Tang Teaching Museum receives expansive gift from Michael and Sirje Gold
Steve Roden, The Silent World (Four Shadows), 2004, oil, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 66 x 1 1/2 inches, Tang Teaching Museum collection, Gift of Michael O. Gold and Sirje Helder Gold in memory of their beloved son Maximilian Arnold Gold, 2020.22.12.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
.-The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has received a gift of 24 contemporary artworks from the collection of Michael O. and Sirje Helder Gold. The gift includes works created in the 1990s and 2000s by a diverse group of leading and emerging artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Sean Duffy, Naomi Fisher, Iva Gueorguieva, Michelle Grabner, Carol Hepper, Steve Roden, Jonathan Seliger, Glen Seator, George Stoll, Beverly Semmes, and Barbara Takenaga.
Tang Teaching Museum announces publication of Culture as Catalyst
New book brings campus conversations on urgent issues to new audiences.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY
.-The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces a new publication on the most urgent issues of the day. Culture as Catalyst is a collection of compelling dialogues and new writings by artists, scholars, activists, and influential thinkers who present new perspectives that disrupt the status quo by encouraging a getting comfortable with discomfort attitude to work through big ideas to drive change.
Edited by Isolde Brielmaier, the first Curator at Large at the Tang Teaching Museum, Culture as Catalyst accompanies the 20172019 Accelerator Series of public conversations she organized at the Museum to shed new light on the topics of whiteness, migration, mass incarceration, feminism, monuments, citizenship, cultural appropriation, forgiveness, and food justice. These dialogues we
The Saratoga blog By Wendy Liberatore on January 19, 2021 at 7:57 PM
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has published a book on the most urgent issues of the day from race to food insecurity.
Culture as Catalyst is a collection of dialogues and new writings by artists, scholars, activists and influential thinkers who present new perspectives and encourage a “getting comfortable with discomfort” attitude to work through big ideas to drive change.
Edited by Isolde Brielmaier, the curator at large at the Tang Teaching Museum, the book accompanies the 2017–2019 Accelerator Series of public conversations she organized at the museum to shed light on the topics of whiteness, migration, mass incarceration, feminism, monuments, citizenship, cultural appropriation, forgiveness and food justice.