Category: Faculty News

On Friday, May 20th, in a tent behind the Barringer House on Annandale Road, Jean was feted, toasted and celebrated by the Art History program and current colleagues, past colleagues, past and current students, and many family members.  It was a memorable afternoon with many moving testimonials and amusing recollections. The Art History program owes…

Photographic Representations of the Growth of Cities, 1880-1970 Curated by Luc Sante from his collection. Stevenson Library Lobby Vitrines May 11-June 22, 2011 Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 11, 5:00-6:30 pm

Professor Jean M. French, Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History, has taught Medieval and Renaissance art history at Bard College since 1971. The Art History Program cordially invites you to a Retirement Celebration 1:00– 4:00 pm Friday, May 20, 2011 under the tent behind Barringer House 1442 Annandale Road Please rsvp to [email protected], or…

Zhang Dali at Eli Klein Fine Art http://www.elikleinfineart.com/html/exhibinfo.asp?exnum=734| 462 West Broadway NY NY 10012 April 4th – May 8th Zhang Dali has a show in Soho, New Slogan, which is a further development in his painting series AK47. Zhang first won acclaim as a graffiti artist who from 1995-1998 secretly spray painted his profile on…

Taller Puertorriqueño’s Meet the Author Series at Julia de Burgos Books and Crafts Stores presents A SURVEY OF PUERTO RICAN ART a lecture by Dr. Susan Aberth Saturday, march 12, 2011, 3:00 pm A sweeping panorama of art production in Puerto Rico beginning with José Campeche in the 18th century and ending with contemporary artists,…

FERNANDO RU?Z LORENZO:  ESCRITURA CURATED BY TOM WOLF MARCH 1 – 31, 2011 OPENING RECEPTION: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 6 – 9 PM OPEN DAILY: 10:00 am-7:00 pm REEM KAYDEN GALLERY?, BARD COLLEGE Sponsored by the Art History Department and Latin American Iberian Studies FERNANDO RUÍZ LORENZO was born of Puerto Rican parentage in the…

Woodstock Artists’ Colony: Noguchi and Japanese-American Artists Sunday, February 13, 2011 – 3:00pm Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History at Bard College, discusses a group of Japanese artists, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and their influence on Isamu Noguchi’s early work. Many of these artists—who were somewhat older than Noguchi—spent their summers in Woodstock, New York, where…

bOb Gallery  presents: ODYSSEY New works by: William Anthony Paul Carpenter Karen Shaw William Stone Tom Wolf Opening Reception:  Friday, December 10, 2010 7:00-10:00 pm bOb Gallery 239 Eldridge Street, L.E.S, N.Y. 10002 (between Houston and Stanton) December 7-January 7, 2010

Cress Gallery Curated by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, O. Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art, Bard College, and Professor of Art History, Lehman College with assistance from the Director and Curator, UTC Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN. CHINA SHOW November 9 – December 14, 2010 “le deluge, après mao” China’s Surging Creative Tide: An Exhibition of…

Broom: The Full Sweep  The upcoming exhibition in our vitrines in Stevenson Library presents all twenty-one volumes of Broom, the legendary avant-garde periodical from the 1920s. In order to display the full range of the innovative art and literature published by Broom, this exhibition presents the magazine’s most radical and renowned works by changing the…