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New York Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Stan Douglas and the Double Life of Images
I knew Vancouver before I ever saw it. I knew it from late-night movies and second-string TV shows, from '80s and '90s American productions — '21 Jump Street,' 'The X-Files' and the like — that were filmed in the discounted climes north of the border. 'Hollywood North,' as they used to call it, almost never got to play itself onscreen: The streets around Vancouver's False Creek were recast as San Francisco or New York, and the victims of American horror movies fled through British Columbian forests. The cinema was born in Lyon, it was industrialized in Los Angeles, but Vancouver is the city made of moving pictures. Vancouver's role as Hollywood's secret twin has always seemed suitable to Stan Douglas, the Canadian artist gripped by images and their doubles. Since the 1980s, working in still photography, broadcast television, room-filling video installation and even theater, he has reimagined the widest currents of history as mirror images and not-quite-clones. 'Ghostlight,' an ambitious retrospective that opened recently at Bard College here in the Hudson Valley, includes some of his most important works in video and photography, built out of 18th-century archives and 21st-century tech. (Given recent presidential designs on a new state north of the 49th parallel, the show also offers an opportune reminder of the distinct dimensions of Canadian art and history: where it dovetails with America's, and where it diverges.) 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. To make 'Luanda-Kinshasa' (2013), he invited the pianist Jason Moran to lead a fictitious 1970s jam session, which Douglas filmed in the manner of Jean-Luc Godard's Rolling Stones doc 'Sympathy for the Devil.' For a permanent commission of mural-size photos at New York's Moynihan Train Hall, he commandeered a Vancouver hockey arena for tableaus vivants of hundreds of actors — each performing a real episode of war heroes, labor activists and tabloid murderers who really passed through the old Penn Station. For 'Birth of a Nation,' his intricate and shocking new five-screen video work at Bard, he wrote an entire screenplay adapting D.W. Griffith's noxious epic — which we never hear, as the video is silent. All of which is to say that if you like your history at name-check depth, you can stick with the Guggenheim this summer. This is serious art for serious people, and Douglas's imposing videos and photos have bibliographies to match: Brush up on your Beckett and Freud. Douglas was born in Vancouver in 1960, and his early work (regrettably absent here) paid close attention to the psychological underside of Hollywood cinema. His interests grew more historical in the 1990s, and his greatest hits of that decade are at Bard — the first being 'Hors-Champs' (1992), his very first multi-projector installation. For 'Hors-Champs' Douglas gathered four American musicians (three Black, one white) who had lived in Paris during the late 1960s, and invited them to perform Albert Ayler's 1965 'Spirits Rejoice': a quicksilver composition of free jazz, associated as much with Black nationalism in the United States as with left-wing agitation in France. The black-and-white image looks like an old videotape, with its soft edges and noisy backgrounds. In fact, Douglas shot this himself on a Paris soundstage, using old cathode ray tube cameras, mimicking the shot-countershot editing and monochrome stages of 1960s European TV. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Politico
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Moscow adds Yale to ‘undesirable organizations' list
Russia has added dozens of foreign nonprofits, media organizations and charities — including human rights NGO Amnesty International and American liberal arts school Bard College — to the state blacklist since 2015. The Russian government also singled out the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, which houses the university's International Leadership Center, accusing the school of training 'opposition leaders of foreign countries.' The statement said Russian graduates of the program have gone on to join the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny — who died in a Russian prison last year — alleging they 'used the knowledge and technologies they acquired at the school to escalate protest activity in the Russian Federation.' The Jackson School recognized Navalny in 2010 with a scholarship to a fellows program. Moscow has banned dozens of American academics accused of partaking in anti-Russia activities — including Yale professors Larry Samuelson and Jeffrey Sonnenfeld — from entering the country since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Several scholars at the university, including Sonnenfeld, have promoted the idea of directing Russia's frozen assets to Ukraine. Sonnenfeld, who was added to Russia's no-entry list in June 2022 along with several academics, U.S. senators and members of the Biden family, said he considers the Kremlin's attacks to be a 'badge of honor.' 'I think it is a proud patriotic moment where we're waving the flag to show that the national interests and the interests of institutions like this are inextricably intertwined,' Sonnenfeld said Tuesday in an interview. Yale did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
San Francisco Chronicle
26-06-2025
- Climate
- San Francisco Chronicle
New York professor still missing a month after being swept away in California river
One month after Bard College literature professor Rebecca Cole Heinowitz was swept away by the South Yuba River's frigid, fast-moving waters, search teams in Northern California are still combing the area in hopes of recovering her body. Heinowitz, 50, of Barrytown, N.Y., was last seen on the evening of May 24 struggling to stay afloat in the turbulent current just upstream from the Highway 49 bridge in Nevada County, according to authorities. Officials say she had entered the river in the wilderness area, about 80 miles south of Lake Tahoe, while with a friend, though it remains unclear whether she was familiar with the dangerous conditions at the time. Despite initial emergency response efforts that night by the Nevada County Consolidated Fire District, Heinowitz could not be located. The Nevada County Sheriff's Office and its search and rescue team took over shortly after and continue to conduct intermittent searches using drones and California Highway Patrol aerial support. 'The search remains ongoing but is being conducted intermittently throughout the week,' the sheriff's office told the Chronicle on Wednesday. Crews have focused on a stretch of river between Highway 49 and Bridgeport, an area about six miles long. Officials say manned aircraft and drones prioritize early afternoon flights for optimal visibility. When Heinowitz disappeared, the river's flow was measured at around 1,800 cubic feet per second. It has since slowed to about 350, according to the sheriff, but visibility remains limited by debris, boulders and fluctuating depths. Born and raised in San Diego and known to students as Cole, Heinowitz had taught literature at Bard since 2004. She specialized in romanticism, poetry and psychoanalysis, and was a noted scholar of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.' She previously held teaching positions at Dartmouth, Brandeis and Brown University, where she earned her master's and doctorate degrees, according to her biography. Bard President Leon Botstein described her as 'an unforgettable and unique teacher and colleague' in a letter to the college community obtained by the Times Union. 'Her mind and personality were magnetic and singular,' he wrote.
New York Times
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Lapham's Quarterly Will Begin Its Revival with Website and Podcast
The literary journal Lapham's Quarterly is relaunching its website and podcast this summer under the editorial guidance of the writers Donovan Hohn and Francine Prose — a fortuitous and surprising turn for a magazine that seemed on the brink of extinction. Starting this week, Lapham's will revive its weekly podcast, 'The World in Time.' In coming days, new online features and editorial commentary will be published on its website, including installments of the quarterly's centerpiece section, 'Voices in Time,' which showcases provocative writing from historical figures, philosophers and thinkers. The first podcast episode, due out this Friday, will be hosted by Hohn, and will include audio clips from a keynote address that the journal's founder, Lewis Lapham, gave in 2011 at Bard College, a prescient speech about the urgent need for truth telling. Another episode airing on Saturday is devoted to memorializing Lapham, who died last summer at the age of 89. It will feature recorded audio from his memorial service, where notable authors and artists spoke, among them Alec Baldwin, Christopher Lloyd, Oskar Eustis and Ben Metcalf. Next year, editors hope to restart production of print issues. Elaborately designed, they revolved around a single broad theme, like youth, war, money or happiness, and featured long-form articles, essays and excerpts from historical texts. (Famous bylines included Thucydides, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf and Sun Tzu.) In a media landscape where most publications are relentlessly chasing breaking news and online trends, Lapham's seemed almost defiantly averse to following the news cycle. When Lapham founded the publication in 2007, his goal was 'to bring the voices of the past up to the microphone of the present,' he later told The New York Times. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bard College at Simons Rock to lay off 116 employees
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (WWLP) – More than 100 employees will be laid off at a college campus in Berkshire County later this year. The looming shutdown of Bard College at Simon's Rock and Bard Academy at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington will cost 116 jobs. The layoffs will be effective June 30th but some will stay on until December 31st. The college and academy announced their planned shutdowns in November. Both will move to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Local News Headlines WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WWLP.
