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LTS Music Night
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NEWMAC Softball Championship- Day 2
(Subject to Change)
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Festina lente: Conserving Antiquity
Behind-the-Scenes View of Greek and Roman Holdings in Permanent Collections
Festina lente offers an unconventional behind-the-scenes opportunity to survey the Greek and Roman holdings in the Davis Museum's permanent collections.
Focused on collecting, conservation, and stewardship, the exhibition invites new research and scholarship regarding a range of objects?some, deeply beloved long-time fixtures in the Davis galleries, and others, hidden from view for decades.
The exhibition and programs illuminate the particular challenges facing museum antiquities collections, including questions of attribution, provenance, and authenticity; the science of investigation; changing strategies and shifting aesthetics in restoration; the function of and framework for managing fragmentary objects; the search for traces in abraded and eroded surfaces; and trends in collecting over time.
Featuring vases and vessels of all sorts and designs, relief portraits and standing figures, mosaics, coins and jewelry, human and animal forms, the scope of the collection reveals tremendous vitality of form and function rendered in glass, terracotta, clay, metal, and stone.
The classical adage, festina lente?to "make haste slowly"?was greatly favored by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and seems particularly apt in relation to the collecting and conservation of antiquities. The balance of urgency and diligence, risk and caution is a perfect description for the dynamic focus on collecting, art history and archaeology, scientific research, and conservation
treatment that distinguishes this project?and indeed, to the larger project of museums overall.
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro '37 Director of the Davis, Festina lente and related programs have been generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art.
Events
Exhibition: Josef Albers: Geometries
Exhibition: Josef Albers: Geometries
This small selection of works by Josef Albers (1888?1976) from the Davis
collections invites close consideration of the geometric line in relation to
color?or its absence?through prints and drawings, spanning 1944 to 1976.
Albers? teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist?was an influential
member of the Bauhaus before immigrating with his artist wife, Anni, to the
United States in 1933. His work continued at Black Mountain College and the
Yale University School of Art. In 1971, he was the first living artist celebrated
with a solo retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro '37 Director of the Davis.
This exhibition is supported by the Claire Freedman Lober '44 Endowment Fund.
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David Akiba: Sightlines Exhibit
on exhibit at the Hollister Gallery, Babson College
The innovative Babson-Olin-Wellesley Three College Collaboration presents David Akiba: Sightlines. On View at the Hollister Gallery, Babson College, Marhc 26 - May 25. Artist talk April 4th at 5:00.
During "the fraction of a second that the shutter is open" David Akiba's relephone lens captures solitary figures as they travel through a nearly unpopulated urban landscape.
Events
All about the Plays Festival
Student Performances: 12pm-1:30pm: Counterbalance by Coleen Royal 1:30pm-3pm: Hypatia by Lucy T. Anderle 3pm-4:30pm: After Rat City by Julia Specht 4:30pm-6pm: Matchmaker, Matchmaker by Izzy Starr
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Commencement '13 Harambee Stole Ceremony
Harambee House Senior Stole Ceremony
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Commencement '13: Harambee Reception
Harambee House Senior Stole Ceremony & Reception
Events
Festina Lente: Conserving Antiquity
Behind-the-Scenes View of Wellesley's Greek and Roman Holdings
Festina Lente offers an unconventional behind-the-scenes opportunity to survey the Greek and Roman holdings in the Davis Museum's permanent collections.
Focused on collecting, conservation, and stewardship, the exhibition invites new research and scholarship regarding a range of objects?some, deeply beloved long-time fixtures in the Davis galleries, and others, hidden from view for decades.
The exhibition and programs illuminate the particular challenges facing museum antiquities collections, including questions of attribution, provenance, and authenticity; the science of investigation; changing strategies and shifting aesthetics in restoration; the function of and framework for managing fragmentary objects; the search for traces in abraded and eroded surfaces; and trends in collecting over time.
Featuring vases and vessels of all sorts and designs, relief portraits and standing figures, mosaics, coins and jewelry, human and animal forms, the scope of the collection reveals tremendous vitality of form and function rendered in glass, terracotta, clay, metal, and stone.
The classical adage, festina lente?to "make haste slowly"?was greatly favored by the first Roman emperor, Augustus, and seems particularly apt in relation to the collecting and conservation of antiquities. The balance of urgency and diligence, risk and caution is a perfect description for the dynamic focus on collecting, art history and archaeology, scientific research and conservation
treatment that distinguishes this project?and indeed, to the larger project of museums overall.
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro '37 Director of the Davis, Festina lente and related programs have been generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art.
Events
Exhibition: Josef Albers: Geometries
Exhibition: Josef Albers: Geometries
This small selection of works by Josef Albers (1888?1976) from the Davis
collections invites close consideration of the geometric line in relation to
color?or its absence?through prints and drawings, spanning 1944 to 1976.
Albers? teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist?was an influential
member of the Bauhaus before immigrating with his artist wife, Anni, to the
United States in 1933. His work continued at Black Mountain College and the
Yale University School of Art. In 1971, he was the first living artist celebrated
with a solo retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro '37 Director of the Davis.
This exhibition is supported by the Claire Freedman Lober '44 Endowment Fund.
