Bard College ART HISTORY and VISUAL CULTURE PROGRAM

Posted on March 7th, 2017

Happenings at Bard

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

Happenings at Bard

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 5:00 pm in Fisher Studio Bldg. Center Studio.

All are welcome!

Faculty News

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), Alice Rahon (France/Mexico), Alejandra Pizarnik (Argentina), Leonora Carrington (England/Mexico), Olga Orozco (Argentina), and Remedios Varo (Spain/Mexico).