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At the Tang Museum: Launch Party for Tibetan Art Book

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The front cover of the book, “Forms of Awakening: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection.” Photo provided by Skidmore College.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College will host a book-launch party for “Forms of Awakening: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection” on Friday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. in the Arthur Zankel Music Center Lobby. Following the celebration will be a free 7:30 p.m. performance by Tenzin Choegyal and Attacca Quartet.

With a clothbound cover and endpapers drawn from the artworks inside, “Forms of Awakening” is three books in one: a full catalog of Jack Shear’s gift of Tibetan art to the museums at Vassar College, Williams College, and Skidmore College; a scholarly volume of essays exploring the possibilities of engagement with Tibetan visual culture (both within and beyond the classroom); and documentation of the exhibitions at Vassar, Williams, and Skidmore.

Free tickets for the 7:30 p.m. performance are available at www.skidmore.edu/zankel/events.php.

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