February Newsletter

On February 14, our spring exhibitions open. This season, Bard Graduate Center is presenting two faculty-curated Focus Projects, Aaron Glass’s The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology and Paul Stirton’s Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars. Sasha Nixon (MA 2018) is the curator of A View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements.

This month, we feature interviews with Rebecca Tilles (MA 2007), who is an associate curator at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, and two participants in last summer’s BGC Lab for Teens. Read on for more Bard Graduate Center news.

Research and Academic Programs

Faculty News

BGC faculty are attending conferences and presenting papers. Read more. Ivan Gaskell writes about his retreat to Marfa, Texas, here.

Horowitz Book Prize

Bard Graduate Center is accepting submissions for the second annual Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize. Read more.

BGC Lab for Teens

The Lab for Teens is designed to train the next generation of creative thinkers. Two participants from the 2018 course talk about their experience here.

Alumni Spotlight

This month’s Alumni Spotlight is on Rebecca Tilles, a curator at the Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C. Read more.

Gallery

Our spring 2019 exhibitions feature faculty-curated Focus Projects on Franz Boas and his collaborator George Hunt, and the graphic designer Jan Tschichold, who defined the “New Typography” movement of the interwar period. A View from the Jeweler’s Bench is curated by Sasha Nixon, who received her MA from Bard Graduate Center in 2018.

On View February 14 – July 7, 2019

February Events

Curator’s Spotlight Tour
February 16 at 12:00 pm

Join Aaron Glass for an in-depth curator’s tour of the exhibition The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology. Register here.

The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
February 19, February 26, March 5 at 6:00 pm

Zeev Weiss will deliver a three-part lecture entitled “Jewish Material Culture: Old Theories and New Approaches, from Eleazar L. Sukenik to the Twenty-First Century.” Register here.

Additional support provided by The David Berg Foundation.

Creative Practice in Indigenous Communities
February 20 at 6:30 pm

Speakers include Patrick Dean Hubbell, Corrine Hunt, and Skeena Reece. More details to be announced. Register here.

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Secure gifts may be made online here. Checks may be sent to Bard Graduate Center, Development Office, P.O. Box 490, New York, NY, 10024-9998.

Introduction: Boas: Lion-type Mask, unknown Kwakwaka’wakw maker, 1820-70. Painted (?), carved wood. ©Trustees of the British Museum, Am +.436. Tschichold: Jan Tschichold. Die Frau ohne Namen (The Woman Without a Name), Phoebus Palast poster, 1927. Printed by Gebrüder Obpacher AG, Munich. Photolithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, Peter Stone Poster Fund. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. Jewelry: Nicole Jacquard. The Graduate, 2017. Laser engraved mica, acrylic, silver, enamel, copper. Courtesy of the artist. Research and Academic first row photos: (left) Michael Nagel. (right) Polly Platt. Map sampler made at Pleasent Valley Quaker Boarding School, 1809. Silk and chenille embroidery on silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Frank P. Stetz Bequest, in loving memory of David Stewart Hull, 2012. first row photos: (left) Maria Baranova. (right) courtesy Rebecca Tilles. Gallery (top) Lion-type Mask, unknown Kwakwaka’wakw maker, 1820-70. Painted (?), carved wood. ©Trustees of the British Museum, Am +.436. (middle) Johannes Molzahn. Wohnung und Werkraum(Dwelling and Workplace) poster, 1929. Printed by Druckerei Schenkalowsky, A.G., Breslau. Lithograph. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase Fund, Jan Tschichold Collection, 346.1937. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. (bottom) Ring with cameo glass portrait of the Emperor Augustus, early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 1st half of the 1st century. Gold with glass. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Roger Haber and The Artemis Group, 1995, 1995.85.1. Ru. February Events: (top) Ceremonial belt worn by a dancer at the Chicago World’s Fair, unknown Kwakwaka’wakw maker. Accessioned by the Field Columbian Museum in 1897. Wood, textile, paint, iron alloy, cordage. © The Field Museum, Image No. A115416d_003, Cat. No. 18863, Photographer John Weinstein. (middle) Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology, photo archive, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (bottom) (l) Attributed to Albert Grünwedel, painter. Kwakwaka’wakw Transformation Mask (closed) with notes by Franz Boas. Paper, ink, paint (watercolor). Courtesy of the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, Z/43 H. (r) Attributed to Albert Grünwedel, painter. Kwakwaka’wakw Transformation Mask (opened) with notes by Franz Boas. Paper, ink, paint (watercolor). Courtesy of the Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, Z/43 I. Make a Gift: Maria Baranova.
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