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The Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College are pleased to announce the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism. Made possible through a five year-grant of $80,000 per year, the Keith Haring Fellowship is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting fellowship for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College.

Installation artist Brad Tucker MFA '09 has created a new art book suitable for toddlers, called Dunes at Noons, and it's published by fellow alum Julia Klein MFA '09's Soberscove Press.

Artist and Bard alumna Gwynne Duncan '90 grew up in the historic Westbeth Complex in Manhattan, the first affordable housing complex for artists of its type in the United States. She moved back as an adult with her own family.

Ian Berry M.A. '98 directs Skidmore College’s Tang Museum, which he has transformed into an interdisciplinary teaching laboratory that stands out among peer institutions.

Artist Daniel Gordon '04 is creating disorienting still life photographs with multiple layers of imagery. He uses traditional still life elements (such as fruit and water jugs) and overlays them with printed images of themselves.

Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum, codirector of Afterall Publishing, and curator of the 2014 Sao Paulo Bienal, is the recipient of the 2014 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. The award, which includes a prize of $25,000, will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on April 2 in New York City. Esche is the seventeenth recipient of the award.

La Loge in Brussels presents an exhibition of seven films by Peter Hutton, including early works and the debut of Hutton’s latest films, Three Landscapes (2013) and At Sea ( 2004-2007) in the form of an installation.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support residencies for six choreographers over four years as part of Live Arts Bard (LAB). LAB, a program of the Fisher Center, provides residencies for American artists and ensembles making work that spans and transcends the fields of theater, performance, dance, music, film, and live art. The Mellon Foundation grant significantly expands the program’s capacity to integrate choreographers into the life of the College, with opportunities for choreographers to work with students in a variety of arts and non-arts disciplines.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard is offering $200,000 in scholarships and fellowships to be awarded in the 2014–2015 academic year. The application deadline for the program is February 1.

Susan Weber is "a director of uncommon expansiveness who has elevated the study of material culture, design, and curatorial practice to that of a fine art," writes Soohang Lee.

The Bard Graduate Center's new exhibition, William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain, is an "engrossing show" that "should thrill Anglophiles," writes Karen Rosenberg.

Third-generation filmmaker Gia Coppola is making a name for herself with her forthcoming film Palo Alto. She both directed the film and adapted the script from James Franco's short story collection.

Julia Klein's Chicago-based Soberscove Press (named for Bard's Obreshkove dormitory) "fills a much needed gap in art publishing, shaping how we think about recent art history."

Artist, alumna, and Bard MFA faculty Amy Sillman launched her first museum survey this year. Now the exhibition catalogue is one of the best art books of 2013.

Bard MFA graduate and visual artist Sadie Laska discusses her "deliriously frenetic abstract paintings."

The Library and Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has acquired the archives of John G. Hanhardt, noted film and media arts curator. The donation builds on CCS Bard’s initiative to build a unique research collection comprising the personal papers and archives of innovative and influential contemporary art curators, art dealers, critics, galleries and alternative art spaces.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a full spring season of performing arts events, including jazz, opera, and orchestral concerts, and innovative dance and theater productions, from February through May. Highlights Include Chris Washburne and the SYOTOS Band, Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, American Symphony Orchestra concerts, An Opera Double Bill, An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith, Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo & Juliet, and dance productions including Joanna Kotze’s it happened it had happened it is happening it will happen and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in residence.

Stacey Allan '04, graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard, has cofounded the cutting edge arts publication and book imprint East of Borneo.

Hudson Valley Balinese Gamelan Orchestras will host their annual winter concert on Friday, December 6, at Bard College's Olin Hall. The program, featuring Balinese music and dance begins at 8 p.m. under the leadership of artistic director and Balinese master musician, I Nyoman Suadin.

"'Elephant Room' appears to be that unique vehicle, like 'Book of Mormon,' that appeals to both high-brow and low-brow spectators," writes Jay Blotcher.