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“État remains a wonderfully twisted house of mirrors, where electronic gear and traditional instruments are treated as equals and often rendered indistinguishable from each other.”

The world premiere of Bard alumna Chaya Czernowin’s new opera Heart Chamber at the Deutche Oper Berlin on December 6 is one of the year’s top 10 notable performances, says New Yorker music critic Alex Ross, and her “engulfing” war requiem Infinite Now (2016–17) is one of the reasons the it has been a “chaotically great decade for new music.” Czernowin, who studied with composers Elie Yarden and Joan Tower while at Bard, is currently Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Composition at Harvard University.

The acclaimed Broadway production has its roots in a 2007 student production at Bard, and developed into the 2015 Bard SummerScape production at the Fisher Center before heading to New York City. Oklahoma! closes on January 19.

Born in Harlem, Tschabalala Self ’12 studied studio art at Bard before attending the Yale School of Art for her MFA. Since her graduation she has enjoyed—and suffered—an astounding art world trajectory. Prices for her paintings have increased more than thirtyfold over the past five years, only sometimes to her benefit. She has gained international respect and recognition but she’s also lost significant control over where her artworks end up. The story of Self’s rapidly rising popularity is a case study in the pleasures and perils of early-career acclaim for young artists.

Bard Artist in Residence Tanya Marcuse and Writer in Residence Francine Prose were in conversation at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library on the evening of Monday, December 16. The event celebrated Marcuse’s new book Fruitless, Fallen, and Woven, published by Radius Books. This stunning three-volume set traces the arc of 14 years of Marcuse’s work, from the iconic trees of Fruitless to the lush, immersive photographs of Fallen and Woven. Her work features elaborate tableaux of flora and fauna suggestive of the abstract, large-scale paintings of Jackson Pollock and the symbolism of medieval tapestries. She discussed the creative process with Francine Prose, award-winning writer and best-selling author of more than 20 works of fiction.

Building a better community is a spiritual and artistic endeavor for Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson and Bard alumnus JaQuan Beachem, a Yale Divinity School student and ministerial intern.

Wondering what to get for the designer, fashionista, or art historian on your holiday list? WSJ art critic Ann Landi suggests the BGC exhibition catalogue French Fashion, Women, and the First World War.

Hollywood Reporter names BoJack Horseman, cocreated and produced by Raphael Bob-Waksberg '06, the #6 best TV show of the decade.
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TIME magazine calle the animated series Undone, created by Bob-Waksberg, one of the 10 best TV shows of the year.
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Raphael Bob-Waksberg '06 will be competing against himself at the Gotham Awards this year: his shows Tuca & Bertie and Undone have both been nominated for Breakthrough Short-Form Series.
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The Washington Post reviews Live Dangerously, the current exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, whose "most deliberately unsettling single image" is a photograph by Xaviera Simmons '05. Frieze reviews Soft Power, an exhibition at SFMOMA that features Simmons's work.