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Professor An-My Lê urged Emma Ressel to send a portfolio from her Senior Project to New York Magazine. The result is Ressel's ornate and vibrant photo spread.

Given the tremendous popularity of his work, can Puccini still be considered controversial? Audiences at this year's Bard Music Festival will be able to draw their own conclusions.

Shaver's Dress the Form is an installation of wall-size fabrics, furniture, and found objects arranged with "skill and aplomb." On view through August 19.

Graduates of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) and Program Director Paul O'Neill spoke with artist Nina Canell about her recent international exhibitions.

Bard writer in residence Teju Cole examines the visual narrative of the iconic images of protestors in the Black Lives Matter movement.

With an outstanding line-up of events, the Bard Music Festival provides "the perfect platform" for a reexamination of the popular yet controversial composer Giacomo Puccini.

President Botstein "... turns his ship into the heady winds of late-19th- and early-20th-century Italian music, a turbulent mix of modernism, Futurism, and late Romanticism."

"As Iris, Talise Trevigne displayed a big dramatic soprano . . . The American Symphony Orchestra sounded robust and colorful under Mr. Botstein." Final performances July 27, 29, and 31.

Annet Dekker, CCS Bard curator-in-residence, delves into the rich landscape and archival challenges of digital marginalia.

MFA writing professor Hoa Nguyen's poems "Ode to Second Chances (Late February)" and "O Prosperity" are featured in Hyperallergic's monthly poetry series.

A look inside Bard's enchanted tent of mirrors, the Spiegeltent, featuring a performance from Bard alumni–founded ensemble Contemporaneous on August 11.

Bower displays architectural fragments with birdhouses designed to attract six different species of local birds. Opening reception August 11.

SummerScape offers "another intellectually intriguing and emotionally engaging performance of an opera infrequently encountered these days." Final performances July 27, 29, and 31.

Director Tom Eccles calls on architects Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) to reconfigure CCS Bard from within, addressing the growing needs of the museum, library, archives, and teaching space. 

Musical America calls Iris "revelatory" and "riveting."

The Fisher Center presents Woven: In Process, an exhibition of 5 x 10 foot photographs by Tanya Marcuse, courtesy of the Julie Saul Gallery in New York City. Marcuse, an artist in residence at Bard, meticulously arranges natural elements in an intricate tableau of a lush yet decaying forest of fauna and flora, where a detailed still life weaves into a medieval tapestry. The exhibition features the artist’s studio proofs, giving the audience a look into the artist’s process of making these elaborate photographs. Marcuse presents the unity of the work in its "opulence which verges on excess." The exhibition takes place in the LUMA Theater Weis Atrium of the Fisher Center. The gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 12 to 5 p.m., and will extend until curtain call on performance evenings at the Fisher Center. During regular gallery hours, visitors may enter through the Fisher Center parking lot entrance. The exhibition runs from July 7 to November 20, with an opening reception on Friday, July 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. There will be an artist talk moderated by Professor Daniel Mendelsohn on October 18 at 6:30 pm, free and open to the public.