AHVC Program News
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Congratulations to Kobena Mercer
Yale University Press Congratulates its 2024 CAA Prizewinners Kobena Mercer, winner of the 2024 Frank Jeett Mather Award for Art Criticism and the author of Alain Locke and the Visual Arts. “Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of…
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Alex Kitnick speaks at the Institute for Contemporary Art
MCLUHAN LECTURES: CHIOKE I’ANSON AND ALEX KITNICK ON MARSHALL MCLUHAN Friday, Apr 14, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM If the title of artist Rafael Domenech’s experimental publishing pavilion on the ICA’s third floor, The Medium is the Massage, seems familiar, that’s because it’s borrowed from a highly influential 1967 book by trailblazing media theorist Marshall McLuhan. For anyone…
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AHVC Program Senior Poster Session and Alum Night
Tuesday, December 6th, the Art History and Visual Culture Program held its annual Senior Poster Session and Alum Night in RKC Lobby. Class of 2023 seniors displayed visual and textual accounts of their Senior Project research to date. Faculty and guests were invited to ask questions and discuss topics. In addition, two alum Martha Hart…
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MA in Art History- Hunter College
Art & Education September 23, 2022 MA in Art History Hunter College Robert Longo, American Bridge Project, 2017. Installation view, Hunter College. Courtesy of the Hunter College Art Galleries. Photo: Daniel Pérez. Spring semester deadline: October 1 Fall semester deadline: February 1 Hunter College Art & Art History Department Main Campus 695 Park Avenue 11th Floor North Building New…
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Alex Kitnick participates in Whitney Museum Symposium
Making Collections Matter: A Symposium Fri, Sept 23, 2022 10 am–4:30 pm This day-long symposium focuses on the historical formation, current uses, and future possibilities of modern and contemporary art museum collections. Bringing together curators and scholars who are engaged with and thinking critically about museum collecting practices, the sessions consider how collections are built,…
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Anne Hunnell Chen joins Bard AHVC Faculty
Bard College’s Division of the Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Hunnell Chen as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture. Her tenure-track appointment begins in the 2022–23 academic year. Anne Hunnell Chen specializes in the art and archaeology of the globally connected Late Roman world. She is the founder and director of the NEH-funded International (Digital) Dura-Europos…
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Susan Aberth and collaborator CCS-graduate Gilbert Vicario win Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant
Prof. Susan Aberth, Art History and Visual Culture Program, and collaborator CCS-graduate Gilbert Vicario have just won a $50,000 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Grant for their exhibition on tracing esotericism in the Americas at the Phoenix Art Museum. For more information: (https://warholfoundation.org/2022/06/29/the-andy-warhol-foundation-for-the-visual-arts-announces-spring-2022-grantees/).
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Open call for young art writers: Art & Education Field Notes
With the academic year drawing to a close and two of the world’s preeminent exhibitions of contemporary art beckoning students and recent graduates to Venice and Kassel this summer, Art & Education is excited to announce an open call for reviews of the 59th Venice Biennale and Documenta 15. Students and recent graduates from bachelor’s,…
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FORELAND – Docent Positions
Foreland x Bard Docent Program Foreland is an 85,000SF contemporary arts development that includes 31 artist studios, three commercial art galleries, two private event spaces, food & beverage, and a membership-only cooperative workspace. Located on the banks of Catskill Creek, the Foreland campus is housed within three historic mills dating to the mid-1800s. It is…
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