Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
The Violent Woman
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.
Don Nice
Paintings by contemporary American realist Don Nice, with emphasis on recent works relating to the Hudson Valley.
Doing Philosophy at the Movies
Explores philosophical ideas through an examination of popular film.
When the Music Stopped
A son’s coming to terms with his mother’s decision to abandon her career as a concert pianist in order to raise her children.
Rimer Cardillo
The first comprehensive survey of the work of the Uruguayan printmaker and graphic artist Rimer Cardillo, presented in both English and Spanish.
Theatres of Human Sacrifice
Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.
The Face of Immortality
Argues for a new kind of criticism, one that mediates between literal and allegorical modes of interpretation.
Funny, It Doesn't Sound Jewish
Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.
Film Voices
Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.
Art Nature Dialogues
Environmental artists from Europe and North America talk about their work.
Restoring Paradise
Explores European and American esoteric traditions as reflected in literature and in art.
Globalization, Technology, and Philosophy
Confronts globalization and technology from philosophical perspectives.
Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients
Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.
Utopia/Post-Utopia
Features the works of nine photographers and video artists on the cutting edge of the Cuban art scene.
Anglo-Saxon Styles
Considers the definitions and implications of style in Anglo-Saxon art and literature.
The Globalization of Corporate Media Hegemony
Shows how dominant commercial media practices secure a hold among and affect diverse national cultures.
Bolton Coit Brown
Explores the career of one of America’s most noted printmakers and seminal role he played in bringing the arts to Woodstock, New York.
American Artists, Authors, and Collectors
Offers a behind-the-scenes look at a significant era in the development and emergence of modern American art.
Jane Austen and Co.
Examines recent Austen remakes as well as other “post-heritage” films and television shows to show how the past is reshaped for a contemporary market.
Richard Callner
Career retrospective of modernist Albany painter Richard Callner.
Reading Objects 2002
Explores the numerous perspectives from which works of art can be experienced and understood.
Connecting
Explores how we come to feel connected to those we have never met face-to-face.
Waste-Site Stories
Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.
Robert Morris
Drawings by one of the twentieth century’s most intellectually challenging artists.
Color of Rape
Analyzes the depiction of rape on television network news, daytime shows, prime time programming, and alternative programming.