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Berrigan’s innovative rectangular poems are now available online at Bomb magazine.

CCS Bard graduate students and Director of the Graduate Program Paul O'Neill talk with artist Tania Bruguera about identifying and promoting artworks that are useful and beneficial to society.

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce a major expansion of its facilities. The $3 million expansion has been designed by New York-based architects, HWKN (Hollwich Kushner), and includes a complete interior re-build and expansion of the CCS Bard Library and Archives, in addition to doubling the number of teaching spaces and classrooms in the building. The expansion also includes a new 3,600 square foot Archives, Special Collections, Visible Storage, and Collection Teaching area designed by artist Liam Gillick, which will include a large wall drawing in colored ink wash by Sol LeWitt, Wall drawing #475, Double asymmetrical pyramids (1986), and two new wall vinyl acquisitions by Louise Lawler, all from the permanent collection. (New York Times)

Bard College presents Adrift: Photographs by Carolyn Marks Blackwood in the Weis Atrium of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts LUMA Theater from June 21 to August 17. The exhibition is open daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m and is free of charge. Rhinecliff-based photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood’s Hudson River photographs reframe segments of air, ice, and water into vivid color fields, geometric abstractions, and flattened motifs. By removing perspective and context, her unmodified images seize ephemeral moments within everyday occurrences and heighten them into foreign, unfamiliar pictures. Fourteen of these large-scale images are presented in the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center as part of Bard SummerScape 2015.

The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and the Human Rights Project at Bard College announce that Shuddhabrata Sengupta, an artist, curator, and writer based in Delhi, has been selected as the second winner of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Haring Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at CCS Bard and the Human Rights Project. Sengupta’s one-year appointment will begin in September 2015. He succeeds the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, who has held the Fellowship during its inaugural year.

Professor Fink on his communist background, photographing the elite, and his hopes for the next generation of photographers.

The exhibition is curated by CCS Bard's Tom Eccles and Beatrix Ruf, director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, from July 6 through September 20 in Arles, France.

Huma Bhabha is interviewed by Sarah Trigg about her new show and her ongoing practice. 

Teju Cole discusses the electronic proliferation of video images of homicide that make private moments publicly available. 

Maika Pollack interviews Agnes Denes who still makes large-scale, public environmental installations, the most famous of which is 1982's Wheatfield—A Confrontation. 

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein discusses this year’s edition of Frieze Talks with Tom Eccles, who organized them with Frieze magazine associate editor Christy Lange. 

Realism Materialism Art, copublished with Sternberg Press introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications on the arts. The editors are Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey, and Suhail Malik. 

Founder and Director of the Bard Graduate Center Susan Weber is setting up shop at this week’s Collective Design fair, mounting a special installation of 20th-century furniture and design from her own collection for the first time. 

Three Bard College students will premiere an online exhibition, Eleanor Roosevelt: "We Make Our Own History," sponsored by the Eleanor Roosevelt–Val-Kill Partnership and Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement. This exhibition is generated by a course taught by Cynthia Koch, who is public historian in residence at Bard. Based on research conducted at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, each student prepared an individual exhibit that contributes to the overall exhibition. The student exhibits include archival, print, and digital online resources, and during the premiere, each student will conduct a virtual curator’s tour of her or his exhibit. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 8, at 4 p.m. at the Val-Kill Playhouse, the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. 

The Coachman’s House Gallery has been transformed into an experimental work space for Bard College students who have been selected to experiment with “research-based” art-making practices at Olana. 

The Board of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces the appointment of Ms. Holly Bynoe as Chief Curator. Bynoe is a graduate of Bard College International Center of Photography where she earned an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies.

Teju Cole discusses the current work of Lee Friedlander who at the age of 80, still roams the city streets making photographs that are distinct in their “scrupulous inclusiveness.” 

An exhibition of the contraptions that women and men have endured in the name of fashion is showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street, through July 26, 2015. 

“The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” (April 3-August 30) is co-curated by Joann Moser, deputy chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Tom Wolf, a Kuniyoshi scholar and professor of art history at Bard College. 

Dia’s ongoing series of Artist Web Projects has as its next commission Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi investigating the complexities of virtual communication and the variance of meaning in transliterated language. The project launched on April 16, 2015, at www.diaart.org/maussokiishi.