All Bard News by Date
December 2016
12-31-2016
Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she uses sound in her work to challenge and disturb the norms of the hearing world.
12-23-2016
Classical Music from Rare Repertoire to Masterworks, French Jazz, Conversation, A Performance Festival About Surveillance, and More. Tickets on sale now!
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs performed in the world class Sosnoff and LUMA Theaters. Highlights include Catskill Jazz Factory’s French Connection series; The Orchestra Now series; the second edition of the Live Arts Bard Biennial: WE’RE WATCHING; Neil Gaiman & American Gods; Bard Conservatory Orchestra concerts; student opera, dance and theater productions; and more.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs performed in the world class Sosnoff and LUMA Theaters. Highlights include Catskill Jazz Factory’s French Connection series; The Orchestra Now series; the second edition of the Live Arts Bard Biennial: WE’RE WATCHING; Neil Gaiman & American Gods; Bard Conservatory Orchestra concerts; student opera, dance and theater productions; and more.
12-13-2016
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World is a "handsome, densely installed, freshly researched landmark exhibition" about the designers Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto.
12-12-2016
Actor Robert De Niro has named R.H. Quaytman as the winner of the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, which is given to an artist "devoted to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in painting."
12-11-2016
Nicholas Serota, the soon-to-be departing director of the Tate museums in Britain, is to receive the 2017 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies.
12-08-2016
Hal Foster names Tony Oursler’s The Imponderable Archive at CCS Bard and Jim Shaw’s The End Is Here at the New Museum as the two best art shows of 2016.
12-07-2016
Ben Coonley discusses Trading Futures, a 3D, 360-degree video on view in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art at the Whitney.
12-07-2016
BECNO Visiting Professor of the Humanities Gwen Thompkins looks at the life of prolific jazz guitarist and banjoist Danny Barker, who wrote an indispensable account of the early days of jazz.
12-02-2016
The Wall Street Journal tours a new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center that explores the work of Napoleon’s architect.
12-02-2016
Chris Claremont became an industry icon by emphasizing the importance of character development, storytelling, and melodrama in his long career at Marvel Comics.
November 2016
11-27-2016
Party People, a play by the Universes ensemble, cofounded by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, reflects on leaders of movements for racial justice.
11-26-2016
South African curator and CCS Bard graduate Gabi Ngcobo will curate the 2018 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
11-23-2016
Marcelle's Kokomo "is the perfect embodiment of the Freudian Uncanny concept: familiar and disquieting at the same time."
11-20-2016
Bard alumna Tschabalala Self discusses her new solo exhibition of collaged fabric and paint work exploring the black female body, and the ongoing impact of the Bard faculty on her practice.
11-20-2016
Author Porochista Khakpour talks about supporting Bard students and amplifying her activism after the election.
11-18-2016
Work by several Bard alumnae and faculty members will be featured in the Whitney Biennial this spring. Bard alumnae include Celeste Dupuy Spencer (Studio Arts), Dani Leventhal MFA '10 (Film/Video), Carrie Moyer MFA '02 (Painting), and Leila Weinraub (MFA). Faculty artists include Susan Cianciolo (MFA visiting artist in Painting), Kevin Everson (MFA Film/Video faculty), An-My Lê (Photography), Ulrike Müller (MFA Painting cochair), and Cauleen Smith (MFA Film/Video faculty).
11-02-2016
"We are the (Epi) center…" is a two-month project that brings together a range of international artists to rethink art's relationship to its forms of exhibition and propose new models. Opening reception on Friday, November 11, 6–8pm with a performance by Harold Offeh. The project is coorganized with Paul O’Neill and the Center for Curatorial Studies and takes place at P!, located at 334 Broome Street in New York City.
October 2016
10-26-2016
Ben Coonley's "Trading Futures" is featured in the Whitney Museum's show Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.
10-26-2016
If you missed Alan Cumming in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue at the Fisher Center on October 16, you can listen to the whole event on the Book Show.
10-26-2016
"Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions" is one of several exhibitions focusing on 18th-century French furniture, some of which emphasize detecting forgeries.
10-26-2016
Bard writer in residence Wyatt Mason looks at the Chicago-based artist who, for more than 40 years, has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon.
10-19-2016
Aaron Turner, technical director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program, discusses his work based on the narratives of people of color in the Arkansas and Mississippi deltas.
10-16-2016
In this essay from The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook, photographer An-My Lê remembers her grandmother making substitution pho after the family moved from Vietnam to Paris.
10-13-2016
Professor Sante observes the indignation around Dylan's Nobel win, arguing that the writer deserves the award for using the power of words to change the time he inhabited.
10-13-2016
Idaho is one of the most welcoming states in the Union for refugees, settling nearly 1,000 a year, mostly from war-torn regions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
10-07-2016
Artists Medrie MacPhee, Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence, and Shinique Smith, who will teach a course at Bard this spring, have been honored with Anonymous Was A Woman Awards. 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.
10-06-2016
Actress Gaby Hoffmann on her role in the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent and her remarkable childhood growing up in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel.
10-05-2016
Bessie Award–winning choreographer Beth Gill makes her Fisher Center debut with Catacomb, a dance performance inspired by the imagination and subconscious, on Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater.
September 2016
09-29-2016
Curated by Paul O'Neill, director of the graduate program, We are the Center for Curatorial Studies is both an exhibition and research project, a multiyear program incorporating artist projects, exhibitions, collaborations, and public and nonpublic programs. On view in the Hessel Museum of Art, October 15 to December 16, with an opening reception on Saturday, October 15 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., with a special live performance by artist James Hoff (PAN).
09-29-2016
Acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore launched his career in his teens by becoming one of the main photographers to document the scene at Warhol’s factory.
09-20-2016
Tom Eccles, director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, is among the artnet Titans: the most influential people in the art world.
09-12-2016
Mozart in the Jungle star Kirke talks about the privileges of an arts education and the power of being in a show with strong female characters.
09-09-2016
Kelly Reichardt discusses her independent career, making film as a woman, and why she teaches at Bard.
09-07-2016
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World "is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions about the artistry and making of design you are likely to see."
09-04-2016
Book objects from the collection of Mindell Dubansky are on view at the Stevenson Library through Sunday, October 30, with an opening reception on Monday, September 12. All over the world, for hundreds of years, people have been making, collecting and presenting book-objects that reflect their devotion and respect for books and each other. There are countless examples; they include cameras, radios, banks, toys, memorials, desk accessories, musical instruments, magic tricks, furniture and jewelry.
August 2016
08-31-2016
The Future Perfect brings together work from the last five years of graduating classes from three ICP programs, including the ICP-Bard MFA.
08-31-2016
The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the Fisher Center for a work-in-progress performance in culmination of its fall residency. The program includes the most recent reconstruction of Brown’s brazenly beautiful Geometry of Quiet (2002), an elegant and austere quartet featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as other selections from Brown’s 40-year repertoire. The program will be performed on Thursday, September 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater.
08-25-2016
Humorist David Sedaris, actor-singer Alan Cumming, pianist Jeremy Denk, and experimental accordionist-composer Pauline Oliveros are among those performing this fall.
08-25-2016
Bard writer in residence Francine Prose finds "distraction, humor, entertainment, and pleasure" in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at Bard's Hessel Museum.
08-24-2016
Writer, director, and cinematographer Sonja Tsypin has been awarded the first place 2016 KODAK Student Cinematography Scholarship for her dramatic narrative Powder Room.
08-24-2016
The "liberal arts comedy" of Bard alumnus Adam Conover's TruTV series, Adam Ruins Everything, aims not only to entertain but also to educate.
08-24-2016
"Do you love museums and hate crowds? Visit this charming UWS townhouse for a double dose of intellectual stimulation and solitude. ... It's cerebral stuff."
08-18-2016
Highlights include acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, Pauline Oliveros and the International Contemporary Ensemble, conversations with David Sedaris and Alan Cumming, The Orchestra Now, and more.
08-18-2016
Phyllis Marsteller's exhibition Gehry Forms: Details of the Fisher Center at Bard highlights in striking black and white Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center.
08-10-2016
Opus 40 is the masterwork of the late Bard professor and alumnus Harvey Fite '30, the product of his "ceaseless vision" and 37 years of labor.
08-10-2016
Professor An-My Lê urged Emma Ressel to send a portfolio from her Senior Project to New York Magazine. The result is Ressel's ornate and vibrant photo spread.
08-05-2016
Given the tremendous popularity of his work, can Puccini still be considered controversial? Audiences at this year's Bard Music Festival will be able to draw their own conclusions.
08-04-2016
Shaver's Dress the Form is an installation of wall-size fabrics, furniture, and found objects arranged with "skill and aplomb." On view through August 19.
08-03-2016
08-03-2016
Graduates of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and Program Director Paul O'Neill spoke with artist Nina Canell about her recent international exhibitions.