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“Whether on reclaimed ledger paper or vintage picture postcards, the images he constructs are something like found details themselves—singular and mysterious, if occasionally a little on the nose,” writes Will Heinrich.

“I want to be realistic about the way I see the world, but I've always felt that Bojack is actually an optimistic show,” says Bard alum Raphael Bob-Waksberg ’06. “Not everyone agrees, but I see it as a story about how people can change, and change each other. How you can make a difference in somebody else's life, which might be small, or might be profound. I like to believe that those differences can add up.”

“This past February, an exhibition on the work of French furniture designer, architect, and overall Renaissance woman Eileen Gray opened on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. A tour de force of an immersive yet jewel-box exhibition, the show was unfortunately cut short. However, for those looking to learn more about Gray’s body of work, from her screens to her use of steel tubing to her architectural models, Eileen Gray”—coedited by curator Cloé Pitiot and BGC gallery director Nina Stritzler-Levine—“would be a welcome addition to any bookshelf.”

“The spaces Black people inhabit are at once physical, immaterial and carried thru our bones, thru time and back out into the world,” says Azikiwe Mohammed ’05. “Thru drawing, collage, sculpture and a variety of works that swing between those spaces, Devin N. Morris provides us with a look at the entirety of a language at once gay, Black and deeply personal, while maintaining a familiarity that makes his grandmother’s house in Baltimore feel like my grandmother’s house in Westbury, Long Island.”

Gibson draws upon his Native American heritage as well as postwar abstractionism in this large-scale work, which measures 44 feet square by 21 feet high. Entitled Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House, the multitiered structure refers to the earth-based architecture of the ancient metropolis of Cahokia, which was the largest city of the North American Indigenous Mississippian people at its height in the 13th century. “Even though it’s where my people are from, I had never heard of these structures being in Mississippi,” says Gibson. “That this history existed there is amazing and moving.” On view at New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park until March 2021.

“I have been grappling a lot with what art means in times of crisis and change,” says Bard alumna Ruba Katrib MA ’07 in this interview with Hyperallergic’s Dessane Lopez Cassell. “Despite everything that is going on, so many people I talk to are still craving IRL experiences with art—even while a pandemic rages and even while protesting in the streets and fighting to change this system and its rotten power structures. This makes me feel that art still does so

As part of its series 15 Creative Women for Our Time, the New York Times profiles Bard alumna Juliana Huxtable ’10—DJ, artist, poet, performer, and now novelist. “The common thread running through Huxtable’s work,” writes the Times’s Aisha Harris, “is a provocative if often cheeky exploration of layered identity and how it is and isn’t moldable: What stories are told about us—or are written on our bodies—and which do we tell ourselves?”

Bard MFA alumna Suzanne Kite is one of the first class of 11 Women at Sundance | Adobe Fellows, announced this week by the Sundance Institute. The new program is designed to meaningfully support women artists creating bold new work in film and media, with a priority on filmmakers from historically underrepresented communities. Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer. Her scholarship and practice highlights contemporary Lakota epistemologies through research creation, computational media, and performance.

“During the past few years of Donald Trump’s deranged presidency, if there is one writer I turn to it is Masha Gessen, whose piercing clarity is gemlike and refusal to equivocate precious,” writes Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore. “As a journalist, Gessen has covered Russia, Hungary and Israel, so is not experiencing illiberalism for the first time. Instead of a weariness however, what is present in the book is a stunning capacity to connect the dots in a way that few can.”

Bard College faculty and alumni have once again appeared on the list of the year’s Emmy nominees. Emma Briant, visiting research associate in human rights, was a senior researcher for The Great Hack, which was nominated in the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special category. Dead to Me, the Netflix show produced by alumnus Buddy Enright ’84, was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. Bojack Horseman, cocreated by Raphael Bob-Waksberg ’06, was nominated for Outstanding Animated Program. Beastie Boys Story, about Adam Yauch ’86 and his bandmates, was nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.