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Artist Mika Taga ’22 returns to campus to install The Nest in the Botanic Gardens

Lulu Chow Wang’s experiences in the Jewett Arts Center helped fuel her lifelong passion for the arts. Now, Wang and her husband, Tony, have made a $25 million gift to the College to help enable the renewal of the masterpiece of modernism.

The Wagner Centers and campus partners bring together students, faculty, staff, and alums to discuss AI and the liberal arts

Frida Kahlo’s work might be too costly for Mexico’s government, James Oles, who studies Mexican art, told the Times: “Should they spend money on one Frida? Or should they spend money on repairing museums?”

WellesleyWeston Magazine says the Davis Museum’s exhibit of pieces by faculty artists “offers thought-provoking work in a variety of artistic media, giving museum-goers a layered experience.”

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In August, Claudia Joskowicz, a video artist and associate professor of art at Wellesley, found herself in a bind. She was supposed to be wrapping up shooting on a new project set in Bolivia’s Andean salt flats. Instead, she was grounded on the opposite side of the country—without any footage to show for her efforts. On the eve of national elections, Bolivia faced a nationwide gas crisis, and the production bill for her project suddenly quintupled.