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June 2019
06-15-2019
Evidence, A Dance Company and its founder, choreographer Ronald K. Brown, make their Bard SummerScape debut with the world premiere of Grace and Mercy. Commissioned for SummerScape 2019, the two-part program opens with Grace, created in 1999 for Alvin Ailey Dance Theater and performed here for the first time to live music, and concludes with the premiere of Mercy, a companion piece set to a score written and performed live by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello.
06-13-2019
For its summer 2019 season, CCS Bard will present the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of work by Leidy Churchman and Nil Yalter, along with Acting Out, a group show featuring artists in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, including Larry Clark, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nan Goldin, Boris Mikhailov, Lorraine O'Grady, Cindy Sherman, and Jo Spence. The shows will open to the public on June 22, 2019 and will run through the fall.
06-11-2019
The Times interviews artist Tschabalala Self, whose textile works are on view at MoMA PS1 through September 8.
06-10-2019
Sunday night was a big one for Bard at the Tonys. Oklahoma!, which started its revival at Bard SummerScape in 2015 and has roots in a 2007 student staging, won best musical revival. This marks the first competitive Tony win for the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic. Ali Stroker won best featured actress in a musical, and became the first wheelchair user to win a Tony. “This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation or a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena,” Ms. Stroker said. “You are.”
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06-09-2019
Bard MFA alumnus Fitz Patton won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play for Choir Boy.
06-04-2019
BARD x HGG
Curated by Stephen Shore
June 20 – August 29, 2019
Photographs by Recent Bard College Graduates Paired With Work by Dave Heath, Frederick Sommer, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lisette Model, Joseph Sudek, Minor White
New York—Last winter the legendary photographer Stephen Shore received an unusual request from Howard Greenberg Gallery: Would he be interested in curating an exhibition that included his students from the renowned photography program at Bard College? The answer was, “yes,” and the resulting collaboration, Bard x HGG, pairs work by seven of Shore’s recent graduates with photographs by historic 20th century artists from the Gallery’s vast archives. The exhibition will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 20 through August 29, 2019. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 20, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
“Stephen Shore is a bridge connecting contemporary photography with the history of photography,” said Howard Greenberg. “As a contemporary figure and an important part of photo history, he is in a unique position to be able to connect a new generation of photographers and viewers.”
“I think of myself as both a photographer and a teacher and am delighted to have this opportunity to show my student’s work,” said Stephen Shore, Program Director & Susan Weber Professor in the Arts at Bard College. “Each of the recent graduates (from 2017 and 2018) is represented by a series of pictures so you can get a sense of their thought process and artistic practice.”
Works by the Bard graduates—Jasmine Clarke, Madison Emond, Briauna Falk, Vanessa Kotovich, Jackson Siegal, Naomi Zahler, and Ying Jing Zheng—are paired with photographs by Dave Heath, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lisette Model, Frederick Sommer, Stephen Shore, Joseph Sudek, and Minor White from Howard Greenberg Gallery’s extensive holdings.
Shore noted that the pairings vary from artist to artist, often highlighting an aspect of the recent graduate’s work. For the work by artists from the Gallery, Shore selected images by many photographers with whom he has personal connections: “David Heath was a friend to me when I was 14 and taught me about printing, and I was in a 10-day workshop run by Minor White when I was at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.”
Providing a gateway to the exhibition, work by Don Donaghy will be presented within the context of Bard x HGG. “While going through the Gallery’s archive, I came across Donaghy’s work and thought it would be wonderful to show,” said Shore. “His work was considered cutting edge in the 1960s. Yet, his photographs disappeared from public view despite the important role they played in the development of contemporary photography.”
About Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past 45 years. He was the first living photographer to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, 40 years earlier. He has also had solo shows at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art opened a major retrospective spanning Stephen Shore's entire career. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. More than 25 books of Shore’s photographs have been published. His work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, London, Berlin, and Los Angeles, where his work will be on view from June 19–August 30, 2019. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
About the Photography Program at Bard College
Bard College’s Photography Program, led by Program Director Stephen Shore, is widely recognized as having one of the strongest faculties in the country. It is noted for its traditional grounding in photographic techniques, and the range of aesthetic approaches of its students. Bard College, a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences, is located 90 miles north of New York City on nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; nine early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 159-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world. The undergraduate program at the main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement.
About Howard Greenberg Gallery
Since its inception over 35 years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Howard Greenberg Gallery is located at 41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406, New York. The gallery exhibits at The ADAA Art Show, The Armory Show, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, Photo London, Art Basel, Paris Photo, and Art Basel Miami Beach. For more information, contact 212-334-0010, [email protected] or visit www.howardgreenberg.com.
Curated by Stephen Shore
June 20 – August 29, 2019
Photographs by Recent Bard College Graduates Paired With Work by Dave Heath, Frederick Sommer, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lisette Model, Joseph Sudek, Minor White
New York—Last winter the legendary photographer Stephen Shore received an unusual request from Howard Greenberg Gallery: Would he be interested in curating an exhibition that included his students from the renowned photography program at Bard College? The answer was, “yes,” and the resulting collaboration, Bard x HGG, pairs work by seven of Shore’s recent graduates with photographs by historic 20th century artists from the Gallery’s vast archives. The exhibition will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 20 through August 29, 2019. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 20, from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
“Stephen Shore is a bridge connecting contemporary photography with the history of photography,” said Howard Greenberg. “As a contemporary figure and an important part of photo history, he is in a unique position to be able to connect a new generation of photographers and viewers.”
“I think of myself as both a photographer and a teacher and am delighted to have this opportunity to show my student’s work,” said Stephen Shore, Program Director & Susan Weber Professor in the Arts at Bard College. “Each of the recent graduates (from 2017 and 2018) is represented by a series of pictures so you can get a sense of their thought process and artistic practice.”
Works by the Bard graduates—Jasmine Clarke, Madison Emond, Briauna Falk, Vanessa Kotovich, Jackson Siegal, Naomi Zahler, and Ying Jing Zheng—are paired with photographs by Dave Heath, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lisette Model, Frederick Sommer, Stephen Shore, Joseph Sudek, and Minor White from Howard Greenberg Gallery’s extensive holdings.
Shore noted that the pairings vary from artist to artist, often highlighting an aspect of the recent graduate’s work. For the work by artists from the Gallery, Shore selected images by many photographers with whom he has personal connections: “David Heath was a friend to me when I was 14 and taught me about printing, and I was in a 10-day workshop run by Minor White when I was at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.”
Providing a gateway to the exhibition, work by Don Donaghy will be presented within the context of Bard x HGG. “While going through the Gallery’s archive, I came across Donaghy’s work and thought it would be wonderful to show,” said Shore. “His work was considered cutting edge in the 1960s. Yet, his photographs disappeared from public view despite the important role they played in the development of contemporary photography.”
About Stephen Shore
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past 45 years. He was the first living photographer to have a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since Alfred Stieglitz, 40 years earlier. He has also had solo shows at George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017, the Museum of Modern Art opened a major retrospective spanning Stephen Shore's entire career. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. More than 25 books of Shore’s photographs have been published. His work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, London, Berlin, and Los Angeles, where his work will be on view from June 19–August 30, 2019. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
About the Photography Program at Bard College
Bard College’s Photography Program, led by Program Director Stephen Shore, is widely recognized as having one of the strongest faculties in the country. It is noted for its traditional grounding in photographic techniques, and the range of aesthetic approaches of its students. Bard College, a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences, is located 90 miles north of New York City on nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; nine early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 159-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world. The undergraduate program at the main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement.
About Howard Greenberg Gallery
Since its inception over 35 years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Howard Greenberg Gallery is located at 41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406, New York. The gallery exhibits at The ADAA Art Show, The Armory Show, The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, Photo London, Art Basel, Paris Photo, and Art Basel Miami Beach. For more information, contact 212-334-0010, [email protected] or visit www.howardgreenberg.com.
06-04-2019
Sara Berman was 60 when she moved to New York with just one suitcase to start a new life. Berman's daughter, Maira Kalman, and grandson, Alex Kalman ’07, tell her story in a new book and museum exhibition.
06-04-2019
The rising artist discusses her process and inspirations as she prepares for an upcoming three-person show at MoMA PS1.
06-04-2019
Ali Stroker, who plays Ado Annie in the Broadway revival, won the award for outstanding featured actress in a musical, and composer Daniel Kluger was recognized for outstanding orchestration.
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
Swartz talks to curator Mathilde Walker-Billaud about voice, intimacy, and the physicality of sound.
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.”
05-01-2019
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.
April 2019
04-30-2019
The actor and Bard alum on his critically acclaimed performance, violence in America, and the politics of the hottest revival on Broadway.
04-30-2019
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.
04-30-2019
The production received 12 nominations, including outstanding revival of a musical. Winners will be announced June 2.
04-30-2019
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.
04-30-2019
Other nomination categories include best direction, leading actor, featured actress, scenic design, sound design, and orchestration. Winners will be announced on June 9.
04-30-2019
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.
04-29-2019
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.
Hollywood Reporter
Festival Cannes website
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 ReporterFestival Cannes website
04-29-2019
Bard artist in residence and acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has joined the panel of judges at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
04-23-2019
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.
04-23-2019
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.
04-23-2019
“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.”
04-23-2019
The Mmuseumm displays collections of small objects in a very small space. Its curator says they tell important stories.
04-16-2019
Professor Gilles Peress’s photographs are paired with writing by journalist Philip Gourevitch on the anniversary of Rwanda’s brutal 1994 genocide.
04-16-2019
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.
04-16-2019
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).”
04-11-2019
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.
04-09-2019
“Daniel Fish’s wide-awake, jolting and altogether wonderful production … just keeps getting better.”
04-09-2019
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.
04-01-2019
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.
March 2019
03-28-2019
BGC’s newest exhibition is a “captivating” exploration of the influence of the past on modern jewelry design.
03-27-2019
The Bard College Conservatory of Music presented The Degree Recital of the Graduate Conducting Program on March 30, featuring conductors Renée Anne Louprette and Michael Patterson, who led exceptional performances of works by Beethoven, Vaughan Williams, Mozart, and Stravinsky for an enthusiastic, near-capacity audience in Olin Hall.
03-27-2019
This summer, the Bard Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary season with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Korngold and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, a film screening, panel discussions, and expert commentary, Bard examines the life and career of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), the under-sung yet hugely influential composer whose lush Romanticism would come to define the quintessential Hollywood sound. The festival will take place over two weekends, August 9–11 and 16–18, as the centerpiece of Bard SummerScape 2019.
03-27-2019
Daniel Fish's "scrappy student staging" of Oklahoma! became a Bard legend. Then it transformed from the Theater Program to Bard SummerScape, and now to Broadway.
Talk to people about the director Daniel Fish, and certain words tend to come up a lot. Intense. Exacting. Tortured.
There’s his work, which lies at the challenging intersection of experimental theater, opera, film and installation art. And then there’s the man himself, whose rail-thin physique, storm of dark hair and penchant for black tends to draw analogies to a Dostoyevsky character.
Talk to people about the director Daniel Fish, and certain words tend to come up a lot. Intense. Exacting. Tortured.
There’s his work, which lies at the challenging intersection of experimental theater, opera, film and installation art. And then there’s the man himself, whose rail-thin physique, storm of dark hair and penchant for black tends to draw analogies to a Dostoyevsky character.
03-26-2019
Daniel Fish came to Bard to direct students in a production of Oklahoma! when Vaill was a senior. Twelve years later, “Vaill's portrayal of Jud Fry is about to become one of the most talked-about performances of the year.”
03-25-2019
Filmmakers Adam Khalil ’14 and Zack Khalil ’11, who are brothers and Bard graduates, will received a two-year, $40,000 grant to pursue their work.
03-20-2019
Elliott Sharp ’73—multitalented performer, composer, and producer—continues to be a leading figure in Manhattan’s downtown music community.
03-19-2019
The show chronicles how a study of the indigenous people of British Columbia, originally published in 1897, has acted as a guide for contemporary Kwakiutl peoples.
03-19-2019
The yearlong residency program is open to alumni/ae of the Bard MFA program and affiliated artists of Live Arts Bard. This year’s winners: artists William Lamson, Caitlin MacBride, and Tania El Khoury, visiting assistant professor of theater and performance at Bard; and pianist Courtney Bryan.