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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. 

Frieze Talks is a daily program of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions. This year’s program is curated by Tom Eccles and Christy Lange, the associate editor of Frieze, Berlin. 

Bartholomew Ryan ‘09, who earned a master’s degree in contemporary art from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will be the new Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum. 

This spring Triangle invites you to visit us at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, Suites 318 + 350 to meet artists-in-residence. View works-in-progress and engage directly with the artists whose projects span drawing, installation, painting, pedagogy, performance, photography, sculpture, video and more. 

 Lucas Blalock, who received his bachelor's degree from Bard College in 2002, has a solo exhibition in Brussels.

Artist Peggy Ahwesh’s City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square’s signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.

Cole considers approaches to conflict photography and asks, "What, then, are we to do with a thrilling photograph that is at the same time an image of pain?"