Category: Happenings at Bard

$3.2 Million Given to Bard College Endowing Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism in Perpetuity Untitled wall drawing, circa 1981, Keith Haring artwork © Keith Haring Foundation. Endowment Coincides with CCS Bard’s Permanent Reinstallation of Keith Haring Wall Drawing Created During 1981 Visit to Bard College Egyptian Author Haytham el-Wardany Appointed 2022-23 Fellow Bard College announced today it has…

Tony Cokes Artist Talk Thursday February 25th 6pm Presented by Art History and Visual Culture, Film and Electronic Arts, and Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89247172924?pwd=VTh2VU5GRFp3elRORGd4b1hNdllSdz09 In a series of videotapes and installations produced since the mid-1980s, Tony Cokes engages in cogent investigations of identity and opposition. His works question how race influences…

The students in Professor Susan Merriam’s Curiosity Cabinet course have done some fascinating work at Montgomery Place this semester. They’ve been delving into the collection, which houses more than 8,000 objects, to research some of the most unique pieces. The course explores the historical phenomenon of the curiosity cabinet, a precursor to the modern museum.…

You never know what you’ll find in the Montgomery Place collection! Professor Susan Merriam’s Cabinet of Curiosities class met at the mansion this week, continuing their study of some of the fascinating objects in the collection. Check out the mechanical cat, dueling pistols, and chicken foot letter opener. Students have been researching objects that illuminate…

Silver Faces in Late Medieval Sculpture: Just How Charismatic, Just How Lifelike? Sculpture and painting in the late Middle Ages tends to be written as a narrative of increasing verisimilitude and lifelikeness – and indeed, when played out across paint and wood, the naturalistic representation of human presence (charismatic, bodily, idealized, and gruesome alike) appears…

Hanan Toukan Brown University Monday, April 3, 2017 6:30 p.m. Olin, Room 102 This talk is about the relationship between contemporary art, dissent, cultural diplomacy and cultural politics in the Arab Middle East. Since the start of the Arab revolutionary process and the violence that has accompanied it, the culture and arts domain has come…

  A lecture on Kevin Jerome Everson’s Rhinoceros (2013), an imagined staging of the last speech of the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici (1510-1537), also known as the first black European head of state due to his mixed Italian and African ancestry. Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30 pm Olin 203

Join Bard Art History alum Emma Weinman ’14 for a short talk about the show she helped curate at Bard’s Stevenson Library featuring contemporary artists Tauba Auerbach’s Diagonal Press. When:  Tuesday, March 7, 2017                4:00 – 4:45 pm Where: Stevenson Library lobby Followed by Tauba Auerbach’s talk at…

The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art Series presents  Carrie Lambert-Beatty “How do you know? Contemporary art and the politics of knowledge” When: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 5pm Where: Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to present the first in The Brant Foundation Lectures…

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…