All Bard News by Date
April 2017
04-09-2017
The Fire Next Time has been republished by Taschen in a new edition that pairs James Baldwin's text with images by the civil rights–era photographer Steve Schapiro.
04-06-2017
Elisabeth Gambino, visual arts faculty at Bard High School Early College Baltimore, has been selected as a Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.
04-06-2017
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 15 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, with twelve individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with three exhibitions curated from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Bard College Collection, and the CCS Bard Library and Archives. The students have organized these exhibition and projects as part of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. The exhibitions open on Sunday, April 9, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and are on view through Sunday, May 28.
March 2017
03-29-2017
Live Arts Bard is pleased to announce the complete schedule for WE’RE WATCHING, the first major survey of performances by contemporary American artists exploring surveillance and its impact on our identities, featuring new works by Big Art Group; Annie Dorsen; Hasan Elahi; Michelle Ellsworth; Homi K. Bhabha, John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, and Will Rawls; Samuel Miller; and Alexandro Segade.
03-26-2017
Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson's sculptures take pow wow regalia in new directions in his Speak to Me exhibit at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.
03-25-2017
Professor Larry Fink's collection Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s, to be published in April, contains never-before-seen images of Warhol and his Factory cohorts.
03-15-2017
Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center makes the list of the 21 most beautiful theaters in the United States.
03-13-2017
The Bard Graduate Center impresses Manhattan artists with its annual design exhibitions, concerts, and lectures.
03-09-2017
Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman and Executive Producer Bryan Fuller discuss moving from page to screen for the forthcoming Starz television series American Gods, adapted from Gaiman’s best-selling novel. The event takes place on Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m., and includes an exclusive preview of the first episode of the new television series ahead of its premiere on the Starz network.
Bard Fisher Center Presents an Evening with Neil Gaiman and American Gods (Bard.edu)
Neil Gaiman to Discuss American Gods (Poughkeepsie Journal)
Bard Fisher Center Presents an Evening with Neil Gaiman and American Gods (Bard.edu)
Neil Gaiman to Discuss American Gods (Poughkeepsie Journal)
03-08-2017
This summer, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) in collaboration with the Barjeel Art Foundation will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition held at the CCS Bard Galleries from 24 June to 29 October 2017. No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects exhibits works drawn from the Barjeel Art Foundation Collection, dating from 1990 to 2016, and referencing significant histories and conflicts across the Arabic-speaking world.
03-05-2017
Parisian culture, Polish politics, and the piano are the focus of this summer’s annual Bard SummerScape festival, with seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret keyed to the theme of the 28th Bard Music Festival, “Chopin and His World," taking place at the Fisher Center, June 30 – August 20.
February 2017
02-15-2017
Photographer Larry Fink captured the crowd with his Fujifilm camera at the peaceful protest in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017.
02-09-2017
Live Arts Bard presents WE’RE WATCHING, the first major survey of performances by contemporary American artists exploring surveillance and its impact on our identities.
02-04-2017
Lertxundi talks about the influence Bard film professors John Pruitt and Peter Hutton have had on her work.
02-02-2017
TIME spoke with award-winning photographer and Bard professor Larry Fink to learn about his photography process. Professor Fink talks about the importance of taking chances.
January 2017
01-29-2017
The Museum of Modern Art announces Stephen Shore, the first U.S. survey to encompass the entirety of Stephen Shore’s career in photography, from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current work with digital platforms. On view from November 19, 2017, until spring 2018, the exhibition tracks the artist from his wunderkind beginnings—works made when he was just 14 years old were acquired by Edward Steichen, the director of the Department of Photography at MoMA; he had a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was 24 years old—through his continual, restless interrogation of image making. Stephen Shore is Susan Weber Professor in the Arts and director of the Photography Program at Bard. He has taught at the College since 1982.
01-26-2017
Bard alumnus Duane Linklater's show at NYU's 80WSE gallery engages with questions about the under- and misrepresentation of indigenous artists in galleries and museums.
01-20-2017
The artist Tschabalala Self employs a signature blend of paint, recycled materials, fabrics, and collage to depict women of color in her work, defiantly reclaiming their stories.
01-05-2017
Nona Faustine makes photographs that expose the history of slavery in the United States, particularly for black women, and its ties to locations in New York City and to national landmarks.
01-01-2017
The Invisible Adversaries exhibition at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum last fall considered the power of dark societal forces.
December 2016
12-31-2016
Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she uses sound in her work to challenge and disturb the norms of the hearing world.
12-23-2016
Classical Music from Rare Repertoire to Masterworks, French Jazz, Conversation, A Performance Festival About Surveillance, and More. Tickets on sale now!
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs performed in the world class Sosnoff and LUMA Theaters. Highlights include Catskill Jazz Factory’s French Connection series; The Orchestra Now series; the second edition of the Live Arts Bard Biennial: WE’RE WATCHING; Neil Gaiman & American Gods; Bard Conservatory Orchestra concerts; student opera, dance and theater productions; and more.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs performed in the world class Sosnoff and LUMA Theaters. Highlights include Catskill Jazz Factory’s French Connection series; The Orchestra Now series; the second edition of the Live Arts Bard Biennial: WE’RE WATCHING; Neil Gaiman & American Gods; Bard Conservatory Orchestra concerts; student opera, dance and theater productions; and more.
12-13-2016
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World is a "handsome, densely installed, freshly researched landmark exhibition" about the designers Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto.
12-12-2016
Actor Robert De Niro has named R.H. Quaytman as the winner of the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, which is given to an artist "devoted to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in painting."
12-11-2016
Nicholas Serota, the soon-to-be departing director of the Tate museums in Britain, is to receive the 2017 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies.
12-08-2016
Hal Foster names Tony Oursler’s The Imponderable Archive at CCS Bard and Jim Shaw’s The End Is Here at the New Museum as the two best art shows of 2016.
12-07-2016
Ben Coonley discusses Trading Futures, a 3D, 360-degree video on view in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art at the Whitney.
12-07-2016
BECNO Visiting Professor of the Humanities Gwen Thompkins looks at the life of prolific jazz guitarist and banjoist Danny Barker, who wrote an indispensable account of the early days of jazz.
12-02-2016
The Wall Street Journal tours a new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center that explores the work of Napoleon’s architect.
12-02-2016
Chris Claremont became an industry icon by emphasizing the importance of character development, storytelling, and melodrama in his long career at Marvel Comics.
November 2016
11-27-2016
Party People, a play by the Universes ensemble, cofounded by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, reflects on leaders of movements for racial justice.
11-26-2016
South African curator and CCS Bard graduate Gabi Ngcobo will curate the 2018 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.
11-23-2016
Marcelle's Kokomo "is the perfect embodiment of the Freudian Uncanny concept: familiar and disquieting at the same time."
11-20-2016
Bard alumna Tschabalala Self discusses her new solo exhibition of collaged fabric and paint work exploring the black female body, and the ongoing impact of the Bard faculty on her practice.
11-20-2016
Author Porochista Khakpour talks about supporting Bard students and amplifying her activism after the election.
11-18-2016
Work by several Bard alumnae and faculty members will be featured in the Whitney Biennial this spring. Bard alumnae include Celeste Dupuy Spencer (Studio Arts), Dani Leventhal MFA '10 (Film/Video), Carrie Moyer MFA '02 (Painting), and Leila Weinraub (MFA). Faculty artists include Susan Cianciolo (MFA visiting artist in Painting), Kevin Everson (MFA Film/Video faculty), An-My Lê (Photography), Ulrike Müller (MFA Painting cochair), and Cauleen Smith (MFA Film/Video faculty).
11-02-2016
"We are the (Epi) center…" is a two-month project that brings together a range of international artists to rethink art's relationship to its forms of exhibition and propose new models. Opening reception on Friday, November 11, 6–8pm with a performance by Harold Offeh. The project is coorganized with Paul O’Neill and the Center for Curatorial Studies and takes place at P!, located at 334 Broome Street in New York City.
October 2016
10-26-2016
"Charles Percier: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions" is one of several exhibitions focusing on 18th-century French furniture, some of which emphasize detecting forgeries.
10-26-2016
Bard writer in residence Wyatt Mason looks at the Chicago-based artist who, for more than 40 years, has made it his mission to paint black figures into the canon.
10-26-2016
Ben Coonley's "Trading Futures" is featured in the Whitney Museum's show Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.
10-26-2016
If you missed Alan Cumming in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue at the Fisher Center on October 16, you can listen to the whole event on the Book Show.
10-19-2016
Aaron Turner, technical director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program, discusses his work based on the narratives of people of color in the Arkansas and Mississippi deltas.
10-16-2016
In this essay from The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook, photographer An-My Lê remembers her grandmother making substitution pho after the family moved from Vietnam to Paris.
10-13-2016
Professor Sante observes the indignation around Dylan's Nobel win, arguing that the writer deserves the award for using the power of words to change the time he inhabited.
10-13-2016
Idaho is one of the most welcoming states in the Union for refugees, settling nearly 1,000 a year, mostly from war-torn regions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
10-07-2016
Artists Medrie MacPhee, Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence, and Shinique Smith, who will teach a course at Bard this spring, have been honored with Anonymous Was A Woman Awards. Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted grant of $25,000 that enables women artists, over 40 years of age and at a significant juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. The award is given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, and the quality of her work.
10-06-2016
Actress Gaby Hoffmann on her role in the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent and her remarkable childhood growing up in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel.
10-05-2016
Bessie Award–winning choreographer Beth Gill makes her Fisher Center debut with Catacomb, a dance performance inspired by the imagination and subconscious, on Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater.
September 2016
09-29-2016
Acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore launched his career in his teens by becoming one of the main photographers to document the scene at Warhol’s factory.
09-29-2016
Curated by Paul O'Neill, director of the graduate program, We are the Center for Curatorial Studies is both an exhibition and research project, a multiyear program incorporating artist projects, exhibitions, collaborations, and public and nonpublic programs. On view in the Hessel Museum of Art, October 15 to December 16, with an opening reception on Saturday, October 15 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., with a special live performance by artist James Hoff (PAN).