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THE ACCIDENTAL POSSIBILITIES OF THE CITY: CLAES OLDENBURG’S URBANISM IN POSTWAR AMERICA
KATHERINE SMITH IN CONVERSATION WITH SUSANNEH BIEBER Event date: Monday, March 1, 2021 – 7:30pm to 9:00pm Charis and Agnes Scott College welcome Professor Katherine Smith in conversation with Susanneh Bieber for a celebration of Smith’s groundbreaking study of the sculptor, Claes Oldenburg: The Accidental Possibilities of the City: Claes Oldenburg’s Urbanism in Postwar America. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis’ virtual event platform. Register here. Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city…
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Searching for Home Video Exhibition Exploration
http://daltongallery.agnesscott.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Searching-for-Home-Final.-SD-540p.mp4 This year, more than ever, the search for home feels especially relevant. Is home now a place for business, schooling our children and family time? Is our current home ideal or just temporary? Searching for home explores the many ways people are contemplating home in 2020. The search for home is a journey that we all find ourselves on in life. In this video tour of our fall exhibition hear four artists from the exhibition, the College’s Director of Sustainability and three Agnes Scott College professors of anthropology, sociology, and culture discuss the ideas of home.
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PRESS RELEASE
Agnes Scott’s Dalton Gallery Opens Exhibition with COVID-19 Safe Requirements Searching for Home Artists’ Work Explores Themes Relevant to Our Current World Decatur, GA – September 14, 2020 – The Department of Art and Art History at Agnes Scott College is pleased to announce the opening of Searching for Home, one in a series of quadrennial exhibitions generously sponsored by the Margaret Virginia Phillip Art Endowment Fund. “We couldn’t be sure if the show would go on once Covid-19 and its impact became our new normal,” said Nell Ruby, Art and Art History Program Chair at Agnes Scott. “I and our college leaders are particularly proud that we managed to…
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Searching for Home
A PROJECT OF THE MARGARET VIRGINIA PHILIP ENDOWMENT Gallery Hours:The gallery is currently open for in person visits by appointment only Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12-5pm. Reserve your ticket here. We have all searched for home. Some have found it, while for others it is a lifelong quest. In this century the entire interwoven globe has reeled from constant motion to arrested stop – and soon, back again — reacting to displacement – war – pandemic – violence – poverty – danger – climate – upheaval – politics – chaos – nature’s whims – disease. As the pendulum swings, some search for an ideal PLACE; others yearn for psychic or spiritual…
