Division of the Arts News by Date
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May 2019
05-29-2019
Acquanetta, which originally premiered at the 2018 PROTOTYPE Festival, comes to Bard in the same unmissable production by Daniel Fish, whose previous SummerScape staging (a revelatory take on Oklahoma!) is currently “the coolest new show on Broadway” (New York Times).
05-28-2019
Fang, who will join the Conservatory faculty in fall 2019, performed Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra to win the €20,000 first prize.
05-28-2019
The Independent Filmmaker Project’s Filmmaker Labs support first-time feature filmmakers through postproduction and distribution of their debut features.
05-21-2019
Tamowitz, who is known for her abstract treatment of classical and contemporary ideas about movement, was recognized for “her unwavering commitment to her uncompromising artistic vision, rigorous sense of craft and composition, and for beginning again with each new work.”
05-21-2019
Yarden, video designer for the Tony-nominated play Network, crafted the long, unbroken tracking shot of a scene performed live outside the theater and broadcast to the audience inside, in real time. Mystery solved.
05-21-2019
Leung, who studied under Ess at Bard, talks to the photographer about her solo exhibition Someone to Watch Over Me, which investigates the aesthetics of surveillance at home and on the U.S.-Mexico border.
05-21-2019
The Bard Graduate Center will receive a grant of $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the upcoming exhibition and catalogue Eileen Gray: Designer-Architect, opening in spring 2020.
05-14-2019
The writer talks about his debut short fiction collection, which channels the same caustic humor and heartrending dialogue as his Netflix series.
05-14-2019
The BLO’s new staging reveals The Handmaid’s Tale to be “a brilliant, brutal opera, one that should be taken up widely,” says the Times.
05-07-2019
Bard Fisher Center presents comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show Craig Ferguson, with his new, irreverent memoir Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations. Ferguson will appear in conversation with WAMC bureau chief and host of 51% Allison Dunne.
05-07-2019
Professor Aldous reviews Richard J. Evans’s biography of the the popular Marxist historian, who had “a vivid style, a superiority complex, and the blind spots of a true believer.”
05-07-2019
Swartz talks to curator Mathilde Walker-Billaud about voice, intimacy, and the physicality of sound.
05-01-2019
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, will perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in the Sosnoff Theater on May 10 and 12. The performances feature mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, the Bard College Chamber Singers, Bard Festival Chorale, and Bard Preparatory Division Chorus.
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