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"The Brink is so funny, so inventive—and so fearless in what it has to say about geopolitics," writes Bard writer in residence Francine Prose.

Ellen Driscoll's fall 2015 residency explores, in drawing and sculpture, the poetics and economics of wood in Siena's history and in the present context of globalization.

"There are certain photographs that seem to have been pulled out of the world of dreams." Teju Cole goes to São Paulo in search of René Burri's "Men on a Rooftop."

"There are invariably delightful surprises among the densely packed programs at Bard," writes Times music critic Vivien Schweitzer.

Bard has been awarded a $2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the launch of an innovative Master of Music Degree Program in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies and its resultant ensemble, The Orchestra Now (TON). This unique training orchestra and master’s degree program provides musicians with professional-level orchestral training that is integrated into the interdisciplinary graduate study of music’s place in culture and history. The program is designed to prepare select conservatory graduates for the challenges facing the modern symphony orchestra and to produce scholars and advocates of classical and contemporary music as well as practiced members of a top grade orchestra. Musicians receive three years of advanced orchestral training and take graduate-level courses in orchestral and curatorial studies, leading to a Master of Music degree. Funding from the Mellon grant will help to support student stipends, curriculum development, and salary and honoraria for visiting faculty and lecturers.

Bard Alumnus Ian Samuels was named in Filmmaker magazine's annual survey of new talent.

More than 20 years ago Feldman started her now wildly successful crystal glassware company in her apartment with just $2,500 in savings.

Herb Ritts '74 was famous for his celebrity portraits. Now his collection is on display in a career retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

"This summer represents the Bard Music Festival’s first examination of a Latin American composer, focusing on one who ... may have shaped American music more than any other."

American photographers Stephen Shore and Walker Evans take the spotlight in the 45th Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival in southern France.

Christopher H. Gibbs, professor of music and coartistic director of the Bard Music Festival, lectures on classical music’s place in political history, “From Plato to NATO.”

Bard SummerScape made musical history by presenting the first full U.S. staging of British composer Ethel Smyth’s opera The Wreckers.

Ephraim Asili, technical director of Bard's Film and Electronic Arts Program, will visit Toronto in August to work on his ongoing film series about communities in the African Diaspora.

From the first airplane flight to the very new Dronestagram page, Teju Cole, New York Times Magazine photography critic, describes the progression of the drone’s-eye view.

Tom Wolf, a scholar of the Japanese-American figurative painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi, has coorganized a retrospective of the artist's work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Faustine’s series of self-portraits, titled "White Shoes," feature photographs of Faustine posing nude before New York landmarks where African men and women were once bought and sold.

President Botstein discusses this year’s SummerScape festival and its Latin American focus with the 26th Bard Music Festival, “Carlos Chávez and His World.”

"A new, experimental production at the Bard SummerScape festival in upstate New York is asking audiences to focus on the darker story behind the musical's well-known songs."

Professor Leonard’s photographs, on view at the Museum of Modern Art, show low-end commerce from New York to Africa, representing the human toll of corporate globalization.

Since beginning his career in the 1960s in Greenwich Village’s vibrant jazz scene, Professor Fink has become well known for his striking black-and-white images of New York’s elite at play.