Category: Faculty News

Professor Julia Rosenbaum has been named Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. for 2015-2016. The Smithsonian’s year-long research fellowship will support Professor Rosenbaum’s new project examining art, science, and representations of the body from the Civil War to WWII.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Bearing the Weight Co-curator Tom Wolf,  will give an opening talk on April 10, 2015.  The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi,  looks at the evolution of the artist’s work, and is the first comprehensive exhibition about the artist in the U.S. since 1948. It remains on view at the Smithsonian Museum of American…

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“The Alchemical Kitchen: At Home with Leonora Carrington” is a commemoration of the artist by Prof. Susan Aberth, published in Nierika: Celebrando a Leonora Carrington.  Nierka is a new Mexican on-line art journal. NIERIKA-29JUN

Femininity in Asian Women Artists’ Work from China, Korea and USA If the Shoe Fits by Patricia Karetzky ISBN: 978-0-9536541-2-3 c. 46 pages, 40 + illus. (2012) .epub format £4.50 Prof. Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists’ work in China, Korea and USA.  The…

The APS has awarded a Franklin Grant to Laurie Dahlberg to support the development of her  manuscript: Amateur v. amateur: Photography and the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art.

Prof. Julia Rosenbaum has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship to study the visual culture of the American Civil War. The NEH Institute takes place this summer in New York City and involves work with a team of scholars, study of materials at significant museum and archival collections, and new…

Patricia Karetzky latest publication is: “Contemporary Chinese Art: Uses and Reuses of the Past” Education About Asia, Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2012, pp. 39-43 To view a supplement of the artist’s images not shown in the article, please visit:  http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/

Laurie Dahlberg has been awarded a NEH summer stipend award to support development of her  manuscript: Amateur v. amateur: Photography and the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art. On April 19th  she is  giving a talk, entitled “For Love or Money?: Dilemmas of Class and Caste in Early Amateur Photography”  which is derived from one segment…

The Princeton Review http://www.princetonreview.com/uploadedFiles/Sitemap/Home_Page/Rankings/Best_Professors/BestProfessors_schools.pdf has cited two Bard professors as among the 300 best professors in the country: our own Diana Depardo-Minsky, art history, and Karen Sullivan, Literature.   Read the testimonial:  diana_depardo_minsky.  Congratulations Diana!