CCS Exhibition Stan Douglas: Ghostlight Featured in the New York Times

The retrospective Stan Douglas: Ghostlight at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College’s (CCS Bard) Hessel Museum of Art, has been reviewed in the New York Times. The exhibition, which features some of Douglas’s most important works of photography and video, is the artist’s first survey in the US in over 20 years and charts his global influence and innovation across 40 works, from the 1990s to the present. “The show at Bard—organized and cunningly paced by Lauren Cornell, the artistic director of the college’s Center for Curatorial Studies—captures Douglas’s commitment to art as a practice of reconstitution: of putting the past in the service of the present, restaging turning points and letting the strings show,” writes Jason Farago for the New York Times. Since the 1980s, Douglas has created films, installations, photographs, and other multidisciplinary projects that address moments of potential rupture in history. Across formats, Douglas’s images recall things that haunt: unresolved moments, turbulences, and violent turning points, which retain a subtle hold on the present. 

Further reading:
"A Powerful Stan Douglas Survey Dares to Imagine a New Future from the Past" in ArtNews
 

Post Date: 07-18-2025