As part of the Construct Your Own Meaning summer series, regional beer brewers created new beers based on selected objects from "Remixing the Hall," which features artwork from the Williams College Museum of Art permanent collection.
Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, introduces Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth, the first exhibition in the United States to reveal how Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944) animated nature to convey meaning.
Lama Tashi Norbu, traditional Thangka painter & Buddhist monk, featured in the current WCMA exhibition: "Across Shared Waters", designed a tattoo based on Tibetan astrology & created a personal buddhist mantra for Williams College student Isaac Rivera. Norbu chants the mantra as he & N.Adams artist Alexis Rosasco tattoo the design on Rivera's back. The design is meant to empower Rivera's lives for eons.
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Kathryn Howley (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU / Beinecke Fellow) argues that the bodily preoccupation of ancient Egyptian art is one reason why it has proven unusually appealing to modern audiences, ever since the beginnings of modern Egyptology in Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798.
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Shundana Yusaf (University of Utah / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow) explores the dynamic exchange between listeners, sound, and space in the tomb of Lal Shabaz Marwandi. Located in Sehwan, Pakistan, the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Marwandi is the most cacophonous shrine in South Asia.
