Animal Crossing: New Horizons Museum Day Celebration
May 18, 2020 | Nintendo Switch Online – We are excited to offer the opportunity to bring BMCM+AC into your Animal Crossing: New Horizons game through custom designs based on pieces from our permanent collection and inspiration to create galleries of your own.
From BMC to the Cedar Tavern
“What illicit concoction - what matter of inebriation - what absinthe - lured these healthy young men (and more than a handful of women) who had survived the Depression and war to settle for an uncertain future of fly-by-night jobs and illegal living - what possessed...
Important Announcement: COVID-19
BMCM+AC shares continuing updates on the effects of COVID 19 on our exhibitions and programs.
John Cage + the Rasa Aesthetic: Prepared Piano at BMCM+AC
Guest blog post from Casey Edwards On Thursday, August 2, 2019, the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center had the pleasure of hosting Guggenheim Fellow Amy Williams for a recital of John Cage’s famous Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, part of BMCM+AC’s...
Alma Stone Williams Collection
Within the BMCM+AC Permanent Collection, we house a number of collections specific to alumni and faculty of the school, offering unique insight into what Black Mountain College was like from a wide range of perspectives. In this guest blog post from BMCM+AC Archival...
Myths and Legends of Black Mountain College
We’re clearing up the rumors. In this case, fact is often more fascinating than fiction.
Elaine and Willem de Kooning + The Summer of 1948
When the summer of 1948 rolled around, Elaine and Willem de Kooning were relieved to take a break from the New York art scene which seemed to be taking from them much more than it was giving. On an invitation from Josef Albers, Willem came to Black Mountain College to...
Unsung Women of the Bauhaus
It's a story that is becoming more and more well known: female students, hoping to study art, design, and architecture, flocked to the Bauhaus when it opened its doors in 1933. Walter Gropius, when faced with this influx of female students, made the decision to limit...
Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College
Civilization seems in general to estrange men from materials, from materials in their original form. The process of shaping these is so divided into separate steps that one person is rarely involved in the whole course of manufacture, often knowing only the finished...
{Re}HAPPENING 9 – featuring Arooj Aftab, Anjna Swaminathan & Rafiq Bhatia Trio; Kiranavalli Vidysankar, Sandhya Anand, and Vinod Seetharaman
March 30, 2019 – The annual {Re}HAPPENING brings together dozens of contemporary artists whose work responds to and extends the legacy of Black Mountain College visionaries such as John Cage, David Tudor, Merce Cunningham, M.C. Richards and Robert Rauschenberg. The 2019 {Re}HAPPENING celebrated the influence of non-western music on such legendary artists by showcasing contemporary musicians who continue the legacy of experimental music within a global context. Featured performers included Arooj Aftab, Anjna Swaminathan & Rafiq Bhatia Trio, Free Planet Radio and Kiranavali Vidyasankar, Sandhya Anand, Vinod Seetharaman.