Art History and Visual Culture

Month: October 2015

  • Art History Annual Majors Event

    The Art History Program invites you to THE ANNUAL ART HISTORY MAJORS EVENT! Thursday, November 5, 2015
6:00-8:00 pm Faculty Dining Room Learn about Spring 2015 course offerings and hear 
presentations by three alumni art history majors on 
their experiences since graduating from Bard. Majors are required to attend and all those interested 
in the program…

  • Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Architectural Sites’

    Alex Kitnick will give a talk: “Use Your Illusion: Barbara Kasten’s ‘Architectural Sites’” Thursday, October 22nd, 6:00 pm International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago Reception at the Graham Foundation In conjunction with our new exhibition Barbara Kasten: Stages, art historian and critic Alex Kitnick will explore the critical stakes of Barbara Kasten’s photographic series from the…

  • Latter-day Bauhaus? Muriel Cooper and the Digital Imaginary

    Robert Wiesenberger is the 2014–16 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where he is responsible for their Bauhaus collections, and a Critic at the Yale School of Art, where he teaches a first-year seminar in the MFA program in graphic design. He is completing his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, where he specializes…

  • Trans-Pacific Visions in Asian American Art

    A Presentation by Dr. Margo Machida Professor of Art History & Asian American Studies University of Connecticut Trans-Pacific Visions in Asian American Art This talk focuses on the Asia Pacific region and selected works by contemporary U.S.-based Asian American artists that engage themes of trans-Pacific circulation and global systems of cross-cultural exchange. Based on Dr.…

  • Music in the Woods: One Hundred Years of Maverick Concerts

    Three cultural organizations whose antecedents established the Woodstock Art Colony in the early twentieth century – Maverick Concerts, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum (WAAM) – join in this historic exhibition. Marking the importance of music in Woodstock’s early history, the exhibition particularly celebrates Maverick Concerts, the oldest continuous summer…