Enjoy the latest deep dives on art, stories, and more from the Samek Art Museum community.
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Ben McLaughlin: Road Trip
June 16 – September 6 Downtown Gallery, 416 Market St. This solo exhibition by British artist Ben McLaughlin features paintings of the overlooked spaces of travel – motels, rest stops, and farms seen from the road – inviting viewers to imagine an American road trip at twilight. McLaughlin’s images are often inspired by old photographs,…
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Kaleidoscope: Annual Senior Student Art Exhibition
April 7 through April 26, 2015 Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Presented in partnership with the Art and Art History Department, this exhibition showcases culminating work by graduating senior Art majors and Art Assistants. Joint Artist Statement Like a lens, art allows us to see the world from a novel point of view.…
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Samek Distinguished Art Lecture – John Wilmerding
April 21, 2015, at 6pmForum, 2nd Floor Elaine Langone Center An Entrepreneurial Vision for the New Crystal Bridges Art Museum Introduced by Bucknell President John C. Bravman. John Wilmerding is the former chairman of the board of the National Gallery of Art, previously senior curator and deputy director of the National Gallery, and currently emeritus…
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Time Traveler’s Ball, Feb. 26
Feb. 26, 12-2pm Samek Gallery, 3rd floor, Elaine Langone Center Costume ball and Maker event featuring time-traveling costumes designed and made by the wearers. Presenting a fashion show of costumes made by Engineering students and the sounds of the Music Department’s Laptop Ensemble. Students, faculty, staff, and the public are invited to participate in this…
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Library and IT New Horizons Faculty Lunch, Feb. 18
Library and IT New Horizons Faculty Lunch Feb. 18, 12-1pm Traditional Reading Room in Bertrand Library Exploring the Lifecycle of Digital Art The Samek Art Museum’s current exhibition – The Oldest Living Things in the World – encourages us to think about “deep time.” For this New Horizons event, the Samek Art Museum and Library…
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Installing Modern Art 1915 – now
The Study Gallery is currently exhibiting a selection of work for Bucknell Professor, Roger Rothman’s Art 208 / Modern Art 1915 – now course. The Samek Art Museum collection includes pieces from the most prominent artists of the 20th century including Andy Warhol, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dali, Jean Dubuffet and many more all of who are…
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Lynn Estomin: Fashion to Die For
If you’ve walked past the entrances to the Samek or the Downtown Gallery during the evening recently, you may have noticed a new video playing. It is artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker Lynn Estomin’s 2014 video work, Fashion to Die For. You can watch the trailer here. Estomin’s video begins with hypnotic footage of industrial…
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Artist Talk: Rachel Sussman (1/21)
January 21, 6pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Sussman discusses her current solo exhibition at the Samek, The Oldest Living Things in the World. Bucknell Professor Duane Griffin will serve as discussant on how her work merges art, science, and philosophy. A reception and book signing follows the talk in the Samek Gallery.…
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Country Living Film Screenings (11/20)
November 20, 7:30pm Gallery Theater, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center As part of Country Living, we will be screening the films Summer Solstice (1974) by Hollis Frampton and a selection of diary films by Robert Huot. These films were curated by Ken Eisenstein of Bucknell’s Film/Media Studies Program, who will introduce them. This is a…
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Mel Ziegler: Life on the Farm (11/14)
November 14 Participatory Art Project – 12:00pm, Samek Gallery, 3rd Floor Elaine Langone Center Artist Talk – 6:00pm, Samek Gallery Mel Ziegler – PA native and featured artist in the exhibition Country Living – invites students to play a board game called “Life on the Farm” with local farmers, including farmers from Happy Cow Creamery,…