Tang Museum to Host Dialogue with Artists
Installation view with Tony Oursler’s “No” in the foreground in “See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection,” Tang Teaching Museum, 2025. Photo by Mindy McDaniel.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announced on Tuesday the first Dunkerley Dialogue of the 2025-26 season, scheduled to take place on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 6 p.m. The event will feature artists Tony Oursler and Jolene Lupo, in conversation with Skidmore Professors Mimi Hellman and Sarah Sweeney.
Known as a pioneer of video art, Oursler currently has work on display in Tang’s “See it Now” exhibition. Lupo is an artist who creates 19th century-style tintypes using the wet-plate collodion process. She is also a senior photographer at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, and her artistic work explores themes of death, memory, and identification.
The artists will engage in a conversation about the history of photography, historic photographic processes, and spirit photography. Admission to the event is free.