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August 18 – September 17, 2026

Monday, August 18, 2025, 12 AM

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The Conditions of Being Art

Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts

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Bard College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, a regional accrediting agency approved by the United States Education Department. Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, 2nd Floor West, Philadelphia, PA 19104; phone 267-284-5000. https://www.msche.org/institution/0267/

The New York State Education Department has registered the following courses of study leading to Bard College bachelor, masters, and doctoral degrees: the bachelor of arts, bachelor of music, bachelor of science, master of arts in curatorial studies, master of arts in teaching, master of fine arts, master of business administration in sustainability, master of music in vocal arts, master of music in conducting, master of music in curatorial, critical, and performance studies, master of science in environmental policy, master of science in climate science and policy, master of education in environmental education, master of science and master of arts in economic theory and policy, and the master of arts, master of philosophy, and doctor of philosophy degrees in decorative arts, design history, and material culture. New York State Education Department, Office of Higher Education, Office of College and University Evaluation, Room 960 EBA, 89 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12234; phone 518-474-1551. http://www.nysed.gov/heds/IRPSL1.html

Bard is also a member of the American Council on Education, American Council of Learned Societies, Association of American Colleges and Universities, College Entrance Examination Board, Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, Education Records Bureau, and Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities.

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There is limited campus housing for graduate students. Apartments and houses for rent can be found near the Bard College campus, and CCS Bard maintains a list of real estate agents who can assist students in finding housing.

During the academic year, graduate students may purchase a prepaid credit card that can be used at the Bard College dining facilities.

Medical Records and Health Insurance Prior to arrival at Bard, all students are required to complete a health packet, which includes documentation of a recent physical examination and complete immunization records. New York State law requires that all students born after January 1, 1957, provide proof of immunization against measles, mumps, and rubella. Additionally, students must be provided information about meningococcal meningitis and must document having received the vaccine or sign a waiver declining it. All students must provide proof of health insurance.

Bard College offers students accident and health insurance, which includes use of the Bard College Health Service. For information about immunization requirements and health insurance, call the Bard Health Services at (845) 758-7433.

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Bard College is committed to ensuring equal access to its educational programs and equal employment without regard to an individual’s sex, gender, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, veteran status, military status, domestic violence victim status, ex-offender status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Students, employees, applicants, and other members of Bard College community (including, but not limited to, vendors, visitors, and guests) shall not be subject to discrimination or harassment prohibited by law or otherwise treated adversely based upon a protected characteristic. Similarly, the College will not tolerate harassing, violent, intimidating, or discriminatory conduct by its students, employees, or any other member of, or visitor to, the College community. This includes, without limitation, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual violence, dating violence, and domestic violence.
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The Graduate Program in Curatorial Studies is an intensive course of study in the history of contemporary art, the institutions and practices of exhibition making, and the theory and criticism of contemporary art since the 1960s. Throughout its over thirty year history, the program has actively recruited perspectives underrepresented in contemporary art and cultivated a student body representing a diverse spectrum of backgrounds in a broad effort to transform the curatorial field.
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SPECIAL THANKS

LEGACY TABLES
Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg
Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg
Gladstone Gallery

UNDERWRITER TABLES
Marieluise Hessel Artzt and Edwin Artzt
Melissa Schiff Soros

BENEFACTOR TABLES
Brookfield Properties
Lori and Alexandre Chemla
Kathryn and Kenneth Chenault
Susan and Leonard Feinstein
Hauser & Wirth
The Speyer Family Foundation
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation
Angela Westwater, Sperone Westwater

CURATOR AND ARTIST TABLES
Roland Augustine
Amy Cappellazzo
Greene Naftali
Lawrence Luhring
Marguerite Steed Hoffman
Annabelle Selldorf

PATRONS
Marcy Carsey
Marian Goodman Gallery
Greene Naftali
Agnes Gund
Ydessa Hendeles
Jill and Peter Kraus
Raymond Learsy
Ruth Keating Lockwood
Barbara and Howard Morse
Beth Rudin DeWoody

ASSOCIATES
Susan Bay-Nimoy
Tanya Bonakdar
Dan Desmond and Uya Chuluunbaatar
Michele Oka Doner
Arthur Fleischer, Jr.
Charlotte Feng Ford
The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation
Christina Lockwood
Susan and Glenn Lowry
Orentreich Family Foundation
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
Galerie Lelong & Co.

SPONSORS
Richard Armstrong
Eileen and Michael Cohen
Gagosian
Jenny Holzer
George A. Kellner
Wendy Olsoff
Penny Pilkington
Jane Richards
Laura Skoler (in honor of Lauren Cornell)
Jeremy Steinberg, Steinberg Shebairo LLP
Laurie and David Wolfert
Begum Yasar, Lévy Gorvy

FRIENDS
Ann Freedman, Freedman Art
Claudia Gould
Maxwell Graham and Mackenzie Lew Graham
Janice Guy
Miani Johnson
Casey Kaplan
Nicole Klagsbrun
John Melick
Petzel Gallery
Anne Rorimer
Julie Saul
Karen Shapiro
Shelby White
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Second Year Practicum II
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CCS Bard is pleased to announce internationally renowned art historian and curator Manuel Borja-Villel as the 2024 recipient of the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. Accompanied by a $25,000 prize, the award, which first launched in 1998, honors outstanding curatorial achievements that have brought innovative thinking, bold vision, and dedicated service to advancing the field of exhibition-making today.

In addition to the 2024 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, CCS Bard announces the inaugural Scott Lorinsky Alumni Award recognizing an outstanding graduate for sustained innovation and engagement in exhibition making, public education, research, and a commitment to the field. CCS Bard Alum Carla Acevedo-Yates (2014) will be the first recipient to receive the newly created award, which comes with a $10,000 prize.

Borja-Villel and Acevedo-Yates will both be honored at CCS Bard’s spring 2024 gala celebration and dinner on April 8, 2024. The event, which is chaired by the CCS Bard Board of Governors, will be held in New York City at The Lighthouse at Pier 61.

For more information about the award gala please contact Ramona Rosenberg at rrosenbe@bard.edu or 845.758.7574.

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Appointments are necessary to consult materials in Special Collections and the Archives.

The CCS Bard Archives contain the institutional archives for the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art as well as the organizational archives of select galleries, artist-run spaces and initiatives, and the personal papers of curators and artists. The Archives also maintains a collection of artist files for the artists represented in the Hessel Museum collection, and Study Collections that document a range of international curators, and historic exhibitions.

The Library and Archives are open to the Bard community as well as outside scholars and researchers specializing in the contemporary arts. Appointments are necessary to consult materials in Special Collections and the Archives. For more information or to schedule a research appointment, please contact us.

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Olafur Eliasson: Parliament of Reality
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For Bard students, faculty, and staff, appointments are required to consult holdings in Special Collections and the Archives. Outside researchers should contact us regarding access to collections.
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Ann E. Butler, Director of Library & Archives
butler@bard.edu

William McHenry, Librarian
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Hannah Mandel, Archivist
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Rebecca Belmore (Member of the Lac Seul First Nation [Anishinaabe]) in dialogue with María Carri and Leo Cocar as part of the CCS Bard Oral Histories course, co-led by Suzanne Snider and Candice Hopkins, (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023) March 10, 2023 via Zoom
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Now accepting applications for M.A. in Curatorial Studies - Deadline February 1, 2024. Generous scholarships available.

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The Artworld is Normal
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CCS Bard and the Hessel Museum of Art are located on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, about 90 miles north of New York City. Our street address is:

33 Garden Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

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From New York City and southern Connecticut:

  • Follow I-84 to the Taconic State Parkway. Take the Taconic north to the Red Hook / Route 199 exit. Drive west on Route 199 through the village of Red Hook to Route 9G, then turn right onto Route 9G and drive north 1.6 miles. At the first light (Kelly Road), make a left, then bear right onto Annandale Road (Country Route 103) to enter the Bard campus. Follow the signs to CCS Bard / Hessel Museum.

From New Jersey and points south:

  • Take the New York State Thruway (I-87) to Exit 19 (Kingston). Take Route 209 (changes to Route 199 at the Hudson River) over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to Route 9G. At the second light, turn left onto Route 9G and drive north 3.5 miles. Once on the Bard campus, follow the signs to CCS Bard Hessel Museum.

From northern Connecticut:

  • Take Route 44 to Route 199 at Millerton. Drive west on Route 199, then proceed as if coming from NYC and southern Connecticut (see above).

From Massachusetts and northern New England:

  • Take the Massachusetts Turnpike to Exit B-2 (Taconic State Parkway). Take the Taconic south to the Red Hook / Route 199 exit, then proceed as if coming from NYC and southern Connecticut (see above).
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Amtrak provides service from Penn Station in New York City and from Albany to Rhinecliff, about 9 miles south of Annandale-on-Hudson. Taxi service is available at the Rhinecliff station.
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For the fall 2023 semester, the CCS Bard Library is open to all Bard students, faculty, and staff. Outside researchers are welcome to contact us in advance to make an appointment.

Collections are non-circulating.

Appointments are required to consult holdings in Special Collections and the Archives.

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Ann E. Butler, Director of Library & Archives
butler@bard.edu

William McHenry, Librarian
wmchenry@bard.edu

Hannah Mandel, Archivist
hmandel@bard.edu

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