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The Barney Arts Digest

Posted

March 9, 2026

Announcements from the Department of Art & Art Professions

Gallery space with multiple paintings installed on cloth and large canvases installed on the wall.

New Exhibitions

BFA Thesis Project: The Burden of Being Seen on view March 11—13, 2026.

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BFA Thesis Project: In Compression on view March 11—13, 2026.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

80WSE: MFA First Year Exhibition: PLUTO on view until March 14, 2026.

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BFA Senior Thesis Projects 2026 on view until May 8, 2026.

BFA Studio Art majors culminating thesis project featuring a wide range of ambitious work across media and forms.

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Alumni & Department News

On March 5th, The Guggenheim Museum opened Carol Bove, a retrospective exhibition of Carol Bove's (Studio Art BS Alum) work across 25 years. Bove’s inventive practice ranges widely, from assemblages of paperback books and intimate paper collages to towering steel sculptures.

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Martha Schwendener's (Adjunct Faculty) book The Society of the Screen: Vilém Flusser’s Radical Prescience will be published on March 17, 2026 on MIT Press.

New & Ongoing Shows

Carol BoveCarol Bove, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Until August 2, 2026.

Joeun Kim AatchimWhispers on the Horizon, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. Until March 29, 2026.

Linda SorminUncertain Ground, The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada. Until April 12, 2026. 

Alice WangAlice Wang: Windstorm on Saturn, Basalt Columns, MDMA, Serotonin, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY. Until June 5, 2026.

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