Division of the Arts News by Date
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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
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.
11-11-2015
TŌN student Wade Coufal writes about making music with young patients at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia for his ArtistYear project.
11-09-2015
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
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