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An afternoon ride on the "Spook-a-Rama" opened Francine Prose's eyes to a tragic reality. Half a century later, Prose finds her private tragedy represented in a print by Diane Arbus.

Kinetic Painting is a comprehensive retrospective of visual artist and Bard alumna Carolee Schneemann’s early paintings and kinetic theater performances.

No to the Invasion opens up a space where artworks can subvert curatorial plots, presenting a rare opportunity to engage with the research-based art projects of the Arab world.

The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College have announced that the curator and writer Galit Eilat has been selected as the fourth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research in art and activism at Bard College.

Egyptian artist and Bard College Berlin Professor Heba Y. Amin's work looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture, and will be featured in the Istanbul Biennial this fall.

The Princess Grace Foundation is awarding over $1 million to help fund a new generation of exceptional artists, including Bard student and emerging filmmaker Sadie Schiffman-Eller '18.

The festival enters its second decade with a global lineup of artists who interrogate the boundaries of genre and geography in performances, installations, and public conversations, coming to New York September 6 — October 15.

“We need art to give us as much knowledge of the larger world...as possible.” The 40 works in No to the Invasion bring the modern Arab world into vivid focus.

“What interests me is looking at the world with intention,” says Stephen Shore of his prolific Instagram, selections of which will be featured in his MOMA retrospective opening November 19.

The Wooster Group founding member Elizabeth LeCompte directs the world premiere of A Pink Chair, a 100th-birthday tribute to acclaimed director Tadeusz Kantor, now showing at the Fisher Center through July 23rd.

In a BCG exhibition curated by Françoise Louis, the oldest extant illustrated guidebook on the Confucian classics, the Sanli tu (961 CE) is displayed alongside the depicted ritual objects.

Galerie Judin, Berlin is presenting “Years Disappear” by American artist John Kleckner (b. 1978), on view through August 19.
Kleckner’s new repertoire of form is based on an on-going series of paper collages that he started making in 2012.

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.

“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.

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.

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.