Arts Calendar Spring 2014 PDF - Bowdoin College

2014
May
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
Thursday, May 1
Gallery Talk on the exhibition, Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography
Jessica May
4:30 p.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Jessica May, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Portland Museum of Art and curator
of the 2013 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, will join Andrea Rosen, curatorial assistant and
curator of Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography, for an informal gallery talk. FREE.
Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Underwritten by the Louisa Vaughan Conrad Fund, Becker Fund for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Stevens L. Frost Endowment Fund, and Elizabeth B. G. Hamlin Fund.
Thursday, May 1
Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship
“Culture and Barbarism: Nazi Art Plundering and the Restitution Field
Moving Forward”
Jonathan Petropoulos
7:30 p.m.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Jonathan Petropoulos is the John V. Croul Professor of European History at Claremont McKenna College
in Southern California. He is the author of Art as Politics in the Third Reich (University of North Carolina
Press, 1996), and The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2000),
Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford University Press, 2006), and the
forthcoming Artists Under Hitler: The Power of Seduction and the Fate of Modernism in Nazi Germany (Yale
University Press, 2014). He has also served as research director for art and cultural property on the
Presidential Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, where he helped draft the report,
Restitution and Plunder: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims’ Assets (2001). Petropoulos has helped organize
art exhibitions, such as Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, which opened at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991, and he has served as a consultant for a number of
Holocaust victims and heirs trying to recover lost artworks, including assisting members of the Bloch-
Bauer family as they recovered five paintings by Gustav Klimt in 2006. He has also appeared in over a
dozen documentary films: among them, the award-winning The Rape of Europa (2007). FREE.
Sponsored by the Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship Fund.
George Platt Lynes, Portrait of Thomas
Bacon, 1939, gelatin silver print. Museum
Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong
Coulter Fund.
Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2
Symposium: “Social Politics and the Cold War”
7:30 p.m., Thursday, keynote address by Dagmar Herzog
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday, panels
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union
The year 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the last moments of
the Cold War that defined the second half of the 20th century. The “Social Politics and the Cold
War” symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to investigate the cultural
impacts of superpower rivalry. Rather than focusing exclusively on the political or military aspects
of the Cold War, the symposium examines the effects of the bi-polar world on cultural production,
women’s issues, health and sexuality, the environment, youth movements, the production of
science, and the reshaping of national educational paradigms. For more information and the
complete schedule of events, go to: bowdoin.edu/gender-women. FREE.
SPONSORED BY the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs and the Departments of Gender and Womens Studies,
History, and German.
Thursday and Friday, May 1 and 2
Bowdoin Chorus
Anthony Antolini ’63, director
7:30 p.m.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall
Bowdoin Chorus and Mozart Mentors Orchestra, under the direction of Anthony Antolini ’63,
will present Mendelssohn’s Psalm 114 and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. FREE.
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Saturday, May 3
Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
10:00 a.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Robert K. Greenlee
Bowdoin College students lead a program of activity and fun for children, working with the
exhibitions on view. FREE.
Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Anthony Antolini ’63
For more information:
207-725-3375
All events are open to the public.
Admission to most events is free
and no tickets are required. Any
ticket or admission requirements
are listed within the event
description. For information on
acquiring tickets, see the inside
back cover.
All events are subject to change.
Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4
Bowdoin Chamber Choir
Robert K. Greenlee, director
3:00 p.m.
Bowdoin Chapel
FREE.
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
For more information on these and many other events go to:
bowdoin.edu/arts