135,000 objects from the Museum’s collection of over 240,000 are available in the on-line collections database. The 12 months 2017 marks a century because the 1917 October Revolution, an occasion that not only shook the world politically but also empowered revolutionary art and artists and spawned a synthesis inside the arts urging sociopolitical change. Along with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art’s ‘The Ivory Mirror’ exhibition, this symposium brings collectively an interdisciplinary workforce of curators and lecturers to debate the operate and design of luxury items within the early modern period from a variety of perspectives.

The exhibition explores the … Read the rest