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"The next passenger should be coming in for secondary screening any moment now. You know the drill. Don’t take too long.”

Mirror, mirror on the wall, how can we improve this conference call?

Minuscule fish, dogs, sunrises, and more have taken over unoccupied mailbox spaces in the Barn’s administrative office.

On March 2, students from Josh Blackwell’s Intermediate Painting class installed Alexander Liberman’s Big Blue Circle outside of the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery.

If Picasso doodled on a napkin, contemporary art lovers and critics alike would probably scrutinize it for signs of genius.

In a culture inundated with digital content, a print magazine might seem like an unusual focus for a new publication. However, Polychrome Mag., the first issue of which will be released in March, is a self-proclaimed iconoclast. Culture Editor Gabriela Yadegari ’21 is among Polychrome’s six founding collaborators, who will use the magazine to showcase creative people of color, reshaping how mainstream media and audiences view them and their work.

The first major survey of celebrated photographer Sally Mann '73 to travel internationally investigates how Mann's relationship with her native land–a place rich in literary and artistic traditions but troubled by history–has shaped her work.

For her feature story in Ceramics Monthly about the influential work of Stanley Rosen, who taught generations of ceramics students at Bennington, philosophy faculty member Karen Gover interviewed one of Rosen’s former students, Josh Green ’81, executive director of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA).

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship published an essay on curator Jacquline Mabey titled "Not Mine Alone, Nor Mine to Own: Some Reflections on the Young Girl."

Hyperallergic featured an article on work by artist Asad Malik ’19, who uses holograms to bring the Syrian conflict into everyday spaces. 

WSB-TV Action News anchor Jovita Moore ’89 into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Southeast Chapter's Silver Circle, one of NATAS' most prestigious career awards for broadcast television.

51�������� presents an exhibition and lecture by critically acclaimed media artist Alexandra Bell. Bell is known for her “Counternarratives” project of supersized New York Times articles edited to reveal biases and assumptions about race and gender. Usually posted one work at a time around everyday locations in New York City, her “Counternarratives” prints will appear at Bennington as a series of four installed on building exteriors around campus.

An exhibition of artist books by renowned publisher and book artist Gunnar Kaldewey opens with a reception on Tuesday, September 19, at 6:30-7:30 PM in Usdan Gallery. The exhibition, Gunnar Kaldewey Artist Books 2011-2017 marks the opening of the 2017-18 season.

The City Council of Minucciano, Italy, has named faculty member Jon Isherwood an Honorary Citizen in recognition of his work promoting the region through an art and technology initiative he’s been leading for the past five years.

Anne Thompson, director of Bennington’s Usdan Gallery, was interviewed on KCRW Radio about her public art exhibition, the I-70 Sign Show, which displays works of contemporary art on surplus interstate billboards along 250 miles between St. Louis and Kansas City.

Lydia Musco ’01 installed a concrete outdoor sculpture on August 16 and 17 on the lawn between VAPA and the back of the Barn. Incoming director of Usdan Gallery, Anne Thompson, asked her about the piece in the following Q & A.

They put words in actors’ mouths. They move scenes seamlessly. They design iconic sets. Alums at Netflix develop the shows you can’t help but binge watch—and you likely didn’t know their names or how they do what they do, until now. By Sarah McAbee ’07

A new show at Usdan Gallery opens June 28. Vital Curiosity draws connections with other exhibitions in the region this summer, and marks the arrival of a new director and curator for the gallery.

Hyperallergic covered MASS MoCA's recent expansion, and highlighted work by faculty member Mary Lum, whose installation, Lorem ipsum (Assembly) is currently on view. 

The third floor of Commons was the crossroads of intellectual and cultural life of the 20th century: where Helen Frankenthaler '49 and Paul Feeley painted, where Martha Graham danced, where Bob Dylan sang, and where Gunnar Schonbeck made his instruments. Now, it fully reopens for the first time since the 80's and the last time before a complete renovation of the building for a visual and performative arts show. 

The artist, curator, urbanist, and facilitator Theaster Gates was in residence at 51�������� in April, speaking to students, faculty, and staff about making place and making change, the two driving forces of his work. The highlight of his time on campus was the Adams–Tillim Lecture, which he delivered on April 25. By Aruna D'Souza

Yoko Inoue has received a grant from the Japan Foundation for an exhibition project, Tea Taste Democracy and Upside Down Objects, at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is currently as an artist-in-residence. 

Black Spring, an exhibition organized by current students representing past, present, and future black lives at Bennington, will be on view in Usdan Gallery until May 9. 

Five local art institutions, including the Bennington Museum, have joined together to promote art awareness and economic development in the Berkshire region.

Currently showing in the President's Gallery are recent works by visual artist and 51�������� 3D Technologist, Michael Stradley. They will be on view through April 2. 

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) has named Brooke Davis Anderson '84 as the museum's new director.

Novelist, essayist, playwright, queer activist, and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the College of Staten Island, Sarah Schulman.

MESH, a new show at Gallery Oldham in Oldham, UK that opens March 11 will feature work by Jon Isherwood. 

A dance, music, and theater performance produced by Ruth Bauer Neustadter '66 in celebration of Women’s History Month will take place at the Ceres Gallery in New York City on Wednesday, March 15, at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. 

The Huffington Post published an article highlighting the work and achievements of historically "overlooked" black female artists, which included work by Maren Hassinger '69.