The Bard Center for Curatorial Studies’ new Keith Haring Wing, which significantly expands the research center’s ability to support scholarship, recently opened at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley.
The 6,000-square-foot new wing will give the Center for Curatorial Studies more than twice as much capacity to serve scholars and students and will be able to accommodate more than 30,000 additional scholarly volumes for them to refer to. It includes the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Collaborative Study Room in recognition of SNF’s support for its construction.
The Center for Curatorial Studies consists of a museum, a library, an archive, and a graduate program focused on the act of exhibiting art created from the 1960s through the present by artists like Haring.
For two decades, SNF has supported graduate education in curatorial studies through scholarships to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and more recently has supported early-career curators in Greece through founding support to ARTWORKS.