ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON.- The Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College presents two new exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 21:

Stan Douglas: Ghostlight is the artist’s first survey in the US in over 20 years and charts his global influence and innovation across 40 works from the 1990s to the present. The exhibition presents the world premiere of an immersive, multi-channel video installation that revisits D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” framed by a selection of works that explore topics ranging from settler colonialism in the Americas, to the legacies of transatlantic slavery, to modern movements for liberation in Africa and Europe. Douglas’s deeply researched and longtime commitment to these histories provide an expansive view of the present, one that sheds light on moments of breakdown and chaos that attend societies in upheaval.


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Since the 1980s, Douglas has created films, installations, photographs, and other multidisciplinary projects that address moments of rupture where “history could go one way or the other.” Across formats, Douglas’s images recall things that haunt: unresolved moments, turbulences, and violent turning points; plots that retain a hold, however imperceptible, on the present. His work operates within the genres of cinema, photography, and theater to present a point of view that is, always, staged.


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All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is the first exhibition to contextualize and historicize an essential chapter in Arab modern and contemporary art. This in-depth presentation of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, which was founded in 1951 and remained a creative force through the early 1970s, presents a spirited picture of multiple generations of artists working together to forge a new and distinct aesthetic that captured the dynamism and hope of postcolonial life in Iraq. The exhibition invites audiences to learn about modernism from the vantage point of Iraq—a vibrant site of exchange and influence across West Asia, North Africa, and Europe, reflecting on the group’s formation, progression, and impact on subsequent generations of artists.

All Manner of Experiments combines significant examples of painting, sculpture, and drawing from the Group with archival material, including newsreel footage, the Group’s manifesto, exhibition posters, and artist-designed brochures.



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