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

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.

Writer and artist Rikki Ducornet, recipient of the Bard College Arts and Letters award, constructs a series of paper scrolls in response to Margie McDonald's whimsical sculptures.

After 20 years exhibiting her work internationally, visual artist Amy Granat '98 returned to her native St. Louis, opening an intimate, salon-like gallery intent on "art meeting life."

Carlos Motta’s exhibition Histories for the Future at the Perez Art Museum Miami presents video and sculpture addressing pre-Andean concepts of gender and sexuality.

Sevim shares her experience living in Egypt during the recent revolution and discusses how photographing personal stories of the turmoil presents a visual history of modern Egypt.

Artist Tony Oursler walks the viewer through his Imponderable archive of occult objects and discusses its roots in family history.

Featuring Premiere Live Performance of Sergei Polunin’s "Take Me To Church," Performances by Blythe Danner, Parker Posey, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mx. Justin Vivian Bond; A Benefit for the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, July 16
The 2016 SummerScape Gala celebrates the spirit of Montgomery Place, the historic Hudson Valley estate that recently became part of the Bard College campus, with an elegant evening in the company of some very special guests on Saturday, July 16, 2016.

The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts will present its Class of 2017 thesis exhibition July 16–23 at the Bard College Exhibition Center (UBS Gallery) at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 16 from 1 to 4 p.m.

In Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed, Dan Hurlin stages Fortunato Depero’s unproduced plays at Bard SummerScape, July 7–17.

Tony Oursler: The Imponderable Archive features ephemera from Oursler's collection of objects related to scientifically unsupportable beliefs.

Professor Luc Sante meditates on the disappearance of junk shops, their cultural identity, and the possibility of transcendence amid the junk.

A look into Ms. Export’s life in Austria, her early work in “expanded cinema,” and her film Invisible Adversaries, showcased at Bard’s Hessel Museum.

A Letter to the Bard Community from President Leon Botstein

It is with great sadness that I inform the community of the death of Peter Hutton, Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor of the Arts, on June 25 at the age of 71. 

Peter began teaching at Bard in 1985 and chaired the Film and Electronic Arts Program for twenty-seven years. He also taught in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. 

Peter was born in Detroit on August 24, 1944. He received B.F.A and M.F.A. degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute, and travelled the world as a merchant seaman, creating intimate studies of place from the Yangtze River to the Polish industrial city of Lodz, and from the coast of Iceland to a ship graveyard on the Bangladeshi shore. Anthology Film Archives presented a retrospective of his work in 1989, and the Museum of Modern Art presented a comprehensive, eighteen-film retrospective in 2008. His films have also been featured in the Biennial Exhibitions of the Whitney Museum of American Art for many years. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow in the early 1990s and received grants from the New York Artist Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for his work on the Hudson River. 

Peter was one of the most gracious, talented, original, and generous colleagues I have ever known. His contribution to the College was transformative. My deepest condolences to his daughter, Manon Hutton-DeWys ’06, of whom he was justly proud, and her husband, Donald McClelland; and his widow, Carolina Gonzalez-Hutton. He is also survived by his twin sister, Wendy Hutton, and brother, William Hutton.

A funeral service will take place on Tuesday, June 28, beginning with a quiet gathering at 5:00 p.m. at the Avery Center for the Arts, followed by a silent procession to Blithewood, where the service will be held on the West Portico, weather permitting, or in the Blithewood Foyer, if necessary. A reception at the president’s house will immediately follow the service.

If you choose to honor Peter and his legacy at Bard, donations may be made to Bard College for the Peter Hutton Film Fund. Please do not send flowers. 

Read Professor Hutton's obituary in the New York Times, "Peter Hutton, Filmmaker With Austerely Romantic Worldview, Dies at 71."

"Over the course of the fifth century BCE, tragedy evolved into an ideal literary vehicle for exploring, and often questioning, the political, social, and civic values of Athens itself."