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Family Day: Around the World in 6,000 Years
Saturday, November 5 | 11:00am - 3:00pm | Davis galleries, lobby, plaza; Collins Cinema and Cafe
Travel through time and around the globe via this experience designed for visitors of all ages. Discover a world of art through treasure hunts, art making, performances, visiting artist demonstrations, guided tours and more!
Generously supported by the Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs.
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#MyDavisPostcard Contest
Enter the #MyDavisPostcard Contest on Instagram before Saturday, November 12 for a chance to have your favorite Davis artwork featured on a postcard in our shop. You will also receive a free postcard of your favorite artwork!
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The Davis Reimagined
Saturday, November 12 | 11:00 - 4:00pm
As part of the Davis Museum's reopening (The Davis ReDiscovered), we will host The Davis Reimagined on November 12, from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m--a celebration of the multitude of perspectives that can be used to access our collections. The day will consist of almost 60 talks, performances and demonstrations from 11am-4pm with a reception at the end from 4-5pm. Curators, museum staff, faculty, students, conservators, and designers will explore the reinstallation through objects, research, technical analysis and more.
Explore our extraordinary permanent collections through a new lens as we activate the galleries with a day of performances, talks, art making, and workshops. Create your own program: drop in for one presentation, or stay for more. The full schedule will be available on the Davis Museum website.
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November Programs and Events
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Film Series: Museums in Motion
In honor of the Davis’s newly installed permanent collections galleries, uncover the secret life of museums through this selection of recent cinematic masterpieces. These contemporary films pull back the curtain on unique, behind-the-scenes views of museum activities and characters, both real and imagined.
Russian Ark (Dir. Alexandr Sokurov, 2002)
Wednesday, November 2 | 6:30pm | Collins Cinema
Russian Ark is a unique journey through time and Russian history. Filmed entirely in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Sokurov's breathtaking film recreates 300 years of history and culture and is the first entirely unedited, single-take, full-length feature film. (Source: BFI)
National Gallery (Dir. Frederick Wiseman, 2014)
Wednesday, November 16 | 6:30pm | Collins Cinema
National Gallery takes the audience behind the scenes of a London institution, on a journey to the heart of a museum inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century. National Gallery is the portrait of a place, its way of working and relations with the world, its staff and public, and its paintings. In a perpetual and dizzying game of mirrors, film watches painting watches film. (Source: Zipporah Films)
Museum Hours (Dir. Jem Cohen, 2014)
Wednesday, November 30 | 6:30pm | Collins Cinema
Museum Hours is a mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna's grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Johann, a museum guard, spends his days silently observing both the art and the visitors. Anne, suddenly called to Vienna from overseas, has been wandering the city in a state of limbo. A chance meeting sparks a deepening connection that draws them through the halls of the museum and the streets of the city. Museum Hours is an ode to the bonds of friendship, an exploration of an unseen Vienna, and the power of art to both mirror and alter our lives. (Source: Cinema Guild)
Generously supported by the Davis Museum Film Program Gift.
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Faculty Gallery Talk: Partners in Design
Thursday, November 3 | 4:00pm | Davis Galleries
Wellesley College faculty members Patricia Berman, Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art, and Alice Friedman, Grace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, will discuss modern art, architecture and design on view in the special exhibition, Partners in Design.
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Curatorial Gallery Talk: Anni Albers Connections
Tuesday, November 15
4:00pm
Davis Galleries
Exhibition curator Claire Whitner will discuss Anni Albers’s autobiographical silkscreen series Connections in relation to her career as a designer from the Bauhaus to her late work from the 1980s.
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Drop-in Public Tours
Every Saturday, 2:00pm
October 1 - December 3 (No tours during school breaks on October 8 or November 26)
Meet in Davis Lobby
Thematic tours of special exhibitions and permanent collections led by a Student Guide are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. For a full schedule of tours, please visit www.theDavis.org.
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Cuseum
The Davis partnered with Cuseum to create an app to enhance the visitor's experience of the museum. Visitors may take a more in depth tour of the Davis. ReDiscovered and Charlotte Brooks at LOOK, 1951-1971. It includes commentary from the Davis Summer Interns as well as our curators. For more information about our new app, click here.
Download the app today!
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For a full list of upcoming programs and events click here!
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Partners In Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson
Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
September 28 - December 18, 2016
Organized by the Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for Modern Design, Montréal, in collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson is the first exhibition to explore a pivotal development in the evolution of American design: the collaboration between the first director of the Museum of Modern Art Alfred Barr, who taught the first undergraduate course in modern art at Wellesley College in 1926, and Philip Johnson, MoMA’s first curator of architecture ...more
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Anni Albers Connections
Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery
September 28 - December 18, 2016
In 1984, textile designer and printmaker Anni Albers published Connections—a set of nine silkscreens that evoke pivotal moments in her prolific career, by then spanning nearly six decades. Reflecting on her life as a designer, she chose motifs for the prints based on her work from particular years: two from the 1920s, when Albers was at the Bauhaus and met her life-long partner and later husband Josef; two from the 1940s, when the couple taught at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina after having fled Nazi Germany ...more
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Charlotte Brooks at LOOK, 1951-1971
Morelle Lasky Levine ’56 Works on
Paper Gallery
September 28 - December 18, 2016
Charlotte Brooks at LOOK, 1951-1971 is the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the career of one of the most important American female photographers from the postwar era. Best known for her work at Look magazine between 1951 and 1971, Brooks’ output represents a significant contribution to the visual history of the United States at mid-century. Developed around critical themes such as civil liberties and women’s rights, the exhibition includes vintage prints ...more
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