ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.- CCS Bard presents, on Sunday, April 13, the second of a series of nine exhibitions at the CCS Galleries, curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies, including work by 46 internationally known contemporary artists. These exhibitions are the culmination of the students' work for the master's degree. Concurrently on view with these exhibitions in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art is Second Thoughts, a response to Matthew Higgs's Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, featuring works by more than 70 artists.

The CCS Galleries and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College are open Wednesdays through Sundays from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. All CCS Bard exhibitions and public programs are free and open to the public. Transportation to and from New York City for the exhibition openings—April 13, and May 11—is available without charge, via a chartered bus. Reservations in advance are required; call 845.758.7598 or e-mail ccs@bard.edu.

The April series, opening on Sunday, April 13, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., is on view through Sunday, April 27. The exhibitions are: Another Time, including work by Chen Chieh-jen, Tacita Dean, and Peter Hutton, curated by Milena Hoegsberg; (loverboy), sleep, shatter, handheld bird, including works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Barry Le Va, and Charles Ray, curated by Daniel Byers; and Under the Influence, including work by John Baldessari, Jen DeNike, Nancy Holt, Tim Jackson, Joan Jonas, David Jones, Jill Magid, Rachel Mason, Michele O'Marah, and Robert Smithson, curated by Anat Ebgi.

The final series of three exhibitions opens on Sunday, May 11, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and is on view through Sunday, May 25. The exhibitions are: Modernism: On and Off the Grid, with works by Martin Beck, VALIE EXPORT, Dan Graham, Dorit Margreiter, and Superstudio, curated by Niko Vicario; Act Out, including work by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Sturtevant, and Hannah Wilke, curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch; and Degrees North: Six Artists and the Icelandic Landscape, including work by Birgir Andrésson, Douwe Jan Bakker, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Kristján Guðmundsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, and Magnús Pálsson, curated by Nicole Pollentier.

Second Thoughts, curated by 14 first-year graduate students at the Center for Curatorial Studies, presents exhibition as revision. It is a direct response to Exhibitionism (October 20, 2007 – February 3, 2008), a series of autonomous and idiosyncratic micro-exhibitions curated by Matthew Higgs for each of the 16 galleries in the Hessel Museum. Second Thoughts, organized in three phases, is on view concurrently with the master's degree thesis exhibitions (March 16–30, April 13–27, and May 11–25).

These exhibitions were made possible with support from the Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg Student Exhibition Fund; Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; Patrons, Supporters, and Friends of the Center for Curatorial Studies; and by the Center's annual benefit for student scholarships and exhibitions. Additional support for the spring exhibitions has been provided by the Monique Beudert Fund.