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Jeffrey Gibson blends American Indian art traditions and abstract forms to create stunning geometric pieces.

Fashion photographer, designer, and Bard alumnus Tapu Javeri speaks with Pakistan's Friday Times about national style, working with models under water, and photographing Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ian Buruma takes a look at the David Bowie exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and examines Bowie's impact on art and style.

You might call him the decorator of the Met. Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts From the Metropolitan Museum of Art is on view at the BGC, bringing the work of the French interior decorator to life.

Bard Graduate Center faculty member Amy Ogata's new book, Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America, looks at how U.S. worries about conformity during the Cold War changed parenting and play.

CCS Bard director Tom Eccles gives a tour of the Frieze Art Fair sculpture park, which he curated.

Claire Lambe looks at Irish influences in CCS Bard's new Monogamy exhibit, which features the works of married, Dublin-based artists Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce.

Miya Masaoka, a member of the music/sound MFA faculty in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, has won a 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award for her work in jazz and multidisciplinary performance.

New York–based artist John Jurayj's exhibition What's Left is on view at the Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles through May 25.

Alumnus and ICP-Bard faculty member Joshua Lutz '97, MFA '05 (ICP) blends fact and fiction in his new photography book and solo show Hesitating Beauty.

Photographer and Bard alumnus Paul Salveson '06 has won the National Media Museum's 2013 First Book Award for his collection Between the Shell.

"I could not help but admire the care and dedication the young curators put into their exhibits," wrote Carola Lott of CCS Bard graduate students, whose exhibition less like an object more like the weather is on view through May 26.

Judy Pfaff, renowned artist, Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts, and codirector of the Studio Arts Program at Bard College, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Pfaff is among some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts who have been elected as the Academy’s 2013 class of members. The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on October 12, 2013, at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Monogamy, on view through May 26 in the CCS Bard Galleries, features works by married artists Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce and is curated by Tirdad Zolghadr.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College is mounting two new exhibitions through May 26: less like an object more like the weather, which showcases the curatorial work of CCS Bard master’s degree candidates; and Monogamy, with works by Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. On Saturday, April 20, CCS Bard will host several special opening events, including artists' talks, performances, and readings. Click below to view the full schedule.

Two graduates of the Bard MFA program, Carrie Moyer MFA '02 in Painting and Chris Sollars MFA '07 in Sculpture, have been announced as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows.

Cultural commentator Seth Rogovoy gives the Fisher Center's "Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer" a rave review.

This weekend's Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman show at the Fisher Center will feature music, readings, surprises ... and possible magic.

In a career spanning five decades, Bard alumnus Steve Schapiro '55 has made his mark as a celebrity and documentary photographer, particularly known for his many iconic portraits of musicians, actors, and artists in the 1960s and 1970s.