10:00 am
"Witness to Her Art" Panel and Book Launch
With editors Rhea Anastas and Michael Brenson.
A new anthology of artists' writing and criticism featuring artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection: Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, and Eau de Cologne. Presentations by Michael Brenson, Faculty, CCS and Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of Exhibitions, Wexner Center for the Arts.
Blithewood Manor

Hessel Museum of Art Inauguration

12:00 noon
Welcome
Leon Botstein
Tom Eccles

12:30 pm
Hessel Museum of Art Ribbon Cutting
Followed by a Special Performance by Martin Creed
with students of the Bard College Conservatory of Music

1:30 pm
Lunch
Sandwiches and concessions will be available for purchase at the Museum

2:30 pm
Wrestle Panel Discussion
with Tom Eccles and Trevor Smith
Arthur Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Columbia University; Vasif Kortun, Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Ute Meta Bauer, Director and Associate Professor, Visual Arts, MIT; and Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art, Vassar College.
Theater, Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts