All Bard News by Date
November 2017
11-16-2017
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce that Lia Gangitano is the recipient of the 2018 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on Monday, April 9, 2018 at 6:30pm in New York City. Tom Eccles, Executive Director of CCS Bard states: "Lia Gangitano is a curatorial pioneer presenting artists and artwork that have often been marginalized. Looking back over more than three decades of exhibitions and curatorial projects, we are delighted to celebrate the significant contribution Lia has made to the cultural life of New York City.
11-12-2017
Artist Anna Sew Hoy will be the first Martha Longenecker Roth Distinguished Artist in Residence, noted for "expanding the field of art, celebrating material and craft, and engaging with students and the public."
11-10-2017
CCS Bard director Tom Eccles and fellow curators create a portrait of Turin, Italy, by juxtaposing modern art with ancient pieces from the city's Egyptian Museum in Like a Moth to a Flame.
11-09-2017
The Museum of Modern Art will exhibit photographs spanning Stephen Shore's entire career. This is the first survey in New York of this magnitude, and will be on view November 19 – May 28, 2018. Over the last five decades, Professor Shore has "conducted a continual, restless interrogation of image making, from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current engagement with digital platforms." He is "One of the most significant photographers of our time."
October 2017
10-29-2017
Duane Linklater's Wood Land School creates site-specific exhibitions of works by indigenous artists—most recently an ambitious, yearlong project at Montreal’s SBC Gallery.
10-28-2017
John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London looks at Kipling's pivotal work in the Arts and Crafts revival in 19th-century British India.
10-25-2017
Unspecified Promise, a sculpture and performance art piece by Guillermo Calzadilla MFA '02 and Jennifer Allora, speaks to the personal aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
10-25-2017
Alyssa Greenberg MA '12, who received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago this year, has been named a Leadership Fellow at The Toledo Museum of Art. This recently established program cultivates membership of the next generation of museum leaders through an innovative, experiential program that also builds partnerships across the broader industry and community.
Judith Gura MA '99 is on the faculty at the New York School of Interior Design. Her most recent book is Postmodern Design Complete: Design, Furniture, Graphics, Architecture, Interiors, published by Thames & Hudson.
Melissa Riebe McCaffrey MA '10 has been named regional director of New York Fine Art Appraisers' newly opened New England office in Boston. Assisted by a team of appraisers and experts in a range of specialties—including jewelry, Americana, modern and contemporary art, and antique furniture—she provides onsite appraisal services to local and New England clientele.
Judith Gura MA '99 is on the faculty at the New York School of Interior Design. Her most recent book is Postmodern Design Complete: Design, Furniture, Graphics, Architecture, Interiors, published by Thames & Hudson.
Melissa Riebe McCaffrey MA '10 has been named regional director of New York Fine Art Appraisers' newly opened New England office in Boston. Assisted by a team of appraisers and experts in a range of specialties—including jewelry, Americana, modern and contemporary art, and antique furniture—she provides onsite appraisal services to local and New England clientele.
10-24-2017
Plato Goes Live puts Plato’s Republic into sharp focus at Bard College Berlin this semester. The series features Bard Professor Thomas Bartscherer and President Leon Botstein.
10-23-2017
The Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities at Bard College presents renowned artist and designer Maya Lin in two talks: At the Intersection of Art and Architecture, on Monday, October 23, and The “Memory Works” on Tuesday, October 24.
10-19-2017
The Hunter College MFA in Studio Art announces the appointment of painter and writer Carrie Moyer MFA '02 as the new director of Hunter’s nationally ranked graduate studio art program.
10-18-2017
Adriana Farmiga, a Bard MFA alumna who has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art since 2011, has been appointed assistant dean at the school.
10-16-2017
Curated by historian Sugata Ray, Lahore on my Mind unites thinkers, curators, and artists from the United States, Europe, and South Asia.
10-15-2017
Bard MFA alumna Colleen Brown '11 and nine other selected artists explore art and civic life in Vancouver through events, installations, and residencies.
10-04-2017
Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies is distinguished by its "excellent faculty and strong job network," as well the 25,000-square-foot, on-campus Hessel Museum.
10-01-2017
Lauren Cornell was named as an "Emerging Art World Power Player" among other up-and-coming art curators and collectors.
September 2017
09-23-2017
Bard Professor of Photography An-My Lê is among the many recipients of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant who are immigrants to the United States.
09-23-2017
A. L. Steiner is among the 21 scholars, writers, and artists awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—by the American Academy in Berlin for 2017–18.
09-16-2017
The Stedeliik Museum features Carlos Motta’s video portraits of LGBTQI refugees seeking asylum to escape repression.
August 2017
08-31-2017
Bard is credited with starting the first low-residency MFA program, with students gathering for eight-week summer sessions that split up their independent study.
08-31-2017
Dover examines the threads of design activism's influence on "expression and service" in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
08-27-2017
Lauded by MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach for her "distinctive and strong curatorial voice," Katrib will join MoMA PS1 as curator on October 15, 2017.
08-27-2017
Adam Conover made videos with his Bard sketch group before YouTube even launched, now his web series Adam Ruins Everything has generated 30 million views.
08-14-2017
Geoffrey Stein '82 talks his recent show depicting large-scale collage portraits of television stars, and his late transition from a reinsurance litigator to a full-time painter.
08-14-2017
An afternoon ride on the "Spook-a-Rama" opened Francine Prose's eyes to a tragic reality. Half a century later, Prose finds her private tragedy represented in a print by Diane Arbus.
08-07-2017
Kinetic Painting is a comprehensive retrospective of visual artist and Bard alumna Carolee Schneemann’s early paintings and kinetic theater performances.
July 2017
07-31-2017
No to the Invasion opens up a space where artworks can subvert curatorial plots, presenting a rare opportunity to engage with the research-based art projects of the Arab world.
07-27-2017
Egyptian artist and Bard College Berlin Professor Heba Y. Amin's work looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture, and will be featured in the Istanbul Biennial this fall.
07-27-2017
The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College have announced that the curator and writer Galit Eilat has been selected as the fourth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research in art and activism at Bard College.
07-26-2017
The Princess Grace Foundation is awarding over $1 million to help fund a new generation of exceptional artists, including Bard student and emerging filmmaker Sadie Schiffman-Eller '18.
07-25-2017
The festival enters its second decade with a global lineup of artists who interrogate the boundaries of genre and geography in performances, installations, and public conversations, coming to New York September 6 — October 15.
07-19-2017
“We need art to give us as much knowledge of the larger world...as possible.” The 40 works in No to the Invasion bring the modern Arab world into vivid focus.
07-18-2017
“What interests me is looking at the world with intention,” says Stephen Shore of his prolific Instagram, selections of which will be featured in his MOMA retrospective opening November 19.
07-17-2017
The Wooster Group founding member Elizabeth LeCompte directs the world premiere of A Pink Chair, a 100th-birthday tribute to acclaimed director Tadeusz Kantor, now showing at the Fisher Center through July 23rd.
07-17-2017
In a BCG exhibition curated by Françoise Louis, the oldest extant illustrated guidebook on the Confucian classics, the Sanli tu (961 CE) is displayed alongside the depicted ritual objects.
07-05-2017
Galerie Judin, Berlin is presenting “Years Disappear” by American artist John Kleckner (b. 1978), on view through August 19.
Kleckner’s new repertoire of form is based on an on-going series of paper collages that he started making in 2012.
Kleckner’s new repertoire of form is based on an on-going series of paper collages that he started making in 2012.
07-03-2017
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents the Class of 2018 Thesis Exhibition July 22–30 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, New York, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition brings together candidates’ culminating work in film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. Performances, readings, and screenings of time-based works will take place on the Bard College campus during the evenings of July 24–28.
June 2017
06-29-2017
Late founder of the NYC neon sign workshop, Let There Be Neon, artist Rudi Stern '59 is widely credited with reviving the craft of neon and revolutionizing its use in art and commerce.
06-23-2017
Suchenski presents a lecture followed by a book signing. Projections of Memory is an exploration of innovative cinematic works that use extraordinary scope to construct monuments to the imagination, through which currents from the other arts can interpenetrate.
06-14-2017
Two exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 24, at the conjoined Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum at Bard College, promise unfamiliar artists and revisionist viewpoints. The larger of the two, “Picture Industry,” is a sprawling show organized by the artist Walead Beshty that spans from the late 19th century to the present.
06-14-2017
“Luc Sante’s nonfiction book is a brilliant history of low life in the city. It was much celebrated when it came out and should still be, because it’s really a classic—valuable for anybody who wants to write books, wants to write novels, wants to know about New York City . . . " writes Colin Harrison for the Village Voice.
06-06-2017
Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College Daniel Mendelsohn recounts the time he spent in his twenties living with an older French woman who made him a writer.
06-01-2017
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is pleased to announce the appointment of Christina De León as associate curator of U.S. Latino design. In this newly created position, supported by the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center, De León is responsible for researching modern and contemporary U.S. Latino design for the collection, as well as developing exhibitions, public programs and digital content to raise awareness of Latino design.
May 2017
05-29-2017
05-17-2017
Swartz is attempting to reveal something that is inside all of us—a dynamic, expressive, intimate feeling felt through the shape of sound.
05-16-2017
Curated by artist Walead Beshty, with works by over 80 artists (ranging from historical documents to major installations), Picture Industry reflects upon transformations in the production and distribution of photographic images as realized through its varied constructions of the corporeal, from its origin as scientific tool and a means of cultural investigation to its phenomenological effects on a viewer. On View June 24-December 15, Hessel Museum of Art
05-02-2017
05-01-2017
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) has named curator Lauren Cornell as Director of the Graduate Program for its two-year Master of Arts in Curatorial Studies and Chief Curator of the Hessel Museum of Art, beginning on July 1.
April 2017
04-14-2017
Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt is interviewed by Australian magazine FilmInk in anticipation of her retrospective program, Certain Women: Kelly Reichardt’s America.
04-10-2017
Bard's MFA Program is named among the 25 Best MFA Programs by College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, in its recently published 2017 rankings.