Category: Faculty News

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay College of Criminal Justice proudly presents the exhibition I have no enemies and no hatred Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art Curated by Patricia Karetzky and SHU Yang September 7, 2017 – November 3, 2017 Exhibition Opening Reception: September 6, 2017, from 5:30 –…

I spent a wonderful time two years ago interviewing this artist in Bogota, Colombia and now the book is finally out. I am proud to have a chapter in it!

Professor Susan Aberth curated the Masonic Relic Room for the newly opened Marciano Foundation Museum in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd. The beautiful building by Millard Sheets was once a Scottish Rite Temple and now houses the Marciano Bros. contemporary art collection. Admission is free but by appointment only. Read more in the New Yorker:…

  Alex Kitnick, Art History, Bard College will introduce an evening of video as part of  the BAMcinématek series Migrating Forms BAM on Saturday, March 25, 2017 For more information:  http://www.bam.org/film/2017/general-idea-program-1

Curated by Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History at Board College, and students in his class “History of Art in Woodstock” February 25 – April 9, 2017 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Selections: Woodstock Ceramic Arts Today features work by contemporary ceramic artists Rich Conti, Eric Ehrnschwender, Sophie Fenton, Mary Frank, Robert Hessler, Jolyon Hofsted, Brad Lail and…

Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts February 4- May 21, 2017 Morgan Anderson Gallery The first major exhibition of ceramic art pioneer Carl Walters’ work since the 1950s, this retrospective surveys his over 40 year career within the context of ceramic arts in Woodstock, from the Brydcliffe arts and crafts colony in the early 20th…

Susan L. Aberth has a chapter in a newly available study on the British/Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington, titled ‘An allegery to collaboration’: the early formation of Leonora Carrington’s artistic vision”  in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra, eds., Manchester University Press, 2017.

Sunday, March 12, 2pm Kurt Seligmann’s Studio $5 Bard College Professors Melanie Nicholson (Latin American Literature) and Susan Aberth (Art History) will lead a group of their advanced students in a performative reading of key women Surrealist poets and writers of Latin America. Among those to be shared are Frida Kahlo (Mexico), María Martins (Brazil),…

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…

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…