All Bard News by Date
December 2015
12-25-2015
"Multimedia and radical conventions make this Oklahoma! much more chilling than you might remember," writes Charles Quittner.
12-17-2015
Writers and editors recall stage moments worth singing about from the past year, including Daniel Fish's "radically reimagined" Oklahoma! during Bard's SummerScape.
12-16-2015
"Luc Sante’s fascinating guide to the squalid, disorderly, dank, thrilling, dangerous underside of the Paris of the past makes for a suitably sprawling book."
12-13-2015
Stephen Shore is one of a number of artists who have been successful at conventional photography and now use Instagram as a sort of extra studio, writes Teju Cole.
12-06-2015
Luc Sante's The Other Paris is Times Higher Education's Book of the Week. "Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives."
12-05-2015
She may feel more comfortable as a supporting player, but Blythe Danner proves she can hold her own as a lead in the new film I’ll See You in My Dreams.
12-01-2015
Audiences in Bard's LUMA Theater later this month will watch as Geoff Sobelle's "newest genre-defying work" unfolds in a world of objects stacked in boxes from floor to ceiling.
November 2015
11-28-2015
Tom Eccles, director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, talks about the evolution of the master's program, the relationship to the Hessel Museum, and Eccles's own influential career.
11-27-2015
Writing and photography professor Luc Sante's book The Other Paris reminds us of the city's history as a home to the poor, the eccentric, the outcast, and the nonconforming.
11-26-2015
After graduating from Bard, photography major Nick Zinner became the guitarist of the band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zinner's photographs of his life on and off stage are now on view at an L.A. gallery.
11-25-2015
Carey Dunne, former student of Casey's at Bard High School Early College Manhattan, discusses Casey's abstract depictions of landscapes and interiors of the American West.
11-25-2015
Janet Echelman MFA '98 creates aerial sculptures out of high-tech fibers used in NASA spacesuits. Her work has been commissioned for the inaugural exhibition at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
11-20-2015
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) will host upcoming information sessions in New York City, Chicago, and on the Bard College Campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Bard MFA applications are due January 10, 2016. Representatives from the Bard MFA and Wave Farm, a Hudson Valley–based experimental digital media organization, will host a casual meet and greet Thursday, December 3, from 12 to 2 p.m. at Printed Matter, 231 11th Ave., in New York City. Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with music/sound and film/video faculty about Bard MFA’s interdisciplinary, low residency program and to Bard faculty and Wave Farm staff about programs and funding opportunities in 2016. Additional information sessions for Bard MFA take place Wednesday, December 2, at 7 p.m. in Chicago (1926 West Erie St.) and Saturday, December 5, from 2 to 4 p.m., Fisher Studio Arts Building, on the Bard College campus.
11-19-2015
After watching a student struggle with her photo assignments, Bard professor Stephen Shore encouraged the student to use her iPhone for perspective.
11-19-2015
Professor Ian Buruma has been described as “one of the few remaining ‘public intellectuals’."
11-18-2015
These famous comic book authors become the heroes of their own stories in upcoming memoirs.
11-16-2015
Teju Cole discusses street photography, exploring images by Martin Munkacsi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Maggie Steber, and Alex Webb.
11-11-2015
TŌN student Wade Coufal writes about making music with young patients at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia for his ArtistYear project.
11-11-2015
Los Angeles–based photographer and Bard alumnus Skyler Dahan talks about how a class with Bard Professor Tim Davis got him out of his comfort zone.
11-09-2015
For the first time, the Museum of Modern Art and the Performa art biennial have co-commissioned a work: There Are Certain Facts That Cannot Be Disputed, by Bard alumna Juliana Huxtable.
11-08-2015
Washington State native and Bard alumna Jenny Riffle answered curator Stuart Pilkington's call for landscape photography in one's own back yard with Snoqualmie Evergreens.
11-06-2015
Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson discusses race in contemporary art, the jubilee of dancing, the idiosyncrasies of communication, and the role of fashion in his new work.
11-05-2015
On his first road trip across the western United States, East Coast native Maxwell Ross was surprised by the distinct visual expressions of local cultures he encountered.
11-01-2015
Inspired by the short biographies in the Library of America's 19th-century American poetry collections, Luc Sante offers "a tribute ... this collective portrait, like an overlay of photographic transparencies."
11-01-2015
"Focusing on diverse topics ... Siegel’s increasingly elegant and astute works dive deep into her subjects but never explain them," writes Steel Stillman.
11-01-2015
Seven of the 10 recipients of the 2015 Anonymous Was A Woman Award have Bard College affiliations, including faculty members, visiting artists, artists in residence, and alumnae. Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted grant of $25,000 that enables women artists, over 40 years of age and at a significant juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. The award is given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, and the quality of her work. The Bard-affiliated 2015 winners are: Wendy Ewald, former Bard MFA visiting artist; Rachel Harrison, Bard MFA faculty member and former visiting artist; Pam Lins, Bard MFA faculty member; Jennifer Montgomery, former Bard MFA faculty and Bard MFA ’94 alumna; Dona Nelson, Bard MFA faculty member; Lisa Sanditz, visiting assistant professor of studio arts at Bard College; Julianne Swartz, artist in residence in studio arts at Bard College and Bard MFA ‘02 alumna. More about the award
October 2015
10-30-2015
Bard alumna and deaf artist Christine Sun Kim received her MFA in Music/Sound from Bard. Her installations highlight the conceptual aspects of sound and engage both deaf and hearing participants.
10-26-2015
"The Bard Center for Curatorial Studies ... has long been a hotbed for interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art, and its latest journal, aCCeSsions, is no exception."
10-23-2015
An image of a simple kitchen is anything but—photographer Eugène Atget brings Bard professor An-My Lê back to her childhood in Paris.
10-21-2015
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Catskill Jazz Factory present American Pianist’s Association Cole Porter Fellows Dan Tepfer and Aaron Diehl in “Double Trouble: Jazz Meets Classical,” Friday, October 30 at 8 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater. In this exclusive, collaborative performance, Tepfer and Diehl bring an unprecedented mash-up of J.S. Bach and the Great American Songbook, blending traditional with contemporary, and improvisational jazz styles with classical upbringings.
10-21-2015
The Fisher Center and Live Arts Bard present Obie Award–winning Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life and Times: Episodes 7–9 on Sunday, November 1 at 2 p.m. in the Fisher Center's LUMA Theater. An epic spectacle nearly a decade in the making, Life and Times is a nine-part project that encompasses and surpasses the genres of musical theater, disco, dance, science fiction, illuminated manuscript, animation, detective drama—and now, in the final three episodes, film. The source for this multimedia extravaganza is the transcript of hours of recorded telephone interviews with one of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s own company members, who recounted the story of her life in painstaking detail.
10-16-2015
Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, has been selected the winner of the 2016 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from CCS Bard.
10-16-2015
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce that Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, is the recipient of the 2016 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 in New York City. The award comes with the Audrey Irmas Prize of $25,000.
10-15-2015
Join a public conversation on November 7 between Neil Gaiman, Bard professor in the arts, and Armistead Maupin, the best-selling writer and activist, as they discuss their heroes Charles Dickens and Christopher Isherwood, the craft of storytelling, and many other subjects. The program takes place on Saturday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater of Bard's Fisher Center. Maupin is the author of 11 novels, including the nine-volume Tales of the City series, which Salon calls “perhaps the most sublime piece of popular literature America has ever produced.”
10-14-2015
The Orchestra Now (TŌN), an innovative master’s degree program and training orchestra founded by Bard College, will launch its inaugural season at Bard College’s Fisher Center with two fall programs in October and November. Bard President and TŌN Conductor Leon Botstein will lead the Orchestra of 37 young graduate musicians from around the world and cellist Rylan Gajek in the opening concerts on October 24 and 25; Associate Conductor James Bagwell will take the podium for the second program on November 14 and 15. The Orchestra’s series at Bard will continue with two more concert programs in February and April, 2016, and TŌN will also perform in different series in New York City including Carnegie Hall.
10-12-2015
Brian Seibert reviews last weekend's "blue-chip program" by American Ballet Theatre, which included the world premiere of After you, choreographed by Mark Morris.
10-09-2015
"Austrian and Curato turn the simple wedding of two worms into a three-ring circus that slyly turns the whole controversy over same-sex versus heterosexual marriage on its head."
10-08-2015
CCS Bard Library and Archives Director Ann Butler considers how archives are built and by whom, and explains how CCS works to address the ethics of building an archive.
10-07-2015
In an intimate performance, writer/performer Carl Hancock Rux and composer/musician Theo Bleckmann present The Exalted, the story of the last days of German-Jewish art historian Carl Einstein, one of the first critics to affirm the importance of African sculpture, thus influencing the development of Cubism and the European avant-garde. Directed by Anne Bogart ’74, The Exalted will be performed at the Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage right, from Friday, October 16, and Saturday October 17, at 7:30 p.m. There will be post-performance talks with the artists. On Thursday, October 15, Rux will also read from his novel, The Exalted, at 7:30 p.m. in Weis Cinema in the Bertelsmann Campus Center.
10-07-2015
Eden, one of the first graduates of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, talks about her new role leading Houston nonprofit, multidisciplinary art center DiverseWorks.
10-04-2015
Fite transformed a 6.5-acre abandoned stone quarry in Saugerties, New York, into a monumental sculpture park. Now visitors can stay overnight in Fite's own house.
10-03-2015
Jim Toia captures nature in his work, creating art from preserved spider webs. An exhibition of his work is now on view at the New Jersey State Museum.
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
The Swedish Wooden Toys exhibit displays fine design and craftsmanship, calling forth an era before batteries and touch screens.
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."
09-20-2015
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.