News

Judy Pfaff, Richard B. Fisher Professor in the Arts at Bard, has opened her new solo show "Judy Pfaff: Come What May" at the University of Wyoming Art Museum.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) has named the Irish curator, writer, artist, and educator Paul O’Neill as director of the graduate program for its two-year Master of Arts program in Curatorial Studies.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents Monogamy, a major exhibition by Gerard Byrne and Sarah Pierce, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr, on view March 24 – May 26, 2013 in the CCS Bard Galleries.

Bard alumna and Oberlin professor Julia Christensen '00 has received a prestigious Creative Capital grant to build DIY video projectors out of reclaimed electronic waste.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College announces 15 exhibitions curated by CCS Bard master’s degree candidates, on view March 24 – May 26 in the Hessel Museum of Art. These exhibits feature the work of more than 54 major international and emerging contemporary artists including Vito Acconci, Liam Gillick, An-My Lê, and Bruce Nauman, among others.

Lisa Sanditz talks with art: 21 about psychedelic landscapes and the real-world inspiration for her paintings.

Andrew Gori '04 and Joanne Tucker '05 met at Bard. Andrew has since cofounded the SPRING/BREAK Art Show in Manhattan, and Joanne runs Arts in the Armed Forces with Adam Driver, an actor from the HBO series Girls.

Hesitating Beauty, a new book of photography by Joshua Lutz '97, MFA '05 (ICP), is a meditation on his mother's mental illness. His work will be on display at New York’s ClampArt Gallery from April 11th to May 18th.

John Kisch '76 has been collecting visual artifacts of African American cinema for decades. Now his collection is available to museums, as a coffee table book, and as an iPad app.

Elisabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will receive the 2013 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard.

Last fall, musician Amanda Palmer and her band The Grand Theft Orchestra were in residence at Bard, performing shows at the Fisher Center and filming the video for "The Bed Song," from their album Theater Is Evil. On Valentine's Day they released the much-anticipated video.

Highlights of this year's SummerScape at the Bard Fisher Center include the 24^th Bard Music Festival, “Stravinsky and His World,” Taneyev’s opera Oresteia, Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita, and Bill T. Jones/Anne Bogart’s new Rite. This year's festival will take place July 6 through August 18.

The Times features this year's SummerScape festival, which highlights Russia and examines the cultural impact of Igor Stravinsky.

Join us for two free events in February at the Fisher Center. On February 12, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones and longtime New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Weschler discuss art and its relationship to science, history, technology, and current events. On February 16, the Company performs a work-in-process showing of Story, a new work created during its week in residence at Bard.

Gilles Peress, Bard College visiting professor of human rights and photography and internationally renowned photojournalist, is exhibiting work in Art or Evidence: The Power of Photojournalism, on view from January 3 through March 10 at the Mandeville Gallery, Union College in Schenectady, New York.

The Bard Graduate Center has received one of 832 Art Works grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The $20,000 grant will support the BGC’s presentation of Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a remarkable but little-known collection of medieval and 18th-century French objects that was the foundation of The Met’s decorative arts collection. The exhibition will open on April 4, 2013.