The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

Last updated
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
USA New York location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Location of Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery in New York State
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (the United States)
Established2000
Location815 N Broadway
Saratoga Springs, New York
Coordinates 43°05′42″N73°47′10″W / 43.095°N 73.7861°W / 43.095; -73.7861
TypeArt museum
AccreditationAssociation of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) [1]
Owner Skidmore College
Website https://tang.skidmore.edu

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is a part of Skidmore College and located in Saratoga Springs, New York. [2]

Contents

Building

The Tang, opened in 2000, was designed by architect Antoine Predock [3] . Predock's design includes two major gallery wings (the Wachenheim Gallery and the Malloy Wing), two smaller galleries (the State Farm Mezzanine and the Winter Gallery), digitally equipped classrooms, and several event spaces. The Tang is nationally known for both its architecture and holdings, and its excellence has been recognized by The New York Times , Art in America , and Architectural Digest , among other publications. [4]

Permanent collection

The Tang has a collection of over 5,000 works, including pieces by Rembrandt van Rijn, Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth, Roy Lichtenstein, Wilhelmina Weber Furlong, [5] Andy Warhol, Garry Winogrand, W. Eugene Smith, Eugène Atget, Dorothy Dehner, David Smith, Nayland Blake, and Nan Goldin. The museum also maintains extensive collections of art from Africa, South Asia, China, and the Americas.[ citation needed ]

Notable exhibitions

The Tang has a program of contemporary scholarly exhibitions. Artists who have shown at the Tang include Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Trisha Brown, and Richard Pettibone. Among other recent exhibitions are "Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China", "From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection" [6] , "The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science", "Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art", and "Molecules that Matter".[ citation needed ]

Student involvement

As was the desire of the founding director Charles Stainback, the Tang is committed to being an educational center above all else. [7] Skidmore classes regularly meet in the galleries and classrooms, and groups from other schools visit to view exhibits and participate in activities. Tours, demonstrations, and other events are generally open to the general public. In addition to visual arts exhibitions, the Tang often hosts plays, musical performances, and dance recitals. As a "teaching museum", the Tang offers students the opportunity to have hands-on experiences with the museum's collection by curating an exhibition. [8]

Publications

In addition to a periodic newsletter for members and supporters, the Tang publishes its own Opener series of small hardcover catalogs for many of its temporary exhibitions. [9] The Tang also co-publishes exhibition catalogs with other museums and galleries. [9] A selection of its publications is available for browsing in a small reading area at the museum.

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum</span> Art museum in Manhattan, New York City

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. It was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Skidmore College</span> Liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States

Skidmore College is a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. Approximately 2,650 students are enrolled at Skidmore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in one of more than 60 areas of study.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antoine Predock</span> American architect

Antoine Predock is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC, the studio he founded in 1967.

Artstor is a nonprofit organization that builds and distributes the Digital Library, an online resource of more than 2.5 million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences, and Shared Shelf, a Web-based cataloging and image management software service that allows institutions to catalog, edit, store, and share local collections.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Blanton Museum of Art</span> Art museum in Austin, Texas

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, storage, administrative offices, classrooms, a print study room, an auditorium, shop, and cafe. The Blanton's permanent collection consists of more than 21,000 works, with significant holdings of modern and contemporary art, Latin American art, Old Master paintings, and prints and drawings from Europe, the United States, and Latin America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oscar Tang</span> American businessman

Oscar Liu-Chien Tang is a Chinese-born American businessman, financier, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known for being the co-founder of Reich & Tang, an asset management firm. Tang was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Prior to this, he was appointed to the New York State Council on the Arts from 2000 to 2004 and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 1990 to 1993.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Museum of Arts and Design</span> Art museum in Manhattan, New York City

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. In its exhibitions and educational programs, the museum celebrates the creative process through which materials are crafted into works that enhance contemporary life.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Régis François Gignoux</span> American painter

Régis François Gignoux (1814–1882) was a French painter who was active in the United States from 1840 to 1870.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nayland Blake</span> American visual artist

Nayland Blake is an American artist whose focus is on interracial attraction, same-sex love, and intolerance of the prejudice toward them. Their mixed-media work has been variously described as disturbing, provocative, elusive, tormented, sinister, hysterical, brutal, and tender.

Joan Snyder is an American painter from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow (1974).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roberta Smith</span>

Roberta Smith is co-chief art critic of The New York Times and a lecturer on contemporary art. She is the first woman to hold that position.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nina Katchadourian</span> American interdisciplinary artist and educator

Nina Katchadourian is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator. She works with photography, sculpture, video, and sound—often in playful ways. She is best known for her "Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style," a series of self-portraits taken in airplane bathrooms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terry Adkins</span> American artist

Terry Roger Adkins was an American artist. He was Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paula Hayes is an American visual artist and designer who works with sculpture, drawing, installation art, and landscape design. Hayes lived and worked in New York City for over two decades and currently lives in Athens, NY since 2013. Hayes is known for her terrariums and other living artworks, as well as her large-scale public and private landscapes. A major theme in Hayes' work is the connection of people to the natural environment. Hayes encourages a direct and tactile experience with her work as well as engagement with an evolving relationship to growing and maintaining large- and small-scale ecosystems.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donald Moffett</span> American painter (born 1955)

Donald Moffett is an American painter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arlene Shechet</span> American artist

Arlene Shechet is an American artist. She lives and works in New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York.

Dawn Clements (1958–2018) was an American contemporary artist and educator. She was known for her large scale, panoramic drawings of interiors that were created with many different materials in a collage-style. Her primary mediums were sumi ink and ballpoint pen on small to large scale paper panels. In order to complete a drawing she cut and pasted paper, editing and expanding the composition to achieve the desired scale. Her completed drawings reveal her working process through the wrinkles and folds evident in the paper. She described her work as "a kind of visual diary of what [she] see[s], touch[es], and desire[s]. As I move between the mundane empirical spaces of my apartment and studio, and the glamorous fictions of movies, apparently seamless environments are disturbed through ever-shifting points of view."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grace DeGennaro</span> American artist

Grace DeGennaro is an American artist. She is best known for watercolors and paintings that explore “ritual, geometry, and growth through repeated forms, serial patterns, and iconic forms like circles and diamonds.”

Virgil Marti is an American visual artist recognized for his installations blending fine art, design, and decor from a range of styles and periods. Marti’s immersive sculptural environments, often evoking nature and the landscape, combine references from high culture with decorative, flamboyant, or psychedelic imagery, materials, and objects of personal significance.

Phyllis Galembo is an American photographer living in New York City.

References

  1. "AAMG: Association of Academic Museums & Galleries". aamg-us.org. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  2. "The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery – Skidmore College – Saratoga Springs, NY". tang.skidmore.edu. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
  3. Cotter, Holland (2000-12-22). "ART REVIEW; Party Time: Inside and Out, Playful Wit Reigns at Skidmore's New Museum". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  4. Muschamp, Herbert (2000-09-10). "ARCHITECTURE; Design That Coaxes Buildings Out of Themselves". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  5. Professor Emeritus James K. Kettlewell: Harvard, Skidmore College, tingtor The Hyde Collection. Foreword to The Treasured Collection of Golden Heart Farm. ISBN   978-0-9851601-0-4
  6. Loos, Ted (2002-06-30). "ART/ARCHITECTURE; A Dealer's Own Hoard Brought Into the Light". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  7. "The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College". collegeapps.about.com. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  8. "Tang Museum at Skidmore College | ArtBabble". artbabble.org. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  9. 1 2 "Publications". Tang Museum. Skidmore College. Retrieved 2017-08-29.