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The Coachman’s House Gallery has been transformed into an experimental work space for Bard College students who have been selected to experiment with “research-based” art-making practices at Olana. 

The Board of The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (NAGB) announces the appointment of Ms. Holly Bynoe as Chief Curator. Bynoe is a graduate of Bard College International Center of Photography where she earned an MFA in Advanced Photographic Studies.

Teju Cole discusses the current work of Lee Friedlander who at the age of 80, still roams the city streets making photographs that are distinct in their “scrupulous inclusiveness.” 

An exhibition of the contraptions that women and men have endured in the name of fashion is showing at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 18 West 86th Street, through July 26, 2015. 

“The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi” (April 3-August 30) is co-curated by Joann Moser, deputy chief curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Tom Wolf, a Kuniyoshi scholar and professor of art history at Bard College. 

Dia’s ongoing series of Artist Web Projects has as its next commission Nick Mauss and Ken Okiishi investigating the complexities of virtual communication and the variance of meaning in transliterated language. The project launched on April 16, 2015, at www.diaart.org/maussokiishi. 

Frieze Talks is a daily program of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions. This year’s program is curated by Tom Eccles and Christy Lange, the associate editor of Frieze, Berlin. 

Bartholomew Ryan ‘09, who earned a master’s degree in contemporary art from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was a curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will be the new Milton Fine Curator of Art at the Andy Warhol Museum. 

This spring Triangle invites you to visit us at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, Suites 318 + 350 to meet artists-in-residence. View works-in-progress and engage directly with the artists whose projects span drawing, installation, painting, pedagogy, performance, photography, sculpture, video and more. 

 Lucas Blalock, who received his bachelor's degree from Bard College in 2002, has a solo exhibition in Brussels.

Artist Peggy Ahwesh’s City Thermogram, a portrait of the urban everyday through the lens of a heat-sensitive camera, will warm up Times Square’s signage from 11:57 pm to midnight each night in April.

Cole considers approaches to conflict photography and asks, "What, then, are we to do with a thrilling photograph that is at the same time an image of pain?"

The Bard Music Festival breaks new ground this August, turning for the first time to Latin America with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Carlos Chávez and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, panel discussions, special events, and expert commentary, Bard examines Carlos Chávez (1899–1978), the central figure in 20th-century Mexican music. Weekend One considers his achievement in helping create The Musical Voice of Mexico (August 7–9), and Weekend Two offers an immersion in Mexico, Latin America, and Modernism (August 14–16).

The 2015 Faculty Dance Concert features choreography and performance by Bard Dance Faculty with special guest choreographer Zvi Gotheiner. Gotheiner, Artistic Director of ZviDance, a New York City-based contemporary dance company, will stage excerpts from his 1991 seminal work, “Chairs,” for 10 students from the Bard Dance Program. An athletic and lyrical dance set to a diverse soundscape of music from movie soundtracks to Sergei Rachmaninoff, “Chairs” has been called “flawless,” “visually stunning,” and “beautifully shaped.” The solos, duets, and group work reveal the full spectrum of human emotion in a fierce and haunting piece that explores the relationship of individuals to each other and their environments.

Join author Neil Gaiman on Friday, April 3, for a dialogue with legendary musician and composer Laurie Anderson in this third edition of an ongoing series of public conversations at the Fisher Center hosted by Professor Gaiman. The discussion will center on the topics of “Story Structure” and “Fiction vs. Autobiography.” Presented by Live Arts Bard, the program takes place on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

In the late 1960s, Arthur Tress began creating staged photos of children's dreams and nightmares, producing a haunting series that went against the photojournalistic conventions of the time.

Multiple Grammy Award–winning musician Rubén Blades will speak to Bard High School Early College students in Manhattan and Queens this month. The iconic Panamanian singer, songwriter, composer, actor, activist and politician visited the Manhattan campus on March 11 and will visit the Queens campus this coming Wednesday, March 25, to talk about his remarkable career. A prolific musician who is known for bringing lyrical sophistication to his salsa compositions, Blades is also an acclaimed film and television actor. He ran for the presidency of Panama in 1994, winning 18 percent of the vote. He served a five year-term as the Panamanian minister of tourism and has been an activist and humanitarian. Blades holds law degrees from the University of Panama and Harvard University. He told the BHSEC–Manhattan students that "education was instrumental" in his life, and "I think the fact that I was educated helped me tremendously, not only in terms of my appreciation of the opportunity but in my capacity to sustain it."
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Beginning on March 29, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) presents 11 exhibitions and projects curated by second-year students in its graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art with 10 individual exhibitions curated by each student, along with a student-curated Marieluise Hessel Collection show. Moves & Countermoves will be on view through May 3, 2015, with the opening reception taking place on Sunday, March 29 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Aaron Glass and colleagues have restored In the Land of the Head Hunters, the earliest surviving motion picture made in Canada and the first ever to feature an entirely indigenous cast.

Josephine Sacabo's haunting photographs, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, are created using a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century.