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  • Exhibit: “Educated Youth” Photos of the Cultural Revolution

    Curated by Patricia Karetzky, Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art, Bard College The show comprises twenty-five photographs of the Cultural Revolution in China from the perspective of the youth sent to the countryside. The photographer, a youth himself, embedded himself in the movement traveling throughout China for ten years documenting the lives of displaced youth.…

  • Film Screening: The Desert of Forbidden Art

    A film by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope Thursday, December 3, 7-9 pm Preston 110 How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art…

  • Alex Kitnick will give a talk at the Institute of Fine Arts NYU

    The Great Hall Exhibitions Events: Fall 2015 Step Into Liquid: Art and Art History in the Post-Fordist Era Friday, December 4, 2015 1:00pm to 6:00pm in the Lecture Hall The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 1 East 78th Street Organized by Walead Beshty, with Rachel Heidenry ’11 and Eloise Maxwell Introduction: Remarks by Walead Beshty, 1:00-1:15pm…

  • Two PhD candidates from the BGC present their research

    New Perspectives in Design History, Decorative Arts, and Material Culture Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:30 pm RKC 103 Laszlo Z. Bito ’60 Auditorium Amber Winick: “Playing with Nationalism: A Century of Hungarian Design for Children.” Rebecca C. Tuite: “Fashioning a College Experience: The History of Seven Sisters Style.”  

  • THE  FRICK   COLLECTION 1 East 70th Street New York, N. Y. 10021 Undergraduate/Graduate Curatorial Internships 3-4 placements available for Spring semester 2016 Background The Frick Collection is an art museum consisting of more than 1,100 works of art from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century displayed in the intimate surroundings of the former home of…

  • 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…

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