Charles Loring Elliott, Portrait of Matthew Vassar, 1861
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Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar celebrates third anniversary of Late Night at the Lehman Loeb, February 11, 2010.
In celebration of the third anniversary of the highly successful and popular “Late Night at the Lehman Loeb” program, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will offer a special evening centered around "reasons why I love the Lehman Loeb," on Thursday, February 11, from 5:00 to 9:00pm. The Art Center will provide disposable cameras and visitors are encouraged to take pictures of what they love most about the Art Center. The pictures will then be assembled and shared on the Art Center Facebook® page the following day. In addition, there will be performances by six Vassar student a cappella groups in the galleries, as well as birthday cake and refreshments in the atrium.
Site-specific installation, "Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall," on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, January 29 - May 18, 2010.
Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall, is the inaugural installation of a new program of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino, The Emily Hargroves Fisher '57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator and Assistant Director for Strategic Planning at the Art Center. Noted artist Roseman, professor and chair of the Art Department at Vassar College, will begin installing Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall in mid-December once classes are over and during Winter Break (December 10 – January 19). Visitors to the Art Center will be able to view the work-in-progress during this time. The official opening celebration will be on Friday, January 29. Harry Roseman: Hole in the Wall will be on view to the public through May 18, 2010.
Roof repairs will require temporary closure of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, beginning in May 2010 .
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College's museum designed by Cesar Pelli and opened in 1993, will close for roof repairs after May 18, 2010, with a re-opening expected in January 2011.
Archive
- The next Art Center exhibition is "At the Heart of Progress," on view 1/21 - 3/22
- Art on air: Art Center exhibitions featured on WAMC's "The Roundtable."
- Some lectures and events scheduled for today (2/25) have been postponed due to the weather.
- Vassar Modfest celebrates the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries, 1/21-2/7
- Exhibition checklist: "Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750 – Industrial Imagery from the John P. Eckblad Collection"
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