 2014

For more information on these and many other events go to:bowdoin.edu/arts

All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the full event description. For information on acquiring tickets, see the back cover. All events are subject to change.

Join us this fall Our arts programming features talented

Bowdoin students and faculty, as well as

renowned artists and scholars

from all parts of the world.

We invite you to review our calendar for this semester,

and we hope you will plan to join us!

For more information: 207-725-3375

All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the event description.

For information on acquiring tickets, see the inside back cover.

All events are subject to change.

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SeptemberThu, 4 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ Herb & Dorothy 50x50 ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterThu, 4 ◆ 6:30 p.m. ◆ Reception for Megumi Sasaki and Dorothy Vogel ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtWed, 10 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Ingrid Laubrock Quintet ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThu, 11 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?” Matthew Booker ◆ Smith Auditorium, Sills HallThu, 11 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art On 52nd Street: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb Frank Goodyear ◆ Bowdoin

College Museum of ArtThu, 18 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “‘A chance to be aware’: On Richard Tuttle’s Art” Richard Shiff ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterTue, 23 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ Gallery Conversation: “Printing with Richard Tuttle: Process and Collaboration” Greg Burnet ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtThu, 25 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast William Fitzhugh and Wilfred Richards ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts

Center, with reception in Hubbard HallFri, 26 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ George Lopez, piano ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallSat, 27 ◆ 10:00 a.m. ◆ Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtMon, 29 ◆ 4:15 p.m. ◆ Fall 2014 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project Visiting Artist Lisa Bulawsky ◆ Room 115, Digital Media Lab, Edwards Center for Art

and Dance

October Wed, 1 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ “Las Décimas del Amargue & Other Songs of Love” Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofía ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallWed, 1 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ “Women and Theater in Ancient Athens” Laura McClure ◆ Beam Classroom, Visual Arts CenterThu, 2 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Richard Tuttle: The Theater of Attention” Susan Tallman ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterThu, 2 ◆ 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. ◆ Fall Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtMon, 6 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “Viral Texts and the Technologies of Authorship” Ryan Cordell ◆ Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionWed, 8 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Conversation: “Drawing a Line from Tuttle to Goltzius” Carrie Scanga and Joachim Homann ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtWed, 8 ◆ 6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m. ◆ “Pop-Up Museum! Come Participate. “Wish you Were Here” Travel Souvenirs ◆ Morrell Lounge, Smith AuditoriumThu, 9 ◆ 6:30 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Minimalist Music in the Museum” George Lopez ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtFri, 10 ◆ 4:00 p.m. ◆ Teatime Concert: Trio les Amis ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThu, 16 ◆ 4:00 p.m. ◆ Gallery Conversation: “Metamorphosis of a Myth” Linda Roth ’76, P ’13, and James Higginbotham ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtThu, 16 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Byrd and I: A Northern Evening with Rev. Robert Bryan ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterThu, 16 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Love’s Allusions: Elegy and Intertextuality” Jeri DeBrohun ◆ Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionSat, 18 ◆ 2:00 p.m. ◆ Homecoming Choral Concert ◆ Bowdoin ChapelMon, 20 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Tyrannical Teachers and Student-Citizens: Classical Greek Perspectives on Freedom and the Liberal Arts” Brett Rogers ◆ Beam

Classroom, Visual Arts CenterWed, 22 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Pieter Coecke van Aelst and the Art of Designing Tapestries in Early Modern Europe” Elizabeth Cleland ◆ Kresge Auditorium,

Visual Arts CenterThu, 23 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture: “Democracy at the Roots: Understanding Haiti’s Political Culture” Laurent Dubois ◆ Kresge

Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterThu–Sat, 23–25 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ “Almost, Maine” by John Cariani Masque & Gown Theater Production ◆ Pickard Theater, Memorial HallSat, 25 ◆ 10:00 a.m. ◆ Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtMon, 27 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “Haunting Authors, Haunting Us: Writing What the Dead Speak” Sherry Roush ◆ Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionTue, 28 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Conversation: “Anatomy of a Renaissance Painting” Nina Roth Wells and Andrea Rosen ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtTue, 28 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Threatened and Endangered: Flora and Fauna of Maine Rebecca Goodale ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterFri, 31 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ World Music Ensembles Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Eric LaPerna, and Amos Libby, directors ◆ Kanbar Auditorium,

Studzinski Recital Hall

November Sat, 1 ◆ 3:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Chorus Emily Isaacson, director ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallSat, 1 ◆ 5:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Chamber Choir Robert K. Greenlee, director ◆ Bowdoin ChapelSun, 2 ◆ 2:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin College Concert Band John P. Morneau, director ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallMon, 3 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Santagata Lecture: An Evening with Writer Karen Russell ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterTue, 4 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Film Screening and Conversation: “Goltzius and the Pelican Factory,” by Peter Greenaway Aviva Briefel, Aaron Kitch, and Joachim

Homann ◆ Room 315, Searles Science BuildingTue, 4 ◆ 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. ◆ “25 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Pop-up Exhibit” ◆ Blue Room, Smith Union Wed, 5 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “The Warburg Institute Presents ‘British Art in the Mediterranean’ (1941)” Michael Berkowitz ◆ Beam Classroom, Visual Arts CenterThu, 6 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “The Art and Life of Marcel Duchamp: A Collision of the Personal and Professional” Francis M. Naumann ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual

Arts CenterThu, 6 ◆ 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ◆ Reception with Francis M. Naumann ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtThu, 6 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Brodie Family Lecture: “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education” Sean F. Reardon ◆ Kresge Auditorium,

Visual Arts Center Thu–Sat, 6–8 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ The Imaginary Invalid By Moliére ◆ Wish Theater, Memorial HallMon, 10 ◆ 4:00 p.m. ◆ Oshii Mamoru’s Avalon: “Representations of Cold-War History in Japanese Animation” ◆ Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center Mon, 10 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “Home and Away—Africa’s Mediterranean” Julie McGee ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterTue, 11 ◆ 4:30 p.m. ◆ “Double Consciousness: Remembering Black Images in American Struggles for Freedom” Bridget R. Cooks ◆ Kresge Auditorium,

Visual Arts CenterThu, 13 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ “Finding Crocker Land: Archaeology at Etah and Beyond” Genevieve LeMoine ◆ Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterFri, 14 ◆ 4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. ◆ Chamberfests ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallSun, 16 ◆ 3:00 p.m. ◆ Roomful of Teeth ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallMon, 17 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ The Ying Quartet ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallTue, 18 ◆ Noon ◆ Gallery Conversation: Revealing Mediterranean Women Susan Wegner and Davida Gavioli ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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PublicAdvance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk, 207-725-3375. A limited number of tickets may also be available at the door immediately before the event. Patrons are advised to call ahead. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime.

Association of Bowdoin Friends MembersAdvance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union Information desk, 207-725-3375. Patrons must present their Friends membership card. Tickets limited to two per card. Please call ahead to ensure ticket availability, 207-725-3253. A limited number of tickets may also be available at the door immediately before the event. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime.

Bowdoin Students, Faculty, and StaffAdvance tickets available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk, 207-725-3375. Patrons must present their Bowdoin student, faculty, or staff ID. A limited number of tickets may also be available at the door immediately before the event. Notes: Dates tickets become available may vary. Due to limited seating, tickets expire five minutes before showtime.

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Thu, 20 ◆ 6:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art Members’ Reception: Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Thu, 20 ◆ 7:00 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Hendrick Goltzius: Virtuoso Printmaker, Exquisite Painter” George Keyes, Kurt Sundstrom, and Joachim Homann ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Sat, 22 ◆ 10:00 a.m. ◆ Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtSat–Sun, 22–23 ◆ 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Sat.; 6:00 p.m., Sun. ◆ Bowdoin Chorus and Oratorio Chorale ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallSun, 23 ◆ 2:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin College Concert Band John P. Morneau, director ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

DecemberMon, 1 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Middle Eastern Ensemble ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallWed, 3 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Afro-Latin Music Ensemble ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallWed, 3 ◆ 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ◆ Members’ Preview Day: The Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of ArtThu–Sat, 4–6 ◆ 8:00 p.m. ◆ Dance Concert ◆ Pickard Theater, Memorial HallFri, 5 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Orchestra ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallSat–Sun, 6–7 ◆ 3:00 p.m. ◆ Bowdoin Chamber Choir ◆ Bowdoin Chapel Tue, 9 ◆ 7:30 p.m. ◆ Jazz Night ◆ Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThu, 11 ◆ 6:30 p.m. ◆ Thursday Night Salon: Music in the Museum with George Lopez ◆ Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Memorial Hall, home to Pickard Theater and the smaller Wish Theater, is the main hub of theater and dance performances on campus. Studzinski Recital Hall, an architectural and acoustical gem, is a state-of-the-art performance and practice facility. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art offers access to one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious collegiate art collections.

The Bowdoin College Library, which boasts a collection exceeding one million volumes, is housed in the main Hawthorne-Longfellow building as well as at several branches devoted to art, music, and other disciplines. Hubbard Hall houses the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, home to art, natural history specimens, and equipment relating to the history of Arctic exploration.

Bowdoin’s vibrant quadrangle houses world-class museums and performance venues all within a five-minute walk.

Pickard Theater and Wish Theater, Memorial Hall Bowdoin College Chapel Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall

Bowdoin College Museum of Art Studzinski Recital Hall Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

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Exhibitions2014

NEW EXHIBITIONS

September 25 through December 28, 2014A Bit of a Personal Universe: Travels in the Maritime Far NortheastOver the last two decades, Maine-based photographer Wilfred Richard has traveled throughout Maine, the Canadian Maritimes, and West Greenland. This exhibit features a small selection of his photographs of the North Atlantic region. The exhibit coincides with the publication of Maine to Greenland, a book he coauthored with William Fitzhugh. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Hubbard Hall Foyer

November 14, 2014, through August 14, 2016A Glimmer on the Polar Sea: The Crocker Land Expedition, 1913–1917Donald MacMillan led an Arctic expedition to claim “Crocker Land,” a distant landmass that Robert Peary sighted in the Polar Sea. But Crocker Land was a mirage. MacMillan and his colleagues spent the next four years investigating the natural history of the region. The exhibit features their work and present-day research in the same region. Sponsored by the Kane Lodge Foundation, Inc. and the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Hubbard Hall

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Through March 29, 2015Cape Dorset and Beyond: Inuit Art from the Marcia and Robert Ellis CollectionThis exhibit features sculptures and prints from Cape Dorset (Kinngait), home to many of Canada’s best-known Inuit artists, and recently donated to the museum by Marcia and Robert Ellis. The pieces capture the range of styles embraced by these artists, from strikingly realistic and dynamic figures to whimsical and mystical creatures. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Hubbard Hall

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and Arctic Studies Center

Museum HoursTuesday–Saturday

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.;

Sunday 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Closed on Mondays and

national holidays.

Green, MacMillan, Peahwahto, Etukasuk at Farthest North, Polar Sea, April 24, 1914. Photo by Donald B. MacMillan.

Puffins. Photo by Will Richard.

Kananginak Pootoogook, Kavavaow Mannome, Caribou Family, 2001. Stonecut on paper, 29/50. Photo by Dean Abramson.

Ematulu Saggiak, Walrus, Cape Dorset, before 2011. Stone, antler. Photo by Dean Abramson.


Through September 21, 2014Northwest of the Known Arctic Lands: MacMillan’s Search for Crocker Land, 1914In the spring of 1914, Donald MacMillan and three companions set off over the sea ice to find Crocker Land, an undiscovered island thought to be northwest of the known Arctic Islands, and possibly sighted by Robert E. Peary in 1906. It was a long and difficult journey, marred by tragedy and ultimately unsuccessful, closing a chapter in the history of Arctic exploration. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Hubbard Hall Foyer

Through December 14, 2014Faces of Greenland: Ivory Carvings from the Baregard CollectionIn the early twentieth century in the Greenlandic community of Kangaamiut, a group of talented artists began carving delightfully evocative human figures in sperm whale tooth and ivory. In 1940, Ankar Baregard purchased a collection of these remarkable sculptures, which was recently donated to the museum. Highlights of the collection include bas-relief carved walrus mandibles, teeth, and tusks, as well as carvings of men and women going about their everyday activities. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment and the May P. Fogg Fund.

Hubbard Hall Foyer

LONG-TERM INSTALLATIONS

Robert E. Peary and His Northern WorldAs a pioneering Arctic explorer, Peary relied on many extraordinary people, including his family, financial backers, loyal expedition members, and the Inughuit men and women of Northwest Greenland. He also worked ceaselessly to improve his methods of travel and his equipment, always keeping in mind efficiency on the trail and the comfort and safety of his men. Through objects, photographs, and motion pictures, this exhibit provides new perspectives on Peary and his long career in the north. Sponsored by the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Hubbard Hall

MacMillan following Crocker Land Trip, spring, 1914, Etah, Greenland. Photo by Crocker Land Expedition member.


All events are open to the public. Admission to most events is free and no tickets are required. Any ticket or admission requirements are listed within the event description. For information on acquiring tickets, see the inside back cover.


Walrus mandible or lower jaw, with teeth carved as faces, unknown artist, Greenland, ca. 1935–1945. Gift of Allen Baregard, in memory of Ankar Baregard.

George Borup, Kai-o-tah, and Donald MacMillan. Photo by Koodlookto, ca. 1908–1909, Northwest Greenland, glass lantern slide.


September 1 through December 23, 2014Envisioning Extinctions: Art as Witness and ConscienceThis library exhibition, curated by Bowdoin art historian Susan Wegner, commemorates the centenary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. Featured are texts and images from Bowdoin’s rare book collection highlighting the unique role that Maine art and literature have played in documenting now-extinct species. Reception on October 28 at 8:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Department of Art History and Bowdoin College Library.

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 2nd floor

September 1 through December 23, 2014Threatened and Endangered: Flora and Fauna of Maine: Artist’s Books by Rebecca GoodaleThis exhibition of artist’s books created by Rebecca Goodale features works about Maine plants and animals. Goodale’s art project intends to document all of the flora and fauna that are on the State of Maine’s threatened and endangered lists. Reception on October 28 at 8:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Departments of Art History, Visual Arts, and Bowdoin College Library.

Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, 2nd floor

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Audubon’s “Passenger pigeon,” from The Birds of America.

Alpine bearberry, from Rebecca Goodale’s Six Alpine Plants.


NEW EXHIBITIONS

June 28 through October 19, 2014Richard Tuttle: A Print RetrospectiveOffering new insight into his artistic practice and organized in close collaboration with the artist, Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective is the first-ever comprehensive examination of the prints of Richard Tuttle. In exploiting the unique possibilities of multiple printmaking processes, Tuttle reveals his deep interest in the relationship between medium, tools, actions, and collaboration. Through a selection of more than 100 works from the 1970s to today, many of which have never been exhibited by a museum, the exhibition demonstrates how Tuttle reinvents printmaking with his experimental approach, raising intriguing questions about technique, materiality, and the nature of art itself.

Major support for this exhibition has been provided by the Devonwood Foundation, Eric ’85 and Svetlana Silverman, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Coco Kim and Richard Schetman P’13, halley k. harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld, Thomas A. McKinley ’06, and the Elizabeth B.G. Hamlin Fund at Bowdoin College. Additional support has been provided by Agnes Gund, Mary G. O’Connell ’76 and Peter J. Grua ’76, an anonymous donor, and the membership of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Osher, Halford, Center, and Focus Galleries

July 10 through September 14, 2014On 52nd Street: The Jazz Photography of William P. GottliebThe Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb features forty vintage photographs of jazz musicians in performance from the collection of the photographer’s family. William P. Gottlieb (1917–2006) began photographing jazz musicians in 1938 to illustrate a weekly feature he wrote for The Washington Post. Over the next decade he created almost 2,000 portraits of more than 250 musicians. This exhibition brings together Gottlieb’s photographic portraits of jazz musicians whose rebellious self-expression, charisma, edge, and mystery made them American icons.

Shaw Ruddock Gallery

June 28 through September 14, 2014“It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel at the Bowdoin College Museum of ArtEarly in 2014, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art received a gift of 320 works of art from the celebrated collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. That extraordinary gift is highlighted in an exhibition featuring selections from the donation, including work by iconic artists representing the evolving history of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art practice.

Zuckert Seminar Room




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Museum HoursTuesday–Saturday

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.;

Thursday until 8:30 p.m.

Sunday 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Closed on Mondays and

national holidays.

Sidney Bechet, 1947, by William P. Gottlieb.

Primal Energy-13-Inner Sources, 1988, by Edda Renouf. Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Cloth, 2002–2005. Series of 16, conceived in groups of 4. Etchings with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, drypoint and fabric collé. © Richard Tuttle and Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York.


September 27, 2014, through March 1, 2015Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and TruthThe prints by the Dutch engraver, draftsman, and painter Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) are dazzling for their technical refinement and provocative sensuality. An enormously talented portraitist and an eloquent narrator of ancient myths and religious legend, Goltzius was the equivalent of an art world star of early modern Europe whose light has not faded over the last four hundred years. This introduction to Goltzius’s art focuses on prints that were recently donated to Bowdoin by Charles Pendexter and David Becker.

Shaw Ruddock Gallery

September 27, 2014, through March 8, 2015Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth AtheneumA cycle of five precious tapestries illustrates the story of the princess Psyche who was taken as a bride by the god Cupid, according to the second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, by Apuleius. Made of wool, silk, and gilded-silver, the tapestries were based on fifteenth-century engravings and were part of a series produced by an unknown manufactory in Paris in the 1660s, during the reign of Louis XIV. This is an extremely rare opportunity to see an important group of Baroque tapestries in northern New England. Supported by The Robert Lehman Foundation.

Boyd Gallery

September 30, 2014, through January 4, 2015Alison de Vere: Psyche and ErosThis animated cartoon film, closely based on Apuleius’s moving second-century novel The Golden Ass, is widely regarded as a masterpiece. Film animator Alison de Vere, who contributed to the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine in 1967, completed the twenty-six-minute film for Britain’s Channel 4 in 1994. Screened in the Museum’s Rotunda, the film provides a fascinating dialogue with the Baroque tapestries in an adjacent gallery.

Rotunda

October 30, 2014, through January 11, 2015Revealing Mediterranean WomenThis exhibition explores and critiques European visions of Mediterranean women as powerful, monstrous, seductive, or exotic in art from Ancient Greece through Picasso. Organized in collaboration with faculty from the Mediterranean Studies Humanities Initiative at Bowdoin College.

Becker Gallery

Phaeton, 1588 by Hendrick Goltzius. Engraving. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Psyche Carried to the Mountain, ca. 1660. Wool, silk, and gold thread. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

Still from the film, Psyche and Eros, 1994, by Alison de Vere.

Fish Shambles, 1600–1700, unknown artist, Italian. Oil on canvas. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


November 13, 2014, through February 8, 2015Collaborations and Collusions: Artists’ Networks from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentFeaturing loaned works reflecting the importance of Marcel Duchamp’s relationship to his family, this installation, drawn largely from the permanent collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, challenges the myth of artistic isolation. It addresses the importance of the networks that encouraged many of the leading practitioners of modern and contemporary art, including Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns.

Becker Gallery

CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

Through January 4, 2015Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian RenaissanceFocusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or renaissance of the art of classical antiquity. On view are selections from the Kress Collection, as well as more recent additions to the collections.

Markell Gallery

Through January 4, 2015James Bowdoin’s America: Paintings and Decorative Arts, 1660–1830Born in Massachusetts, James Bowdoin III bequeathed his extensive collection of paintings and drawings to Bowdoin College. This exhibition celebrates the bicentennial of the arrival of James Bowdoin III’s bequest. His gift laid the foundation for a formidable art collection in early Maine.

Markell Gallery

ONGOING EXHIBITION

Image to Persona: Portraits from Antiquity This exhibition explores the traditions, styles, and techniques that inform the portrayals of individuals in the ancient world. From profiles carved in relief and painted on vases to figures molded in terracotta and portraits sculpted in the round, this installation draws from a range of art representing Egyptian, Assyrian, Cypriot, Greek, and Roman cultures.

Walker Gallery




Arch Conspirators, 1917, by John Sloan, American, 1871–1951. Etching. (From left to right: Charles Frederick Ellis, Marcel Duchamp (standing), Gertrude S. Drick (“Woe”), Allen Russell Mann, Betty Turner, John Sloan.) Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Annunciation, ca. 1595, by Denys Calvaert. Oil on copper. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Portrait of Elizabeth Bowdoin and James Bowdoin III, ca. 1760, by Joseph Blackburn. Oil on canvas. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Mummy Mask of a Woman, Egyptian (Roman Empire), 1st–2nd century C.E. Cartonnage with gold leaf, paint, and agate eyes. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


Thursday, September 4Herb & Dorothy 50x504:30 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterFilm screening of Herb & Dorothy 50x50 (2013), followed by a discussion with Megumi Sasaki, director, and Dorothy Vogel, art collector. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition “It’s What You Do With What You View”: Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. FREE/RSVP [email protected].

SPONSORED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.UNDERWRITTEN BY the Shapell Family Art Fund.

Thursday, September 4Reception for Megumi Sasaki and Dorothy Vogel6:30 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtReception celebrating the campus visit of film director Megumi Sasaki and art collector Dorothy Vogel. FREE.

SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Wednesday, September 10 Ingrid Laubrock Quintet7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallComposer and saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock leads a quintet with fellow jazz musicians Dan Peck, Bruce Berne, Tom Rainey, and Ben Gerstein. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Department of Music.

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Herbert and Dorothy Vogel

Megumi Sasaki, director of the film, Herb & Dorothy, 50x50.

Ingrid Laubrock


Thursday, September 11“Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?”Matthew Booker7:00 p.m.Smith Auditorium, Sills HallMatthew Morse Booker, associate professor of history at North Carolina State University, is a specialist in environmental and western North American history as well as theories and techniques in digital humanities. His first book, Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History Between the Tides, is the first history of the West’s largest estuary and oldest and densest city. In his current project, he explores how urban Americans lost their faith in local food in the late nineteenth century, only to regain it by the end of the twentieth century. Since 2012, Booker has been affiliated with the National Science Foundation-funded IGERT- Genetic Engineering and Society: The Case of Transgenic Pests, led by Fred Gould, Department of Entomology, NC State. Matthew was also a former lead investigator at the Stanford University Spatial History Project, where he led the “Between the Tides,” a digital history of San Francisco Bay. FREE.

PRESENTED BY the Department of History and the Environmental Studies Program. With support from the Departments of Government and Legal Studies and Biology, Sustainable Bowdoin, Dining Services, and the Digital and Computational Studies Program.

Thursday, September 11Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art On 52nd Street: The Jazz Photography of William P. GottliebFrank Goodyear 7:00 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtBowdoin College Museum of Art Co-director Frank Goodyear leads a tour of the exhibition On 52nd Street: The Jazz Photography of William P. Gottlieb. FREE.





Billie Holiday by William P. Gottlieb.

Matthew Booker


Thursday, September 18“‘A Chance to be Aware’: On Richard Tuttle’s Art”Richard Shiff 4:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterRichard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and Director, Center for the Study of Modernism, at The University of Texas at Austin. Shiff, who has written about Richard Tuttle’s work and interviewed the artist publicly, addresses the philosophical and perceptual aspects of “awareness” in Tuttle’s art. Shiff’s publications include Cézanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (co-authored, 2004), Doubt (2008), Between Sense and de Kooning (2011), and Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954–1962 (2014). Presented in conjunction with Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. FREE/RSVP [email protected].

SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.MAJOR SUPPORT for this exhibition has been provided by the Devonwood Foundation, Eric ’85 and Svetlana Silverman, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Coco Kim and Richard Schetman P’13, halley k. harrisburg ’90 and Michael Rosenfeld, Thomas A. McKinley ’06, and the Elizabeth B.G. Hamlin Fund at Bowdoin College. Additional support has been provided by Agnes Gund, Mary G. O’Connell ’76 and Peter J. Grua ’76, an anonymous donor, and the membership of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Tuesday, September 23Gallery Conversation: “Printing with Richard Tuttle: Process and Collaboration”Greg Burnet4:30 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtGreg Burnet, master printer and publisher at Burnet Editions, New York, is a frequent collaborator with Richard Tuttle. Presenting rarely seen studio sketches, printing plates, and color proofs, he gives a full account of the making of some of Richard Tuttle’s most acclaimed prints. Organized in conjunction with Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. FREE.


Blue In The Corner, 2014, by Richard Tuttle. Aquatint on paper and porcelain slab. ©Richard Tuttle and Gemini G.E.L. LLC, Los Angeles

Richard Shiff

Greg Burnet at the printing press.


Thursday, September 25Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far NortheastWilliam Fitzhugh and Wilfred Richards7:00 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center, with reception in Hubbard HallWilliam Fitzhugh, an Arctic archaeologist and director of the Arctic Studies Center, Smithsonian Institution, and Wilfred Richard, a photographer based in Maine, will discuss their newly released book, Maine to Greenland: Exploring the Maritime Far Northeast. A reception and book signing will follow at the Arctic Museum, Hubbard Hall. FREE.

FUNDED BY the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Friday, September 26 George Lopez, piano7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThe borrowing of foreign musical styles into one’s own national sound to evoke another culture and suggest some “alien” experience is at the heart of Exoticism. This recital will focus on the use non-Spanish composers made of traditional and evocative Iberian gestures to “bring Spain” to their native countries throughout Europe. Included are works by Scarlatti, Debussy, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff. FREE.


Saturday, September 27Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art10:00 a.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtBowdoin College students organize and present “Family Saturday,” with activities related to the exhibitions on view. Enjoy interactive learning and fun. FREE.


Monday, September 29Fall 2014 Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project Visiting ArtistLisa Bulawsky4:15 p.m. Room 115, Digital Media Lab, Edwards Center for Art and DanceDirector of Island Press and printmaking professor from Washington University in St. Louis, Lisa Bulawsky will be visiting Bowdoin the week of September 28 and will be working with students in Professor Carrie Scanga’s printmaking courses. She will give a public lecture on her work, examples of which can be viewed at lisabulawsky.com. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project.PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Visual Arts Department.




Book cover: Maine to Greenland. Photo by Will Richard.

Young visitors enjoying Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective.

George Lopez

Above and Below, Lisa Bulawsky.


Wednesday, October 1“Las Décimas del Amargue & Other Songs of Love”Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofía7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall“Las Décimas del Amargue & Other Songs of Love” is a touring project by the band Raquel Z. Rivera & Ojos de Sofía that through performances, artist talks, and workshops educates audiences on the contemporary relevance of the centuries-old Ibero-Afro-American poetic form known as décimas and celebrates its connection to Jíbaro Music, Boleros, Palos, and Bachata. FREE.


Wednesday, October 1 “Women and Theater in Ancient Athens” Laura McClure7:30 p.m.Beam Classroom, Visual Arts CenterLaura McClure is Jane Ellen Harrison Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean, the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship Fund, and the Department of Classics.

Thursday, October 2“Richard Tuttle: The Theater of Attention”Susan Tallman 4:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterSusan Tallman, editor-in-chief, Art in Print, discusses Tuttle’s contribution to the field of contemporary printmaking. Tallman is the author of The Contemporary Print: From Pre-Pop to Postmodern (1996) and wrote an essay for the exhibition catalog. She is a member of the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presented in conjunction with Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. FREE/RSVP [email protected].


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Susan Tallman


Thursday, October 2Fall Open House at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Bowdoin College Museum of ArtAn open house to celebrate exhibitions at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, including Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective, Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth, Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum, and Alison de Vere: Psyche and Eros. FREE.


Monday, October 6“Viral Texts and the Technologies of Authorship”Ryan Cordell7:00 p.m.Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionRyan Cordell, assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, will draw on the Viral Texts project at Northeastern to demonstrate how computational methods such as text mining, mapping, and network analysis can illuminate nineteenth-century systems of circulation, reprinting, and remediation systemically and at scale. Cordell is Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet’s forthcoming journal, DH Commons, and writes for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Digital Humanities.UNDERWRITTEN BY the Andrew K. Mellon Humanities Initiative.

Wednesday, October 8Gallery Conversation: “Drawing a Line from Tuttle to Goltzius”Carrie Scanga and Joachim Homann NoonBowdoin College Museum of ArtThe prints of Hendrick Goltzius and Richard Tuttle will come to life in a gallery talk led by Carrie Scanga, assistant professor of art, and Joachim Homann, curator at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth and Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. FREE.

SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.For more information: 207-725-3375



Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Pygmalion and Galatea, 1593, engraving by Hendrick Goltzius.


Wednesday, October 8Pop-Up Museum! Come Participate.“Wish you Were Here” Travel Souvenirs6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.Morrell Lounge, Smith UnionA Pop-Up Museum is a temporary exhibit created by the people who show up to display objects and share information about them. It lasts a few hours and then it is gone! This year’s Pop-Up Museum will feature travel souvenirs. One item per person, please. No live animals or plants and no weapons. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and Hawthorne-Longfellow Library.

Thursday, October 9Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Minimalist Music in the Museum”George Lopez6:30 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtGeorge Lopez, Beckwith Artist in Residence, Bowdoin College, will offer an evening of minimalist works by Phillip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and John Adams. Like Tuttle’s use of elemental objects such as paper, wire, or plastic bags to create his works, minimalist composers of the “The Age of Protest” conceptualized a radically repetitive music in the 1960s using the simplest of musical motives as a reaction to the elaborate and labyrinthian music matrices of Schoenberg, Babbitt, and Boulez. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Tuttle: A Print Retrospective. Tickets FREE.


Friday, October 10 Teatime Concert: Trio les Amis4:00 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallMary Hunter, violin, Steve Witkin, cello, and James Parakilas, piano, will perform piano trios by Beethoven (Op. 1 no. 1 in E-flat) and Mozart (K.502 in B-flat). FREE.


When Pressure Exceeds Weight VI, 2012 by Richard Tuttle. Paper elements with embossment. © Richard Tuttle/Universal Limited Art Editions.

Jim Parakilas, Mary Hunter, and Steve Witkin.


Thursday, October 16Gallery Conversation: “Metamorphosis of a Myth”James Higginbotham and Linda Roth ’76, P ’134:00 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtThis gallery talk explores the long history and central themes associated with the myth of Cupid and Psyche led by Linda Roth ’76, P ’13, Charles C. and Eleanor Lamont Cunningham Curator of European Decorative Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum, and James Higginbotham, associate professor of classics on the Henry Johnson Professorship Fund and associate curator for the Ancient Collection in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The discussion will examine the representations of this tale over time. Presented in conjunction with Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum. FREE.


Thursday, October 16Byrd and I: A Northern Evening with Rev. Robert Bryan7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterRev. Robert Bryan, best known for his “Bert and I” stories, will entertain with tales about his career in Labrador and Quebec and his friendship with polar explorer Richard Byrd. His talk marks the publication of his autobiography by Down East Books and the donation to the Arctic Museum of a parka made from sealskins given to him by Byrd. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum.

Thursday, October 16 “Love’s Allusions: Elegy and Intertexuality” Jeri DeBrohun 4:30 p.m.Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionJeri DeBrohun is associate professor of classics at Brown University. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean, the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship Fund, and the Classics Department.

Saturday, October 18Homecoming Choral Concert2:00 p.m.Bowdoin ChapelThe Bowdoin Chorus, under the direction of Emily Isaacson, and the Bowdoin Chamber Choir, directed by Robert K. Greenlee, will perform highlights from their upcoming fall concerts as well as some favorite Bowdoin songs. FREE.





Psyche at the Temple of Ceres, ca. 1660. Wool, silk, and gold thread. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Antheneum.


Monday, October 20“Tyrannical Teachers and Student-Citizens: Classical Greek Perspectives on Freedom and the Liberal Arts” Brett Rogers 4:30 p.m.Beam Classroom, Visual Arts CenterBrett Rogers is assistant professor of classics at the University of Puget Sound. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean, the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship Fund, and the Department of Classics.

Wednesday, October 22“Pieter Coecke van Aelst and the Art of Designing Tapestries in Early Modern Europe”Elizabeth Cleland4:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterElizabeth Cleland is associate curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cleland, the curator of the Metropolitan’s upcoming exhibition Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, reassesses this major figure of the Northern Renaissance, who designed tapestries for the royal courts of Europe. The tapestries on view at the Museum of Art are based on drawings by this Flemish master. Presented in conjunction with Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum. FREE/RSVP [email protected].

SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.UNDERWRITTEN BY the Robert Lehman Foundation and Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund.

Thursday, October 23Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture“Democracy at the Roots: Understanding Haiti’s Political Culture”Laurent Dubois7:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterLaurent Dubois is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University. He is the author of several books on the history and culture of the French Caribbean and Atlantic World, including Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 (2004), and his latest work, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012). His lecture explores three intertwined legacies of the Haitian Revolution on political thought and practice in the country: the largely hostile reaction to it outside the country, the formation of new political institutions and structures, and—most importantly—the creation of a new set of cultural, social, and economic structures that Jean Casimir has called the “counter-plantation” system. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Alfred E. Golz Memorial Lecture Fund.

Elizabeth Cleland, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 23, 24, and 25“Almost, Maine,” by John CarianiMasque & Gown Theater Production7:30 p.m.Pickard Theater, Memorial HallSet in the small town of Almost, Maine, the play explores life, love, and loss through a series of vignettes. Each scene features different characters from the town and provides a very realistic glimpse into a fictional community. Both melancholy and humorous, the stories are recognizable to those from small towns and relatable to anyone else. Tickets: $3 public/$1 Bowdoin ID.

FUNDED BY the Student Activities Fund and donors to the Masque and Gown Fund.PRESENTED BY Masque and Gown.

Saturday, October 25Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art10:00 a.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtBowdoin College students organize and present “Family Saturday,” with activities related to the exhibitions on view. Enjoy interactive learning and fun. FREE.


Monday, October 27“Haunting Authors, Haunting Us: Writing What the Dead Speak”Sherry Roush7:00 p.m.Lancaster Lounge, Moulton UnionSherry Roush is associate professor of Italian at Penn State University. She will discuss the concept of eidolopoeia (when authors “speak for the dead”) and its ethical and existential implications. This talk is an overview of her current book project provisionally titled “Idol Making: Ventriloquizing the Dead in the Italian Renaissance.” FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Departments of Romance Languages and English and Lectures and Concerts.




Visitors enjoy a Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Sandro Botticelli, Nastagio degli Onesti, Third Episode (c.1483). Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.


Tuesday, October 28Gallery Conversation: “Anatomy of a Renaissance Painting”Nina Roth Wells and Andrea RosenNoonBowdoin College Museum of ArtNina Roth-Wells, an independent paintings conservator, and Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, discuss the creation and restoration of fifteenth-century Italian tempera on panel paintings in the Museum’s installation of Renaissance art, Lovers and Saints: Art of the Italian Renaissance. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Tuesday, October 28Threatened and Endangered: Flora and Fauna of MaineRebecca Goodale7:00 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterBook artist Rebecca Goodale will present an illustrated talk about her multi-year project to create artist’s books documenting all of the plants and animals on Maine’s Threatened and Endangered Species lists. A reception will follow at 8:30 p.m. at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, where Goodale’s works are on display throughout the fall. Rebecca Goodale is a noted book artist, educator, and program coordinator for the Kate Cheney Chappell Center for Book Arts at the University of Southern Maine. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Department of Art, Association of Bowdoin Friends, and Bowdoin College Library.UNDERWRITTEN BY the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund, Association of Bowdoin Friends, and Bowdoin College Library.

Friday, October 31World Music EnsemblesMichael Birenbaum Quintero, Eric LaPerna, and Amos Libby, directors7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallMichael Birenbaum Quintero will direct Bowdoin’s Afro-Latin Music Ensemble, and Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby will direct the Middle Eastern Ensemble in a joint Family Weekend concert. FREE.


Pygmy Pond-lily, Rebecca Goodale.

The Crucifixion, ca. 1370 by Barnaba Modena. Tempera on panel. Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Afro-Latin Music Ensemble


Saturday, November 1 Bowdoin ChorusEmily Isaacson, director3:00 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallFamily Weekend Concert. FREE.


Saturday, November 1 Bowdoin Chamber ChoirRobert K. Greenlee, director5:00 p.m.Bowdoin ChapelFamily Weekend Concert. FREE.


Sunday, November 2 Bowdoin College Concert BandJohn P. Morneau, director2:00 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallFamily Weekend Concert. FREE.





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Robert K. Greenlee

John P. Morneau

Bowdoin College Concert Band


Monday, November 3Santagata LectureAn Evening with Writer Karen Russell7:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterKaren Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia!, was chosen by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best Books of 2011 and was long-listed for The Orange Prize. Russell has been featured in The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 list, and was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2009, she received the 5 Under 35 award from the National Book Foundation. In 2013 she was named a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation ”Genius Grant,” the youngest of the year’s twenty-four winners. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Kenneth V. Santagata Memorial Lecture Fund.

Tuesday, November 4Film Screening and Conversation: “Goltzius and the Pelican Company,” by Peter GreenawayAviva Briefel, Aaron Kitch, and Joachim Homann7:00 p.m.Room 315, Searles Science BuildingIn Peter Greenaway’s imaginative portrait of the mannerist printmaker, Hendrick Goltzius appears as an artist who stages his seductive Old Testament images to finance work with new printing technologies. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Aviva Briefel, program director, Cinema Studies, and associate professor of English; Aaron Kitch, associate professor of English; and Joachim Homann, curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth. FREE/RSVP [email protected].


Tuesday, November 4“25 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Pop-up Exhibit”7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Blue Room, Smith Union The Fall of the Berlin Wall twenty-five years ago had a great impact on world history. To commemorate the event, students (most of whom were not even born then) will present and exhibit projects in exchange with faculty and members of the Brunswick community. Active participation by the public, exhibition of commemorative objects, and eyewitness accounts are welcome. To coordinate contributions, please contact Birgit Tautz, the chair of the German department, at [email protected]. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Department of German and the German Embassy and Information Center.

Film still from Goltzius and the Pelican Company.

Karen Russell


Wednesday, November 5“The Warburg Institute Presents ‘British Art in the Mediterranean’ (1941)”Michael Berkowitz7:00 p.m.Beam Classroom, Visual Arts CenterMichael Berkowitz earned his PhD in European cultural history under George L. Mosse at the University of Wisconsin. He is professor of modern Jewish history in the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London. He has two forthcoming works, Jews and Photography in Britain: Connections and Developments, 1850–2007 and The Jewish Engagement with Photography, co-edited with Martin Deppner. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Departments of History, German, and Art History, and the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean.

Thursday, November 6“The Art and Life of Marcel Duchamp: A Collision of the Personal and Professional”Francis M. Naumann4:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterFrancis Naumann, scholar, curator, and proprietor of Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, will address Marcel Duchamp’s ties to the many artists in his family, including his brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Villon-Duchamp; his sister, Suzanne Duchamp; and her husband, Jean Crotti. Naumann’s numerous publications include, most recently, The Duchamp Family of Artists (2014). Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Collaborations and Collusions: Artists’ Networks from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. FREE/RSVP [email protected].

SPONSORED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.UNDERWRITTEN BY the Shapell Family Art Fund.

Thursday, November 6Reception with Francis M. Naumann5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtEnjoy refreshments and conversation after the lecture entitled “The Art and Life of Marcel Duchamp: A Collision of the Personal and Professional.” Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Collaborations and Collusions: Artists’ Networks from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. FREE.





Francis M. Naumann

Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreier, 1936, by Walter Buschmann. Gelatin silver print. Private collection.


Thursday, November 6Brodie Family Lecture “Race, Income, and the Reduction of Inequality in American Education” Sean F. Reardon7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and professor of sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and in applied statistical methods for educational research. In addition, he develops methods of measuring social and educational inequality (including the measurement of segregation and achievement gaps) and methods of causal inference in educational and social science research. Sean earned his doctorate in education in 1997 at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Education and has been a recipient of a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, a Carnegie Scholar Award, and a National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Brodie Family Lecture Fund.

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 6, 7, and 8The Imaginary Invalid by Moliére7:00 p.m.Wish Theater, Memorial HallThe Imaginary Invalid, by Moliére, adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young, original music by Paul James Prendergast, lyrics by Oded Gross, Paul James Prendergast, and Tracy Young. Originally produced by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Argan is a wealthy hypochondriac with a houseful of problems: piles of medical bills, a daughter in love with the wrong man, and a sassy servant all too ready to remind him of his shortcomings. At least his wife is loyal—or is she? This zany Moliére mash-up set in 1960s Paris is just what the doctor ordered. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Department of Theater and Dance.FUNDED IN PART BY the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.

Monday, November 10Oshii Mamoru’s Avalon: “Representations of Cold-War History in Japanese Animation”4:00 p.m. Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center Oshii Mamoru is one of anime’s most recognizable directors worldwide. His work deals with Japan’s historical and political relationship to the rest of the world. This talk will examine the relation between Oshii’s geopolitical themes and his global audience by looking at Avalon (2001), an anime-inspired live action movie about a grim future in which people escape their grey lives by playing an immersive virtual reality war game. The movie was filmed in Poland with a Polish cast and military hardware borrowed from the Polish army for the battle scenes. Avalon combines this setting and a range of subtle visual effects to revisit the history of Japan and the West during the Cold War. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Blythe Bickel Edwards Fund.

Sean F. Reardon


Monday, November 10 “Home and Away—Africa’s Mediterranean” Julie McGee ’82 7:00 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterJulie McGee is Curator of African American Art at the University Museums, University of Delaware. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean.

Tuesday, November 11“Double Consciousness: Remembering Black Images in American Struggles for Freedom”Bridget R. Cooks4:30 p.m.Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterBridget R. Cooks is associate professor in the program of African American studies and the department of art history at University of California, Irvine. In this talk, she will revisit the seminal Bowdoin exhibition The Portrayal of the Negro in American Painting in the context of American struggles for racial equality through the visual arts. Her book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum was awarded the inaugural James A. Porter & David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History (2013). FREE/RSVP [email protected].

SPONSORED AND PRESENTED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Department of Art History.

Thursday, November 13“Finding Crocker Land: Archaeology at Etah and Beyond”Genevieve LeMoine7:00 p.m. Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts CenterTo mark the opening of A Glimmer on the Polar Sea, curator Genevieve LeMoine will discuss her archaeological research at Etah, northwest Greenland. Etah was occupied by Inuit for 1000 years before it became the headquarters of Donald MacMillan’s Crocker Land Expedition. Finds ranging from prehistoric ivory harpoon heads to twentieth-century cereal boxes help tell the story of the diverse groups who lived there and influenced one another. FREE.

UNDERWRITTEN BY the Russell and Janet Doubleday Endowment.

Friday, November 14 Chamberfests4:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallStudent ensembles will present two different programs of classical chamber music. FREE.





Bridget R. Cooks

Aerial view of Etah, Greenland, June 26, 2006. Photograph by John Darwent.


Sunday, November 16 Roomful of Teeth3:00 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThe Grammy award-winning vocal ensemble is dedicated to mining the expressive potential of the human voice. Through study with masters from non-classical traditions the world over, the eight-voice ensemble continually expands its vocabulary of singing techniques and, through an ongoing commissioning project, invites today’s brightest composers to create a repertoire without borders. FREE.


Monday, November 17The Ying Quartet7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThe Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. The Ying Quartet’s performance is part of a multi-day residency at the College. Tickets: $15 public/FREE Friends and Bowdoin ID.

SPONSORED BY the Office of Events.

Tuesday, November 18Gallery Conversation: Revealing Mediterranean WomenSusan Wegner and Davida GavioliNoonBowdoin College Museum of ArtSusan Wegner, associate professor of art history, and Davida Gavioli, senior lecturer in Italian, will lead an interdisciplinary conversation about select works in the exhibition Revealing Mediterranean Women. FREE.

SPONSORED BY the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Mellon Humanities Initiative—Studies in the Mediterranean.

Thursday, November 20Bowdoin College Museum of Art Members’ Reception: Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtMuseum members are invited to join in conversation and good cheer at a reception preceding the Thursday Night Salon on the exhibition Hendrick Goltzius: Mythology and Truth. FREE.


Alphonse Mucha, Medee, Theatre de la Renaissance, Sarah Bernhardt, 1898, lithograph, Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1598-1600, by Hendrick Goltzius. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

The Ying Quartet

Roomful of Teeth


Thursday, November 20Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art: “Hendrick Goltzius: Virtuoso Printmaker, Exquisite Painter”George Keyes, Kurt Sundstrom, and Joachim Homann7:00 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtJoin three curators for a close-up examination and discussion of the delightful prints and an astonishing painting by Hendrick Goltzius. George Keyes, former chief curator, Detroit Institute of Arts; Kurt Sundstrom, curator, Currier Museum of Art; Joachim Homann, curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Presented in conjunction with Hendrik Goltzius: Mythology and Truth. FREE.


Saturday, November 22Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art10:00 a.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtBowdoin College students organize and present “Family Saturday,” with activities related to the exhibitions on view. Enjoy interactive learning and fun. FREE.


Saturday and Sunday, November 22 and 23Bowdoin Chorus and Oratorio Chorale3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Saturday6:00 p.m., SundayKanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallEmily Isaacson leads the Bowdoin Chorus, the Oratorio Chorale, Mozart Mentors Orchestra, members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and vocal soloists from the ensemble Roomful of Teeth in a performance of Mozart’s incomparable Requiem. Tickets FREE. Seating is limited. Details at bowdoin.edu/calendar.


Sunday, November 23 Bowdoin College Concert BandJohn P. Morneau, director2:00 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallFREE.





Henry IV, King of France, 1600, by Hendrick Goltzius. Engraving. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Young visitors enjoy a Family Saturday at the Museum.


Monday, December 1 Middle Eastern Ensemble7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallThe Bowdoin Middle Eastern Ensemble, directed by Eric LaPerna and Amos Libby, will present classical and contemporary music from the Arabic and Ottoman Turkish traditions. The ensemble performs on traditional Middle Eastern musical instruments like the oud (Middle Eastern lute) and qanun (72-stringed Middle Eastern zither), as well as vocals and Western instruments along with Middle Eastern percussion. FREE.


Wednesday, December 3 Afro-Latin Music Ensemble7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallUnder the direction of Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Bowdoin’s Afro-Latin Music Ensemble will present a concert highlighting the scintillating rhythms and cultural richness of the descendants of Africans in Latin America, including music from Colombia, Cuba, and Peru. FREE.


Wednesday, December 3Members’ Preview Day: The Holiday Sale in the Museum Shop10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtMuseum members are invited to contemplate the exhibitions at the Museum of Art, then enjoy a 20 percent discount on all purchases at the Museum of Art shop, including seasonal merchandise. The public sale begins on December 4. FREE.


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Afro-Latin Music Ensemble

Middle Eastern Ensemble


Thursday through Saturday, December 4, 5, and 6 December Dance Concert8:00 p.m.Pickard Theater, Memorial HallBowdoin’s December Dance Concert features dancers of all levels in repertory composed by faculty and guest artists. The lights, costumes, and music set the tone for a diverse and riveting program that emphasizes the art of modern concert dance in its many varied forms. How do you define dance? Come and discover the possibilities. FREE.

PRESENTED BY the Department of Theater and Dance. SPONSORED IN PART BY the Alice Cooper Morse Fund and the June Vail Fund for Dance.

Friday, December 5 Bowdoin Orchestra7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallDirector George Lopez will lead the orchestra in works including Tchaikovsky’s Ukranian-based Symphony No. 2 in c minor and Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Haydn. FREE.


Saturday and Sunday, December 6 and 7 Bowdoin Chamber Choir3:00 p.m.Bowdoin ChapelRobert K. Greenlee will conduct the Chamber Choir in a program of music from Germany and the United States, featuring music of French New England (Québécois and Acadian). FREE.


Tuesday, December 9 Jazz Night7:30 p.m.Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital HallStudents coached by Frank Mauceri will perform in various jazz ensembles. FREE.





Bowdoin Orchestra


Thursday, December 11Thursday Night Salon:Music in the Museum with George Lopez6:30 p.m.Bowdoin College Museum of ArtGeorge Lopez performs an evening of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baroque chamber music to highlight the Museum’s exhibition Weaving the Myth of Psyche: Baroque Tapestries from the Wadsworth Atheneum. Tickets FREE.


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Psyche’s Banquet, ca. 1660. Wool, silk, and gold thread. Courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum.

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