Art History and Visual Culture

Month: March 2017

  • Paid Fellowship Position at the Brooklyn Museum

      Museum Education Fellowship Program Paid Fellowship Position at the Brooklyn Museum September 5, 2017–June 22, 2018 The museum invites promising young professionals to join its Museum Education Fellowship Program. As an Education Fellow, you will gain in-depth fieldwork experience by designing, facilitating, and teaching programs that address the needs of adult, school, and youth and family…

  • An Evening of Video in Brooklyn

      Alex Kitnick, Art History, Bard College will introduce an evening of video as part of  the BAMcinématek series Migrating Forms BAM on Saturday, March 25, 2017 For more information:  http://www.bam.org/film/2017/general-idea-program-1

  • Call for Papers

    THE FRICK COLLECTION Negotiating Art and Narrative Emerging Scholars’ Symposium for Undergraduates Friday, June 9, 2017 The Frick Collection invites submissions from undergraduates and recent college graduates for a symposium on the subject of art and narrative. This program seeks to develop and diversify the next generation of scholars in the visual arts by offering…

  • ALL-IN seeks Editorial Intern

    Former Bard student and EHer Benjamin Barron is now the editor-in-chief of ALL-IN, a biannual arts and culture print publication which brings emerging and established artists together to collaborate, acting as a platform for new visual material. They are looking for a part-time intern (unpaid) to do remote work now that could become in-person over…

  • Selections: Woodstock Ceramic Arts Today

    Curated by Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History at Board College, and students in his class “History of Art in Woodstock” February 25 – April 9, 2017 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Selections: Woodstock Ceramic Arts Today features work by contemporary ceramic artists Rich Conti, Eric Ehrnschwender, Sophie Fenton, Mary Frank, Robert Hessler, Jolyon Hofsted, Brad Lail and…

  • Curated by Tom Wolf

    Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Arts February 4- May 21, 2017 Morgan Anderson Gallery The first major exhibition of ceramic art pioneer Carl Walters’ work since the 1950s, this retrospective surveys his over 40 year career within the context of ceramic arts in Woodstock, from the Brydcliffe arts and crafts colony in the early 20th…

  • New Publication for Susan L. Aberth

    Susan L. Aberth has a chapter in a newly available study on the British/Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington, titled ‘An allegery to collaboration’: the early formation of Leonora Carrington’s artistic vision”  in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra, eds., Manchester University Press, 2017.

  • Shelleen Greene to Speak

      A lecture on Kevin Jerome Everson’s Rhinoceros (2013), an imagined staging of the last speech of the first Duke of Florence, Alessandro de’ Medici (1510-1537), also known as the first black European head of state due to his mixed Italian and African ancestry. Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30 pm Olin 203

  • Tauba Auerbach’s Diagonal Press in the Vitrines

    Join Bard Art History alum Emma Weinman ’14 for a short talk about the show she helped curate at Bard’s Stevenson Library featuring contemporary artists Tauba Auerbach’s Diagonal Press. When:  Tuesday, March 7, 2017                4:00 – 4:45 pm Where: Stevenson Library lobby Followed by Tauba Auerbach’s talk at…

  • MEGAPHONE – Beyond Nadja: Women Surrealist Poets in Latin America

    Sunday, March 12, 2pm Kurt Seligmann’s Studio $5 Bard College Professors Melanie Nicholson (Latin American Literature) and Susan Aberth (Art History) will lead a group of their advanced students in a performative reading of key women Surrealist poets and writers of Latin America. Among those to be shared are Frida Kahlo (Mexico), María Martins (Brazil),…