Division of the Arts 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.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
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."
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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."
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts,Film | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Theater | Institutes(s): Fisher Center |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Center for Curatorial Studies |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Early Colleges | Institutes(s): BHSECs |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Early Colleges | Institutes(s): BHSECs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): MFA |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-19-2015
Professor Ian Buruma has been described as “one of the few remaining ‘public intellectuals’."
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of Social Studies,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-18-2015
These famous comic book authors become the heroes of their own stories in upcoming memoirs.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
11-16-2015
Teju Cole discusses street photography, exploring images by Martin Munkacsi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Maggie Steber, and Alex Webb.
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Faculty | Subject(s): Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,The Orchestra Now |
Meta: Type(s): Event | Subject(s): Division of the Arts,Music | Institutes(s): Center for Civic Engagement,The Orchestra Now |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
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.
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |
Meta: Type(s): Alumni | Subject(s): Alumni/ae,Bardians at Work,Division of Languages and Literature,Division of the Arts | Institutes(s): Bard Undergraduate Programs |