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Ben Coonley's "Trading Futures" is featured in the Whitney Museum's show Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016.

If you missed Alan Cumming in conversation with WAMC's Joe Donahue at the Fisher Center on October 16, you can listen to the whole event on the Book Show.

Aaron Turner, technical director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program, discusses his work based on the narratives of people of color in the Arkansas and Mississippi deltas.

In this essay from The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook, photographer An-My Lê remembers her grandmother making substitution pho after the family moved from Vietnam to Paris.

Professor Sante observes the indignation around Dylan's Nobel win, arguing that the writer deserves the award for using the power of words to change the time he inhabited.

Idaho is one of the most welcoming states in the Union for refugees, settling nearly 1,000 a year, mostly from war-torn regions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Artists Medrie MacPhee, Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence, and Shinique Smith, who will teach a course at Bard this spring, have been honored with Anonymous Was A Woman Awards. Anonymous Was A Woman is an unrestricted grant of $25,000 that enables women artists, over 40 years of age and at a significant juncture in their lives or careers, to continue to grow and pursue their work. The award is given in recognition of an artist's accomplishments, artistic growth, and the quality of her work.

Actress Gaby Hoffmann on her role in the groundbreaking Amazon series Transparent and her remarkable childhood growing up in Manhattan's Chelsea Hotel.

Bessie Award–winning choreographer Beth Gill makes her Fisher Center debut with Catacomb, a dance performance inspired by the imagination and subconscious, on Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the LUMA Theater. 

Curated by Paul O'Neill, director of the graduate program, We are the Center for Curatorial Studies is both an exhibition and research project, a multiyear program incorporating artist projects, exhibitions, collaborations, and public and nonpublic programs. On view in the Hessel Museum of Art, October 15 to December 16, with an opening reception on Saturday, October 15 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., with a special live performance by artist James Hoff (PAN).

Acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore launched his career in his teens by becoming one of the main photographers to document the scene at Warhol’s factory. 

Tom Eccles, director of Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies, is among the artnet Titans: the most influential people in the art world.

Mozart in the Jungle star Kirke talks about the privileges of an arts education and the power of being in a show with strong female characters.

Kelly Reichardt discusses her independent career, making film as a woman, and why she teaches at Bard.

Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World "is one of the most comprehensive exhibitions about the artistry and making of design you are likely to see."

Book objects from the collection of Mindell Dubansky are on view at the Stevenson Library through Sunday, October 30, with an opening reception on Monday, September 12. All over the world, for hundreds of years, people have been making, collecting and presenting book-objects that reflect their devotion and respect for books and each other. There are countless examples; they include cameras, radios, banks, toys, memorials, desk accessories, musical instruments, magic tricks, furniture and jewelry.

The Trisha Brown Dance Company returns to the Fisher Center for a work-in-progress performance in culmination of its fall residency. The program includes the most recent reconstruction of Brown’s brazenly beautiful Geometry of Quiet (2002), an elegant and austere quartet featuring music by Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as other selections from Brown’s 40-year repertoire. The program will be performed on Thursday, September 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater.

The Future Perfect brings together work from the last five years of graduating classes from three ICP programs, including the ICP-Bard MFA.

Humorist David Sedaris, actor-singer Alan Cumming, pianist Jeremy Denk, and experimental accordionist-composer Pauline Oliveros are among those performing this fall.

Bard writer in residence Francine Prose finds "distraction, humor, entertainment, and pleasure" in Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive at Bard's Hessel Museum.