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CENTER FOR<br />
CURATORIAL<br />
STUDIES<br />
Master of Arts Program in Curatorial Studies Bard College 2007–2008
Installation view of<br />
IAMNOWHERE,<br />
curated by<br />
Erica Hope Fisher.<br />
May 7, 2006, opening<br />
reception of graduate<br />
thesis exhibitions at<br />
<strong>CCS</strong> BARD.<br />
COVER<br />
Thomas Struth,<br />
Audience 2<br />
(Galleria Dell’ Accademia),<br />
Florenz, 2004,<br />
Marieluise Hessel Collection.<br />
©Thomas Struth 2006<br />
2 BARD COLLEGE<br />
3 CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES<br />
Hessel Museum of Art 3<br />
The Collection 4<br />
Exhibition Program 5<br />
Library and Archive 7<br />
8 THE GRADUATE PROGRAM<br />
Master of Arts Program 8<br />
Curriculum 9<br />
Master’s Degree Requirements 10<br />
Two-Year Academic Schedule 10<br />
Required Courses 12<br />
Electives 14<br />
Summer Internship 15<br />
Master’s Degree Project 15<br />
Grading and Academic Standing 16<br />
18 FACULTY<br />
25 ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS<br />
Research Programs 25<br />
Lecture Series and Public Programs 26<br />
28 APPLICANT INFORMATION<br />
Admission 28<br />
Tuition and Fees 29<br />
Financial Aid 30<br />
Medical Records and Health Insurance 31<br />
Accommodations and Meal Plans 31<br />
Accreditation 31<br />
32 BARD GRADUATE PROGRAMS<br />
34 BOARDS AND ADMINISTRATION<br />
35 TRAVEL TO BARD<br />
36 CALENDAR<br />
36 NOTES<br />
APPLI<strong>CAT</strong>ION FORMS
BARD COLLEGE<br />
Top row: (left to right)<br />
The Gabrielle H. Reem and<br />
Herbert J. Kayden Center for<br />
Science and Computation,<br />
The Levy Economics Institute,<br />
rugby field<br />
Bottom row: (left to right)<br />
Village Dorms,<br />
The Richard B. Fisher Center for<br />
the Performing Arts,<br />
Stevenson Library<br />
Founded in 1860, Bard College is a leader in the field of liberal arts and sciences, with exceptional<br />
strengths in the studio and performing arts. Offering outstanding academic opportunities and small group<br />
learning experiences, Bard has distinguished itself as one of the most innovative liberal arts programs in the<br />
country. Bard’s 540-acre campus is situated in the beautiful and historic Hudson River Valley, approximately<br />
90 miles north of New York City, and adjacent to 1,400 acres of nature preserve and estuarine sanctuary.<br />
The Hudson River borders the campus to the west; across the river lie the Catskill Mountains. Walking trails<br />
crisscross the campus through wooded areas, along the Saw Kill stream, and down to the river. The region<br />
is known for its rich contribution to early American history, literature, and art, and to contemporary culture.<br />
The campus contains more than 70 buildings of varied architectural styles, from 19th-century stone houses<br />
and riverfront mansions to structures designed by noted contemporary architects. Bard resources and<br />
campus services include the Academic Resources Center; Career Development Office; a campus center<br />
with a bookstore, post office, café, and cinema; a computer center and computer laboratories; four libraries<br />
(Charles P. Stevenson Library, The Levy Economics Institute Collection, the Center for Curatorial Studies<br />
Library, and, in New York City, the library of the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts,<br />
Design, and Culture); the Stevenson Gymnasium, which features a 6-lane, 25-yard swimming pool, a fitness<br />
center, and squash courts; soccer and rugby fields and tennis courts; the Frank Gehry–designed Fisher<br />
Center for the Performing Arts; and the <strong>CCS</strong> galleries and Hessel Museum of Art.<br />
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CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES<br />
View of the museum atrium from<br />
inside the <strong>CCS</strong> gallery<br />
The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture is an exhibition and research center<br />
dedicated to the study of art and exhibition practices from the 1960s to the present day. Cofounded in<br />
1990 by the collectors Marieluise Hessel and Richard Black, the Center initiated its graduate program<br />
in curatorial studies in 1994. Since its inception, the program has awarded the M.A. degree to more than<br />
one hundred students. The Center’s original 38,000-square-foot facility, designed by architect Jim Goettsch<br />
and design consultant Nada Andric, was completed in December 1991. It includes 9,500 square feet of<br />
exhibition galleries, advanced collection storage facilities, classrooms, a library and archive, and offices for<br />
faculty, staff, and visiting curators and scholars. Expanded and completely renovated in 2006, the Center<br />
now includes a student lounge, where <strong>CCS</strong> graduate students can meet informally to discuss exhibitions<br />
and class projects.<br />
HESSEL MUSEUM OF ART<br />
On November 12, 2006, the Center for Curatorial Studies inaugurates the Hessel Museum of Art, a new<br />
17,000-square-foot building dedicated to the Marieluise Hessel Collection of more than 1,700 contemporary<br />
works. Designed by Jim Goettsch, architect of the original <strong>CCS</strong>, the new museum was conceived specifically<br />
with the Hessel Collection in mind, and has been scaled and organized so that approximately 10 to 15<br />
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percent of the collection can be shown at any one time. The Hessel Museum will provide an educational<br />
venue for Bard students as well as the wider public, and a place to test out the possibilities for exhibitionmaking<br />
utilizing the remarkable resources of the collection as a whole. Tom Eccles, <strong>CCS</strong> executive director,<br />
will work closely with guest curators and invited artists to organize exhibitions and art projects for the Hessel<br />
Museum. These exhibitions will complement the extensive exhibitions curated for the existing <strong>CCS</strong> galleries.<br />
Wrestle, the Museum’s inaugural exhibition, opens on November 12 and remains on view through the<br />
spring of 2007. Tom Eccles and Trevor Smith, independent curator in New York City, curate the show.<br />
Wrestle offers a compelling overview of the Hessel Collection, with a focus on works that challenge our<br />
notions of self and others, offering surprising connections in form and content between works from diverse<br />
artistic and social positions. The exhibition features more than 200 works from the Collection, including<br />
From the Marieluise Hessel<br />
Collection, left to right:<br />
Tom Friedman<br />
Untitled (plastic), 2002<br />
Pipilotti Rist<br />
Extremities (smooth, smooth)<br />
(video still)<br />
Gabriel Orozco<br />
Carta Blanca, 1999<br />
Cans, labels, and sand<br />
works by Martin Creed, Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Nauman,<br />
Richard Prince, Pipilotti Rist, and Cindy Sherman. A major, innovative catalogue will document the<br />
exhibition.<br />
The new Hessel Museum is part of a $10-million development that has been primarily funded by Ms. Hessel,<br />
with additional support from her husband, Edwin Artzt. Robert and Melissa Soros and Laura-Lee Woods<br />
provided part of the funding for the renovation and expansion of the existing <strong>CCS</strong> library, archive, classroom<br />
space, and student lounge.<br />
THE COLLECTION<br />
The foundation of the Center’s permanent collection is the Marieluise Hessel Collection of 1,780 paintings,<br />
sculptures, photographs, works on paper, artists’ books, videos, and video installations from the mid-1960s<br />
to the present. The Collection is international in scope, with works by more than 900 artists, including Carl<br />
Andre, Janine Antoni, Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Chu, Francesco Clemente, William Copley,<br />
Dan Flavin, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Kushner,<br />
Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter,<br />
Pipilotti Rist, Doris Salcedo, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, and<br />
Christopher Wool, as well as major works from movements such as Arte Povera, Pattern and Decoration<br />
(P&D), Minimalism, and Transavantguardia. Works are continually acquired for the collection. Recent additions<br />
include works by Robert Gober, Thomas Hirschhorn, Roni Horn, Rosemarie Trockel, and Franz West,<br />
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as well as two major new commissions for the Hessel Museum—a walkway designed by Lawrence Weiner<br />
that incorporates his signature text works, and a large-scale installation by Korean-born artist Do-Ho Suh,<br />
with thousands of diminutive figures buried below the glass floor of the Hessel Museum’s entrance gallery.<br />
The permanent collection also has works that have been given to the Center by Eileen and Michael Cohen,<br />
Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Asher Edelman, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Robert Gober, Joan and<br />
Gerald Kimmelman, Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton, Toni and Martin Sosnoff, and Thea Westreich<br />
and Ethan Wagner. Many of the gifts are works from the 1990s by young and mid-career artists.<br />
This collection also provides the basis for faculty research and teaching. <strong>CCS</strong> faculty members Rhea<br />
Anastas and Michael Brenson are currently editing Witness to Her Art, a major anthology of writings on<br />
important exhibitions by Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, Rosemarie Trockel, Cady Noland, and other women<br />
artists whose works are well represented in the collection. Witness to Her Art will be launched at the<br />
Hessel Museum inauguration in November.<br />
EXHIBITION PROGRAM<br />
The principal aim of the <strong>CCS</strong> exhibition program is to encourage and explore experimental approaches to<br />
the presentation of contemporary visual arts, particularly approaches that reflect the Center’s commitment<br />
to the multidisciplinary study of art and culture. Exhibitions are organized and presented on a regular basis<br />
in the <strong>CCS</strong> galleries by the director of the Center, and by Center faculty and visiting curators and scholars,<br />
who are invited to discuss their projects with students and the public in gallery walk-throughs and the<br />
Center’s lecture series. Beginning in the fall of 2006, the <strong>CCS</strong> exhibition program will also include<br />
exhibitions and projects in the new Hessel Museum of Art, as well as a new series of artists’ projects and<br />
commissions for the campus grounds that extend into the wider community.<br />
Installation view of thesis exhibition<br />
Draw a straight line and follow it,<br />
curated by Anna Gray. Detail of<br />
Peter Coffin’s version of Butterfly<br />
Piece Composition No. 5, 2006.<br />
Thesis exhibition critique<br />
Since 1994 the Center for Curatorial Studies has presented several exhibitions exploring issues of contemporary<br />
museology, including Exhibited (1994), Sniper’s Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard<br />
(1995), a/drift (1996), and Odradek (1998); and exhibitions highlighting aspects of the collection, such<br />
as Mirror Image; The Arch of Desire: Women in the Marieluise Hessel Collection; Re(f)use; and Text,<br />
Texture, Touch (all 2002). The Center has also presented exhibitions of work by the Cuban photographer<br />
Arturo Cuenca (1995) and the Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov (1996); retrospective exhibitions of<br />
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the Brazilian sculptor Tunga (1997), and the American artist Dave Muller (2002); a series of exhibitions of<br />
work by emerging artists, including the first museum exhibitions of Maciej Toporowicz (1994), Paul Myoda<br />
(1995), Kara Walker (1995), and David Shrigley (2001); and special projects by Tony Feher (2001) and<br />
Sarah Sze (2001). In the summer of 2003, the Center presented Sodium Dreams, an exhibition about<br />
cinema and urban experience, and recent works by Slater Bradley and Aïda Ruilova; in the fall of 2003, it<br />
presented a Christian Marclay retrospective organized by the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.<br />
From 1994 until 1997, the <strong>CCS</strong> museum was directed by Vasif Kortun, whose pioneering efforts to build<br />
a program that was both innovative and international in scope provided the foundation for the Center’s<br />
exhibition program today. Under his leadership, the Center initiated a series of projects and exhibitions<br />
with emerging international artists and guest curators, including artists Nedko Solakov, Luchezar Boyadjiev,<br />
Left and middle:<br />
Uncertain States of America,<br />
curated by Daniel Birnbaum,<br />
Hans Ulrich Obrist, and<br />
Gunnar Kvaran<br />
and Maciej Toporowicz, and curators Katalin Neray, Ivo Mesquita, and Ralph Rugoff. In 1998, Amada Cruz<br />
became director of the <strong>CCS</strong> Museum. Between 1999 and 2003, she organized major solo exhibitions<br />
of artists such as Takashi Murakami, Ilya Kabakov, Isaac Julien, and David Shrigley. Cruz also augmented<br />
the Center’s publication program, producing an original catalogue to accompany all major exhibitions<br />
presented at <strong>CCS</strong> during her tenure.<br />
<strong>CCS</strong> Bard Library with view of<br />
survey of Contemporary<br />
Independent Cultural and Arts<br />
Publications, curated by<br />
graduate student<br />
Max Hernández Calvo<br />
Most recently, <strong>CCS</strong> has collaborated with three of Europe’s leading curators—Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar<br />
Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist—on Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millennium.<br />
First shown at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo in October 2005, this remarkably<br />
succinct compilation of recent evolutions in painting, sculpture, and video provides an astute, yet<br />
contentious, assessment of the current state of American art and culture.<br />
In 2005, a new exhibition fund was established by Audrey Irmas, a Los Angeles–based collector and<br />
<strong>CCS</strong> board member. This fund provides a foundation of support for the Center’s exhibition program as well<br />
as artists’ commissions and other educational and public activities at the Center.<br />
A special fund for student-curated exhibitions at <strong>CCS</strong> has been instituted by <strong>CCS</strong> board member Martin<br />
Eisenberg. Last fall, the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund provided lead support for<br />
Reshuffle: Notions of an Itinerant Museum, an exhibition-as-publication curated by the first-year graduate<br />
students at the Center for Curatorial Studies.<br />
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LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE<br />
The <strong>CCS</strong> library contains just under 19,000 books and exhibition catalogues, an archive of more than<br />
1,600 artist and subject files documenting the contemporary visual arts from the mid-1960s to the present,<br />
and a slide collection. The library has particularly strong collections of exhibition catalogues and monographs<br />
on individual artists, including catalogues and monographs documenting the work of artists represented in<br />
the Marieluise Hessel Collection. It also has special collections of catalogues documenting the exhibition<br />
history of important galleries and museums and major international exhibitions of contemporary art. The<br />
library collections are continually being expanded.<br />
Installation view of works by<br />
Frank Benson, Hannah Greely,<br />
and Karl Haendel<br />
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Paul Chan<br />
2nd Light, 2005<br />
Digital animation installation<br />
THE GRADUATE PROGRAM<br />
MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM<br />
The graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College provides practical training and<br />
experience in a museum setting and an intensive course of study in the history of the contemporary visual<br />
arts, the institutions and practices of exhibition, and the theory and criticism of the visual arts in the modern<br />
period. The program is broadly interdisciplinary. Its faculty includes curators and other museum professionals,<br />
scholars in the humanities and social sciences, artists, and critics. The curriculum is specifically<br />
designed to deepen students’ understanding of the intellectual and practical tasks of curating exhibitions<br />
of contemporary art, particularly in the complex social and cultural situations of present-day urban arts<br />
institutions, and to help students improve their interpretive and critical writing. While the Center’s graduate<br />
program is organized with a view to the needs of curators and critics of contemporary art, its explorations<br />
of exhibition practice and the social and cultural contexts of exhibiting institutions address significant<br />
aspects of museum work generally. The program can offer an alternative to traditional museum studies for<br />
students interested in periods of art other than the contemporary or areas of museum or arts administration<br />
other than curating.<br />
The Center initiated its graduate program in curatorial studies in the fall of 1994. To date, 107 students<br />
have been awarded the M.A. degree. More than a hundred curators, critics, scholars, artists, and other arts<br />
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professionals have taught seminars or lectured in practicums and courses since the program began. The<br />
Center also sponsors exhibitions, lectures and conferences, and research in the contemporary visual arts,<br />
society, and culture. The purposes of the Center’s public and research programs are to create new forums<br />
for the discussion of important issues in the contemporary arts and culture and to encourage new scholarship<br />
and exhibition initiatives that can contribute to the development of the graduate curriculum.<br />
CURRICULUM<br />
The intensive, two-year graduate program at the Center assumes that a curator or critic of the contemporary<br />
visual arts must be acquainted with the recent history of the arts, the social and cultural conditions of<br />
their production, and the critical and theoretical conceptions that inform their reception. It further assumes<br />
that study of the arts in the context of contemporary society and culture requires familiarity with a wide<br />
range of thought in the humanities and social sciences, including social and cultural history, philosophy,<br />
sociology, and economics. Finally, the program assumes that thoughtful exhibition and criticism of contemporary<br />
art require both a trained sensitivity to the aesthetic demands of art and study of the institutions and<br />
practices of exhibition.<br />
Students benefit from<br />
small classes and group<br />
critiques<br />
Course offerings in the graduate program include seminars in art history, in theory and criticism, and on<br />
issues of curatorial and critical practice; practicums taught by curators, critics, and other arts professionals;<br />
and independent research courses and writing tutorials. Students are required to complete an internship<br />
with an artist, curator, or other arts professional between their first and second years; they also have opportunities<br />
in practicums and seminars to work with curators, scholars, and critics in the preparation of exhibitions<br />
and publications.<br />
Upon satisfactory completion of course work and other requirements of the graduate program, students are<br />
awarded the degree of master of arts in curatorial studies.<br />
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MASTER’S DEGREE REQUIREMENTS<br />
Candidacy for the master’s degree requires satisfactory completion of a total of 40 course credits:<br />
— 24 credits in 10 required courses<br />
(four seminars, four practicums, and two independent research courses or writing tutorials)<br />
— 10 credits in five elective courses<br />
— 6 credits in a required summer internship<br />
The final master’s degree project does not itself carry any course credit.<br />
First-year seminar<br />
Second-year students<br />
take a break<br />
TWO-YEAR ACADEMIC SCHEDULE<br />
The typical course schedule for a student in the graduate program is outlined below. All required seminars,<br />
proseminars, and practicums must be taken in the semesters indicated. Practicums meet for two and a half<br />
or three hours each week; other courses typically meet for two and a half hours each week, although some<br />
may have additional discussion sessions. Courses are held on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at the<br />
Center and on Thursdays at museums, artists’ studios, and other locations, often in New York City. Fridays<br />
are left free of regularly scheduled courses so that students can view current exhibitions and visit museums<br />
in New York City and elsewhere in the area.<br />
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First Year<br />
Semester I (Fall Term)<br />
Proseminar: Studies in Contemporary Art (2 credits)<br />
Seminar: Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art I (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies I (3 credits)<br />
Elective Course (2 credits)<br />
Semester II (Spring Term)<br />
Proseminar: Studies in the History and Practices of Exhibition (2 credits)<br />
Seminar: Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art II (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies II (3 credits)<br />
Elective Course (2 credits)<br />
Summer Internship (6 credits)<br />
Exhibition critique<br />
Thesis exhibition<br />
installation<br />
Second Year<br />
Semester III (Fall Term)<br />
Independent Research: Master’s Degree Project (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies III (3 credits)<br />
Elective Course (2 credits)<br />
Elective Course (2 credits) [may be taken in the fall or spring term]<br />
Semester IV (Spring Term)<br />
Independent Research: Exhibition Preparation (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies IV (3 credits)<br />
Elective Course (2 credits)<br />
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REQUIRED COURSES<br />
First Year<br />
Semester I<br />
Proseminar: Studies in Contemporary Art<br />
A proseminar in the history of the contemporary visual arts. Particular attention is given to the concepts<br />
and methodology of art historical study and their application to the contemporary visual arts. (2 credits)<br />
Seminar: Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art I<br />
A seminar in the historical and philosophical foundations of contemporary criticism and theory. Studies of<br />
classical, medieval, Renaissance, and 18th- and 19th-century texts in aesthetic theory, including texts that<br />
explore relations between the arts and society. The purpose of the seminar is to introduce students to past<br />
discussions of the arts that continue to inform contemporary critical conceptions and theory. (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies I<br />
The first-semester practicum introduces students to the basic principles of collections care and management<br />
and to the intellectual and practical tasks of preparing an exhibition. The practicum includes sessions with<br />
Center staff and other arts professionals on art handling, registration, and condition reporting; preparing<br />
works of art for transit; environmental standards for collections storage and exhibition; and the professional<br />
responsibilities of the curator. Students explore issues relating to the planning, design, and installation of<br />
exhibitions by preparing exhibitions from the Center’s permanent collection with guest curators. (3 credits)<br />
Stlll life of materials for<br />
thesis exhibition installation<br />
Semester II<br />
Proseminar: Studies in the History and Practices of Exhibition<br />
A proseminar in the history of the institutions and practices of exhibition. The proseminar surveys the history<br />
of museums, galleries, and other exhibition spaces and explores how social and cultural conditions, institutional<br />
requirements, and aesthetic conceptions have shaped past and current exhibition practices. The specific<br />
emphases of the proseminar each year depend on the background and interests of the instructor. As<br />
part of the proseminar, students conduct intensive studies of past or current exhibitions or permanent<br />
museum installations. (2 credits)<br />
Seminar: Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art II<br />
A continuation of the first-semester seminar in criticism and theory. The emphasis in the second semester<br />
is on issues in 19th- and 20th-century criticism and theory and on recent studies of the social, cultural, and<br />
institutional contexts of the contemporary visual arts. (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies II<br />
The second-semester practicum is an intensive workshop in critical and interpretive writing, taught each<br />
year by one or more practicing critics. Through group discussions of past and recent critical writing and<br />
frequent writing assignments, the practicum develops students’ abilities to write critically about works of<br />
visual art and their various historical, social, cultural, and theoretical contexts. (3 credits)<br />
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Second Year<br />
Semester III<br />
Independent Research: Master’s Degree Project<br />
Independent individual research, supervised by a member of the faculty, leading to a draft of the catalogue<br />
for the final master’s degree project. (2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies III<br />
The third-semester practicum includes sessions on educational programming, public relations, the<br />
architecture of museums and galleries, and the design of exhibitions. Instructors include Center faculty<br />
and invited education curators, architects, exhibition designers, and other arts professionals. These studies<br />
are intended to broaden students’ consideration of the possibilities of public programming and exhibition<br />
design and to address questions of the relation of an exhibition’s design to its subject and intended<br />
audience. At the end of the semester, students present and discuss their final master’s degree projects<br />
(see section on the master’s degree project). (3 credits)<br />
Installation view of thesis exhibition<br />
Hot Topic, curated by Amy Mackie<br />
Installation of thesis exhibition<br />
Welcome to the Limelight,<br />
curated by Natalie Woyzbun<br />
Semester IV<br />
Independent Research: Exhibition Preparation<br />
Final design, preparation, and installation of the exhibition for the master’s degree project. This independent<br />
research course, like the third-semester course, involves periodic consultations with a faculty member.<br />
(2 credits)<br />
Practicum: Curatorial Studies IV<br />
Review and discussion of final exhibition projects. Each student presents and discusses his or her final<br />
master’s degree project, addressing the choice of artworks for exhibition and the interpretive concerns and<br />
strategies of the exhibition and catalogue. These presentations are organized around critiques of the<br />
student exhibitions by visiting curators and scholars. (3 credits)<br />
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ELECTIVES<br />
Particular attention is given in elective courses to developing interdisciplinary perspectives on the visual<br />
arts and their exhibition. Specialized courses taught by visiting curators and scholars offer studies of the<br />
contemporary arts and exhibition practices in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Electives are divided<br />
into two distribution areas, described below. Students must complete a total of five elective courses,<br />
including at least two in each distribution area. Each course carries 2 credits.<br />
Area I<br />
Studies in Contemporary Art<br />
Seminars in the history of the contemporary arts, including seminars on individual artists and particular<br />
developments or “movements” in contemporary art, and specialized seminars in criticism and theory.<br />
The following are some of the seminars offered over the past five years:<br />
Student research facilities<br />
include the <strong>CCS</strong> Library and<br />
the Stevenson Libraries<br />
of Bard College<br />
The Work of Art after Minimalism and Pop<br />
Exhibiting Feminism: The 1970s<br />
Public Art/Public Space<br />
Current Issues in Critical Practice<br />
Art of the Sixties: Installation Practices and Strategies<br />
The Art and Criticism of Contemporary Women Artists<br />
On the Wall of the Museum: Collections and Exhibitions<br />
The Projective Artwork in the Age of Digital Reproduction<br />
Art and Criticism of the ’80s and ’90s<br />
On Globalization: A History, Some Theories, and a Few Interpretations<br />
Politics in the Arts: Art, Criticism, and Democratic Culture<br />
Fictions of the Artist<br />
Area II<br />
Institutional and Exhibition Studies<br />
Seminars exploring the history and the social, cultural, political, and economic conditions of the institutions<br />
and practices of exhibition, including specialized studies of the history of exhibition, museum and curatorial<br />
practice, the sociology of museums and their audiences, the economics of arts institutions and of the art<br />
market, and the architecture of museums and the design of installations. The following are some of the<br />
seminars offered over the past five years:<br />
The Exhibition: Medium, Form, Genres<br />
Virtual Culture: Toward Definition<br />
The Catalogue as Site<br />
Curatorial Practice: Mapping a Territory<br />
City-Space and the Museum<br />
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP<br />
The summer internship provides students an opportunity to conduct research and gain practical experience<br />
through work with an artist, curator, or other museum or arts professional. Internships involve a minimum of<br />
three days’ work each week for eight weeks during the summer between a student’s first and second<br />
years. Internships may be based in a museum department, gallery, artist’s studio, or arts publication office<br />
and are supervised by the arts professional or artist with whom the student is working. The graduate program<br />
staff helps students find placements for their internships; some placements may be competitive.<br />
Internships should result in a substantial piece of work—for example, preparatory work for an exhibition,<br />
an analysis of a segment of a permanent collection, or a survey or catalogue of an artist’s archives. Each<br />
student is required to submit a written report upon completion of his or her internship. The internship supervisor<br />
is asked to provide a written evaluation of the student’s work. (6 credits)<br />
MASTER’S DEGREE PROJECT<br />
As the culmination of his or her study and training, each student prepares a final master’s degree project.<br />
The project is supervised by a review committee, made up of the student’s faculty adviser and two additional<br />
faculty members. On occasion, a scholar, critic, or arts professional who is not on the Center faculty<br />
may serve on a student’s project review committee. Students consult with members of their project review<br />
committee at each stage of their final master’s degree project.<br />
Each student organizes an exhibition and prepares an interpretive catalogue as a final master’s degree project.<br />
The exhibition, which is presented at the Center in the fourth semester of study, may include works<br />
from the Center’s collection or works that the student has obtained on loan from artists’ studios, collectors,<br />
galleries, or other institutions. The final project is planned and completed in three stages.<br />
Brian Sholis, a managing editor at<br />
Artforum.com, and Christina Lei<br />
Rodriguez, Miami-based artist<br />
Graduate student Zeljka Himbele<br />
and Marcia Acita, assistant director<br />
of the museum, readying a piece<br />
for installation<br />
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Stage I, Exhibition Proposal<br />
A detailed exhibition proposal must be presented to the Graduate Committee in the third semester of<br />
study. The proposal must describe the exhibition’s subject and its intellectual and aesthetic intentions and<br />
must include a checklist of works that the student wishes to borrow from the Center’s collection or other<br />
sources. The proposal must also be accompanied by a budget and an installation plan, which are reviewed<br />
and approved by the Center’s registrar. Students present brief prospectuses for their final exhibition projects<br />
to the Graduate Committee in the second semester of study.<br />
Stage II, Catalogue Essay Draft<br />
A preliminary draft, 20 to 25 pages in length, of the catalogue essay for the proposed exhibition must be<br />
submitted to the student’s project review committee at the beginning of the fourth semester of study.<br />
Installation view of thesis exhibition<br />
Tales of Place,<br />
curated by Zeljka Himbele<br />
Performance of<br />
Echoplex (reissue)<br />
by Mika Tajima<br />
at the opening of<br />
Uncertain States of America,<br />
June 24, 2006<br />
The draft must include an exhibition checklist and a bibliography of relevant literature, including any works<br />
cited in the essay.<br />
Stage III, Final Project<br />
The final project consists of the completed exhibition, presented during the fourth semester of study, and its<br />
interpretive catalogue. The catalogue must include a substantive essay, 20 to 30 pages in length, exploring<br />
the subject of the exhibition; biographical information about the artist or artists represented; a checklist of<br />
works exhibited; and a bibliography. The interpretive catalogue is submitted as a master’s degree thesis in<br />
the middle of the fourth semester of study.<br />
GRADING AND ACADEMIC STANDING<br />
All seminars, proseminars, and elective courses are graded on the following scale:<br />
A Excellent 4.0<br />
B Very good 3.0<br />
C Competent 2.0<br />
D Minimally acceptable 1.0<br />
F Unacceptable 0.0<br />
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The following plus and minus grades may also be given: A- (3.7), B+ (3.3), B- (2.7), C+ (2.3), and C- (1.7).<br />
Student participation in practicums and independent research courses is graded either Satisfactory (S) or<br />
Unsatisfactory (U). The grades of S and U have no numerical value and are not included in the calculation<br />
of a student’s grade point average (GPA).<br />
Students must maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 and must complete all their practicums and independent<br />
research courses with a grade of S to remain in good academic standing. Any student whose GPA in a<br />
semester falls below 3.0 will be placed on academic probation. Students whose GPA falls below 3.0 in<br />
two semesters in succession or who receive an unsatisfactory grade (U) in a practicum or independent<br />
research course will be asked to leave the graduate program. All decisions about academic standing are<br />
made by the Graduate Committee upon review of student grades at the completion of each semester.<br />
Internships and final master’s degree projects are not graded. Students receive written evaluations of their<br />
work in internships and of their final projects. These evaluations are included in each student’s academic<br />
record and are reviewed by the Graduate Committee in its final evaluation of a student’s candidacy for the<br />
master’s degree.<br />
Doris Salcedo<br />
Untitled, 2001<br />
Wood and concrete<br />
Marieluise Hessel Collection<br />
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Mike Bouchet<br />
Top Cruise, 2005<br />
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo<br />
FACULTY<br />
The faculty of the graduate program includes curators and other arts professionals, scholars in the humanities<br />
and social sciences, critics, and artists. Most faculty members are working professionals or hold permanent<br />
academic appointments at institutions other than Bard. The following list includes faculty teaching<br />
in the program in 2006–07 and 2007–08.<br />
Norton Batkin Director of the graduate program, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary<br />
Culture; dean of graduate studies and associate professor of philosophy and art history, Bard College.<br />
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University. Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy,<br />
Yale University (1981–88); associate professor of humanities, Scripps College (1988–90). Assistant<br />
director, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University (1982–84); director, Scripps College Humanities<br />
Institute (1988–90). Publications include Photography and Philosophy (1990); “The Museum Exposed,”<br />
in Exhibited (Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, 1994); “Conceptualizing the History of the<br />
Contemporary Museum: On Foucault and Benjamin,” Philosophical Topics (1997); and other articles<br />
and reviews in philosophical aesthetics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of psychology.<br />
Marcia Acita Assistant director of the museum, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary<br />
Culture. B.F.A., University of Colorado, Boulder; M.F.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Registrar<br />
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and exhibition coordinator, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College (1988–92); registrar (1992– ) and<br />
acting director of the museum (1997–98), Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture.<br />
Curator, Alighiero e Boetti (1998), Gabriel Orozco: Selections from the Marieluise Hessel Collection<br />
(2000), and numerous artists’ book exhibitions (1995–2000).<br />
Rhea Anastas Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. B.A. and M.A.,<br />
Columbia University; Ph.D., Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. Lecturer,<br />
Visual Arts Department, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (2001–03). Coeditor, Dan<br />
Graham: Works 1965–2000 (2001). Publications include articles and exhibition catalogues on postwar<br />
and contemporary art, criticism, and theory, including “‘Not in eulogy not in praise but in fact’: Ruth Vollmer<br />
and Others, 1966–1970,” in Ruth Vollmer 1961–1978; Thinking the Line (Hatje Cantz 2006); and “The<br />
Artist is a Currency,” with Gregg Bordowitz, Andrea Fraser, Jutta Koether, and Glenn Ligon, Grey Room 24<br />
(Summer 2006). Her lecture, Untitled by Andrea Fraser: A Short Reception History, 2002–2005, is a<br />
book in-progress. Cofounder, Orchard, New York (2005– ). Graduate Committee (2003– ).<br />
Julie Ault Artist. Visiting lecturer, critical studies program, Malmö Art Academy. Cofounder, Group Material<br />
(1979–96). Recent exhibition projects include Information (with Martin Beck), Storefront for Art and<br />
Architecture, New York (2006); Mirage (with Martin Beck), Alexander & Bonin Gallery, New York (2005);<br />
and Points of Entry, Queens College, City University of New York (2004). Exhibition designs with Martin<br />
Beck for Strangers (2003) and Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: Photography and Montage After<br />
Constructivism (2004), International Center of Photography, New York; and X-Screen: Film Installations<br />
and Actions of the 1960s and 1970s (2003), Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. Editor, Felix Gonzalez-<br />
Torres (2006) and Alternative Art New York, 1965–1985 (2002). Author Come Alive: The Spirited Art of<br />
Sister Corita Kent (2006); coauthor with Martin Beck, Critical Condition: Selected Texts in Dialogue (2003).<br />
Norton Batkin<br />
Rhea Anastas<br />
Michael Brenson<br />
Michael Brenson Independent critic. B.A., Rutgers University; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.<br />
Art critic, New York Times (1982–91). Curated exhibitions of Magdalena Abakanowicz, P.S.1 (1993);<br />
Ryoji Koie, Gallery at Takashimaya (1994); and Jonathan Silver, Sculpture Center (1995). Publications<br />
include Visionaries and Outcasts: The NEA, Congress, and the Place of the Visual Artist in America<br />
(2001); Sol LeWitt: Concrete Block Structures (2002); Acts of Engagement: Writings on Art, Criticism,<br />
and Institutions, 1993–2002 (2004); museum catalogues on Elizabeth Catlett, Mel Edwards, Alberto<br />
Giacometti, Gillian Jagger, Maya Lin, Juan Muñoz, Martin Puryear, and David Smith; and numerous other<br />
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essays on modern and contemporary sculpture, public art, art criticism, and contemporary art and its institutions.<br />
Currently working on a biography of David Smith. Graduate Committee (2006– ).<br />
Johanna Burton Faculty, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. B.A., University of<br />
Nevada, Reno; M.A., SUNY Stony Brook; Critical Studies, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent<br />
Study Program; M. Phil., New York University; Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University. Cocurator, Videodrome II<br />
(2002) and Super-ficial: The Surfaces of Architecture in a Digital Age (2003), New Museum of Contemporary<br />
Art; curator, For Presentation and Display: Some Art of the ’80s, Princeton University Art Gallery (2005).<br />
Teaching fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art (2004– ). Publications include catalogue essays on<br />
Carroll Dunham, Peter Fraser, Guyton/Walker, and Rachel Harrison, among others, and numerous reviews<br />
and articles for Artforum, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, and Time Out New York.<br />
Joshua Decter with graduate<br />
student Erica Fisher<br />
Tom Eccles (right) talking with<br />
Peter Hutton, director of the Film<br />
and Electronic Arts Program<br />
at Bard College<br />
Lynne Cooke Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York. B.A., Melbourne University; M.A., Courtauld Institute<br />
of Art; Ph.D., University of London. Lecturer, History of Art Department, University College, London<br />
(1979–89); visiting lecturer, Visual Arts Department, Syracuse University (1987), and Graduate Sculpture<br />
School, Yale University (1990, 1992, 1998); visiting graduate critic, School of the Arts, Columbia<br />
University (2001– ); adjunct professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University<br />
(2002– ). Cocurator, Aperto, Venice Biennale (1986) and Carnegie International (1991); artistic director,<br />
Biennale of Sydney (1996). Has curated exhibitions at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Whitechapel Art Gallery<br />
and Hayward Gallery, London; Third Eye Center, Glasgow; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and<br />
elsewhere. Has written widely about contemporary art in exhibition catalogues and in Artmonthly, Artscribe,<br />
Burlington Magazine, Parkett, and other art journals. Graduate Committee (1993–94, 1995– ).<br />
Joshua Decter Independent curator. B.A., SUNY Purchase; Museum and Critical Studies, Whitney<br />
Museum of American Art Independent Study Program; graduate study, Department of Cinema Studies,<br />
New York University; Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Graduate School and University Center,<br />
City University of New York. Has taught at Bennington College; Graduate School of Art, New York<br />
University; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; University of California, Los Angeles; School of Visual<br />
Arts, New York; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<br />
Program coordinator/assistant curator, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (1986–88). Cocurator,<br />
Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany (1987), and curator, (C)Overt (1988), P.S.1<br />
Contemporary Art Center. Curator, Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space (1994); Screen, Friedrich<br />
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Petzel Gallery (1996); Cathode Ray Clinic #1, apexart (1996); a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies<br />
Museum, Bard College (1996); Heaven–Private View/Public View, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art<br />
(1997); Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (1998); Transmute, Museum of<br />
Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999); Tele[visions], Kunsthalle Vienna (2001); Dark Places, Santa Monica<br />
Museum of Art (2006); Curatorial Interlocutor for Interventions, inSite05, 2003–05. Publisher and editor,<br />
Acme Journal (1991–94). Publications include catalogue essays for MAK, Vienna; Centre National d’Art<br />
Contemporain, Grenoble; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; the Carnegie International; and the São<br />
Paulo Bienal; and articles and reviews in Artforum, Flash Art, Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, Trans, and other<br />
periodicals. Organizer and moderator of numerous panel discussions: The Question of the City, Vienna Art<br />
Week, 2006; Garage Talks, inSite_05, San Diego, 2005; Polyphony of Voices, Bunkier Sztuki Center for<br />
Contemporary Art Krakow, 2002. Graduate Committee (2006– ).<br />
Tom Eccles Executive director, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. Studies at<br />
the University of Siena, University of Perugia, and University of Bologna; M.A., University of Glasgow. Tutor<br />
in moral philosophy, University of Glasgow (1989–92); lecturer, M.A. program in fine art, Glasgow School<br />
of Art (1992–93). Independent curator and arts organizer (1989–93); project manager, Project Ability and<br />
Center for Developmental Arts (1989–91), Glasgow, and Art in Partnership (1992–93), Edinburgh. Project<br />
director (1993–95), deputy director (1996–97), and director and curator (1997–2005), Public Art Fund,<br />
New York. Curatorial projects at the Public Art Fund include exhibitions and commissions of public works<br />
by Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Martin Creed, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Barbara Kruger,<br />
Mariko Mori, Vik Muniz, Pipilotti Rist, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel, and<br />
others; large-scale installations by Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami,<br />
Nam June Paik, and at Rockefeller Center; commissions of new works for Madison Square Park; sculpture<br />
installations at Doris C. Freedman Plaza; collaborations on outdoor artists’ projects with the Whitney<br />
Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Museum of Modern Art; a program of<br />
commissions for public works by emerging artists, and survey exhibitions of monumental sculpture in New<br />
York City. Founding editor, Transcript (Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, University of Dundee), and<br />
author of exhibition reviews in Art in America and other publications.<br />
Thelma Golden Executive director and chief curator, Studio Museum in Harlem. B.A., Smith College.<br />
Visual arts director, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, New York (1989–91); director and exhibition coordinator,<br />
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris (1991–93); associate curator and director of branch<br />
museums (1993–96) and curator (1996–98), Whitney Museum of American Art; special projects curator,<br />
Peter Norton Family Foundation (1998–99); deputy director for exhibitions and programs and chief curator<br />
(2000–05), executive director and chief curator (2005– ), Studio Museum in Harlem. Organized exhibitions<br />
of Romare Bearden, Jane Dickson, Jacob Lawrence, Leone & Macdonald, Suzanne McClelland, Lorna<br />
Simpson, Matthew McCaslin, Glenn Ligon, and others at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip<br />
Morris; cocurator, 1993 Biennial Exhibition; curator, Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in<br />
Contemporary American Art (1994) and Bob Thompson: A Retrospective (1998), Whitney Museum of<br />
American Art. Curator, Isaac Julien: Vagabondia (2000), Martin Puryear: The Cane Project (2000), Glenn<br />
Ligon: Stranger (2001), Material and Matter (2001), Freestyle (2001), Red, Black and Green (2001),<br />
Yinka Shonibare (2002), Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American Art<br />
(2002), Gary Simmons (2002), Aaron Siskind: Harlem Document (2003), and Harlemworld: Metropolis<br />
as Metaphor (2004), Studio Museum in Harlem. Publications include essays for Artforum, ACME, and<br />
Poliester. Graduate Committee (1993– ).<br />
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Chrissie Iles Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art. B.A., University of<br />
Bristol; postgraduate diploma in arts administration, City University, London. Visiting faculty, sculpture<br />
department, Yale University; adjunct professor, Columbia University; external examiner, curatorial course,<br />
Goldsmiths College, London. Head of exhibitions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1988–97). Curator of<br />
retrospective and survey exhibitions of Sol LeWitt, John Latham, Gary Hill, Marina Abramovic, Louise<br />
Bourgeois, and Yoko Ono; Signs of the Times: Film, Video, and Slide Installations in Britain in the 1980s<br />
(1990); and Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art (1996), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Cocurator,<br />
2004 Whitney Biennial; curator, Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977 (2001),<br />
Jack Goldstein: Films and Performance (2002), Flashing into the Shadows: The Artist’s Film after Pop<br />
and Minimalism 1966–1976 (2000), and James Lee Byars: The Perfect Silence (2004); cocurator, 2006<br />
Chrissie Iles<br />
Ivo Mesquita<br />
Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art. Author of numerous exhibition catalogue<br />
essays and articles in Artforum, Frieze, October, and Parkett.<br />
Nico Israel Associate professor of English and comparative literature, Hunter College, City University of<br />
New York. B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Yale University. Assistant professor or visiting<br />
assistant professor, New York University (1995–98), Williams College (1998–99), Columbia University<br />
(2001), Duke University (2002), Université de Paris VIII (2005), and Otis School of Art, Los Angeles<br />
(2006). Publications include Outlandish: Writing between Exile and Diaspora (2000); academic articles<br />
on Joseph Conrad, Theodor Adorno, Salman Rushdie, Wallace Stevens, modernism, and postcoloniality<br />
and globalization; several exhibition catalogue essays; and numerous articles in Artforum and Bookforum.<br />
Kay Larson Writing tutor, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture. Managing editor,<br />
Curator: The Museum Journal. Faculty, Workshop in Language and Thinking, Bard College. Regular contributor<br />
of features on art and culture to the New York Times. Art critic and feature writer for art magazines<br />
and other publications. Freelance editor. Art critic, The Real Paper, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1972–75);<br />
associate editor, ARTnews (1975–78); art critic, Village Voice (1979–80); and art critic and contributing<br />
editor, New York magazine (1980–94).<br />
Ann Lauterbach Cochair (1991– ) of writing faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; David<br />
and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature (1998– ), Bard College. B.A., University of<br />
Wisconsin-Madison; graduate study, Columbia University. Taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University,<br />
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Princeton University, Denver University, Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa; distinguished professor,<br />
City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Books include The Night<br />
Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005), Hum (2005), If in Time: Poems 1975-2000 (2001),<br />
On a Stair (1997), And for Example (1994), Clamor (1991), Before Recollection (1987), Many Times,<br />
But Then (1979). Poems and essays on visual art published in numerous journals, including Conjunctions,<br />
of which she has been a contributing editor since 1981. Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1967), Guggenheim<br />
Fellowship (1986), MacArthur Fellowship (1993).<br />
Diane Lewis Professor, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York, and principal,<br />
Diane Lewis Architects. B.Arch., Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union. Rome Prize in<br />
Architecture (1976–77), American Academy in Rome. Assistant professor, University of Virginia (1977–78)<br />
and Graduate School of Architecture, Yale University (1978–82). Has lectured at Graduate School of<br />
Design, Harvard University; Architectural Association, London; Royal Academy, Copenhagen; and<br />
universities and art schools throughout the United States. Visiting critic, Sommer Akademie, Salzburg,<br />
Austria (1984), and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia (1990). Architectural practice has<br />
included residences, private libraries, art galleries, museums, and housing.<br />
Cuauhtémoc Medina Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, National University of Mexico,<br />
Mexico City, and associate curator of Latin American art, Tate Gallery, London. B.A., National University of<br />
Mexico; Ph.D., Essex University. Curator of contemporary art, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (1989–92); staff<br />
member, Curare: Espacio crítico para las Artes (1992–98); and current director, Teratoma A.C., Mexico<br />
City. Curator, When Faith Moves Mountains, a project by Francis Alÿs, Lima, Peru (2001), and 20 million<br />
Mexicans can’t be wrong, South London Gallery (2001); researcher, International 04, Liverpool Biennial<br />
(2004). Publications include “Abuso mutuo/Mutual abuse,” in Mexico City: An Exhibition on the Exchange<br />
Rates of Bodies and Values (2002); “Gerzso and the Indo-American Gothic: From Eccentric Surrealism to<br />
Parallel Modernism,” in Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso (2003);<br />
“Aduana/Customs,” in Santiago Sierra: Pabellón de España, 50a Bienal de Venecia (2003); “Architecture<br />
and efficiency: George Maciunas and the economy of art,” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics (2004); and<br />
numerous essays and reviews in exhibition catalogues, art publications, and newspapers, including Curare,<br />
Poliester, La Jornada, Reforma, Félix, Flash Art, and Third Text.<br />
Ivo Mesquita Curator, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil. B.A., M.A., São Paulo University.<br />
Researcher and assistant curator (1980–88) and director (1999–2000), São Paulo Bienal Foundation;<br />
director, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2001–02). Curator, Jorge Guinle, 20th São Paulo Bienal<br />
(1989); Desire in the Academy, 1847–1916, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo (1991); Cartographies,<br />
Winnipeg Art Gallery (1993); Daniel Senise: The Enlightening Gaze, Museum of Contemporary Art,<br />
Monterrey, Mexico (1994); Body and Space, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (1995); Stills: A Selection<br />
from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College (1998);<br />
Alair Gomes, fotógrafo, Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo (1999); and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle:<br />
Climate, Fundació “la Caixa”, Madrid (2003); Projeto Octógono (2003–); and Voyage to Dakar: Three<br />
Artists from the Americas, VI Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (2004). Cocurator,<br />
Roteiros . . . , 24th São Paulo Bienal (1998); inSITE97 and inSITE2000, San Diego and Tijuana; and<br />
F[r]icciones, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000). Publications include Leonilson: use é lindo, eu garanto<br />
(1997), Daniel Senise: ela que não está (1998), F(r)icciones (with Adriano Pedrosa, 2001), Eliane Prolik:<br />
Noutro Lugar (2005), and catalogue essays. Graduate Committee (1997–98, 1999– ).<br />
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Christian Rattemeyer Curator, Artists Space, New York. M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D. candidate,<br />
Columbia University. Most recently curated the group exhibitions Establishing Shot, Repeat Performance,<br />
Based on a True Story, Model Modernisms, and International Geographic at Artists Space. Has worked as<br />
a freelance writer and critic in New York and as communication editor for Documenta11 in Kassel. Founder<br />
and codirector, OSMOS (1997–98), an independent project space in Berlin; curated several festivals—for<br />
film and for architecture—in Berlin (1998–2000), Los Angeles (2001), London (2003), and New York<br />
(2005). Contributor to Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, and Art Papers; has published many catalogue<br />
essays on contemporary art. Editor, Igor Mischiyev: Multi Story Car Park (2002) and the Documenta11<br />
Short Guide. Has taught seminars at the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Rhode Island School<br />
of Design, and School of Visual Arts, New York.<br />
Daniel Buren<br />
Cabane eclatee polychrome<br />
aux mirroirs, 2004,<br />
wood, mirrors, acrylic paint.<br />
Marieluise Hessel Collection<br />
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ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS<br />
RESEARCH PROGRAMS<br />
The Center encourages new research and exhibition initiatives related to its concerns by providing fellowships<br />
to visiting scholars and curators. Particular attention is given to furthering interdisciplinary study of the<br />
social and cultural contexts of contemporary art, curatorial practice, and the history of exhibition, including<br />
comparative studies of the contemporary visual arts and their exhibition throughout the world.<br />
Installation with viewer<br />
Dance to the beat of a different<br />
drum machine, 2005<br />
Mario Ybarra Jr., from Uncertain<br />
States of America<br />
In 1995 the Center initiated a program of visiting research residencies that has enabled curators and<br />
scholars to spend up to a semester at the Center to conduct research and teach in the graduate program.<br />
An award to the Center from the Getty Grant Program provided substantial support for this residency program<br />
and for a series of research conferences. Curators and scholars awarded residencies include Susan<br />
Cahan, Mary Jane Jacob, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Stephen Melville, Ivo Mesquita, Mari Carmen Ramírez,<br />
Marcia Tucker, John Vinci, and Martha Ward.<br />
In 1996, with grants from the ArtsLink Partnership and the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Center also<br />
initiated a program of visiting fellowships for curators from Central and Eastern Europe. Fellowships have<br />
been awarded to Lech Lechowicz, curator at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland; Ivona Raimonova, curator<br />
at the Center for Modern and Contemporary Art of the National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; Viktor<br />
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Misiano, director of the Contemporary Art Centre in Moscow, Russia; Iaroslava Boubnova, curator at the<br />
National Gallery for Foreign Art in Sofia, Bulgaria; Anda Rottenberg, director of the National Gallery of<br />
Contemporary Art Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland; Maria Hlavajova, director of the Soros Center for<br />
Contemporary Art, Bratislava, Slovakia; and Piotr Piotrowski, professor of art history, Adam Mickiewicz<br />
University, Poznan, Poland.<br />
LECTURE SERIES AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS<br />
The Center organizes public lectures and conferences on issues relating to the contemporary visual arts,<br />
curatorship, and the history of exhibition. Some 70 artists, scholars, curators, and other museum professionals<br />
have participated in such events, among them Jean-Christophe Ammann, Carol Armstrong, Stephen<br />
Hans Ulrich Obrist<br />
Bob Niskas, Daniel Birnbaum,<br />
Molly Nesbit<br />
Trevor Smith<br />
Bann, Daniel Birnbaum, Benjamin Buchloh, Germano Celant, Chuck Close, Paolo Colombo, Catherine<br />
David, Olivier Debroise, John Elderfield, Okwui Enwezor, Michael Fehr, Karl Haendel, Shinji Kohmoto,<br />
Gunner B. Kvaran, Daria Martin, Jean-Hubert Martin, Gerardo Mosquera, Molly Nesbit, Kori Newkirk, Bob<br />
Nickas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nam June Paik, Virginia Perez-Ratton, Adrian Piper, Griselda Pollock, Yean Fee<br />
Quay, Osvaldo Sánchez, Brian Sholis, Trevor Smith, Elisabeth Sussman, Mika Tajima, Fred Wilson, Wu<br />
Hung, and Mario Ybarra Jr.<br />
The graduate program at the Center also sponsors a series of informal talks, called Conversations, in which<br />
artists, scholars, curators, and other arts professionals discuss their recent work, a current exhibition, or<br />
important issues in the contemporary visual arts. Past participants in the series include the following:<br />
Richard Armstrong<br />
Richard Artschwager<br />
Ute Meta Bauer<br />
Dara Birnbaum<br />
Francesco Bonami<br />
Cornelia Butler<br />
Sarah Charlesworth<br />
Lisa Graziose Corrin<br />
Arthur Danto<br />
Bart De Baere<br />
Donna De Salvo<br />
David Deitcher<br />
Virginia Dwan<br />
Bruce Ferguson<br />
Eric Fischl<br />
Andrea Giunta<br />
Robert Gober<br />
Felix Gonzalez-Torres<br />
Dan Graham<br />
Agnes Gund<br />
Paulo Herkenhoff<br />
Jan Hoet<br />
Jens Hoffman<br />
Alfredo Jaar<br />
Merlin James<br />
Isaac Julien<br />
Charlotta Kotik<br />
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Marta Kuzma<br />
Miwon Kwon<br />
Maria Lind<br />
Lucy Lippard<br />
Margo Machida<br />
Charles Merewether<br />
Andrea Miller-Keller<br />
Helen Molesworth<br />
Mignon Nixon<br />
Luis Enrique Perez Oramas<br />
Judy Pfaff<br />
Marjetica Potrc<br />
Ann Reynolds<br />
Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen<br />
Michael Shapiro<br />
Milada Slizinska<br />
Oleksandr Soloviov<br />
Mary Anne Staniszewski<br />
Mierle Laderman Ukeles<br />
Susan Vogel<br />
Kara Walker<br />
Lawrence Weschler<br />
Slavoj Zizek<br />
In 1998 the Center initiated an Award for Curatorial Excellence to honor exceptional achievements by a<br />
curator of contemporary art. The award, presented at the Center’s annual spring benefit, has been given to<br />
Harald Szeemann (1998), Marcia Tucker (1999), Kasper König (2000), Paul Schimmel (2001), Susanne<br />
Ghez (2002), Kynaston McShine (2003), Walter Hopps (2004), Kathy Halbreich (2005), and Mari Carmen<br />
Ramírez (2005). In 2006, the Center presented the award to Lynne Cooke and Vasif Kortun.<br />
foreground<br />
Taft Green<br />
Continual Distance:<br />
Arriving at Inbetween, 2003<br />
Wood, acrylic paint, hardware<br />
background<br />
Frank Benson<br />
Flag<br />
Nylon<br />
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APPLICANT INFORMATION<br />
ADMISSION<br />
Up to 14 students are admitted to the graduate program each year.<br />
Applicants for admission must hold an A.B., B.A., B.S., or B.F.A. degree from<br />
an accredited college or university in the United States or a baccalaureate or<br />
equivalent degree from a college or university outside the United States. An<br />
applicant’s undergraduate major need not be in art history or the studio arts;<br />
however, applicants must demonstrate that they have a broad knowledge of<br />
the history of art as well as acquaintance with the contemporary visual arts.<br />
Applications are encouraged from advanced graduate students in the<br />
humanities and social sciences—for example, graduate students in art history<br />
or in philosophy who are interested in critical and theoretical issues in<br />
the contemporary visual arts, or students in cultural history or sociology<br />
with interests in the institutional contexts of the contemporary arts. The<br />
graduate program at the Center offers such students an unusual opportunity<br />
to study with curators, critics, and scholars who are engaged in formulating<br />
new approaches to the exhibition and interpretation of contemporary<br />
art. Additionally, it provides opportunities for practical engagement with the<br />
tasks of curating that can offer invaluable lessons about contemporary art<br />
and the possibilities and limitations of exhibition as a mode of interpretation—<br />
lessons that cannot be gained from academic study alone.<br />
Applications for admission are reviewed by the Graduate Committee. The<br />
committee assesses whether a candidate has sufficient knowledge of art<br />
history and the contemporary arts to profit from the program of study at<br />
the Center and demonstrates the intellectual ability, maturity, and motivation<br />
to pursue graduate-level courses and to complete a final M.A. project.<br />
The committee also considers each candidate’s promise of making a contribution<br />
to the Center’s intellectual life, particularly taking into account the<br />
Center’s commitments to exploring contemporary art and exhibition practices<br />
from different disciplinary perspectives and in different cultures.<br />
Applicants for admission must submit the following materials:<br />
1 A completed application form<br />
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2 A brief (two-page) statement describing the applicant’s interests in the<br />
graduate program, previous academic preparation, relevant work<br />
experience, particular interests in contemporary art, and career plans<br />
3 A brief (two- to three-page) review of a recent exhibition of contemporary<br />
art. We are especially interested in the applicant’s assessment of<br />
the curatorial aspects of the exhibition—for example, how it structures<br />
and enhances the viewer’s experience and understanding of the works<br />
it presents or, alternatively, how it fails to do so.<br />
4 Official copies of transcripts from any undergraduate institutions and<br />
graduate programs in which the applicant has previously been enrolled<br />
5 Three letters of recommendation, which must be sent by the recommenders<br />
directly to the Center for Curatorial Studies<br />
6 A $50 application fee<br />
Applicants are not required to take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)<br />
General Test; however, any applicant who has taken the GRE General Test<br />
may request that an official copy of his or her scores be sent to the Center<br />
for Curatorial Studies.<br />
The deadline for receipt of completed applications for admission is<br />
February 1, 2007. An application is considered incomplete and cannot be<br />
acted upon until all the materials listed above are received by the Center<br />
for Curatorial Studies.<br />
Applicants will receive notification of admission by March 31, 2007, and<br />
must announce their decision about enrolling by April 15, 2007.<br />
International Students<br />
In addition to the above application materials, international applicants must<br />
provide evidence of proficiency in English—for example, a score of 550 or<br />
higher on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Proficiency<br />
in English may also be established by an interview and writing samples.<br />
To receive visa documentation, international applicants must submit proof<br />
that their income from all sources will be sufficient to meet expenses for<br />
the residency period. A Certification of Finances must be completed.<br />
Evidence may come from the following sources:<br />
1 An affidavit from a bank<br />
2 Certification by parents or sponsors of their ability to provide the<br />
necessary funds<br />
3 Certification by an employer of anticipated income<br />
Transfer Credit<br />
The graduate curriculum is organized to encourage ongoing discussion of<br />
curatorial issues among students of varied backgrounds and interests, and to<br />
this end, half of each student’s courses are taken with his or her entering<br />
class. Consequently, only limited transfer credits (no more than 4 credits or<br />
the equivalent of two courses) will be given for course work completed elsewhere.<br />
Requests for transfer of credit must be made when a student applies<br />
for admission and will be reviewed by the Graduate Committee. Transfer<br />
credits may be used only to meet elective course requirements. Students<br />
receiving 4 transfer credits in a single distribution area will be required to take<br />
at least one further elective in that area during their studies at the Center.<br />
TUITION AND FEES<br />
Tuition for the 2007–08 academic year is $25,440. Fees include a $100<br />
registration fee each semester and a $1,000 fee for exhibition expenses<br />
for the final master’s degree project, which is charged in installments of<br />
$500 each semester of a student’s second year. A $110 graduation<br />
fee is charged prior to graduation. Students who take longer than two<br />
years to complete their work toward the master’s degree are charged a<br />
maintenance-of-status fee of $500 per year.<br />
Schedule of Payment<br />
New students must pay a nonrefundable deposit of $500, applicable to<br />
their first year’s tuition and fees, and continuing students must pay a nonrefundable<br />
deposit of $200, applicable to their second year’s tuition and<br />
fees, by April 15, 2007. The balance of tuition and fees for the academic<br />
year will be billed in two equal installments, with payments due on August<br />
1, 2007, and January 1, 2008. Billing statements will reflect charges and<br />
financial aid awards, including all Federal Stafford Loan applications on<br />
file. Unpaid balances will be subject to a late payment fee of $100 and<br />
finance charges of 1 percent per month (12 percent per annum). A student<br />
who has outstanding indebtedness to Bard College will not be allowed to<br />
register or reregister, receive a transcript of record, have academic credits<br />
certified, or have a degree granted.<br />
Refunds<br />
No refund of any fees will be made in the event that a student withdraws<br />
from the program at any time after registration except as herein specified.<br />
In no event is the tuition deposit refundable. In all cases, the student must<br />
submit an official request for withdrawal to the Graduate Committee. The<br />
date of submission of such a request will determine the amount of refund.<br />
Students who officially withdraw before the first day of classes for the term<br />
in question will be given a full refund of all charges, less the nonrefundable<br />
tuition deposit. If the official withdrawal from the program occurs after the<br />
first day of classes in a given term, tuition is refunded as follows. If the<br />
withdrawal occurs within the first week of classes, 75 percent of tuition is<br />
refunded; within the second week, 60 percent of the tuition is refunded;<br />
within the third or fourth weeks, 30 percent of the tuition is refunded; after<br />
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four weeks, no refunds are given. Registration and student health insurance<br />
fees are not refundable.<br />
To be eligible for federal student aid, applicants must not be in default of<br />
repayment of federal student loans or owe refunds on federal student grants.<br />
Refunds to financial aid recipients who withdraw from the program will<br />
be affected by a reduction in the amount of grant; any institutional grant,<br />
scholarship, or fellowship will be reduced by the same percentage as indicated<br />
in the tuition refund schedule above. Refunds to federal aid (Federal<br />
Stafford Loan) recipients who withdraw will be calculated according to the<br />
federal refund policy concerning the amount of the Federal Stafford Loan<br />
to be returned to the lender. A student who is considering withdrawal may<br />
wish to confer with the Student Accounts Office and the Financial Aid<br />
Office concerning any anticipated refund and the amount of the Federal<br />
Stafford Loan that Bard College must return to the lender, since this<br />
amount will have a direct bearing on the amount of refund, if any, that the<br />
College will provide the student.<br />
No refund is made in cases of suspension or expulsion.<br />
Awards of financial aid are made without reference to age, color, ethnic or<br />
national origin, gender, handicapping conditions, marital status, race, or<br />
sexual orientation. International students, although not eligible for financial<br />
assistance from the federal government of the United States, may qualify<br />
for aid administered by Bard College.<br />
Center Scholarships and Fellowships<br />
Center scholarships are awarded on the basis of need, as determined<br />
annually by the federal government and Bard College. Center fellowships<br />
are awarded on the basis of achievement and promise. Determinations of<br />
achievement and promise are made by the Graduate Committee in its<br />
review of applications for admission. Awards of scholarships and fellowships<br />
are not automatically renewed from year to year. Students must<br />
remain in good academic standing for renewal of all forms of aid and must<br />
continue to demonstrate financial need for renewal of aid based on need.<br />
FINANCIAL AID<br />
The graduate program is able to provide limited financial assistance, in the<br />
form of scholarships and fellowships, to students whose personal financial<br />
resources are insufficient to meet the expenses of graduate study. Funds<br />
for scholarships and fellowships are limited, and awards typically will meet<br />
only a small part of a student’s expenses. Students may also apply for federal<br />
loans, and those who are New York State residents may apply to the<br />
New York State Tuition Assistance Program. These loan and grant programs<br />
are briefly described below. More detailed information about applying<br />
for financial aid can be obtained from the Center for Curatorial Studies.<br />
Financial aid is administered by the Bard College Office of Financial Aid.<br />
Eligibility for financial aid is determined each year by the demonstration of<br />
financial need. Financial need is assessed by a uniform method from financial<br />
data provided by the student on the Free Application for Federal Student<br />
Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA form should be sent to the federal processor as<br />
soon after January 1, 2007, as possible and no later than February 1, 2007.<br />
All students applying for financial aid must also complete a Financial Aid<br />
Application (see the back of this catalogue) and send it to the Center by<br />
February 1.<br />
Copies of the FAFSA and Financial Aid Application can be obtained from<br />
the Center for Curatorial Studies. Students whose admission and financial<br />
aid applications are complete by February 1 will be notified of financial aid<br />
awards by March 31. The FAFSA form can and should be filed electronically<br />
at www.fafsa.ed.gov.<br />
Federal Stafford Loans<br />
Federal Stafford Loans are available as subsidized or unsubsidized loans.<br />
To qualify for a subsidized loan, the student must demonstrate financial<br />
need. The federal government pays the interest on the subsidized loan<br />
while the student is enrolled; the student begins repaying the loan principal<br />
and paying interest six months after he or she ceases to be enrolled. A<br />
student may qualify for an unsubsidized loan regardless of need. The student<br />
is responsible for paying interest on the unsubsidized loan while he or<br />
she is enrolled. Interest payments begin accruing sixty days after the loan<br />
is disbursed. As with the subsidized loan, repayment on the loan principal<br />
begins six months after the student ceases to be enrolled. Payments on<br />
interest and principal of an unsubsidized loan may be deferred, but interest<br />
will accrue and compound. The federal processor requires that a student<br />
first apply for a subsidized loan before applying for an unsubsidized loan.<br />
A student may borrow up to $8,500 annually through the basic Federal<br />
Stafford Loan program. A graduate student may be eligible for a supplemental,<br />
unsubsidized loan (in addition to his or her basic subsidized or unsubsidized<br />
loan) for an amount up to $12,000 annually over and above the<br />
$8,500 for which he or she may be eligible in the basic Stafford program,<br />
provided that the total amount of assistance does not exceed the cost of the<br />
graduate program. An origination fee of 3 percent is deducted from the proceeds<br />
of all loans and a loan warranty fee of 1 percent may be deducted.<br />
The procedures for filing for a loan will be explained when the student is<br />
notified about eligibility.<br />
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Loans are disbursed in two equal payments, one each semester, provided<br />
all Financial Aid Office requirements have been fulfilled. Electronic disbursements<br />
are credited to a student’s account when they are received. Check<br />
disbursements are sent to the Student Accounts Office; the student must sign<br />
the loan check before it can be credited to his or her account. If the check is<br />
not signed within a designated period, the Student Accounts Office is obliged<br />
to return it to the lender for cancellation. In such a case, the student becomes<br />
responsible for the entire account balance and is charged a $100 penalty fee<br />
(for late payment and duplication of the loan disbursement procedure).<br />
Federal GradPLUS Loans<br />
Graduate students can now access the Federal PLUS Loan program to<br />
cover the portion of the cost of education not covered by other financial aid.<br />
This loan is guaranteed by the federal government and may be deferred<br />
while the student is enrolled at least half-time. A credit check is required.<br />
These loans are disbursed in the same way as the Federal Stafford Loan.<br />
New York State Tuition Assistance Program<br />
The New York State Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) provides nonrepayable<br />
grant assistance of up to $550 to New York State residents attending<br />
a New York State school. Awards are based on the net New York State<br />
taxable income and the number of full-time college students in the family.<br />
Applications and further information about the program can be obtained<br />
from the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (NYSH-<br />
ESC), 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12255 or www.hesc.com. A student<br />
applying for a New York State TAP award must submit the FAFSA and<br />
the New York State TAP application.<br />
MEDICAL RECORDS AND HEALTH INSURANCE<br />
All students are required to complete a health packet prior to arrival at<br />
Bard, which includes documentation of a recent physical examination and<br />
complete immunization records. New York State law requires that all students<br />
born after January 1, 1957, provide proof of immunization against<br />
measles, mumps, and rubella. Additionally, students must be provided<br />
information about meningococcal meningitis and must either document<br />
having received the vaccine or sign a waiver declining it. For information<br />
about immunization requirements and health insurance, call the Student<br />
Health Service at 845-758-7433.<br />
ACCOMMODATIONS AND MEAL PLANS<br />
There is limited campus housing for graduate students. Apartments and<br />
houses for rent can be found near the Bard College campus, and the<br />
Center maintains a list of real estate agents who can assist students in<br />
finding housing.<br />
During the academic year graduate students may purchase a prepaid<br />
credit card that can be used at the Bard College dining facilities.<br />
ACCREDITATION<br />
The Center for Curatorial Studies program of study leading to a master<br />
of arts degree in curatorial studies is registered by the New York State<br />
Education Department, Office of Higher Education and the Professions,<br />
89 Washington Avenue, 2 Mezzanine West, Education Building, Albany,<br />
NY 12234; 518-474-3862; website highered.nysed.gov. Bard College<br />
is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle<br />
States Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the<br />
Association of American Colleges, College Entrance Examination Board,<br />
American Council of Education, Union for Experimenting Colleges and<br />
Universities, Associated Colleges of the Mid-Hudson Area, and Educational<br />
Records Bureau.<br />
Educational Rights and Privacy Act<br />
Bard College complies with the provisions of the Family Educational<br />
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. This act assures students attending a<br />
postsecondary institution that they will have the right to inspect and review<br />
certain of their educational records and, by following the guidelines provided<br />
by the College, to correct inaccurate or misleading data through<br />
informal or formal hearings. It protects students’ rights to privacy by limiting<br />
transfer of these records without their consent, except in specific circumstances.<br />
Students have the right to file complaints with the Family<br />
Educational Rights and Privacy Office, U.S. Department of Education,<br />
Washington, D.C. College policy relating to the maintenance of student<br />
records is available on request from the Office of the Registrar.<br />
Notice of Nondiscrimination<br />
Bard College does not discriminate in education, employment, admission,<br />
or services on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, color, age, religion,<br />
national origin, or handicapping conditions. This policy is consistent with<br />
state mandates and with governmental statutes and regulations, including<br />
those pursuant to Title IX of the Federal Educational Amendments of<br />
1972, Section 504 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of<br />
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of<br />
1990. Questions regarding compliance with the above requirements and<br />
requests for assistance should be directed to the Vice President for<br />
Administration, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY<br />
12504-5000.<br />
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BARD COLLEGE GRADUATE PROGRAMS<br />
Since 1975 Bard has developed a novel structure of “satellite” research<br />
institutes and graduate programs, including the Center for Curatorial<br />
Studies and the following six programs.<br />
The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the<br />
Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture<br />
www.bgc.bard.edu 212.501.3000 generalinfo@bgc.bard.edu<br />
Founded in New York City in 1993, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies<br />
in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture was established to encourage<br />
new levels of scholarship in the decorative arts, to improve the training of<br />
emerging professionals, and thereby to advance recognition of the decorative<br />
arts as primary expressions of human achievement. The BGC offers<br />
an intensive two-year master of arts program and a doctoral program in<br />
the history of the decorative arts, design, and culture. It has a research<br />
library and exhibition gallery, presents public programs, and publishes a<br />
semiannual journal.<br />
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts<br />
www.bard.edu/mfa 845.758.7481 mfa@bard.edu<br />
Founded in 1981, the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts offers<br />
an interdisciplinary program in studies leading to the master of fine arts<br />
degree in six fields: film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture,<br />
and writing. For three intensive summer sessions, students live and<br />
work on the Bard campus; they continue independent work at home during<br />
the two intervening winters.<br />
International Center of Photography–Bard Program in<br />
Advanced Photographic Studies<br />
www.icp.org 212.857.0001 education@icp.org<br />
Founded in 2003, the International Center of Photography–Bard Program in<br />
Advanced Photographic Studies awards an M.F.A. degree in photography,<br />
in collaboration with the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Based<br />
at the ICP facilities in Manhattan, the two-year graduate program offers a<br />
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igorous exploration of all aspects of photography through an integrated<br />
curriculum of practice, history, and critical study that utilizes the resources<br />
of ICP’s curatorial team and museum collection.<br />
Bard Center for Environmental Policy<br />
www.bard.edu/cep 845.758.7073 cep@bard.edu<br />
The Bard Center for Environmental Policy was founded in 1999 to<br />
foster education, research, and public service on critical environmental<br />
issues. At the core of the Center’s activities is the one- or two-year<br />
program that leads to a master of science degree in environmental policy<br />
or a professional certificate in environmental policy. Internships form an<br />
integral part of the training. Graduates are prepared for environmental<br />
leadership in nonprofit organizations, government, and the private sector<br />
at the local, national, and international levels.<br />
The Master of Arts in Teaching Program<br />
www.bard.edu/mat 845.758.7145 mat@bard.edu<br />
The Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program at Bard College was<br />
founded in 2003 in response to an urgent need for change in public<br />
education. The core of this yearlong program is an integrated curriculum<br />
leading to a master of arts degree in teaching and a teaching certificate for<br />
grades 7–12 in one of four areas: English, mathematics, biology, or history.<br />
In combination with student-teaching experiences spread over the full<br />
academic year, and the active participation of mentor teachers and MAT<br />
faculty advisers, the program’s instructionally innovative courses provide<br />
the basis for critical reflection about educational practice.<br />
The Bard College Conservatory of Music<br />
www.bard.edu/conservatory 845.758.7196 conservatory@bard.edu<br />
Beginning in the fall of 2006, The Bard College Conservatory of Music<br />
offers two master of music degrees, one in vocal arts and the other in<br />
conducting. The two-year curriculum in vocal arts consists of four core<br />
seminars (“Dickinson, Goethe, and Verlaine”; “Singing and Song in the<br />
Global Era”; “Expanding the Workshop”; and “The Singer and the Stage”)<br />
and several workshops: voice, singer-composer, acting, Alexander<br />
Technique/yoga, phonetics and diction, vocal chamber music, opera,<br />
and career. The degree in conducting is a 15-month program through<br />
The Conductors Institute at Bard. It consists of two summer institutes<br />
and an academic-year course of study in the Bard Conservatory.<br />
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BOARDS AND ADMINISTRATION<br />
Center for Curatorial Studies<br />
Board of Governors<br />
Marieluise Hessel, Chair<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
David E. Schwab II ’52 Chair Emeritus<br />
Staff<br />
+<br />
Leon Botstein<br />
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Chair<br />
Tom Eccles Executive Director<br />
Kathryn Chenault<br />
Emily H. Fisher Second Vice Chair<br />
Norton Batkin Director of the Graduate<br />
Anne Ehrenkranz<br />
Mark Schwartz Treasurer<br />
Program<br />
Martin Eisenberg<br />
Elizabeth Ely ’65 Secretary<br />
Karl Lampson Associate Director for<br />
Maja Hoffmann<br />
Roland J. Augustine<br />
Administration<br />
Audrey Irmas<br />
+<br />
Leon Botstein President of the College<br />
Marcia Acita Assistant Director of the Museum<br />
Marc Lipschultz<br />
David C. Clapp<br />
Letitia Smith Assistant to the Director of the<br />
Eugenio Lopez<br />
*<br />
Marcelle Clements ’69<br />
Graduate Program<br />
Melissa Schiff Soros<br />
Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan Jr. Honorary<br />
Jaime Henderson Administrative and<br />
Ann Tenenbaum<br />
Trustee<br />
Development Coordinator<br />
Richard W. Wortham III<br />
Asher B. Edelman ’61<br />
Susan Leonard Librarian<br />
*<br />
Philip H. Gordon ’43<br />
Tatjana von Prittwitz und Gaffron Archivist<br />
Colleen Egan Assistant Registrar<br />
Michael Pilon Preparator<br />
Natalie Franz Student Services Assistant<br />
Atiba Celestine Security Manager<br />
Paul Giannuzzi Security Guard<br />
Robert Stier Security Guard<br />
Bard College<br />
Administration<br />
Leon Botstein President<br />
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou Executive Vice<br />
President, Executive Director of The Bard<br />
Center, and President of The Levy<br />
* Barbara S. Grossman ’73<br />
Sally Hambrecht<br />
Ernest F. Henderson III<br />
Marieluise Hessel<br />
John C. Honey ’39 Life Trustee<br />
Mark N. Kaplan<br />
George A. Kellner<br />
Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65<br />
Graduate Committee<br />
Economics Institute<br />
Murray Liebowitz<br />
Norton Batkin Director of the Graduate<br />
Michèle D. Dominy Vice President and<br />
Peter H. Maguire ’88<br />
Program<br />
Dean of the College<br />
James H. Ottaway Jr.<br />
Rhea Anastas Faculty, Graduate Program in<br />
Robert L. Martin Vice President for Academic<br />
Martin Peretz<br />
Curatorial Studies<br />
Affairs and Director of The Bard College<br />
Stanley A. Reichel ’65<br />
Michael Brenson Independent Critic<br />
Conservatory of Music<br />
Stewart Resnick<br />
Lynne Cooke Curator, Dia Art Foundation<br />
Mary Backlund Vice President for Student<br />
Susan Weber Soros<br />
Joshua Decter Independent Curator, New York<br />
Affairs and Director of Admission<br />
Martin T. Sosnoff<br />
+<br />
Tom Eccles Executive Director, <strong>CCS</strong><br />
Thelma Golden Executive Director, Studio<br />
Museum in Harlem<br />
Ivo Mesquita Independent Curator, São Paulo<br />
James Brudvig Vice President for Administration<br />
Debra R. Pemstein Vice President for<br />
Development and Alumni/ae Affairs<br />
Norton Batkin Dean of Graduate Studies<br />
Erin Cannan Dean of Students<br />
Patricia Ross Weis ’52<br />
William Julius Wilson<br />
+ ex officio<br />
* alumni/ae trustee<br />
Peter Gadsby Registrar<br />
Kevin Parker Controller<br />
Denise Ann Ackerman Director of Financial Aid<br />
Viki Papadimitriou Bursar<br />
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TRAVEL TO BARD<br />
Bard College is in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,<br />
on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90<br />
N<br />
NY<br />
Bard<br />
145<br />
Ravena<br />
87<br />
9<br />
90<br />
20<br />
miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest<br />
of Boston.<br />
• NYC<br />
23<br />
9W<br />
66<br />
By automobile<br />
From southern Connecticut, follow I-84 to the<br />
Taconic State Parkway, take the Taconic north to<br />
the Red Hook/ Route 199 exit, drive west on Route<br />
199 through the village of Red Hook to Route 9G,<br />
turn right onto Route 9G, and drive north 1.6 miles.<br />
From northern Connecticut, take Route 44 to<br />
Route 199 at Millerton, drive west on Route 199,<br />
and proceed as from southern Connecticut.<br />
From Massachusetts and northern New England,<br />
take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit B-2<br />
(Taconic Parkway), take the Taconic south to the<br />
Red Hook/Route 199 exit, and proceed as from<br />
southern Connecticut.<br />
From New York City, New Jersey, and points south,<br />
take the New York State Thruway (I-87) to Exit 19<br />
(Kingston), take Route 209 (changes to Route 199<br />
at the Hudson River) over the Kingston-Rhinecliff<br />
Bridge to Route 9G; at the second light, turn left<br />
onto Route 9G and drive north 3.5 miles.<br />
From Albany, take the New York State Thruway to<br />
Exit 19 and proceed as from New York City.<br />
By train<br />
Amtrak provides service from Penn Station,<br />
New York City, and from Albany to Rhinecliff, about<br />
9 miles south of Annandale. Taxi service is available<br />
at the Rhinecliff station.<br />
Ellenville<br />
17<br />
17K<br />
28<br />
Catskill<br />
State Park<br />
52<br />
84<br />
209<br />
New Paltz<br />
44<br />
Walden<br />
0 5<br />
Miles<br />
Kingston<br />
87<br />
Newburgh<br />
299<br />
32<br />
New York State Throughway<br />
9W<br />
Hudson River<br />
9<br />
9G<br />
Catskill<br />
Saugerties<br />
Bard<br />
44<br />
9<br />
Taconic State Parkway<br />
Hudson<br />
Annandale-on-Hudson<br />
Red Hook<br />
Rhinebeck<br />
Hyde Park<br />
Poughkeepsie<br />
Beacon<br />
Wappingers Falls<br />
55<br />
199<br />
84<br />
23<br />
Pawling<br />
Hillsdale<br />
22<br />
22<br />
Millerton<br />
44<br />
7<br />
By air<br />
Bard College is accessible from Kennedy and<br />
LaGuardia airports in New York City; and from the<br />
airports in Newark, New Jersey, and Albany and<br />
Newburgh, New York.<br />
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CALENDAR<br />
January 1 – February 1, 2007<br />
FAFSA to federal processor<br />
February 1<br />
Application for admission to Center, financial aid application to Center<br />
March 31<br />
Notification of admission<br />
March 31<br />
Notification of financial aid awards<br />
April 15<br />
New students’ decision to enroll and $500 tuition deposit; continuing students’ $200 tuition deposit<br />
June 1<br />
Federal Stafford Loan applications to Financial Aid Office<br />
August 1<br />
First payment (50 percent of account) due<br />
January 1, 2008<br />
Second payment (balance of account) due<br />
NOTES<br />
Be advised that the provisions of this catalogue are not to be regarded<br />
as an irrevocable contract between the student and Bard College or its<br />
officers and faculty. The College reserves the right to make changes<br />
affecting admission procedures, tuition, fees, courses of instruction,<br />
programs of study, faculty listings, academic grading policies, and general<br />
regulations. The information in this catalogue is current as of publication,<br />
but is subject to change without notice.<br />
Course offerings in the graduate program include seminars in art<br />
history, in theory and criticism, and on issues of curatorial and critical<br />
practice; practicums taught by curators, critics, and other arts professionals;<br />
and independent research courses and writing tutorials. Students are<br />
required to complete an internship with an artist, curator, or other arts professional<br />
between their first and second years; they also have opportunities<br />
in practicums and seminars to work with curators, scholars, and critics<br />
in the preparation of exhibitions and publications.<br />
Upon satisfactory completion of course work and other requirements<br />
of the graduate program, students are awarded the degree of master of<br />
arts in curatorial studies.<br />
This catalogue is published by the Bard Publications Office; Ginger<br />
Shore, director; Mary Smith, art director; Debby Mayer, editorial director;<br />
Mikhail Horowitz, editor; Francie Soosman, designer; Diane Rosasco,<br />
production manager. ©2006 Bard College. All rights reserved.<br />
Photo Credits<br />
©Peter Aaron/ESTO: page 2 (top middle, bottom left and middle);<br />
John Berens, New York: page 24; Mike Bouchet: page 18; courtesy of<br />
the artist: page 4 (all), 25; David Heald: page 17; Chris Kendall: page 3,<br />
6 (middle, right), 7, 27; Diana Nezamutinova BCEP ’06: page 33 (bottom<br />
left); Karl Rabe: page 1, 2 (top right), 5, 6 (left), 8, 9, 10 (left), 13 (left),<br />
14, 15 (left), 16 (right), 19, 20, 22, 26, 28, 32, 33 (top middle, bottom<br />
middle/Poughkeepsie Journal, reprinted by permission); Rafael Viñoly<br />
Architects: page 2 (top, left); Noah Sheldon: page 33 (bottom, right);<br />
Letitia Smith: page 10 (right), 11, 12, 13 (right), 15 (right), 16 (left);<br />
©Barry Stone: page 33 (top right); Ian Sullivan: page 33 (top left);<br />
Alex Webb/Magnum: page 2 (bottom, right)<br />
Art Credits<br />
Page 3, 6 (left, middle), 7–8, 16 (right), 18, 25, 27 Uncertain States of<br />
America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Gunner Kvaran<br />
Page 32 Lawrence Weiner, Bard Enter, 2004, stainless steel and concrete,<br />
site-specific installation, <strong>CCS</strong> Bard Hessel Museum sidewalk and atrium floor<br />
Colophon<br />
Prepress and printing by Quality Printing Company, Pittsfield, Mass; typeset<br />
in Bertold Akzidenz Grotesk and <strong>CCS</strong> Display Font on Corniche Paper<br />
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