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Terra Foundation for American Art Awards Dorsky Museum $71,000 Grant for Exhibition on Art in New York in the 1920s, Guest Curated by Bard Professor Tom Wolf
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is the recipient of a $71,000 exhibitions grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art in support of a spring 2024 exhibition focusing on four diverse early-twentieth-century artists: Miguel Covarrubias, Isami Doi, Aaron Douglas, and Winold Reiss. The exhibition is guest curated by Bard Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Tom Wolf, who previously received an American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant in support of his research and writing for this project.
Make Life Beautiful: Professor Alex Kitnick on the Art of Wolfgang Tillmans
Alex Kitnick, assistant professor of art history and visual culture at Bard, writes about the art of Wolfgang Tillmans for Artforum. The German photographer’s career is the subject of “Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear,” a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. “I think we can describe much of Tillmans’s work as at once utopian and deeply presentist. Liberal in spirit, it makes room for many things,” Kitnick writes. “The utopian seems like the wrong designation for his work. The utopian is always ahead of us. But there is no future here—everything is right now.”
Anne Hunnell Chen Joins Bard College Faculty as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
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. Dr. 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 Archive (IDEA), aimed at virtual reassembly and recontextualization of archaeological information from a uniquely preserved archaeological site of cross-disciplinary significance. Dr. Chen has published on Roman, Persian, and digital humanities topics, and taught equally wide-ranging coursework.
Upcoming Events
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11/19Tuesday7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Avery Auditorium
Screening of Five Radical Feminist Shorts by Cynthia Madansky
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Avery Auditorium
Acclaimed independent filmmaker Cynthia Madansky will screen five films from her "Radical Feminist" series. The films explore the legacy and work of renowned writers Lorraine Hansberry, Leyla Erbil, Katerina Gogou, Clarice Lispector, and Anna Alchuk.
Madansky's film projects more broadly engage with cultural and political themes, such as identity, nationalism, the transgression of borders, displacement, nuclear arms and war foregrounding the consequences of politics on the daily lives of individuals. Her award-winning films have been shown at numerous international venues including: the MoMA, The Berlin Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinema du Reel in Paris, Tehran Film Festival, and more. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Contact: Masha Shpolberg
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