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BUAG is located on the Boston University Campus at 855 Commonwealth Avenue, at the Faye G., Jo and James Stone Gallery inside the College of Fine Arts building
Driving Directions:
From
North; From
South; From
West. The
gallery is open during the academic year, September through May only:
Tuesday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
For more information, please call (617) 353-3329 during regular business hours.
Director, ad interim: Marc Mitchell
All exhibitions and gallery events are free
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Although the
Boston University Art Gallery has no
permanent collection, we do have four of the most
unusual column capitals decorating our space.
You will not find graceful Classical Greek columns
here, or the saints and fanciful creatures that
populated the archivolts, capitals, and cloisters
of the Middle Ages. Our column capitals fuse
allusions to both the Classical and the Medieval
to produce an unexpectedly specific, and industrial, iconography.
The building the Art
Gallery occupies was formerly a Buick dealership. Paintings, photographs,
sculptures,
and installations now fill the space once taken up by sedans, wagons,
sports cars,
and salesmen. Thus, among the acanthus leaves of a typical Corinthian
capital we
have mechanics holding wrenches; our gargoyle-like creatures are
sporting tires
around their necks instead of spitting water from their mouths;
and the weight of the
ceiling is borne by men in overalls rather than by togate caryatids.
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Boston University Art Gallery: Space and Time
By Logen Zimmerman (2005)
The Boston University Art Gallery (the Gallery) was originally
an entity of the University’s Division of Art (the Division)
and traces its origins to Copley Square. The Division (now the
School of Visual Arts) was a part of the School of Fine and
Applied Arts (SFAA; now the College of Fine Arts), which was
formed in 1954 to combine the disciplines of music, theatre,
and visual arts; for the previous twenty-two years, the Division
had been a department of the College of Practical Arts and Letters.
In the SFAA’s building at 27 Garrison Street in Copley,
beginning in 1956, the Division held exhibitions of the works
of students, faculty, and local artists (1).
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