Welcome back, and come take a poem to go!
Welcome back to campus and to the library! Remember that you can always stop by the InfoBar right when you enter to …
In each hand I keep each of my eyes
The Hampshire College Art Gallery presents In each hand I keep each of my eyes, featuring 15 photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo …
The Movement LibGuide: Self-Education & Self-Preservation at Hampshire (and beyond)
The Movement LibGuide: Self-Education & Self Preservation at Hampshire This guide is meant to be a resource for students, faculty and staff …
Manuscript Cultures & Graphic Knowledge Systems: An Ethiopian Case Study
The Hampshire College Art Gallery and Institute for Curatorial Practice invite participants to a public keynote and a faculty seminar centered around …
New addition to Special Collections
We recently acquired the work “Opera Mortis: The Works of Death; The Simulacra & Natural History of Death’s Labors & Hours of …
Inscribed novels by James Baldwin
Today I had the enormous pleasure of opening a box of four inscribed books, given as gifts to talent agent Robert Lantz …
ICP Internship Updates, Round 2: the book, an axe, and food for thought
This summer, 7 students from the Institute for Curatorial Practice are completing internships with Five College museums and faculty. A little more …
ICP Internship Updates, Round 1: Resurrection, Nymphs, and Miracles
This summer, 7 students from the Institute for Curatorial Practice are completing internships with Five College museums and faculty. A little more …
Submit Your Div III to the Archives!
Congratulations to all students who are wrapping up their Div IIIs! So that your work is preserved and accessible to current and …
Review: Mothers’ Arms: Käthe Kollwitz’s Women and War
by Ivy Vance The current exhibition at Smith College Museum of Art is a thoughtful examination of the work of the German …
Review: Keeping Busy: Five Artists Respond to Henrietta Lambie’s Mourning Quilt
by Ivy Vance The most recent exhibition at Historic Northampton, curated by Ester White, brings attention to a unique object in their …
Review: Dancers of the Nightway
by Ivy Vance The current exhibition at Mount Holyoke Art Museum Dancers of the Nightway displays a selection of Navajo weavings from …
New! Scholarly communication guide for faculty
We have had some great conversations these past couple of weeks about author’s rights and the use of images in scholarly publications. …
Enduring Questions: Los Caprichos, authenticity, and reproduction
by Ivy Vance In conjunction with Karen Koehler’s Art Questions class funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, several groups of …
Notes from an ICP alum: “Walid Raad” at MoMA
by Pauline Miller Ever since my acceptance to the inaugural Bruce High Quality Foundation University Gallery Fellowship, a.k.a. BHQFUG (a mouthful, I …
From NPR: “Will Future Historians Consider These Days the Digital Dark Ages?”
NPR featured this story on digital preservation: “Will Future Historians Consider These Days The Digital Dark Ages?” Listen to the story and …
The Third Space in Material Culture: ICP Internship Update
by Chelsea Miller As an intern for the Institute for Curatorial Practice, I am particularly struck by ICP’s ability to bring a …
Marisa Olson, Postinternet, and Digital Culture
by Ivy Vance Marisa Olson, contemporary artist, curator, and art theorist, spoke at Hampshire last Wednesday about her practice and questions that …
Guerrilla Girls Public Talk at Smith College
Presented in conjunction with the current exhibition Women’s Work: Feminist Art from the Collection at the Smith College Museum of Art in collaboration with the student group Feminists of Smith, the Guerrilla Girls gave a public talk about their creative practice and activism in the art world last Thursday.
Cuban Artists Books in the Archives and Special Collections
As Hampshire prepares to celebrate the 15-year anniversary of its Cuba student-exchange program, the Harold F. Johnson Library is excited to announce …