Division of the Arts 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
"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.
10-26-2016
Ben Coonley's "Trading Futures" is featured in the Whitney Museum's show Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.