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Maika Pollack interviews Agnes Denes who still makes large-scale, public environmental installations, the most famous of which is 1982's Wheatfield—A Confrontation. 

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein discusses this year’s edition of Frieze Talks with Tom Eccles, who organized them with Frieze magazine associate editor Christy Lange. 

Realism Materialism Art, copublished with Sternberg Press introduces a diverse selection of new realist and materialist philosophies and examines their ramifications on the arts. The editors are Christoph Cox, Jenny Jaskey, and Suhail Malik. 

Founder and Director of the Bard Graduate Center Susan Weber is setting up shop at this week’s Collective Design fair, mounting a special installation of 20th-century furniture and design from her own collection for the first time. 

Three Bard College students will premiere an online exhibition, Eleanor Roosevelt: "We Make Our Own History," sponsored by the Eleanor Roosevelt–Val-Kill Partnership and Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement. This exhibition is generated by a course taught by Cynthia Koch, who is public historian in residence at Bard. Based on research conducted at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, each student prepared an individual exhibit that contributes to the overall exhibition. The student exhibits include archival, print, and digital online resources, and during the premiere, each student will conduct a virtual curator’s tour of her or his exhibit. The exhibition will open on Friday, May 8, at 4 p.m. at the Val-Kill Playhouse, the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, New York. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public. 

The Coachman’s House Gallery has been transformed into an experimental work space for Bard College students who have been selected to experiment with “research-based” art-making practices at Olana. 

The Board of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces the appointment of Ms. Holly Bynoe as Chief Curator. Bynoe is a graduate of Bard College International Center of Photography where she earned an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies.

Teju Cole discusses the current work of Lee Friedlander who at the age of 80, still roams the city streets making photographs that are distinct in their “scrupulous inclusiveness.” 

An exhibition of the contraptions that women and men have endured in the name of fashion is showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street, through July 26, 2015. 

“The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” (April 3-August 30) is co-curated by Joann Moser, deputy chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Tom Wolf, a Kuniyoshi scholar and professor of art history at Bard College. 

Dia’s ongoing series of Artist Web Projects has as its next commission Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi investigating the complexities of virtual communication and the variance of meaning in transliterated language. The project launched on April 16, 2015, at www.diaart.org/maussokiishi. 

Frieze Talks is a daily program of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions. This year’s program is curated by Tom Eccles and Christy Lange, the associate editor of Frieze, Berlin. 

Bartholomew Ryan ‘09, who earned a master’s degree in contemporary art from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will be the new Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum. 

This spring Triangle invites you to visit us at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, Suites 318 + 350 to meet artists-in-residence. View works-in-progress and engage directly with the artists whose projects span drawing, installation, painting, pedagogy, performance, photography, sculpture, video and more. 

 Lucas Blalock, who received his bachelor's degree from Bard College in 2002, has a solo exhibition in Brussels.

Artist Peggy Ahwesh’s City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square’s signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.

Cole considers approaches to conflict photography and asks, "What, then, are we to do with a thrilling photograph that is at the same time an image of pain?"

The Bard Music Festival breaks new ground this August, turning for the first time to Latin America with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Carlos Chávez and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, special events, and expert commentary, Bard examines Carlos Chávez (1899–1978), the central figure in 20th-century Mexican music. Weekend One considers his achievement in helping create The Musical Voice of Mexico (August 7–9), and Weekend Two offers an immersion in Mexico, Latin America, and Modernism (August 14–16).

The 2015 Faculty Dance Concert features choreography and performance by Bard Dance Faculty with special guest choreographer Zvi Gotheiner. Gotheiner, Artistic Director of ZviDance, a New York City-based contemporary dance company, will stage excerpts from his 1991 seminal work, “Chairs,” for 10 students from the Bard Dance Program. An athletic and lyrical dance set to a diverse soundscape of music from movie soundtracks to Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Chairs” has been called “flawless,” “visually stunning,” and “beautifully shaped.” The solos, duets, and group work reveal the full spectrum of human emotion in a fierce and haunting piece that explores the relationship of individuals to each other and their environments.

Join author Neil Gaiman on Friday, April 3, for a dialogue with legendary musician and composer Laurie Anderson in this third edition of an ongoing series of public conversations at the Fisher Center hosted by Professor Gaiman. The discussion will center on the topics of “Story Structure” and “Fiction vs. Autobiography.” Presented by Live Arts Bard, the program takes place on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

In the late 1960s, Arthur Tress began creating staged photos of children's dreams and nightmares, producing a haunting series that went against the photojournalistic conventions of the time.

Multiple Grammy Award–winning musician Rubén Blades will speak to Bard High School Early College students in Manhattan and Queens this month. The iconic Panamanian singer, songwriter, composer, actor, activist and politician visited the Manhattan campus on March 11 and will visit the Queens campus this coming Wednesday, March 25, to talk about his remarkable career. A prolific musician who is known for bringing lyrical sophistication to his salsa compositions, Blades is also an acclaimed film and television actor. He ran for the presidency of Panama in 1994, winning 18 percent of the vote. He served a five year-term as the Panamanian minister of tourism and has been an activist and humanitarian. Blades holds law degrees from the University of Panama and Harvard University. He told the BHSEC–Manhattan students that "education was instrumental" in his life, and "I think the fact that I was educated helped me tremendously, not only in terms of my appreciation of the opportunity but in my capacity to sustain it."
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Aaron Glass and colleagues have restored In the Land of the Head Hunters, the earliest surviving motion picture made in Canada and the first ever to feature an entirely indigenous cast.

Beginning on March 29, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 11 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art with 10 individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show. Moves & Countermoves will be on view through May 3, 2015, with the opening reception taking place on Sunday, March 29 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Josephine Sacabo's haunting photographs, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, are created using a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century.

Bard artist in residence Medrie MacPhee, alumnus Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford '06, and former visiting artists James Clark and Jane Rosen have been selected for the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Annual Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by 40 contemporary artists and will be on view at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City from March 12 through April 12. Participating artists were chosen from a pool of over 200 nominees submitted by the members of the Academy.

"Gaiman’s attention to craft, passion for language and profound respect for the mythological roots of what is now called 'speculative fiction' come through" in this new collection.

The personal writings of graffitist, painter, actor, and poet Jean-Michel Basquiat provide insight into 1980s New York City and Basquiat's artistic vision.

Professor Ahwesh's new solo exhibition, Kissing Point, brings together works she created during her time filming and teaching at Al-Quds Bard College.

Art History Professor Tom Wolf is co-curating the first comprehensive exhibition about early American modernist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in a U.S. museum since 1948.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has announced the honorees of the 2015 Infinity Awards. Larry Fink, Bard College professor of photography, won the award for art. Larry Fink has been a professional photographer for more than 55 years. Fink has been awarded two John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and two Individual Photography Fellowships. He has been teaching for more than 52 years. The Infinity Awards are widely respected as the leading honor for excellence in photography. The Awards will be presented at a gala on Thursday, April 30, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City.

SummerScape features eight weeks of music, theater, opera, film, dance and cabaret centered on the 26th Bard Music Festival, which focuses on the Mexican composer Carlos Chavez.

Roy DeCarava, "one of the most intriguing and poetic of American photographers," captured black life during the latter half of the 20th century and has left a powerful legacy.

Multidisciplinary artist and Bard College Berlin professor David Levine has been commissioned to produce reenactments of famous film scenes set in Central Park as part of a Creative Time series.

Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Mass., sponsors the annual Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, a series of events celebrating Women’s History Month in March. Held on campus and at venues throughout Berkshire County, this year's festival features more than 50 events including readings, lectures, workshops, performances, and film screenings. Read More

"The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College is pretty marvelous—complete with a Frank Gehry center and two theaters hosting dance, performance art, plays and music," write Cindy Augustine and Tolly Wright.

As a part of this Time LightBox series, color photography pioneer Stephen Shore discusses a photograph he made at age 12.

The Fisher Center presents "breathtaking visionary" Cynthia Hopkins in her newest work, A Living Documentary. The performance takes place on February 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater. A Living Documentary is a hilarious and searing reflection on the trials and tribulations of earning a living as a professional theater artist in the 21st century. Intertwining elements of musical comedy, documentary, and fiction, the show intersperses autobiographical storytelling with portrayals of semi-fictional comedic characters, all the while asking myriad questions about the realities of artistic life in New York City.

The work of James Benning and Peter Hutton exhibited in Nature Is a Discipline reveals the transition from celluloid film to digital technology.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents Sō Percussion and Grey McMurray in Where (we) Live. The performance takes place on February 14 and 15 in the LUMA Theater. In the second performance of Branches—a multiyear partnership between the Fisher Center, The Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the John Cage Trust to highlight Sō Percussion’s integration into the artistic and academic community of Bard College—this “ambitious, beguiling show” (New York Times) blends music, video, and storytelling in a theatrical creation that reflects on notions of community and home. The performances, directed by Ain Gordon, feature guitarist Grey McMurray, choreographer Emily Johnson, and guest artists Aron Sanchez and Caroline Wallner. Additional program information can be found at fishercenter.bard.edu.

Jazz musician and Bard MFA music/sound faculty Matana Roberts's Coin Coin Chapter Three: river run thee is "a 12-part cycle of personal, socio-historical and psychic inquisition."

CCS Bard alumna Ruba Katrib, curator at SculptureCenter in New York, discusses her journey from artist to curator and how women in the arts can support each other.

Allison Cekala '06 uses photography and video to trace the journey of road salt from Chile to Boston in her new exhibition at the Museum of Science.

Founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BGC) Susan Weber is the recipient of the 2015 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association (CAA) for the catalogue, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, 2013). Given for an “especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in the penultimate calendar year under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection,” the award reflects the BGC’s commitment to the highest standards of scholarship. The award will be presented to Weber during CAA’s Convocation in Manhattan on Wednesday, February 11.

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has announced its 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees, and a Bard MFA alumna and faculty members are among them. Music/Sound faculty Jace Clayton, Writing alumna Charity Coleman MFA '13, and Writing faculty Matvei Yankelevich have all been named as winners. For the past 29 years, NYFA has awarded unrestricted fellowships of $7,000 to artists living and working in the state of New York. Awarded in 15 different disciplines over a three-year period, Artists' Fellowships support artists from diverse cultural backgrounds at all stages of their professional careers.

Four Bardians are involved in The Scarlet Ibis: Mallory Catlett '92, director; David Cote '92, librettist; Joe Silovsky '91, set designer; and Stefan Weisman '92, composer.

Artists at last month's symposium, What's Love Got to Do with It: Affect, Interactivity, and the Haptic, explored the intersection of the personal and the political.

Dylan Mattingly is composing the score for Quest, a film about the life-changing relationship between one of Mattingly's former teachers and another student.

Bard MFA alumnus Zach Layton '15 and faculty members Ellen Fullman and David Hartt have been named recipients of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2015 Grants to Artists. Each of 14 winners receives an unrestricted grant of $35,000. These cash awards, given to artists across disciplines, provide recipients with the financial means to engage in whatever artistic endeavors they wish to pursue, to research and develop ideas, to embark on projects, and to complete projects already underway. Fullman and Layton won in the category of Music/Sound and Hartt won in the category of Visual Arts.

MFA Photography student Felipe Meres '16 is the Grand Prize winner of the Tom of Finland Foundation 2014 Emerging Artist Competition. The Foundation produces a biannual contest that supports and encourages emerging erotic artists by providing exhibition of their work, publicity, and awards.

Santa Fe painter Jivan Lee "is a talented, emerging artist with a blossoming career and bright future ahead of him," writes Bonnie Gangelhoff.