Category: Faculty News

The Art History Program proudly announces the publication of Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings: Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image by  Professor Susan Merriam, Ashgate, 2012. Book reading with introduction by Professor Marina van Zuylen, Monday, March 19, 2012 5:30 pm  Finberg House

Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldia http://www.moafl.org/exhibits/deobaldia.html Sept. 25, 2011-May 27, 2012 Essay by Susan Aberth: Emissaries from the Primordial Realms: The Presence of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art in the Work of Isabel De Obaldia

Eugene Ludins: An American Fantasist Curated by Susana Torruella Leval February 11 — July 12, 2012 Catalog includes an essay by Tom Wolf, Art History, Bard College Opening Reception: Friday, February 10, 2012, 5-7 pm

Prof. Tom Wolf will give a talk entitled “Isami Doi and Asian American Artists in New York Between the World Wars” at the Arts and Humanities Conference sponsored by the University of Hawaii, Monday, January 10, 2011.

Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, has published in the Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, November/December 2011 issue, “Xu Yong’s This Face,” an article about  Xu Young’s latest works marking his continued concern for the plight of prostitutes in China.

Prof. Noah Chasin, Art History, participated in a panel discussion after the premier of the film “Urbanized” at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Prof. Noah Chasin joined in a conversation at McNally-Jackson Books in NYC on the subject of Anthony Vidler’s recently published volume of essays, “The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays.”  More info: http://archleague.org/2011/07/talking-booksthe-scenes-of-the-street-and-other-essays/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/26872699@N08/sets/72157627140587698/detail/ Also, Noah Chasin is featured in Gary Hustwit’s new film, Urbanized, which just opened at the IFC Theater in NYC.…

The opening of “In God We Trust: Chinese Christian Contemporary Art” in the Woods on Wednesday, September 1st with a lecture by curator Patricia Karetzky, was amazing. Please click on the link to see images from the event and please visit the show now until September 30, 2011 in the Woods Studio. In God We…

Curated by Tom Wolf, Bard College June 11- October 10, 2011 WAAM: Woodstock Artists Association Museum 28 Tinker Street Woodstock, New York 12498 845-679-2940. www.woodstockart.org The exhibition Cats & Caricatures takes as its theme two of the richest subjects explored by renowned artist and illustrator Peggy Bacon (1898-1987): her skill at drawing and exaggerating the…