All Bard News by Date
April 2014
04-21-2014
Taylor Davis's sculptures necessitate engaged reorientation on the part of the viewer. Her works—for example, the text cylinders in this exhibition—require "at least six orbital journeys" in order to be fully understood.
04-20-2014
Bard alumni/ae Sean Colonna '12, Thomas "Parker" Hatley '13, and Molly McFadden MFA '12 have been awarded 2014–2015 Fulbright Scholarships. Colonna and McFadden will be working in Germany, Colonna teaching English and McFadden investigating current movements in the field of art and disabilities. Hatley has been selected for an English Teaching Assistant Award to Mexico.
04-18-2014
With her debut film—Palo Alto, based on the short story collection by James Franco—the 27-year-old Coppola makes her own place in the family film dynasty.
04-18-2014
When comics legends Neil Gaiman and Art Spiegelman shared the stage at the Fisher Center earlier this month, their discussion ranged across art forms and into history both personal and global.
04-17-2014
The Bard College Photography Program announces that senior Max Gavrich is the first winner of the college's Lugo Land Prize. The award allows a graduating Bard photography major the opportunity to travel to the northern Italian city of Lugo to produce a new body of work. The student will be flown to Italy, receive room and board, and be aided in the development and production of a project of their devising in the town. Working with a designer in Lugo, the student will also make a limited-edition artist's book. The award provides an outstanding opportunity for the winner to continue his or her photographic practice after graduating from Bard.
04-07-2014
Bard MFA Music/Sound faculty member Matana Roberts has been named as a recipient of the distinguished Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, which carries a prize of $75,000. Every year five mid-career, risk-taking artists in the categories of dance, film/video, music, theater, and visual arts are each selected to receive an award from the foundation. "Visionary composer, avant-garde saxophonist, and sound artist Matana Roberts was chosen as the winner in Music for her charismatic, powerful renderings of sound," says awards director Irene Borger. On May 9, the recipients will receive their awards at a private celebratory luncheon at the Herb Alpert Foundation in Santa Monica, California.
04-04-2014
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents the exhibitions Deviance Credits and Footnotes opening on April 13. Deviance Credits comprises 13 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in the graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Brought together in one exhibition, each gallery presents innovative approaches to contemporary art and exhibition making with over 35 artists, many of whom have created works specifically for the context of the Hessel Museum. The artworks selected for Footnotes are housed in the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, but their representations, meanings, and contexts exceed their physical locality. This exhibition spatially contextualizes artworks by rethinking the relationship between title, text, and footnote. Footnotes is co-curated by the class of 2015 M.A. candidates. Both exhibitions will be on view through May 25.
Learn more about Deviance Credits and Footnotes.
Learn more about Deviance Credits and Footnotes.
04-04-2014
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents the American Symphony Orchestra on Friday, April 11, and Saturday, April 12, at 8 p.m. The program includes Johann Strauss Jr.’s Emperor Waltz, Accelerations, and On the Beautiful Blue Danube; Julius Conus’s Violin Concerto, featuring Zhi Ma ’15, violin; and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. The concert will be conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. There will be a special preconcert talk by Alexander Bonus, assistant professor of music at Bard College, beginning at 7 p.m.
04-04-2014
On Thursday, April 10, the Written Arts Program at Bard College presents a reading by Rikki Ducornet (Bard ’64). A poet, fiction writer, and visual artist, Ducornet’s many books include the recent novels Netsuke, Gazelle, The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition, and Phosphor in Dreamland. Publisher’s Weekly said of her story collection The Complete Butcher’s Tales: “[It’s] told in prose of such beauty that one can't help silently mouthing the words. Fluid, studied, almost overripe, it is also intensely visual.”
04-02-2014
Live Arts Bard (LAB) is a partnership between the Theater and Performance Program and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. As its acronym suggests, Live Arts Bard is a laboratory for new performance. Each year LAB will provide residencies for individual artists, or groups of collaborators, in theater, performance, dance, live arts, and allied art forms. Its aim is to develop a fertile and nurturing community of visiting artists and students, who work side by side to generate projects and new creative methodologies.
March 2014
03-31-2014
Named “a highlight of the musical year” by the Wall Street Journal, the world-renowned Bard Music Festival returns to celebrate its 25th anniversary season in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, crowning Bard SummerScape 2014 with a two-week, in-depth, illuminating exploration of “Schubert and His World.” Twelve concert programs over the two mid-August weekends, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, special events, and expert commentary, make up Bard’s examination of Franz Schubert (1797–1828), one of the most revered and influential composers of the Western tradition.
03-27-2014
Together with her students, Professor Catherine Whalen recently launched the Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project. The Archive is a treasure trove of oral histories, compiled and conducted by her students with craftspeople, designers, and artists. It focuses on contemporary work and includes photos, video, and reference materials.
03-20-2014
A track from the record Thunder Lay Down in the Heart by composer Christopher Tignor ’98 features a new recording of poet and Bard professor emeritus John Ashbery.
03-18-2014
Kate Hartman ’03—founder and director of The Social Body Lab in Toronto—is creating wearable technology that increases the visibility of cyclists, runners, and walkers.
03-18-2014
Andrew Gori '04 and Ambre Kelly's SPRING/BREAK has been offering an inclusive, accessible alternative to the traditional art fair for three years, with solid attendance, positive reviews, and strong sales.
03-17-2014
Daniel Gordon has been selected by Amsterdam’s Foam photography museum as the 2014 winner of its Paul Huf Award, which is given annually to a photographer under the age of 35. The award carries a €20,000 ($27,800) prize and an exhibition at the museum.
03-14-2014
Struck by the devastation of Hurricane Sandy in his native New Jersey, Michael Marcelle '05 created the stunning Kokomo series, in which he imagines that the hurricane rips a hole in the fabric of the universe.
03-14-2014
Ken Buhler discusses how he finds inspiration in striking natural environments, and the importance of spontaneity in his work.
03-10-2014
Yishay Garbasz spent March 2013 touring the abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Ritual and Reality, exhibited at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York City, is the result.
03-07-2014
Professor Ann Seaton, director of the Difference and Media Project and Multicultural Affairs at Bard, will appear in the Whitney Biennial as a member of the How Do You Say Yam in African Collective. The collective has produced the 53-minute digital film Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera, about how race haunts black identity, which will be screened at the Biennial in March and May. Professor Seaton's contribution to the film includes writing and conceptualizing. The collective consists of writers, artists, dancers, theorists, architects, painters, filmmakers, actors, and poets. Many members of the collective have visited Bard's Difference and Media Project and participated in campus events. Visit the collective's website or read about the project in the New York Times.
03-07-2014
Bard College photography major Ben Barron has been awarded the University Dean's Award for Study Abroad by Central Saint Martins (CSM), part of the University of the Arts London. Barron was selected to receive the award by the CSM faculty from among 96 visiting students at the college this spring.
03-07-2014
Bard College photography major Ben Barron has been awarded the University Dean's Award for Study Abroad by Central Saint Martins (CSM) during his semester abroad. CSM is a leading college of art and design and part of the University of the Arts London (UAL). Barron was selected to receive the award by the CSM faculty from among 96 visiting students at the college this spring, and received glowing recommendations from his professors. The Dean's Award is given to UAL study abroad students who demonstrate an "individual determination to succeed, creativity and innovation in their approach to the subject, and an outstanding personal contribution to the course."
03-06-2014
Multimedia artist Dani Leventhal discusses the evolution of her work from ceramics to drawing and film, and reflects on her time at Bard.
03-05-2014
Bard MFA faculty and alumna Amy Sillman will be featured in the Whitney Biennial for the second time this year, and her acclaimed survey Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two will come to CCS Bard.
03-04-2014
The Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) has received the personal papers of Tricia Collins, influential curator, gallerist, and critic. Tricia Collins is best known for her curatorial work in the 1980s and 90s as part of the independent curatorial team of Collins & Milazzo.
03-03-2014
Students of the Bard Graduate Center interview designers and artists, working to document the experiences of thought leaders in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture.
03-03-2014
The Fisher Center and Live Arts Bard are pleased to present a conversation between acclaimed author Neil Gaiman and celebrated cartoonist Art Spiegelman, about cartooning and writing, working across artistic mediums, friendship, identity, and more. This special event takes place on Friday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater.
03-03-2014
Watch Bard artist in residence So Yong Kim's gorgeous new film Spark and Light, the seventh commission for Miu Miu's Women's Tales series, short films by women who critically celebrate femininity in the 21st century.
February 2014
02-24-2014
On Monday, March 10, at Bard College, Raquel Partnoy, Alicia Partnoy and Ruth Irupé Sanabria—three generations of women from a remarkable Argentinian family whose lives were brutally and forever changed by state terrorism during the military rule in Argentina in the late 1970s and early 1980s—will share their art, writing, memories, and commentary on the continuing struggles for justice in Argentina.
02-13-2014
02-12-2014
Bard alumnus Braden Lamb '03 and fellow artist (and his wife) Shelli Paroline talk about their work as creators of the popular Adventure Time comic book series that accompanies the hit TV show.
02-11-2014
The Bard Graduate Center in New York City now offers live-streaming and archival video of their popular seminar series and symposia. Their events explore the decorative arts, design history, and material culture in depth, featuring thought leaders in the field. Click below to find this season's schedule, and to view video of past events.
02-11-2014
The roots of Austro-German Romanticism will be explored at the 2014 annual Bard SummerScape festival, which once again offers a sensational summer of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, keyed to the theme of the 25th anniversary season of the world-renowned Bard Music Festival, Schubert and His World. Highlights include the first American revival in 100 years of Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Euryanthe and the world premiere theater production Love in the Wars, an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthesilea by the Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville. The festival runs June 27 – August 17.
02-11-2014
02-10-2014
Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts is "eccentric and delightful to behold" and "an incredible place to watch a performance."
02-06-2014
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts presents “An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith” on Saturday, February 15. Widely acclaimed as one of the most provocative writers and performers of our time, Anna Deavere Smith is as celebrated for her investigative “documentary style” theater (Fires in the Mirror, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992) as for her starring roles on The West Wing and Nurse Jackie. Join her for an intimate evening in which she shares portraits of real people she has embodied over the past two decades.
02-03-2014
The Fisher Center and Live Arts Bard present Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo & Juliet, February 21–23. “Tell us the plot of Romeo and Juliet.” Thus began a series of phone calls to friends, the exact transcripts of which are performed with vigor and charm by Nature Theater of Oklahoma. As the respondents fumble through the characters and plot points, we realize that when memory lets us down, a necessary creativity takes over. The result is an irreverent and daring romp through Shakespeare’s best-loved play, where our fallible recollections take center stage.
January 2014
01-29-2014
If you are a Delta Air Lines passenger at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, you may find yourself captivated by a striking series of images in the new international terminal. Paper airplanes whizzing over a field of dandelion seed heads, a tiny airplane and cotton clouds in the palm of a hand, an azure sky and a map of the world—students, staff, and faculty in the Bard Photography Program created these pieces, and they will be on display in the new Sky Club through August.
01-29-2014
If you are a Delta Air Lines passenger at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, you may find yourself captivated by a striking series of images in the new international terminal. Paper airplanes whizzing over a field of dandelion seed heads, a tiny airplane and cotton clouds in the palm of a hand, an azure sky and a map of the world—students, staff, and faculty in the Bard Photography Program created these pieces, and they will be on display in the new Sky Club through August.
The exhibit is the first in the Delta Photography Initiative. Photography programs at 10 leading New York State colleges and universities will be profiled in the space—one per year over the course of a decade. Delta art consultant Susan Nicole Gibbs spearheaded the project and had only a few months to organize the first exhibition, which opened last May. Gibbs reached out to several colleges, including Bard. Her son, Grayson Gibbs '15, is a Bard student majoring in American Literature.
Photography Program director Stephen Shore was the first college representative to respond to Gibbs, and invited her to campus. "The students I met with were extremely engaged, professional, and asked terrific questions," Gibbs said. As Bard students completed portfolios for finals and graduation, they also worked on their submissions to Delta, excited for the opportunity to show their photography in such a highly trafficked venue for a year. Gibbs stipulated that they focus on three themes: wind, international, and paper airplanes. The selected artists were compensated with a $1,000 honorarium, and the pieces will become part of Delta's collection.
"We hit a home run," says Gibbs. "Bard students set a standard that will now be followed by schools across the state." The display occupies an 80-foot wall and comprises pieces that are quite large—44 inches wide and 30 inches tall—as well as panels describing the project, Bard College, and the Photography Program. "People at Delta walk through it and they love it. They sit there and study each piece," says Gibbs. She especially enjoys seeing parents with children. "In a quiet moment, I heard one dad encouraging his daughter to start taking pictures. That was great."
Bard students and alumni/ae participating in the Delta project are: Eve Alpert '13, Kye Ehrlich '13, Max Gavrich '14, Rory Hamovit '13, Jason Krinsky '14, Charlie Hawks '14, Max Paparella '13, Cassidy Turner '14, Alice Weston '14, Tal Yaron '14, and Mikhail Yusufov '14. Participating faculty and staff consist of Dave Bush, Laura Steele, and Malin McWalters.
For more information about the Delta Photography Initiative, please contact Susan Nicole Gibbs at Twinhouse Art Advisory, at [email protected].
L-R: Tal Yaron '13, Image du Present; Rory Hamovit '13, The Globetrotter |
Photography Program director Stephen Shore was the first college representative to respond to Gibbs, and invited her to campus. "The students I met with were extremely engaged, professional, and asked terrific questions," Gibbs said. As Bard students completed portfolios for finals and graduation, they also worked on their submissions to Delta, excited for the opportunity to show their photography in such a highly trafficked venue for a year. Gibbs stipulated that they focus on three themes: wind, international, and paper airplanes. The selected artists were compensated with a $1,000 honorarium, and the pieces will become part of Delta's collection.
L-R: David Bush, faculty, Untitled Series; Richard Max Gravich '14, A small sojourn; Cassidy Turner '14, Memento |
Bard students and alumni/ae participating in the Delta project are: Eve Alpert '13, Kye Ehrlich '13, Max Gavrich '14, Rory Hamovit '13, Jason Krinsky '14, Charlie Hawks '14, Max Paparella '13, Cassidy Turner '14, Alice Weston '14, Tal Yaron '14, and Mikhail Yusufov '14. Participating faculty and staff consist of Dave Bush, Laura Steele, and Malin McWalters.
For more information about the Delta Photography Initiative, please contact Susan Nicole Gibbs at Twinhouse Art Advisory, at [email protected].
01-28-2014
The Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College are pleased to announce the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant of $80,000 per year, the Keith Haring Fellowship is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting fellowship for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College.
01-23-2014
Installation artist Brad Tucker MFA '09 has created a new art book suitable for toddlers, called Dunes at Noons, and it's published by fellow alum Julia Klein MFA '09's Soberscove Press.
01-21-2014
Artist and Bard alumna Gwynne Duncan '90 grew up in the historic Westbeth Complex in Manhattan, the first affordable housing complex for artists of its type in the United States. She moved back as an adult with her own family.
01-21-2014
Ian Berry M.A. '98 directs Skidmore College’s Tang Museum, which he has transformed into an interdisciplinary teaching laboratory that stands out among peer institutions.
01-21-2014
Artist Daniel Gordon '04 is creating disorienting still life photographs with multiple layers of imagery. He uses traditional still life elements (such as fruit and water jugs) and overlays them with printed images of themselves.
01-16-2014
Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum, codirector of Afterall Publishing, and curator of the 2014 Sao Paulo Bienal, is the recipient of the 2014 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. The award, which includes a prize of $25,000, will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on April 2 in New York City. Esche is the seventeenth recipient of the award.
01-14-2014
La Loge in Brussels presents an exhibition of seven films by Peter Hutton, including early works and the debut of Hutton’s latest films, Three Landscapes (2013) and At Sea ( 2004-2007) in the form of an installation.
01-14-2014
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support residencies for six choreographers over four years as part of Live Arts Bard (LAB). LAB, a program of the Fisher Center, provides residencies for American artists and ensembles making work that spans and transcends the fields of theater, performance, dance, music, film, and live art. The Mellon Foundation grant significantly expands the program’s capacity to integrate choreographers into the life of the College, with opportunities for choreographers to work with students in a variety of arts and non-arts disciplines.
01-13-2014
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard is offering $200,000 in scholarships and fellowships to be awarded in the 2014–2015 academic year. The application deadline for the program is February 1.
01-09-2014
Susan Weber is "a director of uncommon expansiveness who has elevated the study of material culture, design, and curatorial practice to that of a fine art," writes Soohang Lee.
01-06-2014
The Bard Graduate Center's new exhibition, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, is an "engrossing show" that "should thrill Anglophiles," writes Karen Rosenberg.