Category: Happenings at Bard

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…

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…

  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…

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,…

Sound in Theory, Sound in Practice brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the potential of thinking about and through sound. Recent years have witnessed a sonic turn in the humanities and beyond. Many working in the fields of anthropology, literature, urban studies, history, media studies, and the arts have increasingly shifted their attention to…

Curated by Patricia Karetzky, Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art, Bard College The show comprises twenty-five photographs of the Cultural Revolution in China from the perspective of the youth sent to the countryside. The photographer, Tang Desheng, a youth himself, embedded himself in the movement traveling throughout China for ten years documenting the lives of…

A film by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope Thursday, December 3, 7-9 pm Preston 110 How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art…

New Perspectives in Design History, Decorative Arts, and Material Culture Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:30 pm RKC 103 Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium Amber Winick: “Playing with Nationalism: A Century of Hungarian Design for Children.” Rebecca C. Tuite: “Fashioning a College Experience: The History of Seven Sisters Style.”  

Robert Wiesenberger is the 2014–16 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where he is responsible for their Bauhaus collections, and a Critic at the Yale School of Art, where he teaches a first-year seminar in the MFA program in graphic design. He is completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, where he specializes…

A Presentation by Dr. Margo Machida Professor of Art History & Asian American Studies University of Connecticut Trans-Pacific Visions in Asian American Art This talk focuses on the Asia Pacific region and selected works by contemporary U.S.-based Asian American artists that engage themes of trans-Pacific circulation and global systems of cross-cultural exchange. Based on Dr.…