Past Events

One of the best-known artists on the world stage, Xu Bing has made real impact in China and abroad. His talk will be given in Chinese, with simultaneous translation provided.

Campus community only, please.

Dr. Square is Assistant Professor at Parsons School of Design and a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He will speak about his present research, which explores connections between histories of enslavement and the fashion system.

Blake’s work explores play, eroticism, and the subjective experiences of desire, power, and loss. Inspired by feminist theory and queer subcultures, they address the contradictions of representation in sculptures, drawings, performances, and videos, particularly as it relates to their own identity as a nonbinary multiracial artist.

Art historian Dora Apel considers the dynamic nature of memory, how it can be mobilized for social justice, and how memory is embodied, including through her own experience as a daughter of Holocaust survivors and a cancer survivor. A reception for Dora Apel and artist Buzz Spector will precede the lecture.

A Matthew Vassar Lecture by syndicated Black cartoonist and children’s book illustrator Jerry Craft, who will discuss his graphic novel New Kid—and how the text has recently been weaponized as a political pawn, banned from some libraries and classrooms across the country.

As part of the Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture series, the Brooklyn-based artist will discuss her work.

Drawing on new archival research, this exhibition presents the contributions by three generations of the Olmsted firm to the Vassar campus. It is also the inaugural exhibition in a series about the history, preservation, and planning of the campus, organized by the Art Department.

Lichtman, a figurative painter of domestic spaces, will discuss her work. She is the Charles Bloom Professor of the Arts of Design at Brandeis University.