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Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center makes the list of the 21 most beautiful theaters in the United States.

The Bard Graduate Center impresses Manhattan artists with its annual design exhibitions, concerts, and lectures.

Professor in the Arts Neil Gaiman and Executive Producer Bryan Fuller discuss moving from page to screen for the forthcoming Starz television series American Gods, adapted from Gaiman’s best-selling novel. The event takes place on Saturday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m., and includes an exclusive preview of the first episode of the new television series ahead of its premiere on the Starz network.

Bard Fisher Center Presents an Evening with Neil Gaiman and American Gods (Bard.edu)
Neil Gaiman to Discuss American Gods (Poughkeepsie Journal)
 

This summer, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) in collaboration with the Barjeel Art Foundation will present No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, an exhibition held at the CCS Bard Galleries from 24 June to 29 October 2017. No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects exhibits works drawn from the Barjeel Art Foundation Collection, dating from 1990 to 2016, and referencing significant histories and conflicts across the Arabic-speaking world.

Parisian culture, Polish politics, and the piano are the focus of this summer’s annual Bard SummerScape festival, with seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret keyed to the theme of the 28th Bard Music Festival, “Chopin and His World," taking place at the Fisher Center, June 30 – August 20.

Photographer Larry Fink captured the crowd with his Fujifilm camera at the peaceful protest in Washington, D.C., on January 21, 2017.

Live Arts Bard presents WE’RE WATCHING, the first major survey of performances by contemporary American artists exploring surveillance and its impact on our identities.

Lertxundi talks about the influence Bard film professors John Pruitt and Peter Hutton have had on her work.

TIME spoke with award-winning photographer and Bard professor Larry Fink to learn about his photography process. Professor Fink talks about the importance of taking chances.

The Museum of Modern Art announces Stephen Shore, the first U.S. survey to encompass the entirety of Stephen Shore’s career in photography, from the gelatin silver prints he made as a teenager to his current work with digital platforms. On view from November 19, 2017, until spring 2018, the exhibition tracks the artist from his wunderkind beginnings—works made when he was just 14 years old were acquired by Edward Steichen, the director of the Department of Photography at MoMA; he had a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was 24 years old—through his continual, restless interrogation of image making. Stephen Shore is Susan Weber Professor in the Arts and director of the Photography Program at Bard. He has taught at the College since 1982.

Bard alumnus Duane Linklater's show at NYU's 80WSE gallery engages with questions about the under- and misrepresentation of indigenous artists in galleries and museums.

The artist Tschabalala Self employs a signature blend of paint, recycled materials, fabrics, and collage to depict women of color in her work, defiantly reclaiming their stories.

Nona Faustine makes photographs that expose the history of slavery in the United States, particularly for black women, and its ties to locations in New York City and to national landmarks.

The Invisible Adversaries exhibition at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum last fall considered the power of dark societal forces.

Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she uses sound in her work to challenge and disturb the norms of the hearing world.

Classical Music from Rare Repertoire to Masterworks, French Jazz, Conversation, A Performance Festival About Surveillance, and More. Tickets on sale now!
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs performed in the world class Sosnoff and LUMA Theaters. Highlights include Catskill Jazz Factory’s French Connection series; The Orchestra Now series; the second edition of the Live Arts Bard Biennial: WE’RE WATCHING; Neil Gaiman & American Gods; Bard Conservatory Orchestra concerts; student opera, dance and theater productions; and more. 
 

Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World is a "handsome, densely installed, freshly researched landmark exhibition" about the designers Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio-Aalto.

Actor Robert De Niro has named R.H. Quaytman as the winner of the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, which is given to an artist "devoted to the pursuit of excellence and innovation in painting."

Nicholas Serota, the soon-to-be departing director of the Tate museums in Britain, is to receive the 2017 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies.

Hal Foster names Tony Oursler’s The Imponderable Archive at CCS Bard and Jim Shaw’s The End Is Here at the New Museum as the two best art shows of 2016.