The Gallery Engagement Team will be hosting their second event of the semester; "G.E.T. Treats in the Samek", as its advertised, will be on October 31st - yes the day of Halloween- from 12- 1 pm. The … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
do it! Friday: The ABC’s of Jérôme Bel’s “Shirtology”
Jérôme Bel's "Shirtology"differs somewhat from many of the works in "do it!" in that rather than receiving a set of written instructions from the artist, we only had the above image to work with. Our … [Read more...]
“Portrait of Jason” Film Screening, October 29
In conjunction with the current exhibition Strange Bedfellows: Collaborative Practice in Queer Art and in partnership with Bucknell Film/Media Studies, we will be screening Shirley Clarke's … [Read more...]
Ai Weiwei’s civil disobedience writ large for “do it! Friday”
Last week, our Gallery Fellow, Frank Fina performed Ai Weiwei's CCTV Spray as part of our do it! Fridays event. Ai is a contemporary artist, designer, architect, and activist known for his outspoken … [Read more...]
Abstraction Today’s Guest Curator Comes to Bucknell!
Last night I went to the interview between the guest curator of "Abstraction Today", Bridgette Mayer, and the director of the Samek Art Gallery, Rick Rinehart. Interestingly, Bridgette Mayer actually … [Read more...]