All Bard News by Date
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September 2015
09-30-2015
"Presenting more than 300 playthings dating from the 17th to the early 21st century, "Swedish Wooden Toys" ... will be catnip for anyone interested in antique toys."
09-28-2015
Tirzah Brott's Senior Project gets some media attention and she lands a job as an assistant photo editor at New York magazine with the help of fellow alumna Roxanne Behr '10.
09-27-2015
"Adam Conover’s new television series isn’t the first dedicated to the fine art of debunking, but it’s one of the most entertaining."
09-27-2015
The Swedish Wooden Toys exhibit displays fine design and craftsmanship, calling forth an era before batteries and touch screens.
09-20-2015
This year is big for Longy School of Music, and the conservatory is celebrating its centennial anniversary in style.
09-19-2015
Fennelly talks about working with Maryanne Amacher and David Behrman as a student in the Bard MFA program.
09-16-2015
"Earnest and all-American, she radiates fireside-chat warmth," writes Zachary Woolfe of Professor Upshaw's set at the Resonant Bodies Festival.
09-16-2015
Oursler’s collection of objects related to magic, the paranormal, and pseudoscience have been published as Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler, coedited by Tom Eccles.
09-14-2015
The Fisher Center presents American Ballet Theatre in its third appearance at Bard College, October 9 – 11. The weekend program features Alexei Ratmansky’s Piano Concerto #1, Paul Taylor’s Company B, and a world premiere by Mark Morris, performed in the Fisher Center’s stunning Sosnoff Theater. The engagement will feature ABT principal dancers including Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Misty Copeland, Maria Kochetkova, and Gillian Murphy as well as Herman Cornejo, Daniil Simkin, and Cory Stearns.
09-11-2015
The Longy School kicks off a year of centennial festivities on the weekend of September 25-27 with the annual SeptemberFest concert series.
09-10-2015
Beginning in fall 2015, the Dance Program at Bard College will partner with the Trisha Brown Dance Company (TBDC) to offer undergraduate dance classes, as well as college-wide forums, workshops, and performances. Allowing for deep integration in Bard’s dance program curriculum as well as the campus community as a whole, the partnership with TBDC will include undergraduate courses in dance technique (for advanced dancers as well as beginning and non-dancers); the licensing of select Trisha Brown works on dance students to be performed annually; master classes; campus-wide events; and the full company in residence for one to three weeks each year. Bard’s collaboration with TBDC will reach across disciplines and programs to involve artists in other College programs and initiatives.
09-10-2015
Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Art History Program are pleased to announce a major grant from The Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut. The College has been awarded a $1 million grant from The Brant Foundation, Inc., to support curatorial studies and art history. Alex Kitnick, noted art historian and writer, has been appointed the new Brant Foundation Fellow in Contemporary Arts. This fellowship enables Kitnick to join the College as a full-time faculty member teaching jointly in CCS Bard’s graduate and Bard’s art history undergraduate programs. This joint appointment is the first of its kind in the visual arts at Bard.
09-10-2015
The Orchestra Now welcomed its first 37 musicians this month and will perform concerts this season at Bard, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere.
09-08-2015
Emmy-winning actress Blythe Danner '65 has built a remarkable resume of stage and screen roles, but Brett Haley's I'll See You in My Dreams will be her first lead part in a film.
09-07-2015
Benjamin Barron '15, who cofounded the new fashion and culture publication ALL-IN with fellow alum Allison Littrell '14, tells us why he's not crazy and why print is more important than ever.
09-06-2015
The films of Bard professor Peggy Ahwesh and Jennifer Montgomery will be exhibited at the Murray Guy gallery in New York City from September 12 to October 24.
09-06-2015
Eccles and Katrib's selection of works by eight artists uses smartphones, billboards, and sculpture to challenge the meaning of public space.
09-06-2015
Performer and choreographer Miguel Gutierrez, “one of our most provocative and necessary artistic voices” (Dance Magazine), meets middle age head-on in this wild and ebullient triptych that celebrates queerness, art making, and mortality. Age & Beauty will be performed in locations at the Fisher Center at Bard College from Thursday, September 10 through Sunday, September 13. Tickets are $25 ($10 for students) for individual performances and $45 ($20 for students) for marathon performances of the complete trilogy. For tickets and program information go to fishercenter.bard.edu or call the box office at 845-758-7900.
09-05-2015
Jeanne van Heeswijk will give a lecture titled "Acts of Political Uncertainty: Towards a Daily Practice of Resistance," on September 8 at 6:00 pm in the László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building. Van Heeswijk, 2014-15 Keith Haring Fellow, will demonstrate how active forms of citizenship can engage constituencies and communities in critical public issues. Van Heeswijk will describe how the complexities of our cities can be employed as the performative basis for the production of new forms of sociability, collective ownership, and self-organization.
09-04-2015
"A growing influencer in wood work, Sam Horowitz, showcases his intimate relationship with natural materials to reconstruct and influence our environments," writes Meg Busacca.
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