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.
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
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.
11-25-2015
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.
11-20-2015
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.