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  • Sound modernities: histories of media and modern architecture

    Congratulations to Olga Touloumi, Bard College, Art History and Sabine von Fischer on the publication of the Introduction to  Sound modernities: history of media and modern architecture in The Journal of Architecture, Vol. 23, 2018 Issure 6: Sound Modernities: Histories of Media and Modern Architecture “This set of essays tries to broaden scholarship on acoustics…

  • Social Fabric: Thomas Bayrle’s Expanded Network

      Bringing together a new generation of artists interested in Thomas Bayrle’s legacy, this panel will look at how younger voices take up questions around corporate production, political spectacle, digital technology, and urban planning in their own work. The conversation will be moderated by art historian and critic Alex Kitnick, and will feature panelists Lena…

  • Curatorial Internship for Museum Diversity at the MFA, Boston

    Exciting summer internship  at the MFA Boston. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, this paid internship for museum diversity will give a current college student or recent graduate the opportunity to assist with research, interpretation, and programming for a forthcoming exhibition on the collecting and display of American paintings from the 1940s and 1950s here…

  • Alex Kitnick will discuss Donald Judd’s Early Paintings

    Monday, March 19 6:00pm Crowley Theater Please join Judd Foundation and Marfa Book Co. for a discussion with art historian Alex Kitnick. Kitnick will discuss Donald Judd’s early paintings installed in the Cobb House and Whyte Building, as well as the works from 1959–1961 that will be on display in “Donald Judd: Paintings” at the…

  • ALEX KITNICK IN CONVERSATION

    GBE NEWSLETTER, JANUARY 31, 2018 UPCOMING EVENTS LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER  IN CONVERSATION: THE LEGACY OF NOAH PURIFOY  WITH ABIGAIL DEVILLE, ALEX KITNICK,  AND YAEL LIPSCHUTZ  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3  3 PM  FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 439 WEST 127TH STREET  NEW YORK, NY 10027 

  • Joseph Salvatore Ackley will lecture

    Silver Faces in Late Medieval Sculpture: Just How Charismatic, Just How Lifelike? Sculpture and painting in the late Middle Ages tends to be written as a narrative of increasing verisimilitude and lifelikeness – and indeed, when played out across paint and wood, the naturalistic representation of human presence (charismatic, bodily, idealized, and gruesome alike) appears…

  • Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art

        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay College of Criminal Justice proudly presents the exhibition I have no enemies and no hatred Contemporary Chinese Dissident Art Curated by Patricia Karetzky and SHU Yang September 7, 2017 – November 3, 2017 Exhibition Opening Reception: September 6, 2017, from 5:30 –…

  • Susan Aberth New Publication

    I spent a wonderful time two years ago interviewing this artist in Bogota, Colombia and now the book is finally out. I am proud to have a chapter in it!

  • Susan Aberth Curates Masonic Relic Room

    Professor Susan Aberth curated the Masonic Relic Room for the newly opened Marciano Foundation Museum in Los Angeles on Wilshire Blvd. The beautiful building by Millard Sheets was once a Scottish Rite Temple and now houses the Marciano Bros. contemporary art collection. Admission is free but by appointment only. Read more in the New Yorker:…

  • Angelo Aponte, Class of 2006

    Bard College Art History graduate Angelo Aponte spoke on Tuesday April 26 on his experiences as a Freemason and Worshipful Master in Secaucus Hudson Lodge #72 in New Jersey in Prof. Susan Aberth’s course, What is Freemasonry?  

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