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Bard's MFA Program is named among the 25 Best MFA Programs by College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, in its recently published 2017 rankings.

The Fire Next Time has been republished by Taschen in a new edition that pairs James Baldwin's text with images by the civil rights–era photographer Steve Schapiro.

Elisabeth Gambino, visual arts faculty at Bard High School Early College Baltimore, has been selected as a Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 15 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art, with twelve individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with three exhibitions curated from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, the Bard College Collection, and the CCS Bard Library and Archives. The students have organized these exhibition and projects as part of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. The exhibitions open on Sunday, April 9, with a reception from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., and are on view through Sunday, May 28.

Live Arts Bard is pleased to announce the complete schedule for WE’RE WATCHING, the first major survey of performances by contemporary American artists exploring surveillance and its impact on our identities, featuring new works by Big Art Group; Annie Dorsen; Hasan Elahi; Michelle Ellsworth; Homi K. Bhabha, John Lucas, Claudia Rankine, and Will Rawls; Samuel Miller; and Alexandro Segade.

Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson's sculptures take pow wow regalia in new directions in his Speak to Me exhibit at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.

Professor Larry Fink's collection Fink on Warhol: New York Photographs of the 1960s, to be published in April, contains never-before-seen images of Warhol and his Factory cohorts.

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.