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BU Art Gallery appoints new Director, Chief Curator

Lauren Davalla — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:24:22 +0000

The BU Art Gallery (BUAG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kate McNamara to the role of Director and Chief Curator. McNamara comes to BUAG with an extensive background in curation and instruction both in New York and Western Massachusetts working at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), The Bronx Museum (New York, NY) and Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), among many others. She will fill the position currently being held ad interim by Exhibitions and Special Projects Coordinator of BU’s School of Visual Arts Lynne Cooney and will begin her tenure in mid-March.

Art Gallery Opening Today

Jennifer McDonald — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:00:39 +0000

The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print, featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest printing shops, Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print. The exhibition illustrates the fusion of art with popular culture and music history, highlighting the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows to Elvis Presley albums. The opening will take place tonight from 6-8 PM at the Stone Gallery (855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston).

Gallery Opening Today

Lauren Davalla — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:00:28 +0000

The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents Historic New England’s traveling exhibition, Drawing Toward Home: Designs for Domestic Architecture from Historic New England, featuring one hundred drawings of houses selected from the rich collections of Historic New England. The exhition opening will take place tonight from 6-8 PM at the Stone Gallery (855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston).

Missionary Photography in Korea Opens Today at BUAG

Lauren Davalla — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:00:29 +0000

The Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) presents the largest ever exhibition of Korean missionary photographs in the United States, Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity. A travelling show presented by The Korea Society, the exhibition documents the encounter between East and West which occurred in Korea during the late 19th century. Missionary Photography captures the dawning of the new religious identities, culture clashes, and altered societal landscape of Korea which resulted from these Western Missions. The gallery is free and open to the public from today until 10/25.