All Bard News by Date
September 2016
09-20-2016
Tom Eccles, director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, is among the artnet Titans: the most influential people in the art world.
09-12-2016
Mozart in the Jungle star Kirke talks about the privileges of an arts education and the power of being in a show with strong female characters.
09-09-2016
Kelly Reichardt discusses her independent career, making film as a woman, and why she teaches at Bard.
09-07-2016
Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World "is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions about the artistry and making of design you are likely to see."
09-04-2016
Book objects from the collection of Mindell Dubansky are on view at the Stevenson Library through Sunday, October 30, with an opening reception on Monday, September 12. All over the world, for hundreds of years, people have been making, collecting and presenting book-objects that reflect their devotion and respect for books and each other. There are countless examples; they include cameras, radios, banks, toys, memorials, desk accessories, musical instruments, magic tricks, furniture and jewelry.
August 2016
08-31-2016
The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the Fisher Center for a work-in-progress performance in culmination of its fall residency. The program includes the most recent reconstruction of Brown’s brazenly beautiful Geometry of Quiet (2002), an elegant and austere quartet featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as other selections from Brown’s 40-year repertoire. The program will be performed on Thursday, September 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater.
08-31-2016
The Future Perfect brings together work from the last five years of graduating classes from three ICP programs, including the ICP-Bard MFA.
08-25-2016
Humorist David Sedaris, actor-singer Alan Cumming, pianist Jeremy Denk, and experimental accordionist-composer Pauline Oliveros are among those performing this fall.
08-25-2016
Bard writer in residence Francine Prose finds "distraction, humor, entertainment, and pleasure" in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at Bard's Hessel Museum.
08-24-2016
The "liberal arts comedy" of Bard alumnus Adam Conover's TruTV series, Adam Ruins Everything, aims not only to entertain but also to educate.
08-24-2016
"Do you love museums and hate crowds? Visit this charming UWS townhouse for a double dose of intellectual stimulation and solitude. ... It's cerebral stuff."
08-24-2016
Writer, director, and cinematographer Sonja Tsypin has been awarded the first place 2016 KODAK Student Cinematography Scholarship for her dramatic narrative Powder Room.
08-18-2016
Highlights include acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, Pauline Oliveros and the International Contemporary Ensemble, conversations with David Sedaris and Alan Cumming, The Orchestra Now, and more.
08-18-2016
Phyllis Marsteller's exhibition Gehry Forms: Details of the Fisher Center at Bard highlights in striking black and white Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center.
08-10-2016
Opus 40 is the masterwork of the late Bard professor and alumnus Harvey Fite '30, the product of his "ceaseless vision" and 37 years of labor.
08-10-2016
Professor An-My Lê urged Emma Ressel to send a portfolio from her Senior Project to New York Magazine. The result is Ressel's ornate and vibrant photo spread.
08-05-2016
Given the tremendous popularity of his work, can Puccini still be considered controversial? Audiences at this year's Bard Music Festival will be able to draw their own conclusions.
08-04-2016
Shaver's Dress the Form is an installation of wall-size fabrics, furniture, and found objects arranged with "skill and aplomb." On view through August 19.
08-03-2016
Graduates of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and Program Director Paul O'Neill spoke with artist Nina Canell about her recent international exhibitions.
08-03-2016
Bard writer in residence Teju Cole examines the visual narrative of the iconic images of protestors in the Black Lives Matter movement.
08-03-2016
08-02-2016
With an outstanding line-up of events, the Bard Music Festival provides "the perfect platform" for a reexamination of the popular yet controversial composer Giacomo Puccini.
08-02-2016
President Botstein "... turns his ship into the heady winds of late-19th- and early-20th-century Italian music, a turbulent mix of modernism, Futurism, and late Romanticism."
July 2016
07-29-2016
"As Iris, Talise Trevigne displayed a big dramatic soprano . . . The American Symphony Orchestra sounded robust and colorful under Mr. Botstein." Final performances July 27, 29, and 31.
07-28-2016
Annet Dekker, CCS Bard curator-in-residence, delves into the rich landscape and archival challenges of digital marginalia.
07-27-2016
MFA writing professor Hoa Nguyen's poems "Ode to Second Chances (Late February)" and "O Prosperity" are featured in Hyperallergic's monthly poetry series.
07-27-2016
A look inside Bard's enchanted tent of mirrors, the Spiegeltent, featuring a performance from Bard alumni–founded ensemble Contemporaneous on August 11.
07-26-2016
Bower displays architectural fragments with birdhouses designed to attract six different species of local birds. Opening reception August 11.
07-25-2016
SummerScape offers "another intellectually intriguing and emotionally engaging performance of an opera infrequently encountered these days." Final performances July 27, 29, and 31.
07-25-2016
Director Tom Eccles calls on architects Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) to reconfigure CCS Bard from within, addressing the growing needs of the museum, library, archives, and teaching space.
07-24-2016
07-24-2016
07-23-2016
07-21-2016
Musical America calls Iris "revelatory" and "riveting."
07-18-2016
The Fisher Center presents Woven: In Process, an exhibition of 5 x 10 foot photographs by Tanya Marcuse, courtesy of the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City. Marcuse, an artist in residence at Bard, meticulously arranges natural elements in an intricate tableau of a lush yet decaying forest of fauna and flora, where a detailed still life weaves into a medieval tapestry. The exhibition features the artist’s studio proofs, giving the audience a look into the artist’s process of making these elaborate photographs. Marcuse presents the unity of the work in its "opulence which verges on excess." The exhibition takes place in the LUMA Theater Weis Atrium of the Fisher Center. The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 12 to 5 p.m., and will extend until curtain call on performance evenings at the Fisher Center. During regular gallery hours, visitors may enter through the Fisher Center parking lot entrance. The exhibition runs from July 7 to November 20, with an opening reception on Friday, July 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be an artist talk moderated by Professor Daniel Mendelsohn on October 18 at 6:30 pm, free and open to the public.
07-14-2016
Writer and artist Rikki Ducornet, recipient of the Bard College Arts and Letters award, constructs a series of paper scrolls in response to Margie McDonald's whimsical sculptures.
07-14-2016
After 20 years exhibiting her work internationally, visual artist Amy Granat '98 returned to her native St. Louis, opening an intimate, salon-like gallery intent on "art meeting life."
07-13-2016
Carlos Motta’s exhibition Histories for the Future at the Perez Art Museum Miami presents video and sculpture addressing pre-Andean concepts of gender and sexuality.
07-13-2016
Sevim shares her experience living in Egypt during the recent revolution and discusses how photographing personal stories of the turmoil presents a visual history of modern Egypt.
07-08-2016
Artist Tony Oursler walks the viewer through his Imponderable archive of occult objects and discusses its roots in family history.
07-07-2016
Featuring Premiere Live Performance of Sergei Polunin’s "Take Me To Church," Performances by Blythe Danner, Parker Posey, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mx. Justin Vivian Bond; A Benefit for the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, July 16
The 2016 SummerScape Gala celebrates the spirit of Montgomery Place, the historic Hudson Valley estate that recently became part of the Bard College campus, with an elegant evening in the company of some very special guests on Saturday, July 16, 2016.
The 2016 SummerScape Gala celebrates the spirit of Montgomery Place, the historic Hudson Valley estate that recently became part of the Bard College campus, with an elegant evening in the company of some very special guests on Saturday, July 16, 2016.
07-07-2016
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts will present its Class of 2017 thesis exhibition July 16–23 at the Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery) at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 16 from 1 to 4 p.m.
07-05-2016
07-04-2016
In Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, Dan Hurlin stages Fortunato Depero’s unproduced plays at Bard SummerScape, July 7–17.
07-01-2016
Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive features ephemera from Oursler's collection of objects related to scientifically unsupportable beliefs.
June 2016
06-30-2016
Professor Luc Sante meditates on the disappearance of junk shops, their cultural identity, and the possibility of transcendence amid the junk.
06-29-2016
A look into Ms. Export’s life in Austria, her early work in “expanded cinema,” and her film Invisible Adversaries, showcased at Bard’s Hessel Museum.
06-27-2016
A Letter to the Bard Community from President Leon Botstein
It is with great sadness that I inform the community of the death of Peter Hutton, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts, on June 25 at the age of 71.
Peter began teaching at Bard in 1985 and chaired the Film and Electronic Arts Program for twenty-seven years. He also taught in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Peter was born in Detroit on August 24, 1944. He received B.F.A and M.F.A. degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute, and travelled the world as a merchant seaman, creating intimate studies of place from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from the coast of Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. Anthology Film Archives presented a retrospective of his work in 1989, and the Museum of Modern Art presented a comprehensive, eighteen-film retrospective in 2008. His films have also been featured in the Biennial Exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of American Art for many years. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in the early 1990s and received grants from the New York Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River.
Peter was one of the most gracious, talented, original, and generous colleagues I have ever known. His contribution to the College was transformative. My deepest condolences to his daughter, Manon Hutton-DeWys ’06, of whom he was justly proud, and her husband, Donald McClelland; and his widow, Carolina Gonzalez-Hutton. He is also survived by his twin sister, Wendy Hutton, and brother, William Hutton.
A funeral service will take place on Tuesday, June 28, beginning with a quiet gathering at 5:00 p.m. at the Avery Center for the Arts, followed by a silent procession to Blithewood, where the service will be held on the West Portico, weather permitting, or in the Blithewood Foyer, if necessary. A reception at the president’s house will immediately follow the service.
If you choose to honor Peter and his legacy at Bard, donations may be made to Bard College for the Peter Hutton Film Fund. Please do not send flowers.
Read Professor Hutton's obituary in the New York Times, "Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71."
It is with great sadness that I inform the community of the death of Peter Hutton, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts, on June 25 at the age of 71.
Peter began teaching at Bard in 1985 and chaired the Film and Electronic Arts Program for twenty-seven years. He also taught in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.
Peter was born in Detroit on August 24, 1944. He received B.F.A and M.F.A. degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute, and travelled the world as a merchant seaman, creating intimate studies of place from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from the coast of Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. Anthology Film Archives presented a retrospective of his work in 1989, and the Museum of Modern Art presented a comprehensive, eighteen-film retrospective in 2008. His films have also been featured in the Biennial Exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of American Art for many years. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in the early 1990s and received grants from the New York Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River.
Peter was one of the most gracious, talented, original, and generous colleagues I have ever known. His contribution to the College was transformative. My deepest condolences to his daughter, Manon Hutton-DeWys ’06, of whom he was justly proud, and her husband, Donald McClelland; and his widow, Carolina Gonzalez-Hutton. He is also survived by his twin sister, Wendy Hutton, and brother, William Hutton.
A funeral service will take place on Tuesday, June 28, beginning with a quiet gathering at 5:00 p.m. at the Avery Center for the Arts, followed by a silent procession to Blithewood, where the service will be held on the West Portico, weather permitting, or in the Blithewood Foyer, if necessary. A reception at the president’s house will immediately follow the service.
If you choose to honor Peter and his legacy at Bard, donations may be made to Bard College for the Peter Hutton Film Fund. Please do not send flowers.
Read Professor Hutton's obituary in the New York Times, "Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71."
06-26-2016
"Over the course of the fifth century BCE, tragedy evolved into an ideal literary vehicle for exploring, and often questioning, the political, social, and civic values of Athens itself."
06-23-2016
Salisbury makes his directorial debut with Everything's OK, a postapocalyptic live action/animated hybrid, which was accepted to the Cannes short film program.