All Bard News by Date
September 2015
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
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.
09-10-2015
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
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.
09-08-2015
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.
August 2015
08-31-2015
This fall, The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, performance art, and theater programs. Highlights of the fall season include the 75th anniversary season of American Ballet Theatre; the inaugural season of The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein, music director; singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant and the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra; Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Trisha Brown: In Plain Site, a unique event developed specifically for the Bard campus; the world premiere of choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s Age & Beauty Part 3 and the premiere performances of the full trilogy; the U.S. premiere screening of Life and Times Episodes 7-9 by avant-garde theater ensemble Nature Theater of Oklahoma; Neil Gaiman in conversation with Armistead Maupin; Conservatory Sunday Series; a special holiday production of Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson; and a variety of student performances.
08-30-2015
Spahr's new collection of verse and prose asks, "what it means to remain a disillusioned opponent of capitalism, a not-quite-despondent environmental observer and an anxious parent today."
08-29-2015
Basel Yazouri's photo essay of last summer's Israeli military action in Gaza "announces a prodigious new talent in the field of documentary photography."
08-28-2015
"The Brink is so funny, so inventive—and so fearless in what it has to say about geopolitics," writes Bard writer in residence Francine Prose.
08-27-2015
Ellen Driscoll's fall 2015 residency explores, in drawing and sculpture, the poetics and economics of wood in Siena's history and in the present context of globalization.
08-23-2015
"There are certain photographs that seem to have been pulled out of the world of dreams." Teju Cole goes to São Paulo in search of René Burri's "Men on a Rooftop."
08-18-2015
"There are invariably delightful surprises among the densely packed programs at Bard," writes Times music critic Vivien Schweitzer.
08-13-2015
Bard has been awarded a $2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the launch of an innovative Master of Music Degree Program in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies and its resultant ensemble, The Orchestra Now (TON). This unique training orchestra and master’s degree program provides musicians with professional-level orchestral training that is integrated into the interdisciplinary graduate study of music’s place in culture and history. The program is designed to prepare select conservatory graduates for the challenges facing the modern symphony orchestra and to produce scholars and advocates of classical and contemporary music as well as practiced members of a top grade orchestra. Musicians receive three years of advanced orchestral training and take graduate-level courses in orchestral and curatorial studies, leading to a Master of Music degree. Funding from the Mellon grant will help to support student stipends, curriculum development, and salary and honoraria for visiting faculty and lecturers.
08-12-2015
Bard Alumnus Ian Samuels was named in Filmmaker magazine's annual survey of new talent.
08-05-2015
More than 20 years ago Feldman started her now wildly successful crystal glassware company in her apartment with just $2,500 in savings.
08-05-2015
Herb Ritts '74 was famous for his celebrity portraits. Now his collection is on display in a career retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
08-03-2015
"This summer represents the Bard Music Festival’s first examination of a Latin American composer, focusing on one who ... may have shaped American music more than any other."
08-02-2015
American photographers Stephen Shore and Walker Evans take the spotlight in the 45th Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in southern France.
July 2015
07-31-2015
Christopher H. Gibbs, professor of music and coartistic director of the Bard Music Festival, lectures on classical music’s place in political history, “From Plato to NATO.”
07-27-2015
Bard SummerScape made musical history by presenting the first full U.S. staging of British composer Ethel Smyth’s opera The Wreckers.
07-27-2015
Ephraim Asili, technical director of Bard's Film and Electronic Arts Program, will visit Toronto in August to work on his ongoing film series about communities in the African Diaspora.
07-26-2015
From the first airplane flight to the very new Dronestagram page, Teju Cole, New York Times Magazine photography critic, describes the progression of the drone’s-eye view.
07-24-2015
Tom Wolf, a scholar of the Japanese-American figurative painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi, has coorganized a retrospective of the artist's work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
07-15-2015
Faustine’s series of self-portraits, titled "White Shoes," feature photographs of Faustine posing nude before New York landmarks where African men and women were once bought and sold.
07-07-2015
President Botstein discusses this year’s SummerScape festival and its Latin American focus with the 26th Bard Music Festival, “Carlos Chávez and His World.”
07-06-2015
"A new, experimental production at the Bard SummerScape festival in upstate New York is asking audiences to focus on the darker story behind the musical's well-known songs."
07-05-2015
Professor Leonard’s photographs, on view at the Museum of Modern Art, show low-end commerce from New York to Africa, representing the human toll of corporate globalization.
07-03-2015
Since beginning his career in the 1960s in Greenwich Village’s vibrant jazz scene, Professor Fink has become well known for his striking black-and-white images of New York’s elite at play.
07-02-2015
The New Museum and the MIT Press launch Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century, coedited by CCS Bard's Lauren Cornell and Bard College's Ed Halter.
June 2015
06-28-2015
Teju Cole assesses the work of Keïta in the context of other great African artists, such as Malick Sidibé and Zanele Muholi, with a focus on their images of West and South African women.
06-25-2015
Bard SummerScape brings topnotch performers in the fields of music—including classical, opera and cabaret—as well as theater, dance and cinema to the Bard College campus each summer.
06-24-2015
Soprano Clarissa Lyons ’11, alumna of the Bard College Conservatory of Music Graduate Vocal Arts Program (VAP), has been invited to join the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, capping an exciting year in which she was named the Grand Prize Winner at Florida Grand Opera’s Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition and the Glenn & Ginger Flournay Award Winner at Shreveport Opera’s Mary Jacobs Smith Singer of the Year Competition. In January, Lyons participated in The Song Continues series at Carnegie Hall, where she performed in a master class led by Warren Jones. She will return to Carnegie Hall in January 2016 to present a Spotlight Recital in Weill Hall as part of The Song Continues series alongside tenor Miles Mykkanen and pianist Ken Noda.
06-23-2015
Julia Rosenbaum, associate professor of art history and faculty of the American Studies Program, has been named a senior fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., for the 2015-2016 academic year. The yearlong research fellowship will support Rosenbaum’s new project, “Curated Bodies: The Display of Science and Citizenry in Post-Civil War America,” which examines art, science, and representations of the body from the Civil War to World War II. Rosenbaum will be affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum during her fellowship tenure.
06-22-2015
Alumni of the joint MFA program between the International Center of Photography and Bard College demonstrate the evolution from the darkroom to digital processing in The Future is Forever.
06-21-2015
Berrigan’s innovative rectangular poems are now available online at Bomb magazine.
06-21-2015
CCS Bard graduate students and Director of the Graduate Program Paul O'Neill talk with artist Tania Bruguera about identifying and promoting artworks that are useful and beneficial to society.
06-16-2015
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce a major expansion of its facilities. The $3 million expansion has been designed by New York-based architects, HWKN (Hollwich Kushner), and includes a complete interior re-build and expansion of the CCS Bard Library and Archives, in addition to doubling the number of teaching spaces and classrooms in the building. The expansion also includes a new 3,600 square foot Archives, Special Collections, Visible Storage, and Collection Teaching area designed by artist Liam Gillick, which will include a large wall drawing in colored ink wash by Sol LeWitt, Wall drawing #475, Double asymmetrical pyramids (1986), and two new wall vinyl acquisitions by Louise Lawler, all from the permanent collection. (New York Times)
06-15-2015
Bard College presents Adrift: Photographs by Carolyn Marks Blackwood in the Weis Atrium of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts LUMA Theater from June 21 to August 17. The exhibition is open daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m and is free of charge. Rhinecliff-based photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood’s Hudson River photographs reframe segments of air, ice, and water into vivid color fields, geometric abstractions, and flattened motifs. By removing perspective and context, her unmodified images seize ephemeral moments within everyday occurrences and heighten them into foreign, unfamiliar pictures. Fourteen of these large-scale images are presented in the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center as part of Bard SummerScape 2015.
06-10-2015
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College and the Human Rights Project at Bard College announce that Shuddhabrata Sengupta, an artist, curator, and writer based in Delhi, has been selected as the second winner of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Haring Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at CCS Bard and the Human Rights Project. Sengupta’s one-year appointment will begin in September 2015. He succeeds the Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk, who has held the Fellowship during its inaugural year.
06-08-2015
Professor Fink on his communist background, photographing the elite, and his hopes for the next generation of photographers.
06-05-2015
The exhibition is curated by CCS Bard's Tom Eccles and Beatrix Ruf, director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, from July 6 through September 20 in Arles, France.
May 2015
05-27-2015
Huma Bhabha is interviewed by Sarah Trigg about her new show and her ongoing practice.
05-24-2015
Teju Cole discusses the electronic proliferation of video images of homicide that make private moments publicly available.