AHVC Program News

  • Senior Poster Session and Alum Night

    Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 at 5:30 in RKC Lobby, the Class of 2022 exhibited posters reflecting their work to date on their senior projects. Two Alum, Hannah Sage Kay ’17 and Liam Nolan ’19 talked about their experiences since graduating from Bard. The event was an opportunity for seniors to become familiar with each other’s…

  • Congratulations Alex Kitnick on your new book!

    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is best known as a media theorist—many consider him the founder of media studies—but he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His connections with the art of his…

  • Congratulations to Katherine Boivin on the publication of her book!

    Riemenschneider in Rothenburg Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City Katherine M. Boivin, Assistant Professor at Bard College Penn State University Press, 2021 “Riemenschneider in Rothenburg” should be of great interest to art historians and others. It sheds light on a major figure of the Northern ‘Renaissance’ and also on issues of…

  • Congratulations to the Class of 2021!

    Special congratulations to the winner of the Jean French Travel Award: Maya Frieden ’22 and Tatiana Alfaro and Vita Sherin-Jones winners of the Alexander Klebanoff Award!!!!

  • Congratulations to Olga Touloumi!

    Olga Touloumi, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, has been awarded the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Stipends Award to support her scholarly humanities book project, specifically, “The Global Interior: Modern Architecture and the Ordering of the World.”  –   Professor Touloumi joins other NEH Summer Stipends Awardees in pursuing advanced, new research recognized to be of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. In the last five competitions, the NEH…

  • Education Coordinator at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site: New Job Opportunity

    Education Coordinator The Thomas Cole National Historic site is now seeking a full-time Education Coordinator. They will work across the Education department to coordinate visitor and programmatic operations. This is a full time, year round position. Work schedule from May-October is Wednesday-Sunday; and Monday-Friday from November-April. In addition, special projects/events may take place on weekends…

  • Tonk Cokes Artist Talk, February 25th at 6pm

    Tony Cokes Artist Talk Thursday February 25th 6pm Presented by Art History and Visual Culture, Film and Electronic Arts, and Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Zoom link: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89247172924?pwd=VTh2VU5GRFp3elRORGd4b1hNdllSdz09 In a series of videotapes and installations produced since the mid-1980s, Tony Cokes engages in cogent investigations of identity and opposition. His works question how race influences…

  • Kobena Mercer to join Bard Faculty!

    We are so pleased to announce that Kobena Mercer is joining the Bard faculty! Professor Mercer will begin his position in fall 2021 as the Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities. #bardcollege http://ow.ly/5dsS50DCBTY

  • Reiko Tomii in conversation with Alex Kitnick

  • 2020 Art History and Visual Culture Program Awards

    Congratulations to seniors Gabriella Goldberg and Shay Kothari, joint winners of The Alexander Klebanoff Award! and to rising senior Mia Le, congrats on winning the Jean French Travel Award. Well done.

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