A photograph by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was featured in the Winter 2010 issue of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. The photo,   "Cauliflower, 2006," was published within a supplementary section that features the work of 17 contemporary artists. More ...

Eleven senior art concentrators along with Art Department faculty visited internationally acclaimed artists' studios in New York City on February 12 and 13. Lane Twitchell, Deb Kass, Nina Katachadorian, An My Lei, and Nicole Eisenman welcomed students into their studios to discuss works of art in progress. The Dietrich Foundation and the Kirkland Endowment supported this event. More ...

Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, presented his composition NGC 2080, Variation 2 at the Emerson Gallery on Feb. 18 as part of the Gallery’s “Look Up” exhibition. Pellman’s piece, which was accompanied by a video created by his collaborator Miranda Raimondi '08, combines unique and innovative sounds with beautiful and meaningful images. More ...

Hamilton's Emerson Gallery will present an artists’ talk with Samuel Pellman, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music, and alumna Miranda Raimondi ’08, on Thursday, Feb. 18, at noon in the gallery. Pellman and Raimondi will discuss their work, "Music From Space: Samuel Pellman and Miranda Raimondi’s Selected Nebulae." More ...

The Emerson Gallery is lending a painting by Percy Wyndham Lewis from its collection to Fundación Juan March, an art museum in Madrid, Spain, for Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957. This exhibition, which opens on Feb. 5, brings together drawings and paintings by the British artist from across Europe and the United States. The loaned work was a gift to the gallery from Omar S. ’51 and Elizabeth Pound. More ...

In an introduction to the Feb. 3 lecture on Tim Davis’ photography, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas skipped nearly all customary information in favor of presenting the audience with eight simple facts about the artist. These included his talent for skipping faster than he can run and playing ukulele. Though such random pieces of trivia may seem irrelevant to a professional discussion about photographs, they could not have served as a better preface to Davis’ character.
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As part of the ongoing Visiting Artist series at Hamilton College, photographer Tim Davis will give a lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 4:15 p.m., in the College’s Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. More ...

The exhibition “Private (dis) play” featuring the sketchbooks of contemporary artists Julie Hefferman, Vincent Desidirio, Kurt Kauper, Mira Schor, Tom Knechtel, Catherine Hower and Hamilton professors Ella Gant and Katharine Kuharic opens at the New York Academy of Art on Tuesday, Jan. 26, in New York City. More ...

Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh is exhibiting "Cyclical Perspective" at the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn. Her work is shown in the Martin Art Quest Gallery, which is an interactive space sponsoring art education for the public. The work will be on view until August 1. More ...

John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, contibuted to the most recent volume of the Pseira excavation reports published by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) press. Originally excavated in 1906-1907 by Richard Seager, Pseira was an important Bronze Age harbor town located on an islet just off the north coast of Crete. McEnroe was the project architect for the collaborative Greek-American team that devoted many years to the exhaustive reinvestigation of the site. More ...