All Bard News by Date
June 2016
06-22-2016
Hanusik's poignant photos of southern communities grappling with the effects of climate change have been published in Oxford American's "Eyes on the South" series.
06-21-2016
This weekend, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will launch two new exhibitions: Invisible Adversaries and Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive. Imponderable offers the first comprehensive showing of the remarkable objects collected by American artist Tony Oursler, tracking the history of the paranormal dating back to the early 18th century. Invisible Adversaries celebrates 10 years of the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College with a selection of works around the theme of a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces. Curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles, the exhibition includes more than 50 artists drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, major installations, and new commissions. These two exhibitions are accompanied by Reading Context, an opportunity to study selected works of art alongside their archival materials, taking place in the new Collection Teaching Gallery. The opening reception for new exhibitions will take place on Saturday, June 25 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. More on the CCS Bard website
06-20-2016
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation has unveiled its biennial list of 2015 grantees. Among them are two Bard MFA faculty members, Pam Lins and A. L. Steiner, and three MFA alumni/ae: Jared Buckhiester '13, Rochelle Goldberg '15, and Kelly Kaczynski '03. More on Arforum
06-19-2016
Artist Kate Stone '09 and writer Hannah Schneider '09 met at Bard; now they've created a "poignant and witty" collection of illustrated short stories.
06-16-2016
In 1993, Stephen Shore traveled to Luzzara, a rural district in Northern Italy, to photograph its residents. The resulting portfolio shows a traditional community slowly embracing modernity.
06-15-2016
Remarkably, fine art and design innovator László Moholy-Nagy, the focus of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, had almost no training in the visual arts, writes Professor Stirton.
06-06-2016
On the eve of her second solo exhibition at the Rachel Uffner Gallery, Greenbaum discussed the profound influence of her Bard mentor, Elizabeth Murray.
06-05-2016
For the exhibition, Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle created How Long Is Your Past, How Far Is Your Future, a 16-foot-long, site-specific painting filled with cosmological symbols.
06-04-2016
Every year, BMF challenges audiences to rethink composers they think they know. This year's festival presents possibly the greatest challenge yet as it takes on Giacomo Puccini.
06-03-2016
In the late 1970s, Atwood was living in Paris and had a chance encounter with blind students, from that stemmed her award-winning series of photographs.
May 2016
05-25-2016
Chris Claremont has written more X-Men comics than anyone else, and his work has had a major impact on the franchise and the superhero genre generally.
05-25-2016
Imponderable is an extensive research project, exhibition, film, and publication that investigates the personal collection of American artist Tony Oursler, a remarkable trove of more than 2,500 photographs, documents, publications, and unique objects, tracking a social, spiritual, and intellectual history of the paranormal dating back to the early 18th century.
05-18-2016
The Hessel Museum of Art marks its 10th anniversary with a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles entitled Invisible Adversaries. The exhibition is inspired by the eponymous 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, and is built around its themes. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. The exhibition includes more than 50 artists drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, major installations, and new commissions.
05-11-2016
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College have announced that Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, architects and critics based in Beit Sahour, Palestinian Territories, have been selected as the third recipients of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism.
05-04-2016
Tom Eccles, executive director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, is one of five curators behind last week's prestigious Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island.
05-04-2016
Saxophonist and sound artist Matana Roberts has received a 2016 Doris Duke Artist Award, which carries an unrestricted grant of $275,000.
April 2016
04-27-2016
Distinguished Writer in Residence Teju Cole reflects on the ethical implications of displaying found photographs of African Americans in the age of digital photo tagging.
04-27-2016
Associate Professor Aaron Glass's Getty Award will support a three-month residency at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
04-25-2016
Professor Romm considers the immense, plundered wealth on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World” exhibition.
04-21-2016
Professor Battle was commissioned to paint "How long is your past, how far is your future." At 16-feet wide by 5-feet tall, the oil and mixed media piece is her largest yet.
04-15-2016
Schapiro speaks about the Bowie photo shoot that would produce some of the most iconic album art and magazine images of the 1970s, now collected in his new book, Bowie.
04-13-2016
Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle has created a site-specific, sixteen-foot painting, structured on the spiral galaxy, for Vassar College's Touch the Sky exhibition. Curated by Mary-Kay Lombino at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, the exhibition celebrates astronomy as seen through the eyes of 18 artists. Works on view include artist books, prints, drawings, paintings, photography, and film. The opening lecture and reception will take place on Friday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m., and the exhibition will be open through August 21.
04-11-2016
After his recent project in Ukraine, Photography Program Director Stephen Shore gives advice on how to see light, structure a photograph, and create images with subtle emotional power.
04-07-2016
On view through April 18, "Photographs of Educated Youth: Images of the Chinese Youth Sent to the Countryside during the Cultural Revolution 1966–1976," photography of Tang Desheng, is curated by Patricia Karetzky, who holds the Oskar Munsterberg Chair of Asian Art. The show comprises 25 photographs of the Cultural Revolution in China from the perspective of the young people sent to the countryside. The photographer, Tang Desheng, who was a youth during that time, embedded himself in the movement and traveled throughout China for 10 years documenting the lives of displaced youth. The Bard Art History Program, Asian Studies Program, Hannah Arendt Center, and Human Rights Program are sponsoring the exhibition.
March 2016
03-30-2016
"How do we know when a photographer caters to life and not to some previous prejudice?" Cole challenges the viewer to take a critical look at the iconic photography of Steve McCurry.
03-26-2016
Beginning on April 3, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 18 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art with 17 individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show.
03-24-2016
Artistic Director Fionn Meade CCS '09 called de Bellis and fellow new hire Adrienne Edwards "two of the most exciting and dynamic curators in contemporary interdisciplinary practice."
03-23-2016
"The tattered history of the Ojibway people of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is redeemed through punk-rock humor" in Adam and Zack Khalil's INAATE/SE/.
03-14-2016
Bard's Judy Pfaff is the 2016 Grossman Artist-in-Residence at Lafayette College. Visitors walk around, into, and through her installation, which fills 1,100 square feet of gallery space.
03-03-2016
Virginia Hanusik's photography project focuses on coastal land loss in Louisiana, which relates to work she began during her sophomore year at Bard.
03-02-2016
Professor Kitnick writes the cover piece on Cameron Rowland's exhibition at Artists Space in New York City for the current issue of Artforum.
February 2016
02-22-2016
Ben Coonley MFA '03, assistant professor of film and electronic arts, exhibits a series of 3D video installations at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn.
02-16-2016
This summer's Bard Music Festival will explore how Puccini became one of the most successful opera composers of all time despite often being critically underrated. (New York Times)
02-15-2016
Bard College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State’s Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program that will be used to support the renovation of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard). CCS Bard and Hessel Museum of Art are expanding its facility to create a new Visible Collections Storage and Living Archive where work from its Contemporary Art Collection can be placed on permanent public view. New and repurposed classrooms, study, and meeting spaces will allow the rich resources of CCS Bard to be more accessible for students, researchers, and visitors, as well as increase its capability for hosting public receptions, lectures and screenings. This project will transform the way the public and visiting scholars can view the collection.
02-11-2016
Cekala found beauty in the salt used to keep Boston roads safe. Her curiosity has led to an exhibition of photography and video, now on view for the second time in the city.
02-10-2016
The How Institutions Think symposium will focus on different concepts of institution and forms of institutional practice. The event takes place February 24 – 27, 2016, in Arles, France. This symposium addresses the contemporary possibilities and limitations of institutional formats, practices, and imaginaries, but starts from a different place, namely from categories of knowledge, cognition, and the social. This symposium brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of speakers who are invited to reflect upon how institutional practices inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us.
02-10-2016
Caitlin Keogh is now being represented by Chelsea gallery Bortolami. Her work can be found in the well-received group exhibition “Flatlands” at the Whitney Museum of Art.
January 2016
01-25-2016
From her breakthrough as one of two female filmmakers at Sundance in 1994, Bard's Kelly Reichardt received Variety’s 2016 Indie Impact Award at this year's festival.
01-23-2016
Partnering with Bard’s Dance Program is one way the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues the work of the renowned choreographer in performance and education.
01-22-2016
Bard MFA alumna Robin Coste Lewis discusses her book Voyage of the Sable Venus, which won the National Book Award last year.
01-19-2016
Victoria Campbell '98 MAT '16 came to Haiti in 2010 to provide earthquake relief, where she met the charismatic Gaston Jean Edy, the subject of her film Monsieur le President.
01-19-2016
Two visiting artists teaching in the Theater & Performance Program, Jack Ferver and David Levine, have been awarded 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants in Performance Art/Theater in the amount of $40,000 each. Since only three awards were made in the category this year, this is a particularly remarkable achievement. The FCA was founded in 1963 by Jasper Johns and John Cage, and its awards are among the most prestigious in the field. Since the Foundation's inception, more than 2,500 grants awarded to artists and arts organizations—totaling over $11 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and development.
01-17-2016
"The facticity of a photograph can conceal the craftiness of its content and selection," writes Bard writer in residence and photographer Teju Cole.
01-14-2016
To make the movies she wanted, Kelly Reichardt had to go it alone. She returns to Sundance this year with her sixth feature, Certain Women.
01-08-2016
Eight Bard alumni/ae are involved in the production of Bieber Bathos Elegy, created by Felix Bernstein '13, which will premiere at the Whitney Museum in New York City on January 15. This hybrid work by New York–based artist, poet, and writer Bernstein combines musical performance, poetry, cabaret drag, and opera to explore the concept of bathos—the failure to achieve pathos—and illuminate issues of identity and persona through the character of Justin Bieber. The work is directed by Gabe Rubin '14 with assistant director Clara Lipfert MFA '18, composed by Rron Karahoda '13, with production design by George Dupont '14 and sound design by Cammisa Buerhaus MFA '18, and features musical performances by Leila Bordreuil '13 and Lazar Bozic '14.
01-04-2016
Films by Film and Electronic Arts faculty members So Yong Kim and Kelly Reichardt as well as alumnus Miles Joris-Peyrafitte '14 will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, later this month. Reichardt's Certain Women features Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, and James Le Gros. The film follows the intersecting lives of three women in small-town America, and is based on short stories by Maile Meloy. In Kim's Lovesong, with Jena Malone, Riley Keough, and Brooklyn Decker, the relationship between two friends deepens during an impromptu road trip. Joris-Peyrafitte's As You Are is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation, with Owen Campbell, Charlie Heaton, Amandla Stenberg, John Scurti, Scott Cohen, and Mary Stuart Masterson.
01-03-2016
"We should be grateful to Music Director/Conductor Leon Botstein for giving us the chance to hear this strong work, in director Thaddeus Strassberger's production," writes Richard Sasanow.
01-03-2016
John Ashbery tells the story of his lifelong fascination with French culture, and how the arts, literature, and people of that country influenced his work as writer and translator.
December 2015
12-25-2015
"Multimedia and radical conventions make this Oklahoma! much more chilling than you might remember," writes Charles Quittner.
12-17-2015
Writers and editors recall stage moments worth singing about from the past year, including Daniel Fish's "radically reimagined" Oklahoma! during Bard's SummerScape.