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Students wait to choose artwork to borrow from the Williams College Museum of Art — they will be able to hang a work from the collection in their own rooms as part of the WALLS program.
Williams College Museum of Art
Visual Arts

Kameelah Janan Rasheed charts galaxies and infinite libraries

October 20, 2021
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In an octagonal room at the Williams College Museum of Art, abstract forms ring the walls like astral bodies, like baby stars half visible in a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust.

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A reader sits on one of Louise Borgeois' giant glowing eye sculptures outside of the Williams College Museum of Art.
Image courtesy of Williams College
Visual Arts

Women (artists) about town …

September 2, 2021
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I walked through WCMA on Monday afternoon, with the work of women artists around me, and wondered where else have I seen work by women in the Berkshires this summer … And I’m finding the answer more challenging than I expected.

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Kameelah Janan Rasheed's panels in text and abstract images reflect the shifting stories in her installation at WCMA.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Kameelah Janan Rasheed weaves a room of all possible stories

September 2, 2021
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I’m standing in a round room at the top of the Williams College Museum of Art and seeing it transformed through Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s eyes.

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A sculpture in Madrid honors sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Creative Commons courtesy photo
Photo by by Manuel M.V.
Visual Arts

She can turn a library into a labyrinth (Sept 1 newsletter)

September 2, 2021
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WCMA has reopened, after more than a year closed in the pandemic, and I am transfixed by Amalia Mesa-Bains’ Library of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz.

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Close up of Meza Mundo's 'The Flying Woman' in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art.
Mundo Meza / WCMA
Arts

Axis Mundo at WCMA rediscovers an artistic community in Los Angeles in the 1970s

November 24, 2019
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A group of artists grew together in Southern California. They were kept out of galleries and museums and mainstream media, so they made their own spaces. And they are gathered together again now in Axis Mundo at the Williams College Museum of Art — an exhibit that has won national attention.

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Princess Ka'iulani (1875-1899), heir to the throne of Hawaii, appears in a photograph in The Field Is the World at WCMA.
Photo of Princess Ka'iulani / Courtesy of WCMA
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Hawaiian past and present converge at Williams College Museum of Art

October 2, 2018
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A young man is singing in a low and carrying voice. He holds long phrases on a breath. He is chanting a Hawaiian oli, and the words are his. Nālamakū Ahsing is a Williams student, class of ’21, and he wrote these verses calling to the people who came before […]

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A woman looks out of bright swirls of paint in Lisa Cyr's 'Mademoiselle du Carnaval.' She will lead a workshop at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Image by Lisa Cyr / Courtesy of Norman Rockwell Museum
Arts

A collage shows the first statewide Artweek festival in images

May 1, 2018
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Get behind the scenes, get muddy, get up close to paper and paint and clay. ArtWeek crossed the state to the Berkshires in April and May 2018 with dozens of events, most of them free …

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This bird-headed warrior from central Veracruz is a ceramic whistle from 150 to 400 CE. Soldiers may have played whistles like these on the way to battle. On loan from Yale University Art Gallery.
WCMA / Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

Seeds of Divinity explores Mexican and Central American art at WCMA

February 2, 2018
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A serpent leans its head through an opening in the stone. In its open mouth, a man’s head is floating with closed eyes, as though he is asleep. A maize god looks down from above, wearing a headdress of corn husks. At the center of a gallery at the Williams […]

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Illustration from a manuscript of Firdwasi's Shahnameh, Iranian, probably Qazvin, Safavid dynasty (1501-1732) at the Yale Art Museum in New Haven
Illustration from Firdwasi's Shahnameh / Yale Art Museum
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A Mughal artist tells the story of the Magi in Persian perspective

December 8, 2017
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On a winter afternoon afternoon, a painting stands at a meeting of worlds – an Adoration of the Magi inspired by Persian and Mughal miniatures at the Williams College Museum of Art.

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An inset stained glass panel, a Grisaille from France, shines among diamond panes.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

WCMA rediscovers a lost medieval gallery

September 20, 2017
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The Williams College Museum of Art has recovered a vanished room. It feels like a kind of mythical medieval place, with a floor of handmade tiles and dark plaster walls, oak beams and diamond-paned windows with inset stained glass. It was designed almost 80 years ago, walled away and almost […]

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