Celebrating Humanities and Film Librarian Bonnie Vigeland’s Retirement
On May 16, friends, faculty, family and colleagues gathered to celebrate Bonnie Vigeland, who is retiring after 35 years as Humanities and Film …
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.