Talk of the Quad
Consider the photo
“Debí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuve / Debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que pude.”
Undoubtedly, Bad Bunny is one of the most popular musical artists in the world right now. He has been named Spotify’s …
Photography
Photo Essay
Everyday altars
At the interface between the public and private world, window sills are strange, beautiful spaces. Collectors of curated chaos, they are an assemblage of the tender excesses of our everydays: dried flowers, pill bottles, Asian lady beetles and a healthy …
Photography
The fruits of a four-year friendship: Austria Morehouse’s senior capstone exhibition, featuring Fatima Kunjo
Austria Morehouse ’25 and Fatima Kunjo ’25 became friends in their first year. Now, with Morehouse’s senior capstone project, which opened on Wednesday, the two have come full circle. The mixed media exhibition highlighted themes of trust and friendship through …
Mundane Magic
Seen through film
It’s all too easy to ignore mundane things. A plastic water bottle, stains on the grocery store wall, pigeons, sunlight more shadow than light. A pot of water just before it boils. The diffuse mutter of traffic. It’s so easy …
Photo Essay
Fashion at Bowdoin
As the weary winter months wane, Bowdoin students begin to open up their coats, loosen their scarves and have a bit of sartorial fun. This week, Orient photographers were on a mission to document the characteristic Bowdoin Style of the …
Photography
Say ‘Challah!’: UMich’s Dash Moore talks mid-century urban Jewish photography
On Tuesday night, Bowdoin welcomed Deborah Dash Moore, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, to a crowded Kresge Auditorium as this fall’s Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture.
Since 1977, the Spindel lectureship has brought Jewish …
Arctic Museum
Arctic museum celebrates Inuit art: Inuit Art Society and artists Adams, Williams visit campus
Among century-old artifacts held in the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum (PMAM)—sleds, maps, four taxidermy polar bears—the museum also houses a new exhibition: “Inuit Qiñi?aa?ii: Contemporary Inuit Photography,” featuring select works from five different Inuit photographers from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. The …
BCMA
“In Light of Rome” brings “exceptional” photography collection to the BCMA
Harpswell resident John McGuigan began his collection of early Roman photography as something of a side project to his work as an independent art historian. Now, more than a hundred of these photographs fill the Halford Gallery and the Bernard …
Books
Michael Kolster discusses influence and inspiration at “Paris Park Photographs” book launch
Editor’s note 10/21/2022 at 3:13 p.m. EDT: A previous version of this article mistakenly identified Michelle Kuo as a curator. The article has been updated with Kuo’s proper titles as writer, lawyer and activist.
Professor of Art and Chair of …
Photography
McKee Photography Grant recipients present their work at photography exhibition opening
McKee Grant recipients presented their work during the annual showcase at the Edwards Center for the Arts on Wednesday night. The $1,000 grant funds travel over the summer for recipients as they compile a collection of photographs on a chosen …