All Bard News by Date
January 2014
01-02-2014
Third-generation filmmaker Gia Coppola is making a name for herself with her forthcoming film Palo Alto. She both directed the film and adapted the script from James Franco's short story collection.
01-02-2014
Julia Klein's Chicago-based Soberscove Press (named for Bard's Obreshkove dormitory) "fills a much needed gap in art publishing, shaping how we think about recent art history."
December 2013
12-20-2013
Artist, alumna, and Bard MFA faculty Amy Sillman launched her first museum survey this year. Now the exhibition catalogue is one of the best art books of 2013.
12-17-2013
Bard MFA graduate and visual artist Sadie Laska discusses her "deliriously frenetic abstract paintings."
12-11-2013
Lucy Flamm '15 is taking full advantage of her college experience. She has obtained funding for internships, started an arts club at Bard, and is studying abroad in London this year. Of Bard students she says, "People learn from each other because everyone is so open about what they’re interested in, and brave enough to challenge each other’s opinions and assertions."
12-10-2013
The Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has acquired the archives of John G. Hanhardt, noted film and media arts curator. The donation builds on CCS Bard’s initiative to build a unique research collection comprising the personal papers and archives of innovative and influential contemporary art curators, art dealers, critics, galleries and alternative art spaces.
12-10-2013
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a full spring season of performing arts events, including jazz, opera, and orchestral concerts, and innovative dance and theater productions, from February through May. Highlights Include Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band, Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, American Symphony Orchestra concerts, An Opera Double Bill, An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith, Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo & Juliet, and dance productions including Joanna Kotze’s it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in residence.
12-06-2013
Stacey Allan '04, graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, has cofounded the cutting edge arts publication and book imprint East of Borneo.
12-06-2013
Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras will host their annual winter concert on Friday, December 6, at Bard College's Olin Hall. The program, featuring Balinese music and dance begins at 8 p.m. under the leadership of artistic director and Balinese master musician, I Nyoman Suadin.
12-04-2013
"'Elephant Room' appears to be that unique vehicle, like 'Book of Mormon,' that appeals to both high-brow and low-brow spectators," writes Jay Blotcher.
12-04-2013
Ten graduate students from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard will curate Marginalia, a new exhibition drawing from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Marginalia is the first of two exhibitions in an extended exercise in reading and re-reading the permanent collection. The exhibition will open on Thursday, December 12, with a reception from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
12-02-2013
The Sprueth Magers gallery in London presents an exhibition of photographer Stephen Shore's work. The show contains 65 photographs spanning four decades, including new work that has never before been exhibited.
November 2013
11-26-2013
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents the sublime comedy, Elephant Room. Three magicians. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It’s time to make it all add up in the Elephant Room. Elephant Room will be performed at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater, December 13–15.
11-21-2013
Matana Roberts discusses her well-reviewed new album, the importance of listening to the sounds of the city, and why she still busks.
11-11-2013
The New York Review of Books celebrates 50 years with a special issue including writing by Ian Buruma, Mark Danner, and Daniel Mendelsohn.
11-11-2013
An-My Lê's photographs of the Coast Guard have recently been installed in their new headquarters in Washington, D.C. Professor Lê talks about why she's drawn to photographing members of the military.
11-03-2013
Senior Julia DeFabo's Bard experience has taken her to unexpected places. A student athlete playing for Bard's tennis team, she came to the College planning to study sociology or human rights. Instead she developed an unexpected interest in African art, particularly how it is curated and discussed from a Western perspective. The Pennsylvania native has since studied in France and Senegal and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in African art history after graduation.
October 2013
10-30-2013
Bard College announces the appointment of Neil Gaiman as Professor in the Arts. Gaiman, who joins the College in the spring semester of 2014 as a member of the Theater and Performance faculty, will teach courses across the Division of the Arts and the Division of Languages and Literature. His first course will be an advanced writing workshop exploring the history of the fantastic, approaches to fantasy fiction, and the meaning of fantasy today, taught through the Written Arts Program and the Experimental Humanities concentration.
Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman discusses how he began to teach writing at Bard in the spring of 2013.
Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman discusses how he began to teach writing at Bard in the spring of 2013.
10-29-2013
10-28-2013
Acclaimed sculptor and Bard faculty member Judy Pfaff will receive the International Sculpture Center's 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award. Praised in Sculpture, the magazine of the International Sculpture Center, she is an "artist’s artist, deeply admired, respected, even imitated, by colleagues, youthful peers, and art world insiders." Professor Pfaff shares this honor with sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, and will receive the award at a gala in New York City in the spring of 2014.
10-26-2013
In a ranked list of the contemporary art world's most powerful figures, CCS Bard was listed as one of only two schools, noted for an exceptional graduate program training cutting edge curators.
10-23-2013
Professor Stephen Shore's photos "make you want to chuck your camera phone against a wall."
10-21-2013
Curator and CCS Bard alumnus Dan Byers talks art, childhood, and his new position at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
10-15-2013
How do you turn a graphic novel into a musical? Broadway veterans took the unconventional childhood memoir Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel A.A. '79, and adapted it for the stage.
10-10-2013
Canadian and Omaskêko Cree artist and Bard alumnus Duane Linklater MFA '13 has won the nation's Sobey Art Award for contemporary artists under the age of 40.
10-09-2013
The Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has acquired the archives of John G. Hanhardt, noted film and media arts curator. The donation builds on CCS Bard’s initiative to build a unique research collection comprising the personal papers and archives of innovative and influential contemporary art curators, art dealers, critics, galleries and alternative art spaces. The donation also supports CCS Bard’s 20th Anniversary Next Decade campaign, which aims to raise funds over the next ten years to maintain the school’s internationally renowned, world-class faculty and research and exhibition center.
10-04-2013
Francine Prose looks at how the meanings of works of art change for us as we age.
September 2013
09-30-2013
Artist Amy Sillman is both a graduate and faculty member of Bard's MFA program. Her first museum retrospective, one lump or two, opens Thursday at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
09-26-2013
Tim Davis is traveling the United States with journalist Joe Hagan, profiling Americans from all walks of life using old-fashioned tools: pen and paper, and a large format view camera.
09-23-2013
Bard professor An-My Lê has traveled widely to photograph the activities of the U.S. Coast Guard. Last month, 52 of those images were installed in the Coast Guard’s brand-new headquarters, in Washington, D.C.
09-22-2013
Forty-two students and recent graduates from the Bard High School Early Colleges photographed their hometowns for a project featuring the work of more than 4,000 U.S. teenagers.
09-22-2013
Francine Prose considers the flawed yet heroic characters of Nicole Holofcener’s new film, Enough Said.
09-19-2013
Choreographer and Bard alumnus Dusan Tynek '97 talks about the Dance Program at Bard, the role of science and myth in his new work, and his BAM Fisher debut.
09-16-2013
Bard alumna Lisa Kereszi's photography is an homage to the medium, guided by everyday life and objects rather than any preconceived goals by the artist.
09-09-2013
Francine Prose ventures into the secret corners of the city with three museums off the beaten path.
09-05-2013
"In the CCS exhibition, he shows us a quiet world in which collecting small objects produces a portrait of the collector," writes Maika Pollack.
August 2013
08-30-2013
Opus 40, the sculptural masterwork (now museum) of the late Bard alumnus and professor Harvey Fite '30, hosted the Felice County Fair last weekend, featuring Béla Fleck, the Felice Brothers, Amy Helm, and more.
08-23-2013
Independent theater companies like Skin Horse Theater are finding fertile ground for experimentation in the city.
08-22-2013
Professor Heiferman, faculty in the International Center of Photography–Bard Program, discusses the proliferation of digital images and the rapidly changing nature of photography.
08-22-2013
Bard Graduate Center founder and director Susan Weber talks about the books that inspire her in the field of interior design.
08-21-2013
“The first photo books that registered with me were a few Aperture titles at the bookstore at Bard College," writes Michelle Dunn Marsh. "Stephen Shore’s Uncommon Places, Larry Fink’s Social Graces ..."
08-16-2013
You may never look at a hamburger the same way again. “Despite the rather disgusting quality of many of these images," writes Feinstein, "there is still an allure.”
08-15-2013
How are conflicts and cultural shifts in the Middle East affecting the region's contemporary art? Dina Ramadan and colleagues explored this rapidly shifting area at a recent conference in London.
08-14-2013
Hannah Bronfman '11 is a woman of many talents—among them DJ, restaurateur, and brand creator. In this interview, she talks about her new mobile app and gives advice to enterprising college students.
08-11-2013
Bard Conservatory graduate Ming Aldrich-Gan '10 is the music director for Bradley Cole at the New York International Fringe Festival.
08-08-2013
Amii LeGendre writes about the complex interplay of freedom and constraint in teaching dance to men who are prison inmates.
08-07-2013
Over the past decade, Bard’s Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts has become a hub for the arts, both for the Hudson Valley community and the greater New York City region.
08-02-2013
"Both exhibitions are strong individually," writes Roberta Smith, "but what they form in tandem is a delirious, perhaps volatile exegesis on objects both real and digital; found, made and remade; art and nonart."
08-01-2013
Bard alumnus, performer, screenwriter, and playwright Nick Jones '01 talks about how the Netflix approach of making an entire series available at once enables a different kind of viewing experience.
July 2013
07-29-2013
Bard alumnus Adam Goldman '08, creator of the hit Web series The Outs, is working on a new show called Whatever this is., featuring alumnae Sasha Winters '08 and Madeline Wise '12. The series focuses on the junior members of a video production crew in New York City, as they struggle to meet their personal goals while working underpaid jobs.