Stories about "Mark Bessire"
Slideshow: Mao Jacket sculpture arrives in style on Alumni Walk

Friday, December 5, 2008 12:00 pm

Following its autumn-long appearance on Park Avenue in Manhattan, a 10-foot eponymous Mao jacket was installed on Bates' own busy thoroughfare, Alumni Walk, on Dec. 5.

My City Was Gone

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 12:30 pm

In the year's major exhibition at the Bates College Museum of Art, 17 artists show their response to a disorienting urban transformation in China

Bates presents acclaimed multimedia piece by DJ Spooky

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:39 pm

Paul D. Miller, the musician, essayist and media artist also known as DJ Spooky, presents a live performance of his internationally renowned multimedia project "Rebirth of a Nation" at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at Lewiston Middle School, 75 Central Ave.

Bates College Museum of Art, Maine College of Art offer joint exhibition of major Chinese artist

Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:44 am

In a collaboration unusual for Maine's academic museums, the Bates College Museum of Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, will jointly present an exhibition by Wenda Gu, one of the most important artists to emerge from China in recent decades.

Museum opening reception schedule

Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:53 am

A discrepancy in the published times for the Jan. 16 opening lecture and reception for a Bates College Museum of Art exhibition has resulted in a schedule adjustment that may affect the plans of your art reviewers and readers.