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The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents the Class of 2018 Thesis Exhibition July 22–30 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, New York, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition brings together candidates’ culminating work in film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. Performances, readings, and screenings of time-based works will take place on the Bard College campus during the evenings of July 24–28.

Late founder of the NYC neon sign workshop, Let There Be Neon, artist Rudi Stern '59 is widely credited with reviving the craft of neon and revolutionizing its use in art and commerce.

Suchenski presents a lecture followed by a book signing. Projections of Memory is an exploration of innovative cinematic works that use extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination, through which currents from the other arts can interpenetrate.

Two exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 24, at the conjoined Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum at Bard College, promise unfamiliar artists and revisionist viewpoints. The larger of the two, “Picture Industry,” is a sprawling show organized by the artist Walead Beshty that spans from the late 19th century to the present.

“Luc Sante’s nonfiction book is a brilliant history of low life in the city. It was much celebrated when it came out and should still be, because it’s really a classic—valuable for anybody who wants to write books, wants to write novels, wants to know about New York City . . . " writes Colin Harrison for the Village Voice.

Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College Daniel Mendelsohn recounts the time he spent in his twenties living with an older French woman who made him a writer.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Christina De León as associate curator of U.S. Latino design. In this newly created position, supported by the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, De León is responsible for researching modern and contemporary U.S. Latino design for the collection, as well as developing exhibitions, public programs and digital content to raise awareness of Latino design.

Swartz is attempting to reveal something that is inside all of us—a dynamic, expressive, intimate feeling felt through the shape of sound.

Curated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. On View June 24-December 15, Hessel Museum of Art

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) has named curator Lauren Cornell as Director of the Graduate Program for its two-year Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies and Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art, beginning on July 1.

Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt is interviewed by Australian magazine FilmInk in anticipation of her retrospective program, Certain Women: Kelly Reichardt’s America.

Bard's MFA Program is named among the 25 Best MFA Programs by College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, in its recently published 2017 rankings.

The Fire Next Time has been republished by Taschen in a new edition that pairs James Baldwin's text with images by the civil rights–era photographer Steve Schapiro.

Elisabeth Gambino, visual arts faculty at Bard High School Early College Baltimore, has been selected as a Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 15 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, with twelve individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with three exhibitions curated from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Bard College Collection, and the CCS Bard Library and Archives. The students have organized these exhibition and projects as part of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. The exhibitions open on Sunday, April 9, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and are on view through Sunday, May 28.

Live Arts Bard is pleased to announce the complete schedule for WE’RE WATCHING, the first major survey of performances by contemporary American artists exploring surveillance and its impact on our identities, featuring new works by Big Art Group; Annie Dorsen; Hasan Elahi; Michelle Ellsworth; Homi K. Bhabha, John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, and Will Rawls; Samuel Miller; and Alexandro Segade.

Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson's sculptures take pow wow regalia in new directions in his Speak to Me exhibit at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.

Professor Larry Fink's collection Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s, to be published in April, contains never-before-seen images of Warhol and his Factory cohorts.