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

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.

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

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

Writer, director, and cinematographer Sonja Tsypin has been awarded the first place 2016 KODAK Student Cinematography Scholarship for her dramatic narrative Powder Room.

The "liberal arts comedy" of Bard alumnus Adam Conover's TruTV series, Adam Ruins Everything, aims not only to entertain but also to educate.

"Do you love museums and hate crowds? Visit this charming UWS townhouse for a double dose of intellectual stimulation and solitude. ... It's cerebral stuff."

Highlights include acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk, Pauline Oliveros and the International Contemporary Ensemble, conversations with David Sedaris and Alan Cumming, The Orchestra Now, and more.

Phyllis Marsteller's exhibition Gehry Forms: Details of the Fisher Center at Bard highlights in striking black and white Bard's Frank Gehry–designed Fisher Center.

Opus 40 is the masterwork of the late Bard professor and alumnus Harvey Fite '30, the product of his "ceaseless vision" and 37 years of labor.