Best College Museums in Ohio
August 15, 2022
Ohio.org – Sharpen those pencils, get out the highlighters, and crack open that textbook… >> Read More
Gund Gallery celebrates 10th year with spring exhibition
January 27, 2022
The Kenyon Collegian – The current Gund Gallery exhibition, Call/Response: The Gund Gallery Turns 10, is now open to visitors… >> Read More
12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022
January 1, 2022
The New Yorke Times – As a new year begins in uncertain times (again), our critics highlight the TV, movies, music, art, theater, dance and comedy that promise a welcome distraction… >> Read More
On the Rise: 69 Museum Curators and Arts Leaders Who Took on Notable New Appointments in 2021
December 29, 2021
Culture Type – Five years ago, Culture Type began reporting on new appointments of Black curators… >> Read More
Winter Arts Preview
November 15, 2021
The New Yorker – This winter, many major museums in New York City look closely at a single artist… >> Read More
Visual Arts: Gund Gallery at Kenyon College celebrates 10th anniversary
November 7, 2021
The Columbus Dispatch – The youthful but powerful Gund Gallery at Kenyon College is celebrating its 10 years of existence… >> Read More
Art Loan program offers 72 works, highest count since 2016
September 16, 2021
The Kenyon Collegian – In my Kenyon past, I had never gotten lucky with the Art Loan process. The stars refused to align. >> Read More
Gund Gallery celebrates 10 years with Call/Response exhibition
September 9, 2021
The Kenyon Collegian – The Gund Gallery — named after Kenyon alumnus Graham Gund ’63 — opened its doors in 2011. Since then, it has become a center of artistic learning and expression for community members. >> Read More
An Oral History of Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors
July 23, 2021
The Washington Post – In the summer of 2012, the artist Ragnar Kjartansson gathered a group of musicians at Rokeby, a historic estate in the Hudson Vallery… >> Read More
Daisy Desrosiers Appointed Director of Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in Ohio
April 19, 2021
Culture Type – GUND GALLERY at Kenyon College named Daisy Desrosiers director and chief curator. Located in Gambier, Ohio, the gallery serves… >> Read More
Daisy Desrosiers named director of Kenyon’s Gund Gallery
April 12, 2021
Artdaily – GAMBIER, OH.- Kenyon College’s Gund Gallery announced today that Daisy Desrosiers, an interdisciplinary art historian and curator, will join its community as director and chief curator, effective June 1, 2021…. >> Read More
Congratulations, 2020 OMA Award Winners!
April 12, 2021
OMA Blog – The Ohio Museums Association has announced the winners of the 2020 OMA Awards of Achievement and 2020 Visual Communication Awards… >> Read More
Daisy Desrosiers hired as director of Kenyon’s Gund Gallery
April 12, 2021
Knoxpages – GAMBIER — Kenyon College’s Gund Gallery announced Monday that Daisy Desrosiers, an interdisciplinary art historian and curator, will join its community as director and chief curator, effective June 1, 2021… >> Read More
February 16, 2021
Hundred Heroines – Trees, many standing thousands of years tall, are some of the oldest beings on earth… >> Read More
New Gund Gallery exhibition celebrates the beauty of trees
February 4, 2021
The Kenyon Collegian – The Gund Gallery’s latest exhibition sees the forest for the trees. The Art of Trees transforms the Buchwald-Wright Gallery into a dynamic landscape… >> Read More
The Art of Trees opens at the Gund Gallery
January 22, 2021
Knoxpages – The art of trees exhibition has opened at the Buchwald-Wright Gallery, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. The show runs from Jan. 22 through April 11, 2021… >> Read More
Gund Gallery Presents THE ART OF TREES Exhibition
January 12, 2021
Broadway World Cincinnati – The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College has announced “The Art of Trees,” an exhibition on view at the Gund from January 22 – April 11, 2021… >> Read More
Amid coronavirus closures, Ohio art museums’ online offerings go to new places
May 10, 2020
The Columbus Dispatch – Small and large institutions find ways to replicate the experience of viewing art in person, expanding their audience… >> Read More
Virtual Lavender Graduation celebrates LGBTQ+ seniors
April 30, 2020
Kenyon Collegian – Each year, Kenyon’s Lavender Graduation provides a space for celebrating… >> Read More
How Afghanistan’s carpets show the history of a country under siege
March 24, 2020
Art & Object – The ancient art of carpet weaving has been the cultural heart and soul of Afghanistan for centuries… >> Read More
The Art of Trees scholar talk introduces Elizabeth Corr
February 13, 2020
Kenyon Collegian – Elizabeth Corr, the first director of Arts Partnerships at the Natural Resources… >> Read More
Gund Gallery Associates screen LGBTQ+-oriented films
January 30, 2020
Kenyon Collegian – Weekend, written and directed by Andrew Haigh, was a striking… >> Read More
Gund Gallery celebrates queer artists in new exhibitions
January 23, 2020
Kenyon Collegian – On Thursday, Jan. 16, the Kenyon community gathered inside… >> Read More
A series of musicals breathe new life into the Gund Gallery
November 22, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – On the evenings of Nov. 15 and 16, students and community members waited… >> Read More
New Gund Gallery exhibits explore untraditional mediums
October 17, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – As visitors entered Gund Gallery on Oct 3, they were immediately drawn… >> Read More
Gund Gallery Late Night lights up a Thursday with colors
October 3, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – On Thursday night, Kenyon students gathered for Late Night… >> Read More
Film series brings the voice of First Nations to Gund Gallery
September 26, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, written and directed… >> Read More
Richard Serra sculpture will tower above students in the West Quad
August 28, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – Richard Serra’s sculptures have adorned a vast array of locations across the globe… >> Read More
Perlman Teaching Museum kicks off academic year with exhibits from South African artist
August 19, 2019
Carleton College News – Carleton’s Perlman Teaching Museum will kick off the academic year with two new art exhibits… >> Read More
West Quad to Feature Serra Sculpture
August 12, 2019
Kenyon News – A new major sculpture by acclaimed American artist Richard Serra will join Kenyon’s permanent collection… >> Read More
Visiting interpretive dancer lets his audience run the show
February 21, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – Simon Thomas-Train does not like the separation between performer and audience. His dance performance… >> Read More
Toxic masculinity is not the fraternity norm
February 21, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – On Feb. 14, the Collegian published an op-ed entitled “Women are not responsible for the failing of fraternity culture,” which was… >> Read More
Women are not responsible for failings of fraternity culture
February 14, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – A new exhibit at Gund Gallery entitled “The American Fraternity” by Andrew Moisey is a jarring and captivating photographic illustration… >> Read More
January 30, 2019
Artfully Learning – Cheryl Pope has a background in fashion design and boxing, a unique combination of skills and interests… >> Read More
Panel sparks disagreement over fraternities
January 24, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – On Friday students, faculty and community members gathered in the Community Foundation Theater for a panel discussion on fraternity… >> Read More
Spring Gund Gallery show tackles gender, race and power
January 24, 2019
Kenyon Collegian – A jumble of brightly colored, homemade protest signs rests against the walls in the entrance to the Buchwald Wright Gallery.. >> Read More
How to Borrow Works by Famous Artists for Your Home
January 9, 2019
Artsy – When I speak to painters who tell me their work is made to be “lived with,” it’s an envy-inducing provocation… >> Read More
October 2, 2018
Penn Today – A new exhibition at the Arthur Ross Gallery features linocut prints by South African artist William Kentridge… >> Read More
Gund Gallery opens the year mixing media and mushrooms
September 6, 2018
The Kenyon Collegian – Nestled beside the community feast, the Gund Gallery invited students, faculty and community members to explore… >> Read More
In Philly galleries now: William Kentridge linocuts, UK roadside views, painted Philadelphia
September 6, 2018
The Philadelphia Inquirer – Located in the heart of Kenyon’s academic campus core, the Gallery Building was designed… >> Read More
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College / GUND Partnership
August 13, 2018
ArchDaily – William Kentridge’s drawings, prints, and animated films have surprised, elated, and disturbed gallery… >> Read More
April 16, 2018
Kenyon News – The artwork of women photographers, Cuban photographers and anti-establishment artists of the 1960s and 1970s is on exhibit at the Gund Gallery… >> Read More
Exhibition presents new works on paper by South African artist William Kentridge
April 2018
artdaily.org – The Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting William Kentridge: Universal Archive, on view through Saturday, May 19, 2018, in the museum’s Walsh Gallery… >> Read More
University-based art museums are raking it in
March 9, 2018
Crain’s Chicago Business – In the past few years, arts-minded philanthropists have heaped major gifts of cash and art on the city’s university-based art museums. Why?… >> Read More
William Kentridge Demonstrates Ink-Sightful Artwork
March 7, 2018
The Fairfiled Mirror – South African artist William Kentridge is celebrated throughout the globe for his exploration of the intersection of printmaking, film… >> Read More
Sunny location in Tomsich threatens Roy Lichtenstein print
February 8, 2018
The Kenyon Collegian – Rendered in the graphic style usually reserved for superheroes, a chemist peers down into their test tube. A microscope, beakers and gears… >> Read More
December 4, 2017
Kenyon News – The David and Francie Horvitz Family Foundation is donating $3 million to endow the director’s position at the Gund Gallery in perpetuity… >> Read More
8 US Colleges Lending Their Art Collections to Students
November 30, 2017
Hyperallergic – In 1934, the University of Minnesota started making its art collection available to students looking to decorate their dorm rooms… >> Read More
The Aftermath of War, Seen Through Photographers’ Eyes
October 22, 2017
The New York Times -The Aftermath of War, Seen Through Photographers’ Eyes … is included is Lynsey Addario, who frequently contributes to The New York Times. >> Read More
April 18, 2016
Along Middle Path, GAMBIER, Ohio – Senior artists put their creativity on the line April 18 through the end of the semester with the public display of their work in the Gund Gallery. >> Read More
Surveillance, security lie at center of artist’s works at Kenyon College
February 14, 2016
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Roxy Paine’s solo exhibit in the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College delicately displays five compelling works that range from large-scale sculpture to room-size diorama, all carved from wood. >> Read More
Gallery lets students decorate with new art-loan program
February 4, 2016
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio – Have you ever wondered what’s missing from those beige walls that enclose your single in Old Kenyon? Perhaps a sketch by artist Nan Freeman? A Picasso-esque painting by Todd McKie? >> Read more
Deconstructing [in]securities
January 28, 2016
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio – Huge installation art pieces and dynamic photographs now fill Buchwald-Wright Gallery in the Gund Gallery. Their subject matter? Surveillance. >>Read more
Philosophy, music inspire German artist
December 6, 2015
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio – Berlin-based artist Jorinde Voigt makes the theoretical and the ethereal visual in the 35 large-scale drawings at the Gund Gallery on the Kenyon College campus. >>Read more
Associate-curated Color II explores perception of society
April 23, 2015
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio – While the Gund Gallery’s Color II: Identity and Society exhibition serves as a continuation of Color: Theories and Structures, a show that went up in the space last year, the current iteration…» Read more
Kenyon College exhibit explores investment in knickknack sentiment
February 1 , 2015
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — The relationship between humans and mass-produced stuff can get personal, whether the item is a long-wished-for luxury or a small, poorly mass-produced objet d’art — a tchotchke.. » Read more
Yoko Inoue’s Tchotchke showcases baubles with flair
January 22, 2015
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio – Slinkies, bobbleheads, stress balls: tchotchkes. “Tchotchke,” a Yiddish term — pronounced chawtch-kee — is an overarching term for the miscellaneous knickknacks or trinkets that adorn many a desk and windowsill. >>Read More
Kenyon College: Repeated images reveal process of reduction
May 11, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — William Kentridge — a South African artist with a stunning resume that includes exhibitions at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, and Germany’s Documenta, among others — has more than 75 pieces on display in the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. » Read more
Kenyon College: Creativity soars in selfies taken by a frequent flier
April 20, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Nina Katchadourian’s “Selections From Seat Assignment,” in the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, consists of 62 images taken with a camera phone during flights. » Read more
3 shows celebrate Gullah culture
February 9, 2014
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Sometimes, it’s about where you’ve been. » Read more
Idea of relationships challenged in exhibit
November 10, 2013
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Mixing poetry, music, theater and sculpture, Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson challenges people to consider intimate and creative relationships. » Read more
Peanut butter jelly time: Gund Gallery spreads the love
November 7, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — the creation of the weekly Peanut Butter and Jelly (PB&J) event at the Gund Gallery in the fall of 2012, the event has become an integral part of campus life for many students and faculty members. » Read more
Gallery associates gain hands-on experience in art field
October 31, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Gallery exhibitions are usually relatively well attended and highly praised, art-wise. » Read more
Film series, exhibit bring Indian culture to Kenyon
September 19, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBER, Ohio — elephants decorate the Gund Gallery — countless patterns and incarnations of ceramic statues, paintings and film. » Read more
Powerful Kjartansson film exhibition evokes, haunts
September 13, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBER, Ohio — Walking into the main space of the Kjartansson exhibit, the first thing that struck me is the warm yellow tone that permeates every frame of the nine large screens that line the walls, making each one appear like a classic Renaissance painting. Next, I noticed the recurring motif of frames and doorways, and knowing I was in for a technical and visual journey that I would cherish. » Read more
September 13, 2013
Along Middle Path, GAMBIER, Ohio — Ganesh has gone global, as has India itself. » Read more
August 30, 2013
Along Middle Path, GAMBER,— Ohio Summer found Virginia McBride ’15 at the forefront of a technological revolution in the art world, applying 21st century technology to enhance the appreciation of works as old as thousands of years. » Read more
Kenyon student art work on display
May 29, 2013
Mount Vernon News, GAMBIER, Ohio — Including animation, painting, quilling and sculpture, the work of Kenyon College senior studio-art majors is on display at the Graham Gund Gallery through Sunday, April 14. » Read more
International, participatory art exhibition at Kenyon
May 20, 2013
Mount Vernon News, GAMBIER, Ohio — An international, participatory art exhibition spanning 50 countries and 20 years — “Do it” — is now on display in the Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College.» Read more
April 18, 2013
Along Middle Path, GAMBIER, Ohio — Including animation, painting, quilling and sculpture, the work of senior studio-art majors is on display at the Graham Gund Gallery from Monday, March 25, through Sunday, April 14.» Read more
Film festival showcases global human rights issues
April 11, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — The newly re-formed Kenyon Film Society (KFS) has teamed up with the Gund Gallery to bring to campus four films highlighting human rights around the globe. » Read more
March 2013
City Scene, Ohio — The Five Colleges of Ohio is a consortium founded in 1995 that consists of the College of Wooster, Oberlin College, Denison University, Kenyon College and Ohio Wesleyan University. » Read more
Exhibit – Intriguing quartet includes a contrast of landscapes, genocide
February 24, 2013
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — In four Gund Gallery shows at Kenyon College, themes of loss, beauty and tragedy mingle. » Read more
Gund Gallery gets an endowment
February 21, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — When the Gund Gallery’s board of directors meets in April, its members will ask themselves: Is the Gallery enriching the student experience? » Read more
Propaganda on display: dusting off WWII posters
February 14, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — The Kenyon Review and Gund Gallery have collaborated this year on the Art and Identity symposium, a series of lectures and events linking art and the Holocaust. » Read more
New Gund Gallery Exhibitions Explore Genocide, Propaganda
January 24, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — The Gund Gallery’s weekly PB&J spread was missing last week as curators set up for the Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions, which include pieces related to the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, the Holocaust and World War II American propaganda. » Read more (article found on page 10)
Despite Hurdles, Exhibit Survives
January 24, 2013
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — A few months back, Natalie Marsh, director of the Gund Gallery, was reading a magazine. » Read more (article found on page 2)
Students Track Close Races on Election Night
November 8, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — “When they called the election, the room exploded. It was amazing,” Joumana Khatib ’13 said. » Read more
Novelist to give talk at Kenyon
November 7, 2012
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love, will discuss her novel this weekend on the Kenyon College campus in Gambier. » Read more
Three timely Kenyon College displays examine social and political issues
September 9, 2012
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Power, influence and control are the focus of three separate exhibits at Kenyon college. » Read more
Renowned art critics lead Gund Gallery program
September 5, 2012
The Kenyon Institute, GAMBIER, Ohio — The Gund Gallery Critical Writing Workshop, to be offered for the first time at the new Gund Gallery at Kenyon College from June 16-23, 2013, announced that its teaching faculty will be led by Peter Plagens, art critic for the Wall Street Journal, and Terry Barrett, professor emeritus of art history at Ohio State University and author of Criticizing Art, Interpreting Art,Criticizing Photographs, Why Is That Art?,Talking about Student Art, and Making Art. » Read more
Gund Gallery: Separate shows at Kenyon make diverse foursome
June 3, 2012
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Four exhibits on view at Kenyon College demonstrate the interdisciplinary mission of the institution’s Gund Gallery. Though unrelated, each show tackles diverse historical and conceptual issues.
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New Exhibitions Spotlight Death, Identity, Disarray
April 26, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — The newly-opened Gund Gallery is working to find its niche in the Kenyon community. » Read more (article found on page 14)
Gund Gallery unveils wide-ranging exhibitions
April 16, 2012
Mount Vernon News, GAMBIER,— Ohio The Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College premieres four new exhibitions Thursday, April 19, including the work of acclaimed contemporary artist Kiki Smith. » Read more
New Space, New Heights: Exploring Self, Myth, Nature in Gund Gallery
April 5, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Revealing self-portraits, faceless metal humans and hanging configurations of fabric and wax stand silently in the Gund Gallery, each clean curve and texture representing months of hard work and a lifetime of inspiration. » Read more (article found on page 10)
Sculptor Brings Southern Charm to Gund Gallery
March 29, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Mississippi-bred sculptor Greely Myatt, with his relaxed drawl, winking sense of humor and modesty, is the epitome of a Southern gentleman, and his strong ties to his birthplace are evident through his funny, abstract, and deeply personal artwork. » Read more (article found on page 12)
Chinese Professor Explores Experimental Ink Art
March 29, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Many people associate ink art with classical Asian art, but what does contemporary, experimental ink art look like? A presentation in the Gund Gallery Community Foundation Theater on March 20 sought to explain. » Read more
Rural Arts Opens in Gund Gallery
March 28, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Starting with a collection of drawings of the different counties of Kansas, Persistence: the Rural in American Art aims to connect the viewer more visually with the rural state of life here and in the nation as a whole. » Read more (article found on page 15)
Gund Gallery to Host Talk on Chicano/a Art
February 1, 2012
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — It was a move to San Francisco that first inspired Ann Leimer’s love of Mexican art. She will share that love with Kenyon in a talk entitled “Tierra, Cuerpo, Nacion: Navigating Place, Proclaiming Self” today at 4:10 p.m. in Gund Gallery. » Read more (article found on page 9)
Understanding “Seeing/Knowing”: Lecture Unifies Exhibit
November 16, 2011
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Entire classes at Kenyon are devoted to exploring the relationship between art and science. » Read more (article found on page 9)
Kenyon College: A new gallery, off the beaten path
November 2011
Columbus Monthly, GAMBIER,— Ohio About 60 miles separate downtown Columbus from from the front door of the newly opened Gund Gallery at Kenyon College. » Read more
Kenyon College’s new Gund Gallery is a place to hang its reputation proudly
October 23, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — In the past, art at Kenyon College was exhibited in an awkward space tucked in the bowels of the campus library.
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Seeing/Knowing Explores Bond Between Art and Data
October 13, 2011
The Collegian, GAMBIER, Ohio — Say goodbye to the muses of your forefathers, ladies and gentlemen — artists of the early 21st century have found more inspiration for their art in the form of information, data and systems found on the computer screen than in any rustic wood or dale. » Read more (article found on page 9)
September 13, 2011
GAMBIER, Ohio — In addition to Seeing/Knowing, the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College will present two additional exhibitions for its inaugural program. Each centers on new ways of visualizing traditional forms of communication.
The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College Opens, Promises Forum For Learning Through Art and Visual Culture
September 13, 2011
GAMBIER, Ohio – Opening this October, The Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College aims to make knowledge visible, to link seeing and knowing.
The new Gund Gallery at Kenyon College opens its doors with Seeing/Knowing
September 13, 2011
GAMBIER, Ohio – A beguiling, thought-provoking collection of artworks has been assembled for the inaugural exhibition of the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College.
September 1, 2011
The Columbus Dispatch, GAMBIER, Ohio — Thomas Jefferson spent the last years of his life designing the “Academical Village,” a series of buildings bearing Jefferson’s architectural stamp at the center of the University of Virginia campus. » Read more
