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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.

Ben Coonley discusses Trading Futures, a 3D, 360-degree video on view in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art at the Whitney.

BECNO Visiting Professor of the Humanities Gwen Thompkins looks at the life of prolific jazz guitarist and banjoist Danny Barker, who wrote an indispensable account of the early days of jazz.

The Wall Street Journal tours a new exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center that explores the work of Napoleon’s architect.

Chris Claremont became an industry icon by emphasizing the importance of character development, storytelling, and melodrama in his long career at Marvel Comics.

Party People, a play by the Universes ensemble, cofounded by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, reflects on leaders of movements for racial justice.

South African curator and CCS Bard graduate Gabi Ngcobo will curate the 2018 Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

Marcelle's Kokomo "is the perfect embodiment of the Freudian Uncanny concept: familiar and disquieting at the same time."