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Press Releases
2024
07/25.
Upcoming Exhibition About Monhegan Island Explores Connections Between Art and Environmental Resilience.
In December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), in collaboration with the Monhegan Museum of Art and History, will present an exhibition that looks anew at the history of Monhegan Island, Maine. [more]
02/06.
Major Painting by Alejandro Mario Yllanes Acquired by Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has acquired Estaño Maldito (Cursed Tin) (1937) [more]
2023
09/27.
Artist’s Explorations of Asian-American Identity.
The groundbreaking new exhibition “Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures” weaves together 30 artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, created by more than twenty artists who self-identify as Asian American. [more]
09/27.
Exploring Jim Dine’s Portrait Drawings.
This December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open “Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest,” an exhibition featuring over 60 of the artist’s exceptional portrait-drawings, created over the past six and a half decades. [more]
05/10.
People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965 to Open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art This SummerFull title of release.
Exploring how humans witness each other, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and host an expansive selection of photographs in a new exhibition titled People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965. [more]
03/30.
Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Noted 19th Century Sculptor Anne Whitney, Acquired by Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) announced today that it has acquired an 1893 plaster work by sculptor Anne Whitney (1821–1915) of the noted author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). [more]
02/01.
First Major Exhibition of the Art of Mina Loy to Open at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and present Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most challenging poets of the twentieth century. [more]