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Remarkably, fine art and design innovator László Moholy-Nagy, the focus of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, had almost no training in the visual arts, writes Professor Stirton.

On the eve of her second solo exhibition at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, Greenbaum discussed the profound influence of her Bard mentor, Elizabeth Murray.

For the exhibition, Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle created How Long Is Your Past, How Far Is Your Future, a 16-foot-long, site-specific painting filled with cosmological symbols.

Every year, BMF challenges audiences to rethink composers they think they know. This year's festival presents possibly the greatest challenge yet as it takes on Giacomo Puccini.

In the late 1970s, Atwood was living in Paris and had a chance encounter with blind students, from that stemmed her award-winning series of photographs.

Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early 18th century.

Chris Claremont has written more X-Men comics than anyone else, and his work has had a major impact on the franchise and the superhero genre generally.

The Hessel Museum of Art marks its 10th anniversary with a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles entitled Invisible Adversaries. The exhibition is inspired by the eponymous 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, and is built around its themes. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. The exhibition includes more than 50 artists drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, major installations, and new commissions.

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College have announced that Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, architects and critics based in Beit Sahour, Palestinian Territories, have been selected as the third recipients of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.

Saxophonist and sound artist Matana Roberts has received a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, which carries an unrestricted grant of $275,000.

Tom Eccles, executive director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, is one of five curators behind last week's prestigious Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island.

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.

"How do we know when a photographer caters to life and not to some previous prejudice?" Cole challenges the viewer to take a critical look at the iconic photography of Steve McCurry.