Faculty News
“The Motivating Power of Melancholia”: Black Melancholia, on Display Now at the Hessel Museum of Art, Reviewed in the New York Times
“A racist attack on Black Americans, with the spectacle of real-time pain it carries, tends to make news,” writes Holland Cotter for the New York Times. “But the depression that racism itself generates—the dread, anger and despair that create a low-pressure area in the soul—goes pretty much unreported.” Black Melancholia, a “stirring group show” on display now at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, takes as its theme the “chronic condition” that can arise in Black life and art. More >
Hillary A. Langberg Named 2022 Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar
Hillary A. Langberg, visiting assistant professor of religion, has been named a 2022 Robert H. N. Ho Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar. The cohort of scholars, through a fellowship made possible by the American Council of Learned Societies and Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Global, will spend up to two years “bolster[ing] the capacity of museums and publications in Buddhist art and thought across all traditions and regions in which Buddhism is practiced.” More >
Recent News
- Roger Berkowitz Spoke with Moxie by Proxy about Hannah Arendt, Surprise in Writing, and Original Thought
- Francie Prose on the January 6 Hearings for the Guardian: “We Narrowly Escaped a Far Worse Disaster”
- Bard College Appoints Lucas Blalock ’02 as Assistant Professor of Photography in the Division of Arts
- Bard College Assistant Professor of Physics Antonios Kontos Receives $210,000 Grant from the National Science Foundation to Support Research in Measuring Gravitational Waves
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