 – Opening Thursday, December 15, 2022, “Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art” goes on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and…){kind=link}
BRUNSWICK, ME (PNAN) – Opening Thursday, December 15, 2022, “Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art” goes on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and remains on view in the Focus Gallery through June 4, 2023.
Drawing on the Museum’s permanent collection and highlighting several recent acquisitions, the exhibition examines the critical and creative functions of language in global contemporary art from the 1980s to the present.
While language has been fundamental to art-making and human expression from antiquity to the present, its ability to unpack meaning, challenge conventions, and explore hybrid identities is now more relevant than ever.
Additionally, Turn of Phrase provides vibrant examples for how the use of language is embedded in art and its encounter.
For more information on current and upcoming exhibits see: www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions.html.
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Founded in 1811 through a bequest of James Bowdoin III, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is one of Maine’s oldest museums, and one of the earliest collegiate art collections in the nation.