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November Arts Preview
Events, exhibitions and news to enjoy, this month at Amherst.
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There's a lot to celebrate this month at Amherst. The Common launches its 14th issue. The Russian Center Art Gallery opens a new exhibition. The Music at Amherst series hosts award-winning classical pianist Angela Hewitt. Theater & Dance premieres its fall show, a contemporary adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. And conceptual artist Anicka Yi delivers the annual Raport Lecture in Contemporary Art.
There's more, a lot more, but we'll let you take it from here...
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Events to EnjoySomething for everyone, from museum tours and concerts during Amherst College Family Weekend to the Beneski Museum's annual "Identify It Day"
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Amherst College Family Weekend
Friday, Nov. 3, through Sunday, Nov. 5, various times and locations
A weekend of museum tours, concerts and special events for students and their families Identify It Day 2017
Sunday, Nov. 5, 1-4 p.m., Beneski Museum of Natural History
A drop-in activity for fossil, rock and mineral collectors of all ages Lecture by Joyce J. Scott
Monday, Nov. 6, 4:30 p.m., Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall
A lecture by a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices North Indian Classical Music Concert
Monday, Nov. 6, 7:30-9 p.m., Chapin Hall
A free concert by two of North India's best-known classical musicians, sitarist Rabindra Goswami and tablaist Ramu Pandit Why [untitled]? with Ryan Vigil
Salon: Wednesday, Nov. 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library (2nd floor)
Performance: Thursday, Nov. 9, 5-6:30 p.m., Room 3, Arms Music Center
An emphatic defense of musical abstraction and a recital of new music for solo piano Documentary Film Screening: "Mele Murals"
Friday, Nov. 10, noon-2 p.m., Keefe Campus Center Theater
A documentary about the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture with director Tadashi Nakamura Poetry Reading: Vievee Francis
Monday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m., Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst)
A reading and reception with award-winning author of Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark and Forest Primeval Russian Center Art Gallery Opening
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m., Art Gallery, Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Webster Hall (2nd floor)
A celebration of works on view by Soviet artists of the nonconformist art movement with exhibition curator Alla Rosenfeld
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Sometimes event dates and locations change, and new events pop up frequently. Bookmark the Arts Calendar, and check it often, for the latest information about these and additional events:
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In the Galleries
Works spanning cultures and centuries, from "unofficial" art of the Soviet Union to contemporary large-scale photography
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Varieties of Nonconformism: Unofficial Art from the Soviet Union
Opening reception: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m.
On view through Feb. 11, 2018, Amherst Center for Russian Culture Art Gallery, Webster Hall (2nd floor)
An exhibition devoted to work produced by the leading members of the Soviet nonconformist art movement (1956-1980s) Sonya Clark: The Beaded Prayers Project
On view through Nov. 17, Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall
A worldwide collaborative art project in which participants create and contribute beaded packets containing their prayers, wishes, hopes and dreams Tell It Like It Is—or Could Be
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum
A new genre of large-scale color photography that seeks to tell stories about the past and the present that often have been elided from historical imagery
Home Away from Home: Russian Artists Abroad
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum
An exhibition featuring works by artists who left the Soviet Union or its pre-Bolshevik predecessor, the Russian Empire, in search of personal or artistic freedom Perspectives on Michael Mazur
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum
A collection of paintings and prints by of one of the most distinguished artists to have graduated from Amherst College Picturing American Identity
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum
An exhibition of black and white photography curated by interns Shreeansh Agrawal ’20E, Jane Bragdon ’20, Claire Cho ’20, Crystal Ganatra ’19 and Nekhoe Hogan ’19
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NewsworthyAmherst remembers alum Richard Wilbur '42 and marks the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birth
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"The Splendor of Mere Being"
Amherst remembers the late, masterful poet Richard Wilbur '42 (1921-2017), one of its most distinguished and beloved alumni. JFK 100: Of Poetry and Politics
Amherst marks the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birth and his 1963 visit to campus—in which he spoke of the relationship between politics and poetry—with a symposium and a talk by U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (JFK’s grand-nephew). Making Theater in These Times
Lisa Biggs '93 returned to campus for the Five College Theater Alumnae of Color Residency. In preparation, she reflected on her time at Amherst and the importance of making theater, then and now . Of Monsters and Memorials
A visiting expert spoke to an art history course, “Witches, Vampires and Other Monsters,” about how and why the living remember the dead.
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Enter to WinName the artist of the painting below, and tell us what century it was created, and you'll be entered to win a Mead Art Museum Collection Guide, highlighting Amherst College's celebrated collections of art from around the world. Email your answer to artsmuse@amherst.edu by 11 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5. One randomly selected winner, who has submitted the correct answer, will be notified via email.
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