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The new semester has now started, and we are excited to welcome back faculty, students, and visitors. This month the Museum opens a new installation drawn from its distinguished antiquities collection, Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy at Bowdoin. Curated by classics professor James Higginbotham, this exhibition explores the origins and artistic traditions of the Etruscan civilization, their contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient Italy, and their legacy today. This month the Museum also welcomes several visiting scholars and artists. Of note, on February 8 Caitlin Meehye Beach ’10, an assistant professor of art history at Fordham University, returns to campus to speak about nineteenth-century American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Also, please join us on February 23 when artist Jim Dine visits to present a talk about the new exhibition, Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest.

See you at the Museum!

Anne Collins Goodyear & Frank H. Goodyear

Co-Directors

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

exhibitions

Continuing

Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest

The exhibition features over 60 of the artist's portrait drawings, completed between 1957 and 2023.

Continuing

Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures

The exhibition spotlights the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American artistic expression over the past century.

spotlight

Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the Collection to open in February

This new exhibition explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient Italy, and their wider legacy.

news

Announcing a gift from The Alex Katz Foundation

A painting by Pierre Bonnard and drawing by Ernst Kirchner are donated to the Museum.

Object of the Month

Discussion of a recently acquired painting by Felrath Hines.

calendar

February 8, 2024

"Edmonia Lewis and Black Women's Activism in Civil War Boston" by Caitlin Beach '10.

4:30 p.m. | Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

February 23, 2024

Artist's Talk with Jim Dine: "Last Year's Forgotten Harvest"

4:30 p.m. | Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

February 29, 2024

"Copy of a Copy: Artist's Talk with Stephanie H. Shih"

4:30 p.m. | Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center

Museum Hours

Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 pm | Thursday: 10:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. | Sunday: 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is open to the public free of charge. The Museum is wheelchair accessible through the Pavilion entrance.

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Banner image: Untitled, 2016 (detail), alpaca and wool by Tamara Gonzales, American, born 1959. Gift of The Alex Katz Foundation. 2027.25.