Month: April 2012

  • Rachel Heidenry ’11 exhibits in San Salvador

    Our Fulbright Award-Winning Art History graduate from 2011, Rachel Heidenry, is completing her project in El Salvador with an exhibition of her photographs of the many murals created throughout this country. “Los Murales de El Salvador: una exposicion de fotografia por Rachel Heidenry” will be on view in San Salvador at the Centro Arte para…

  • Julia Rosenbaum is awarded NEH grant

    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…

  • Art in Review: Patty Chang

    Patty Chang, noted filmmaker, photographer and performance artist, will present her work in RKC 103 this Thursday, April 26, at 5:00.  Using herself as the protagonist, Chang has created a bracing body of work, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, sometimes both, that comments on women’s roles in American and Chinese cultures.  New York Times critic, Roberta…

  • Article by Patricia Karetzky

    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/

  • NEH Award given to Prof. Laurie Dahlberg

    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…

  • Prof. Diana Depardo-Minsky Selected

    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!

  • Hannah Becker ’11 will give a paper.

    Hannah Becker ’11 will be presenting at the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations’ National Conference in Boston this Thursday.  Her new paper discusses glitter trends in fashion accessories as they relate to economic recession.   “Is Glitter the Prescription for (Economic) Depression?”, is part of the Memory, Vintage and All That Glitters panel, which will…

  • The Cultured Canvas

    Thomas Cole National Historic Site, The Olana Partnership, Olana State Historical Site and Bard College cordially invite you to: Talks, Panel Discussion and Book Signing with a Fresh Perspective on the Hudson River School Saturday, May 5, 2012 1-5 pm, Registration opens at 12:30 Weiss Cinema, Bard College For more information visit: www.thomascole.org/2012symposium www.olana.org

  • ArtsIntern

    ArtsIntern is accepting applications for paid summer internships for 2012, providing exciting opportunities for students to work in New York City museums. There are many internships that have not yet been filled. This year, participating institutions include ­- – El Museo del Barrio – The International Center for Photography – Museum of the Moving Image…

  • Paid Summer Internship Opportunity

    Northwestern University  Metadata Internship: 2012 Northwestern University Library has an archival collection that requires the generation and/or clean-up of metadata for an EAD finding aid. The applicant must have an interest in cataloging/metadata. This is a 20-hour per week, paid internship.  The internship will begin June 2012, last fourteen weeks, and be located in Northwestern…