Around the MAG
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MAGazine has gone digital! The Gallery's annual member magazine is now Around the MAG, with headlines and features that change each month. Don't look for us in your mailbox, but do visit this site often. (If you're a MAG member, you'll still receive ARTiculate, our bimonthly calendar, by US mail.)
At the exhibition opening party, guests lined up to see the show. The consensus? Well worth the wait.
On January 30, a sell-out crowd of 1,400 braved the zero-degree weather for a first glimpse at Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan. The nationally touring exhibition, which opened to the public the following day, features nearly 100 extraordinary examples of Japan's traditional national dress.
The weekend's other scheduled event—a Sunday afternoon lecture by exhibtiion curator Annie Van Assche—was also a sell-out.
Fashioning Kimono remains on view through April 4.
Surrounding Helen Berkeley are Edmund Hajim, chair of the UR Board of Trustees; director Grant Holcomb; UR president Joel Seligman; and MAG Board president Andrew Gallina. Photo by J. Adam Fenster.
Guests view the 2000-year-old Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset in their new home in the Berkeley Gallery. Photo by J. Adam Fenster.
On December 15, more than 200 upper-level donors and special guests were on hand to honor Helen H. Berkeley, whose $1 million gift made possible the Helen H. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art.
Speakers at the dedication of the new gallery included UR president Joel Seligman, State Senator Joseph E. Robach, and Bobbie Wilson representing Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter. Robach and Slaughter were instrumental in securing additional funding for the new installation.
The Berkeley Gallery, which opened to the public the following day, brings together works from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. A few steps away, the companion gallery At the Crossroads features works from the ancient Middle East and the Islamic world.
The ARTWalk 2 project, which will soon be getting underway along University Avenue, will go even further towards transforming the Neighborhood of the Arts into an exciting, interactive outdoor museum. Big changes are also coming to MAG this spring as we break ground for the Centennial Sculpture Park on the corner of our campus next to the University-Goodman intersection. We’ll even be taking down portions of our fence to make this community resource more inviting to the public.
Sculpture park construction is not expected to be finished before this year's Clothesline Festival. But not to worry! We’re hard at work on a new, more cohesive Festival layout that should result in improved traffic flow--the better for shoppers and artists alike--without reducing the number of exhibitors.
