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The Bard Graduate Center will receive a grant of $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the upcoming exhibition and catalogue Eileen Gray: Designer-Architect, opening in spring 2020.

The writer talks about his debut short fiction collection, which channels the same caustic humor and heartrending dialogue as his Netflix series.

The BLO’s new staging reveals The Handmaid’s Tale to be “a brilliant, brutal opera, one that should be taken up widely,” says the Times.

Professor Aldous reviews Richard J. Evans’s biography of the the popular Marxist historian, who had “a vivid style, a superiority complex, and the blind spots of a true believer.”

Swartz talks to curator Mathilde Walker-Billaud about voice, intimacy, and the physicality of sound.

Bard Fisher Center presents comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show Craig Ferguson, with his new, irreverent memoir Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations. Ferguson will appear in conversation with WAMC bureau chief and host of 51% Allison Dunne.

The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, will perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in the Sosnoff Theater on May 10 and 12. The performances feature mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, the Bard College Chamber Singers, Bard Festival Chorale, and Bard Preparatory Division Chorus.

The actor and Bard alum on his critically acclaimed performance, violence in America, and the politics of the hottest revival on Broadway.

The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, on view at the Bard Graduate Center through July 7, reveals the complicated legacy of Boas’s pioneering ethnography of Native Canadians in the late 19th century.

Mirna Bamieh’s Palestine Hosting Society researches Palestinian food practices, culminating in a hosted “table” that presents a meal for invited guests. Bamieh has been commissioned by Live Arts Bard to host her first table in the United States at the College in November, with about 180 guests, as part of the 2019 biennial festival on borders and migration.

The production received 12 nominations, including outstanding revival of a musical. Winners will be announced June 2.

Visiting Artist El Khoury teaches in the Theater and Performance Program this semester, and is guest curator the Fisher Center’s festival on borders and migration in fall 2019.

Other nomination categories include best direction, leading actor, featured actress, scenic design, sound design, and orchestration. Winners will be announced on June 9.

Director Kelly Reichardt, artist in residence of film and electronic arts at Bard College, is set to join the Cannes competition jury, presided over by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. The festival will take place May 14 to 25, 2019.

Kelly Reichardt has taught at Bard College since 2006. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University. Reichardt’s latest film Certain Women—starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Lily Gladstone— premiered in 2016 at the Sundance Film Festival and won the top award at the London Film Festival. Her other films include: Night Moves (2013), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Old Joy (2006), and River of Grass (1994). Her film First Cow is currently in postproduction. She has received the United States Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Renew Media Fellowship. He work has been screened at the Whitney Biennial (2012), Film Forum, Cannes Film Festival in “un certain regard,” Venice International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival. She has had retrospectives at the Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archive, Museum of the Moving Image, Walker Art Center, American Cinematheque Los Angeles.

Read more about the festival jury announcement:

Hollywood Reporter

Festival Cannes website
 

Bard artist in residence and acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has joined the panel of judges at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

Choreographer John Heginbotham began working with Oklahoma! director Daniel Fish at Bard in 2015, and helped shape the role dance would ultimately have in the show.

The annual award provides $10,000 in unrestricted funding to a visual artist who has lived or worked in New York City for at least two years.

“In both his paintings and his writing, he’s littering the floor with visual ideas. He unwraps an idea, throws it down, and is on his way.”

The Mmuseumm displays collections of small objects in a very small space. Its curator says they tell important stories.

Professor Gilles Peress’s photographs are paired with writing by journalist Philip Gourevitch on the anniversary of Rwanda’s brutal 1994 genocide.