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About This Page The Gate calendar
lists each week's notable public events, selected by the editors. A full event
listing, including a searchable, long-range calendar, is available here.
A listing of events at the Five Colleges is available here.
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Installation of Javanese Buddha Sculpture
Through Fall 2008
A large Javanese stone Buddha from the late 8th or early 9th century is on extended loan to the Smith College Museum of Art from a private collection. For admission information and hours, visit the museum's Web site.
Werner Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book-Objects and Artist Books
April 1-July 31 Book Arts Gallery, Neilson Library
Offering a visual commentary on censorship, a new exhibition of “silenced” books by artist Werner Pfeiffer will feature 39 objects using real books, some with pages glued together, others secured with ropes, nails, clamps and hooks. It also includes eight books created by Pfeiffer that require a reader to manipulate them in a way other than by turning their pages. The exhibition will be unveiled at an opening reception at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Book Arts Gallery, Neilson Library, at which Pfeiffer will assemble his three-dimensional artist book “Out of the Sky: Remembering 9/11.” For more information, call (413) 585-2906 or visit the Web site.
Beyond Genocide
April 1 to May 20
Exhibit hours: Daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Helen Hills Hills Chapel
Exhibit of contemporary illuminated manuscripts by artist Amy Fagin, honoring worldwide victims of genocide, past and present. Opening reception is 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, with a screening at 7:30 p.m. of “Kabul Transit.” For more information, call (413) 585-2755 or e-mail bseltzer@email.smith.edu
No End to the Banana
April 1-June 30
Church Exhibition Gallery, Lyman Conservatory
An exploration of the diversity of bananas and who uses them and for what. The exhibition presents how research can help us use this diversity to increase options for both small-scale farmers in the developing world and consumers in industrialized countries. On Friday, April 18, in conjunction with the exhibit, Dan Koeppel, author of “Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” will offer a free public talk at 7 p.m. in Seelye 106.
Sandy Skoglund: Radioactive Cats
April 18-Sept. 7 In conjunction with Smith alumna Sandy Skoglund’s 40th reunion at Smith College, the Museum will display Skoglund’s “Radioactive Cats” installation (1980) for the first time since purchasing this sculptural environment in 2004. “Radioactive Cats,” which features bright green cats prowling a grey apartment, is the artist’s best known work. The Smith College Museum of Art is a major repository of Skoglund’s work, including the “Revenge of the Goldfish” installation (a blue bedroom environment teeming with giant goldfish), installation photographs, prints, a painting, and a bronze sculpture. For more information, call (413) 585-2760.
Smith College Museum of Art
Beautiful Britain: 18th- and 19th-Century Landscapes April 25-July 20 More than 20 works by defining British artistic figures such as Alexander Cozens, John Constable, and Samuel Palmer. Inspired by the innovative use of light by the French landscape painter Claude Lorraine, 18th-century British artists created an idealized vision of the English countryside. In their works, Britain was portrayed as ripe with pleasure and plenty. The industrial developments and technological advancements of the Victorian Era created a public nostalgia for a simpler time. Landscape artists thus sought to preserve the ideal of the rustic countryside and to immortalize natures timeless and sublime beauty. The exhibition was organized by Smith College senior Laura Martin. For more information, call (413) 585-2760. Smith College Museum of Art
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