Art, Film, and Performance Video Series

“That could be me.” Bard alumnus Dariel Vasquez ’17, cofounder and executive director of Brothers@, never felt welcome at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, even though he grew up in nearby Harlem. His first visit to the Met was on a Bard class trip for a Northern Renaissance Art course with Teju Cole. Seeing the confidence and enthusiasm of Professor Cole, a fellow Black man, at the front of the class transformed the discomfort he felt into a sense of belonging. Vasquez was interviewed for the Met’s 150th anniversary “Met Stories” series.

Exhibition video documentation created by Andy Boyce under the direction of Brooke Nicholas and the Class of 2020 graduate students.









 

Founded in 1990, the Center for Curatorial Studies is an exhibition and research center dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present (at Bard College). The Center's original facility, designed by architect Jim Goettsch and design consultant Nada Andric, was completed in December 1991. Expanded in 2006, the Center now features the Hessel Museum of Art, a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m2) exhibition space dedicated to the Marieluise Hessel Collection of over 1,700 works of contemporary art. 

An incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock. Cleo Keahna recounts his experiences entering, being at, and leaving the camp and the difficulties and the reluctance in looking back with a clear and critical eye. Terry Running Wild describes what his camp is like, and what he hopes it will become.

Accolades Continue for Bard Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow with New York Film Critics Circle and Associated Press Naming the Film Best Picture of 2020. “The film critics, assembling virtually, gave its top award to First Cow, a delicate tale of friendship and capitalism in mid-1800s Oregon Territory,” writes AP of the new film by Kelly Reichardt, S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence at Bard. “Reichardt’s film, released in theaters in March just days before the onset of COVID-19 forced cinemas to close nationwide, hasn’t been widely seen but remains one of the year’s most critically acclaimed films.” 
 

“New York–based outfit Grasshopper Film has acquired North American rights to Ephraim Asili’s debut feature, The Inheritance, following its premiere at Toronto and screening at the New York Film Festival,” writes Variety. “A Pennsylvania-born filmmaker, Asili has been exploring different facets of the African diaspora for nearly a decade, and The Inheritance is based on his own experiences in a Black liberationist group.” Ephraim Asili is assistant professor of film and electronic arts at Bard.

“Also to be admired is the evocative period cinematography by Lyle Vincent—you can practically feel the dust smart in your eyes—and the sure-handed direction by Joris-Peyrafitte, all the more noteworthy in that it’s only his second feature and he’s still in his 20s,” writes AP’s Jocelyn Noveck.

Blanca Lista ’01 has won the EMMY for Outstanding Children's Program as co-executive producer on Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance for Netflix. “Graduation from Bard College in Film Studies was a privilege,” Lista says, “and it shaped me to be the producer I am today.”