SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will have special hours during Skidmore College’s year-end break, which will also be the last chance to see the exhibitions Serious Sparkle and Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison.
Holiday Hours are as follows:
- Monday, Dec. 23 to Wednesday, Dec. 25, Christmas — Closed.
- Thursday, Dec. 26 to Sunday, Dec. 29 — Noon to 5 p.m.
- Monday, Dec. 30 to Wednesday, Jan. 1, New Year’s Day — Closed.
- Thursday, Jan. 2 to Sunday, Jan. 5 — Noon to 5 p.m.
The Museum’s regular hours — Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and until 9 p.m. Thursday —resume Tuesday, Jan. 7. Admission to the museum is free, though a donation is suggested. For more information, please call the Tang Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080 or visit http://tang.skidmore.edu.
Exhibitions:
Opening Saturday, Dec. 20: Elevator Music 40: Melissa Thorne – Landslide/Solid: Landslide/Solid pairs visual abstraction with Stevie Nicks’ classic hit Landslide and Ashford & Simpson’s Solid (As a Rock). The installation features an original vinyl record produced by the artist and hand-printed sound curtains and seating.
Closing Sunday, Jan. 5: Serious Sparkle: Serious Sparkle addresses how contemporary artists use glitter to explore issues around the construction and representation of femininity, queer identity, and the body. Also closing, Ree Morton: The Plant That Heals May Also Poison: A survey of the career of Ree Morton (1936-1977) features drawings, paintings, and large-scale sculptural environments made by the artist during her short but prolific career. Morton, who remains widely under-recognized, was involved in the feminist and post-minimalist art movements in the 1970s and produced an influential body of work.
Also on View: Beauty & Bite features artists from the Tang collection whose work examines questions of identity—particularly race, gender, and sexuality—and explores the underlying mythologies and histories that inform contemporary society. Through Jan. 19; Hyde Cabinet #5: Divine Dalí: Organized by Bridget Kerr ’20 in the special student-curatorial project cabinet, the exhibition presents prints from Salvador Dalí’s interpretation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy. Through Feb. 14; Nicole Cherubini: Shaking the Trees: Nicole Cherubini’s installation comprising ceramic tiling, woven seating, greenery, and sculpture draws on the architecture of the Tang Museum’s mezzanine, and offers a community space for conversation and contemplation. Through September 2021.
