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Beginning on April 3, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 18 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art with 17 individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show.

Artistic Director Fionn Meade CCS '09 called de Bellis and fellow new hire Adrienne Edwards "two of the most exciting and dynamic curators in contemporary interdisciplinary practice."

"The tattered history of the Ojibway people of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is redeemed through punk-rock humor" in Adam and Zack Khalil's INAATE/SE/.

Bard's Judy Pfaff is the 2016 Grossman Artist-in-Residence at Lafayette College. Visitors walk around, into, and through her installation, which fills 1,100 square feet of gallery space.

Virginia Hanusik's photography project focuses on coastal land loss in Louisiana, which relates to work she began during her sophomore year at Bard.

Professor Kitnick writes the cover piece on Cameron Rowland's exhibition at Artists Space in New York City for the current issue of Artforum.

Ben Coonley MFA '03, assistant professor of film and electronic arts, exhibits a series of 3D video installations at the Microscope Gallery in Brooklyn.

This summer's Bard Music Festival will explore how Puccini became one of the most successful opera composers of all time despite often being critically underrated. (New York Times)

Bard College has received a $500,000 grant from New York State’s Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program that will be used to support the renovation of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard). CCS Bard and Hessel Museum of Art are expanding its facility to create a new Visible Collections Storage and Living Archive where work from its Contemporary Art Collection can be placed on permanent public view. New and repurposed classrooms, study, and meeting spaces will allow the rich resources of CCS Bard to be more accessible for students, researchers, and visitors, as well as increase its capability for hosting public receptions, lectures and screenings. This project will transform the way the public and visiting scholars can view the collection.

Cekala found beauty in the salt used to keep Boston roads safe. Her curiosity has led to an exhibition of photography and video, now on view for the second time in the city.

Caitlin Keogh is now being represented by Chelsea gallery Bortolami. Her work can be found in the well-received group exhibition “Flatlands” at the Whitney Museum of Art.

The How Institutions Think symposium will focus on different concepts of institution and forms of institutional practice. The event takes place February 24 – 27, 2016, in Arles, France. This symposium addresses the contemporary possibilities and limitations of institutional formats, practices, and imaginaries, but starts from a different place, namely from categories of knowledge, cognition, and the social. This symposium brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of speakers who are invited to reflect upon how institutional practices inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us.

From her breakthrough as one of two female filmmakers at Sundance in 1994, Bard's Kelly Reichardt received Variety’s 2016 Indie Impact Award at this year's festival.

Partnering with Bard’s Dance Program is one way the Trisha Brown Dance Company continues the work of the renowned choreographer in performance and education.

Bard MFA alumna Robin Coste Lewis discusses her book Voyage of the Sable Venus, which won the National Book Award last year.

Victoria Campbell '98 MAT '16 came to Haiti in 2010 to provide earthquake relief, where she met the charismatic Gaston Jean Edy, the subject of her film Monsieur le President.

Two visiting artists teaching in the Theater & Performance Program, Jack Ferver and David Levine, have been awarded 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grants in Performance Art/Theater in the amount of $40,000 each. Since only three awards were made in the category this year, this is a particularly remarkable achievement. The FCA was founded in 1963 by Jasper Johns and John Cage, and its awards are among the most prestigious in the field. Since the Foundation's inception, more than 2,500 grants awarded to artists and arts organizations—totaling over $11 million—have provided opportunities for creative exploration and development. 

"The facticity of a photograph can conceal the craftiness of its content and selection," writes Bard writer in residence and photographer Teju Cole.

To make the movies she wanted, Kelly Reichardt had to go it alone. She returns to Sundance this year with her sixth feature, Certain Women.

Eight Bard alumni/ae are involved in the production of Bieber Bathos Elegy, created by Felix Bernstein '13, which will premiere at the Whitney Museum in New York City on January 15. This hybrid work by New York–based artist, poet, and writer Bernstein combines musical performance, poetry, cabaret drag, and opera to explore the concept of bathos—the failure to achieve pathos—and illuminate issues of identity and persona through the character of Justin Bieber. The work is directed by Gabe Rubin '14 with assistant director Clara Lipfert MFA '18, composed by Rron Karahoda '13, with production design by George Dupont '14 and sound design by Cammisa Buerhaus MFA '18, and features musical performances by Leila Bordreuil '13 and Lazar Bozic '14.