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Bard Professor of Photography An-My Lê is among the many recipients of the MacArthur "Genius" Grant who are immigrants to the United States.

A. L. Steiner is among the 21 scholars, writers, and artists awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—by the American Academy in Berlin for 2017–18.

The Stedeliik Museum features Carlos Motta’s video portraits of LGBTQI refugees seeking asylum to escape repression.

Bard is credited with starting the first low-residency MFA program, with students gathering for eight-week summer sessions that split up their independent study.

Dover examines the threads of design activism's influence on "expression and service" in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.

Lauded by MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach for her "distinctive and strong curatorial voice," Katrib will join MoMA PS1 as curator on October 15, 2017.

Adam Conover made videos with his Bard sketch group before YouTube even launched, now his web series Adam Ruins Everything has generated 30 million views.

Geoffrey Stein '82 talks his recent show depicting large-scale collage portraits of television stars, and his late transition from a reinsurance litigator to a full-time painter. 

An afternoon ride on the "Spook-a-Rama" opened Francine Prose's eyes to a tragic reality. Half a century later, Prose finds her private tragedy represented in a print by Diane Arbus.

Kinetic Painting is a comprehensive retrospective of visual artist and Bard alumna Carolee Schneemann’s early paintings and kinetic theater performances.

No to the Invasion opens up a space where artworks can subvert curatorial plots, presenting a rare opportunity to engage with the research-based art projects of the Arab world.

Egyptian artist and Bard College Berlin Professor Heba Y. Amin's work looks at the convergence of politics, technology, and architecture, and will be featured in the Istanbul Biennial this fall.

The Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and the Human Rights Project at Bard College have announced that the curator and writer Galit Eilat has been selected as the fourth recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation, the Fellowship is an annual award for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research in art and activism at Bard College.

The Princess Grace Foundation is awarding over $1 million to help fund a new generation of exceptional artists, including Bard student and emerging filmmaker Sadie Schiffman-Eller '18.

The festival enters its second decade with a global lineup of artists who interrogate the boundaries of genre and geography in performances, installations, and public conversations, coming to New York September 6 — October 15.

“We need art to give us as much knowledge of the larger world...as possible.” The 40 works in No to the Invasion bring the modern Arab world into vivid focus.

“What interests me is looking at the world with intention,” says Stephen Shore of his prolific Instagram, selections of which will be featured in his MOMA retrospective opening November 19.

The Wooster Group founding member Elizabeth LeCompte directs the world premiere of A Pink Chair, a 100th-birthday tribute to acclaimed director Tadeusz Kantor, now showing at the Fisher Center through July 23rd.

In a BCG exhibition curated by Françoise Louis, the oldest extant illustrated guidebook on the Confucian classics, the Sanli tu (961 CE) is displayed alongside the depicted ritual objects.

Galerie Judin, Berlin is presenting “Years Disappear” by American artist John Kleckner (b. 1978), on view through August 19.
Kleckner’s new repertoire of form is based on an on-going series of paper collages that he started making in 2012.