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Life, death, colonialism, and cultural blending ... Professor Susan Aberth talks about the Dia de los Muertos tradition in Mexico.

Opus 40, the 6 1/2 acre outdoor sculpture created by Bard alumnus and faculty member Harvey Fite, has been named to the prestigious 2014 list of endangered landscapes by The Cultural Landscape Foundation.

Bard MFA sculpture faculty Nancy Shaver is the first-ever recipient of the Art as Media Award presented by the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) as part of the Exceptional Merit Media Awards (EMMAs). The EMMAs were created by the NWPC in 1986 to honor and reward journalists and media outlets in radio, television, print and the Internet that inform and educate the public about critical issues that impact women’s lives. The 2014 EMMAs were presented on the evening of October 27 at The Metropolitan Club of New York City. Previous recipients include Ellen Goodman, Cokie Roberts, Barbara Ehrenreich and Diane Sawyer. Cochairs for this year’s awards were Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Nancy Shaver's work has been shown extensively in the United States and abroad in both solo and group exhibitions. She has also been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents two new exhibitions on view from November 6 to December 19. Spectres is an ongoing project of Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen, which revisits one of the most shameful events of European colonial history: the abduction, torture, and execution of Patrice Lumumba, the first elected Prime Minister of independent Congo. Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán is a multilayered exhibition and architectural intervention curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason as the culmination of a three-year curatorial fellowship at CCS Bard supported by the Jumex Foundation. Organized as part of an international curatorial conference to be held at CCS Bard from November 6 to 9, Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán takes its starting point from the narrative in Robert Smithson’s famous Hotel Palenque (1969-72), a slide projection taken from a lecture originally delivered by the artist at the University of Utah. Learn more about Spectres and Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán.

"For 'Events Ashore,' Lê utilized color for the first time, photographing American military installations, training expeditions, and research missions in more than twenty countries ..."

Professor Buruma considers Chewing Gum and Chocolate: Photographs by Shomei Tomatsu in light of Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo's vow to “take back Japan.”

The Metropolitan Opera's production of The Death of Klinghoffer has been met with public protest amid allegations of anti-Semitism. Professor Mead considers it from another angle.

CCS Bard faculty and students will give public presentations of their research at the home and studio of artist Donald Judd in New York City.

Stunning photography by Laura Steele and Pete Mauney '93 MFA '00 appears in issue 10.

This major international symposium, entitled The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum, will take place at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, November 6–9, 2014. Given the extraordinary expansion of curatorial research and its surrounding debates, the focus of this international conference, organized collaboratively by four of the world’s most prominent curatorial programs, asks not “what is next” but rather the more urgent and durable question of “what futures?”

This new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center illuminates the city's rich cultural and economic history through a collection of woodcuts, aquatints, lithographs and photographs.

In 1965, as an upcoming, 18-year-old photographer in New York City, Stephen Shore demystified Andy Warhol's Factory with his unassuming black-and-white images.

From performing in a country band at Bard to acting and creating a film of her own, Lola Kirke '12 is making her way as an artist.

Bard MFA photography faculty Mark Alice Durant interviews MFA writing faculty David Levi Strauss on art, writing, and politics.

Los Angeles-based painter Mary Weatherford MFA '06 has won the Artists' Legacy Foundation 2014 Artist Award and will receive a $25,000 cash prize.

Groundbreaking graphic illustrator Barbara Nessim's work will be showcased in a large retrospective at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.

Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk begins her work in Annandale this week as the inaugural Keith Haring Fellow in Art and Activism.

Bard MFA alumna Corrine Fitzpatrick writes an in-depth article on the intense immersion experience of studying in Bard's MFA program.

Stephen Shore talks about his new retrospective in Madrid, his legacy, and what he taught and learned working with young artists at Bard.

Professor Suchenski talks about “Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien,” an exhibition coordinated through Bard's Center for Moving Image Arts and touring internationally.