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Sam Green presents Utopia in Four Movements
February 8, 2012March 22, 2012 With a powerful sense of poetry, Utopia uses the collective experience of cinema to explore the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This “live documentary” features filmmaker/narrator Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf. Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts, 8pm More » -
Ken Aptekar: Look Again
February 8, 2012February 6-April 14, 2012 Aptekar carefully mines the works of other artists—from Old Master painters to Edward Hopper and Philip Guston—and skillfully re-creates select portions of their paintings, with clever shifts of scale and hue, then covers them with glass, upon which he inscribes inventive and often personal lines of text. The effect is intoxicating: the text gives rise to new meanings in the imagery; the imagery invokes new interpretations of the text. More » -
The Art of Intellectual Community
October 28, 2011In conjunction with "Expanding Relations: Family in the Renaissance," the 2011 New England Renaissance Conference, Wheaton will host the exhibition "Art of Intellectual Community" opening in Beard and Weil on November 11. More » -
Not All That Glitters is Gold
September 7, 2011In her review of the recent “Axis Mundi: Levittown” exhibition, Meredith White-Goode ’15 explores the installation as “haunted containers of different families’ broken histories.” More » -
Introducing Watson Conversations
May 31, 2011Join in on a lively discussion about modern art. Discover more about works in our collection through the eyes and voices of fellow Wheaton students. More » -
R. Tripp Evans Receives the 2010 Marfield Prize
May 11, 2011R. Tripp Evans receives the 2010 Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing for Grant Wood: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010). More » -
Internship: Interpretive Guide at the Hirshhorn Museum
April 15, 2011ARTHive recently hosted Marisa DeSalvio ’10, who talked to students about how her rewarding experiences as an Interpretive Guide at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden helped her to make a career choice. More » -
Professor Ellen McBreen to speak at the Guggenheim in April
April 1, 2011Assistant Professor of Art History Ellen McBreen will present the first annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on April 22, 2011. More » -
Students Explore Both “Chaos and Classicism” at the Guggenheim Museum
November 21, 2010On a recent study trip to New York students in “Arts of the Western Tradition” had an in-depth look at the complex, chaotic relationships between art and politics in post-WWI Europe. More » -
ARTHive
November 1, 2010Introducing ARTHive, a student organization that brings together people who share a common passion for art and art history. More »
