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Each semester the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) hosts a program of lectures by leading artists, curators, art historians, and critics, situating the school and museum’s concerns within the larger context of contemporary art production and discourse. Lectures are open to students and faculty, as well as to the general public, and will also be documented through video and/or audio recordings, which will reside in the CCS Bard Library and Archives.
Spring 2019 speaker series schedule (full biographies available online):
February 20: Julia Bryan-Wilson, Doris and Clarence Malo Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Berkeley, and Jeannine Tang, Faculty and Senior Academic Advisor at CCS Bard, in conversation with Sharon Hayes, artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, PennDesign, at the University of Pennsylvania
March 6: The Brant Foundation Lecture in Contemporary Art - Dr. Kellie Jones, Professor in Art History and Archaeology and a Faculty Fellow with the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. This lecture will take place at Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center, Bard College.
March 11: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, artist
This lecture is co-hosted with the Africana Studies program at Bard College.
March 13: Ileana Ramírez, Director of Programs at Fundación Cisneros in Caracas and Founder of Tráfico Visual
April 24: Tom Holert, writer, curator, artist, and co-founder of the Harun Farocki Institut (HaFI)
May 1: Raúl de Nieves, artist
May 16: Margo Machida, Professor Emerita of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut
The Speaker Series at CCS Bard is free and open to the public. All lectures take place at CCS Bard (unless otherwise noted) from 5–7pm.
Applications are now being accepted for our Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies program.
Admissions deadline: February 1, 2019
About the Graduate Program at CCS Bard
The graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is an intensive, two-year course of study in the history of contemporary art, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of contemporary art since the 1960s. The program is broadly interdisciplinary and provides practical training and experience within a museum setting. Its international faculty includes curators and other museum professionals, scholars in the humanities and social sciences, artists, and critics.
The curriculum is specifically designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and technical tasks of curating exhibitions and projects around contemporary art, particularly within the complex social and cultural situations of present-day arts institutions, as well as focusing intensively on interpretive and critical writing. The graduate program is uniquely positioned within the larger Center’s tripartite resources, which include the CCS Bard Library, Archives, and the Hessel Museum of Art, with its rich permanent collection.
An overview of the program is available on the CCS Bard here.
