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A darkened scene features two illuminated rectangular screens side by side against a black background. The left screen shows the shadow of an outstretched hand and forearm, angled upward with fingers splayed. The right screen displays the shadowy silhouette of a figure bent forward, hands clasped low and head down, partially obscured by darkness. Two small desk lamps sit below the screens, casting faint light upward.

Vito Acconci: Scenes from This Side of the Camp

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This single-gallery installation features archival materials, including sound recordings, from a 1973 performance by the pioneering and provocative American artist Vito Acconci.

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Photography of Jeremy Dennis

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Jeremy Dennis (b. 1990) is a contemporary fine art photographer, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, New York, and lead artist and founder of the nonprofit Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio Inc. on the Shinnecock Reservation. In his work, he explores Indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.

A figure gazes upwards against a cosmic background filled with swirling galaxies and stars, creating a sense of vastness. The figure is depicted in monochrome, wearing formal attire that contrasts with the vibrant celestial hues. The facial expression is contemplative, adding depth to the pose. In the lower right corner, the text “MODfest” is displayed in bold, colorful lettering.

Computing Venus

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7:30 p.m. on Friday, and 2:00 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live.

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Artist Talk with Cecilia Vicuña

The Loeb welcomes acclaimed Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña for an artist talk in conjunction with the closing of Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025. 

Free and open to the public.

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Master Class: Visionary Voices—Burton & Musto

Music department students perform for internationally renowned soprano Amy Burton and composer and pianist John Musto in a master class, featuring Musto’s musical works.

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Poster-style graphic for a project titled “Rescoring Richter,” with the word “RICHTER” running vertically on the left, “RESCORING” across the top, and the phrases “New Sonic Environments” and “For a Master of Avant Garde Film” centered between rows of black-and-white film stills showing abstract shapes, floating hats, a group of men, raised hands, concentric circles, two faces with superimposed circles over their eyes, and a frame reading “Un film de Hans Richter,” all framed by a thin red rectangular borde

Rescoring Richter

Rescoring Richter is a multimedia project pairing contemporary sound artists with Hans Richter’s 1920s avant-garde films to create new scores, documented through short films and live performances that reveal and reanimate his revolutionary cinematic imagery.

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Honorary Adene and Richard Wilson Concert

An evening of new compositions featuring boldly expressive works by MODfest cofounder Richard Wilson and premieres by new faculty Alan Hankers and Celeste Oram, highlighting electronic-influenced textures and interdisciplinary explorations of music, language, and cultural history.

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The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival

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Please join us for The Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival presented by the Vassar College Department of French and Francophone Studies.

Free and open to the public.

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Ongoing Events

Chronostasia: Select Acquisitions 2020–2025

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Featuring over sixty works added to the Loeb Art Center’s collection between 2020–2025, Chronostasia explores various ways artworks can alter our perception of time. To mark the exhibition’s opening, artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) speaks with Vassar’s Molly McGlennen and curator Alyx Raz ’16 about his work. Free and open to the public

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For Maria: Rose B. Simpson and Pueblo Pottery

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This installation brings together work by the acclaimed potter Maria Martinez and multimedia artist Rose B. Simpson, whose sculpture “Seed” is the first new addition to Vassar’s campus art in nearly 20 years.

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