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  • The Junior Fellows Program at the Library of Congress

    The Junior Fellows Program at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for summer 2017. This is a paid opportunity and many projects do not require any previous library experience. Information about the program is available here, including detailed project descriptions. Of particular interest to our field is the Prints & Photographs project: Photochrom Prints…

  • SENSE OF EMERGENCY: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism

    Alex Kitnick, Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts, Faculty, CCS,  will participate in a public forum addressing the recent US presidential election, the implications of a Trump presidency, and possible means of resistance. Saturday, December 10th, 10:30 am – 5:30 pm Einstein Auditorium (Room 105) Barney Building 34 Stuyvesant StreetNew York, New York 10003 For…

  • S/Election Screening

    In conjunction with the exhibition S/Election, curated by Maxwell Barnes, Sarah Bastacky, Aaron Boehlert, Anne Burnett, Issy Cassou, Adrienne Chau, Reza Daftarian, Hannah Kay, Alex Kitnick, Harrison Kroessler, Alex Lau, Sondra McGill, Erin O’Leary,Flannery Seager-Strode, Raphael Wolf, and Sam Youkilis, there will be a screening of two videos at: 6pm on Thursday, December 8, 2016…

  • SIGHTSEEING: Vision and the Image in Early Modern Europe

    Curated by the students of ArtH 211 under the supervision of Professor Susan Aberth Exhibition in the Stevenson Library Vitrines November 29- December 29, 2016 Please come visit the camera obscura set up behind the campus center by ARTH 211, “Sightseeing.” The class built the camera obscura with a grant from the Experimental Humanities program.…

  • MoMa Data: A Critical Potluck

    Wednesday, November 30th, 6pm Henderson Annex 106 The Museum of Modern Art in New York has just released an amazing set of data pertaining to its exhibition history, beginning with the institution’s founding in 1929 and spanning up until the epochal year of 1989. The question that presents itself to us now is how to…

  • Art History Program’s Annual Majors Event

    THE ANNUAL ART HISTORY MAJORS EVENT! Wednesday, November 9, 2016 5:00 pm Fisher Studio Arts Center Studio Students learned about Spring 2017 course offerings and heard 
presentations by three alumni art history majors on 
their experiences since graduating from Bard.  Claire Demere ’14, Fiona Laugharn ’12 and Max Yeston ’08 shared their journeys into the…

  • Day of the Dead Ofrenda

      For Day of the Dead celebrations at Bard College an ofrenda was created in the campus center. Prof. Susan Aberth, (Latin American Art History),  along with students from the Queer/Straight Alliance, Latin American Students Organization, Caribbean Students Organization and Black Students Organization created this altar to those who died at Pulse in Orlando, Florida…

  • Alex Kitnick on Panel to discuss Lillian Schwartz: Computer Art Pioneer

    LILLIAN SCHWARTZ: COMPUTER ART PIONEER on view through October 30. MAGENTA PLAINS | 94 Allen Street | New York, NY 10002 | 917.388.2464 Gallery hours are Wednesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm. Lillian Schwartz: Panel & Conversation Friday, October 28 from 6 – 8 PM Conversation to begin promptly at 6:30 Magenta Plains is pleased…

  • Ingestion and Descent: The Chthonic Realms of Leonora Carrington

    Professor Susan Aberth in Black Mirror 1: embodiment “Ingestion and Descent: The Chthonic Realms of Leonara Carrington” Fulgur Limited, Somerset, UK, 2016 Please clink here to read: ingestion-and-descent

  • Humanitarian Heritage and Anxious Architectures in East Africa: A Long History of the Dadaab Refugee Camps

    A lecture by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow (NYU) Tuesday, November 1st, 6:30pm Olin 102 Co-sponsored by the Art History, Africana Studies, and Human Rights Programs (maybe Anthropology as well?) This talk examines a history of the world’s largest designated set of settlements for refugees through its constructed environment and archival record,…

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