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Hyperallergic profiles indigenous artists collective New Red Order—Adam Khalil '11, Zack Khalil '14, and Jackson Polys—which often uses a combination of satire and cryptic messaging to provide “a fresh lens through which viewers can question and even reframe their conflicted relationships with indigeneity.” Their latest installation, the culmination of a multiyear collaboration between NRO and Artists Space, “provides a thoughtful survey of the group’s history of productive antagonization both within and outside of the art world.” Through August 22 at Artists Space in Manhattan.

Alex Kitnick reviews The Avant-Garde Museum, a recent anthology–cum–exhibition catalogue edited by Agnieszka Pindera and Jarosław Suchan and published by the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. “[T]he avant-garde museum as a type has never been cogently theorized,” he writes. “This volume is a perfect place to start.” Alex Kitnick is assistant professor of art history and visual culture at Bard College, and a faculty member at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies.
 

Julia B. Rosenbaum, associate professor of art history, explores Frederic Church’s Olana for the journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. In the late 1860s, following his success as a landscape painter, Church turned to architectural and interior design. He constructed a house at the center of Olana, his 250-acre property in New York’s Hudson Valley, that manipulated space and daylight as artistic materials. With house building, Church moved into an immersive, three-dimensional format, producing some of his most experimental work. Rosenbaum’s study treats his first-floor interiors as a deliberate composition, of a piece with his two-dimensional oeuvre, and specifically argues for Church’s design as an aesthetic culmination of his longstanding interest—across media—in issues of perception and proprioception. Julia B. Rosenbaum is a professor of art history and visual culture and chair of the Art History and Visual Culture Program at Bard College.
 

Bard alum Hazel Gurland-Pooler’s film Storming Caesar’s Palace will receive a grant award of between $10,000 and $25,000 from Firelight Media’s Impact Campaign Fund. The Fund supports the creation of audience engagement and impact campaigns for nonfiction film projects by and for communities of color in the United States. Storming Caesar’s Palace is the untold story of Black women who took on presidents, the mob, and everyday Americans, challenging the pernicious myth of the “welfare queen.”

Driven by a desire to “do everything differently,” in 2017 Associate Professor of Photography Tim Davis dropped his ongoing projects and spent two years traveling to Los Angeles, resulting in I’m Looking Through You, an expansive monograph published by Aperture.

Filmmaker and S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt talks about adapting Jonathan Raymond’s novel The Half-Life into her critically acclaimed film First Cow. At Bard, where she teaches every fall, she showed her students the same films that went into her own research for First Cow; this includes Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy.