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Questions Loom Over Gift of Tibetan Thangkas to Three US Colleges

by Jasmine Liu April 2, 2022April 7, 2022

The colleges of Skidmore, Vassar, and Williams struggled to explain the provenance of over 60 thangkas from the Jack Shear Collection.

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An Exhibition Critically Explores the History of Missionaries in Hawai’i

by Christopher Marcisz November 21, 2018

Pulling objects from the collections of Williams College, “The Field is the World” questions how these contentious histories have existed and how they can change.

A Williams College student hanging a work on loan from the WALLS program in his dorm room (photo by Julia Sabot, courtesy Williams College Museum of Art)
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8 US Colleges Lending Their Art Collections to Students

by Claire Selvin November 29, 2017November 30, 2017

In 1934, the University of Minnesota started making its art collection available to students looking to decorate their dorm rooms, a practice that has steadily grown in popularity on campuses across the country.

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An Artist and Amateur Scientist Who Painted Animal Camouflage and Angels

by Allison Meier July 25, 2016July 26, 2016

Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one slide guy,” a man known for portraits of placid angels, who in an art history class might get one mention and then be forgotten.

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The Best Lists of the Best Art Schools on the Internet

by Benjamin Sutton May 6, 2015

In the market for a fine art degree but unsure how to pick schools? The real question is: which list of the top art schools is right for you?

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Inside Andy Warhol’s Book Factory

by Laura C. Mallonee April 1, 2015

It’s strange to picture Andy Warhol curled up with a novel, but the eccentric pop artist “lived and breathed” books, according to Warhol by the Book, the first US museum exhibition to explore the literary side of his practice.

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