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December 2014
12-24-2014
12-24-2014
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a full spring season of performing arts events, including jazz and orchestral concerts, and innovative dance and theater productions, from January 31 through May 16. Highlights include the Billie Holiday Centenary Tribute, Joseph Haydn’s The Creation, American Symphony Orchestra concerts, Cynthia Hopkins’ A Living Documentary, Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Laurie Anderson, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance.
12-23-2014
Sound artist and educator Christine Sun Kim joins this year's TED fellows, a select group that presents at TED conferences and participates in a network of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
12-22-2014
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce the gift of almost 200 contemporary artworks from New York art collectors Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. The gift includes mostly works from the past fifteen years, close to the time Martin Eisenberg has been involved with the center as a board member and avid supporter of the graduate program, its students, and exhibitions. The Eisenbergs have supported the annual graduate exhibitions held each spring for the past eight years. In 2010, their collection was exhibited in the Hessel Museum of Art in At Home/Not At Home, curated by Matthew Higgs. Many of the artists shown in the Hessel Museum exhibition are represented in the new gift valued at approximately $2 million.
12-15-2014
Yulia Van Doren M.M. '08, a graduate of the Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, talks about being mentored by the great Dawn Upshaw.
12-12-2014
Photography Program director Stephen Shore discusses teaching, the digital revolution, his approach to the craft, and why he loves Instagram.
12-12-2014
Languages and Literature professor Ann Lauterbach and professor emeritus John Ashbery describe the pull of their favorite historical photographs.
12-11-2014
Author Teju Cole discusses the CIA torture report, his affection for the Times arts section, and why he wants to write for the Onion.
12-10-2014
Sundance describes Ian Samuels's new film as, "A heartbroken alien dreamer from the moon transitions into young adult life in Los Angeles just like any other 20-something."
12-10-2014
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce that Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson are the recipients of the 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award carries a $25,000 prize to be split between the recipients and will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on April 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm in New York City.
12-09-2014
In honor of the late artist Robert De Niro Sr., each year his estate supports a mid-career American painter with the $25,000 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize. This year's recipient is Robert Bordo, Bard MFA painting faculty member.
12-08-2014
Bard College presents a special exhibition of photographs and poetry on display from December 8
through January 9, on view in the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library in the atrium and the Sussman Room, 2nd floor. The exhibition features two works, “Winter Music,” a collaboration between artist/photographer Susan Quasha and renowned poet Robert Kelly, and “Madonna Comix,” a series of 26 prints by Dianne Kornberg based on 11 poems by Celia Bland. There will be an opening reception and poetry reading on Tuesday, December 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Library atrium.
12-03-2014
Between 2008 and 2013, architectural photographer Felicella captured all 212 branch libraries of New York City’s three public library systems.
12-03-2014
The Fisher Center at Bard College presents a special holiday performance of Nut/Cracked—The Bang Group’s beloved, witty response to The Nutcracker. Showcasing choreography by David Parker ’81 with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nut/Cracked will be performed in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center on Saturday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 21 at 2 p.m.
12-02-2014
Chan’s “singular artistic voice” and versatile practice won him the prestigious award, which includes a $100,000 prize and an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.
12-02-2014
Bard alumnus Joseph Silovsky '91 mixes theater and robotics in his new play, Send for the Million Men.
12-01-2014
The ICP-Bard MFA program hosts the symposium "What’s Love Got To Do with It: Affect, Interactivity and the Haptic" on Saturday, December 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
12-01-2014
David Parker ’81 choreographs this new take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, with "enough creative pluckiness to reawaken the holiday spirit." Performances December 20–21.
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