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The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, on view at the Bard Graduate Center through July 7, reveals the complicated legacy of Boas’s pioneering ethnography of Native Canadians in the late 19th century.

The production received 12 nominations, including outstanding revival of a musical. Winners will be announced June 2.

Other nomination categories include best direction, leading actor, featured actress, scenic design, sound design, and orchestration. Winners will be announced on June 9.

Mirna Bamieh’s Palestine Hosting Society researches Palestinian food practices, culminating in a hosted “table” that presents a meal for invited guests. Bamieh has been commissioned by Live Arts Bard to host her first table in the United States at the College in November, with about 180 guests, as part of the 2019 biennial festival on borders and migration.

Visiting Artist El Khoury teaches in the Theater and Performance Program this semester, and is guest curator the Fisher Center’s festival on borders and migration in fall 2019.

The actor and Bard alum on his critically acclaimed performance, violence in America, and the politics of the hottest revival on Broadway.

Director Kelly Reichardt, artist in residence of film and electronic arts at Bard College, is set to join the Cannes competition jury, presided over by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The festival will take place May 14 to 25, 2019.

Kelly Reichardt has taught at Bard College since 2006. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. Reichardt’s latest film Certain Women—starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Lily Gladstone— premiered in 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and won the top award at the London Film Festival. Her other films include: Night Moves (2013), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Old Joy (2006), and River of Grass (1994). Her film First Cow is currently in postproduction. She has received the United States Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Renew Media Fellowship. He work has been screened at the Whitney Biennial (2012), Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival in “un certain regard,” Venice International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival. She has had retrospectives at the Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the Moving Image, Walker Art Center, American Cinematheque Los Angeles.

Read more about the festival jury announcement:

Hollywood Reporter

Festival Cannes website
 

Bard artist in residence and acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has joined the panel of judges at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Choreographer John Heginbotham began working with Oklahoma! director Daniel Fish at Bard in 2015, and helped shape the role dance would ultimately have in the show.

The annual award provides $10,000 in unrestricted funding to a visual artist who has lived or worked in New York City for at least two years.

“In both his paintings and his writing, he’s littering the floor with visual ideas. He unwraps an idea, throws it down, and is on his way.”

The Mmuseumm displays collections of small objects in a very small space. Its curator says they tell important stories.

Professor Gilles Peress’s photographs are paired with writing by journalist Philip Gourevitch on the anniversary of Rwanda’s brutal 1994 genocide.

The exhibition, based on research by Soika and Cambridge historian Bernhard Fulda, reveals German painter Emil Nolde as an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s regime rather than its victim.

Ginzburg, who was raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia, talks about the range of possibilities inherent in the movement and transition between one place and another: “The experience of immigration . . . makes you aware of how perception and self-awareness shift with displacement (both geographical and cultural).”

The Orchestra Now will perform the U.S. premieres of Joachim Raff’s Psalm 130: De Profundis and Lera Auerbach’s De Profundis (Violin Concerto No. 3) at Bard’s Fisher Center on Saturday, May 27, and Sunday, May 28, featuring internationally acclaimed violinist Vadim Repin, and EMI recording artist, soprano Elizabeth de Trejo.

“Daniel Fish’s wide-awake, jolting and altogether wonderful production … just keeps getting better.”

Wu Tsang appears on the cover with the story “Take Me Apart,” and Nayland Blake is featured in “Serious Play” in the issue The Name of This Issue Is Not Queer Art Now.

Bard MFA professors Hong-Kai Wang and Bill Dietz are leading a monthlong project in Philadelphia called “Singing is what makes work possible.” Participants learn songs people sing during work in different languages and cultures, in collaboration with a sound art gallery called Remote Viewing.