Museum of Art

This installation features highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside 16th- and 17th-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free

This installation features highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside 16th- and 17th-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free

This installation features highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside 16th- and 17th-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free

This installation features highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside 16th- and 17th-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free

Susan Ackerman, professor of religion, women’s and gender studies, and Jewish studies at Dartmouth and president of the American Schools of Oriental Research; and Shalom Goldman, professor of religion at Middlebury, discuss the legacy of Near Eastern Art in American museums and the ongoing destruction of the ancient cultural patrimony in Iraq and Syria. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of Religion, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Director of the Arts. Free

Highlighting art from the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s collection of antiquities and the special exhibition Naked Truth: Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Art, this gallery talk will compare classical notions of the body to their modern equivalents. Led by Pieter Broucke (Associate Curator of Ancient Art) and Jason Vrooman (Curator of Education and Academic Programs). Please meet in the foyer of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts.

The nearly 200 works in this exhibit showcase the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design long associated with Japan, and convey the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan leading up to World War II. In addition to the modernism that signaled simultaneously Japan’s unique history and its cosmopolitanism, the exhibit also highlights the theme of the modern girl, the emblem of contemporary urban chic that flowered along with the Art Deco style in the 1920s and 1930s.

The nearly 200 works in this exhibit showcase the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design long associated with Japan, and convey the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan leading up to World War II. In addition to the modernism that signaled simultaneously Japan’s unique history and its cosmopolitanism, the exhibit also highlights the theme of the modern girl, the emblem of contemporary urban chic that flowered along with the Art Deco style in the 1920s and 1930s.

The nearly 200 works in this exhibit showcase the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design long associated with Japan, and convey the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan leading up to World War II. In addition to the modernism that signaled simultaneously Japan’s unique history and its cosmopolitanism, the exhibit also highlights the theme of the modern girl, the emblem of contemporary urban chic that flowered along with the Art Deco style in the 1920s and 1930s.

The nearly 200 works in this exhibit showcase the spectacular craftsmanship and sophisticated design long associated with Japan, and convey the complex social and cultural tensions in Japan leading up to World War II. In addition to the modernism that signaled simultaneously Japan’s unique history and its cosmopolitanism, the exhibit also highlights the theme of the modern girl, the emblem of contemporary urban chic that flowered along with the Art Deco style in the 1920s and 1930s.