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Distinguished Writer in Residence Teju Cole reflects on the ethical implications of displaying found photographs of African Americans in the age of digital photo tagging.

Associate Professor Aaron Glass's Getty Award will support a three-month residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Professor Romm considers the immense, plundered wealth on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” exhibition.

Professor Battle was commissioned to paint "How long is your past, how far is your future." At 16-feet wide by 5-feet tall, the oil and mixed media piece is her largest yet.

Schapiro speaks about the Bowie photo shoot that would produce some of the most iconic album art and magazine images of the 1970s, now collected in his new book, Bowie.

Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle has created a site-specific, sixteen-foot painting, structured on the spiral galaxy, for Vassar College's Touch the Sky exhibition. Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the exhibition celebrates astronomy as seen through the eyes of 18 artists. Works on view include artist books, prints, drawings, paintings, photography, and film. The opening lecture and reception will take place on Friday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m., and the exhibition will be open through August 21.
 

After his recent project in Ukraine, Photography Program Director Stephen Shore gives advice on how to see light, structure a photograph, and create images with subtle emotional power.

On view through April 18, "Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976," photography of Tang Desheng, is curated by Patricia Karetzky, who holds the Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art. The show comprises 25 photographs of the Cultural Revolution in China from the perspective of the young people sent to the countryside. The photographer, Tang Desheng, who was a youth during that time, embedded himself in the movement and traveled throughout China for 10 years documenting the lives of displaced youth. The Bard Art History Program, Asian Studies Program, Hannah Arendt Center, and Human Rights Program are sponsoring the exhibition.