Part of the Mahaney Center for the Arts, the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s mission is to enable visitors to understand more fully the artistic achievements represented by a diversity of cultures. Their collection of several thousand objects ranges from antiquities to contemporary art and includes distinguished collections of Asian art, photography, 19th-century European and American sculpture, and contemporary prints. Works from the permanent collection and special loan exhibitions are on display throughout the year, and they regularly sponsor lectures, gallery talks, films, school programs, and family workshops. The Museum also maintains the college’s collection of 20 works of public sculpture sited in various locations around the campus. This fall, enjoy these exhibitions.
“Bloom and Doom: Visual Expressions and Reform in Vienna 1900”
September 6-December 11, 2016
in the Overbrook Gallery
Drawn from the holdings of the Sabarsky Foundation in New York City, this exhibition, featuring works by Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and other members of the Viennese Secession, illuminates how these individuals challenged the artistic and social establishment by rejecting the traditional academic system and turning to new means of expression, often attempting to reunify art and life in a “total work of art” (Gesamtkunstwerk), before giving into cultural pessimism and withdrawing from public life. Curated by Erin Sassin. (image above: 49th Secession Exhibition by Egon Schiele (colored lithograph, 1903). Courtesy of the Sabarsky Foundation.)
“Post Pop: Prints of Keith Haring”
September 16-December 11, 2016
in the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery
Art star of the 1980s, Keith Haring was an indefatigable presence on the world stage until his premature death from AIDS in 1990. His Pop Shops sold his designs on clothing, toys, posters, skateboards, and other merchandise. Haring also created more than 50 public murals in cities around the world, for charities, hospitals, children’s day care centers, and orphanages. This exhibition presents selected limited editions on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation, which provides funding and imagery to AIDS organizations and charities supporting underserved youth. (image: Andy Mouse by Keith Haring (38″x38″; silkscreen; 1986) © Keith Haring Foundation)
INFORMATION
Middlebury College Museum of Art
Maheney Center for the Arts
72 Porter Field Road
Middlebury 05753
(802) 443-3168
Hours:
Tuesday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
Saturday-Sunday, Noon-5PM
Closed November 24–25, 2016 and December 12, 2016–January 2, 2017.