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  • Open Space Institute, Inc. Barnabas McHenry Award given to Miranda Fe Whitus

    Congratulations! Miranda Fey Whitus and her project, Tracing the Lineage of Historic Families of the Hudson Valley Through Collection Materials, is a 2017 McHenry Award winner in the Historic Preservation category for her proposal for Montgomery Place. The Advisory Committee selected Miranda Fey Whitus because of her exceptional leadership abilities and the quality of the project…

  • Before the Arab Revolutions: Art, Dissent, and Diplomacy in Amman, Beirut, and Ramallah

    Hanan Toukan Brown University Monday, April 3, 2017 6:30 p.m. Olin, Room 102 This talk is about the relationship between contemporary art, dissent, cultural diplomacy and cultural politics in the Arab Middle East. Since the start of the Arab revolutionary process and the violence that has accompanied it, the culture and arts domain has come…

  • 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

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