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The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an exhibition featuring Robert Mapplethorpe, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and many others.

This spring CCS Bard features a series of exhibitions curated by our talented second-year grad students. In the Annandale area? Come to the opening reception for spring exhibits on March 18.

Bard's fourth annual Live Art on Campus Day on Saturday will feature performances and workshops for students. Interview with Bard faculty Leah Cox reveals how the event offers students the opportunity to collaborate and create.

The Bard community is deeply saddened to learn of the death of alum Robert Sherman '49. Robert and his brother Richard (also class of '49) composed the soundtracks to many childhoods in their years at Disney.

The New York Times calls the 2012 Whitney Biennial a "new and exhilarating species of exhibition" and Professor Ed Halter's film program "ambitious." Works by Bard alum Laida Lertxundi '03 and Professor Kelly Reichardt are also included in this year's events.

This Saturday Feb. 25 at 7 pm local restaurant/cafe Murray's—owned by Bard students—will host a gallery show featuring the photography of Bard alum Pete Mauney '93, MFA '00! Visit his blog for a preview!

Bard alumna Lisa Kereszi '95 has turned a lifelong love of photography into an impressive career as artist and professor. Since graduating, she has gotten her M.F.A., joined the faculty at Yale, shown her work in numerous museums and galleries, including the Whitney Museum, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ.

Works by Bard photography professors Tim Davis and John Pilson featured at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to present Joe / Brains / Lamar, a multi-format program addressing questions of archive, memory, and the genealogy of queer culture. Opening on February 1, 2012 and unfolding over the course of two months, Joe / Brains / Lamar features the participation of Matt Wolf, Carl Williamson, Ron Padgett, Anselm Berrigan, Ann Lauterbach, and Karly Wildenhaus, and includes a video installation, publication, website, archival display, and poetry reading co-hosted by CCS Bard and the John Ashbery Poetry Series.

Italy, says Joseph Luzzi, is a chiaroscuro nation – a land of sharp contrasts. Luzzi, the director of Italian studies at Bard and the award-winning author of The Blessed Lens: A History of Italian Cinema, calls Caravaggio – the "incarnation" of Italy's dualistic spirit.

Gallery director Andrea Cashman '04 praises Xaviera Simmons '05 as one of the top up-and-coming artists in the New York City art world.

Luc Sante finds rock icon Patti Smith revealed in poetry, memoir, and image.

Ann Goldstein will receive this year’s Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.

Bard photography professor Stephen Shore has gone from developing photos in his parents' bathroom as a child to traveling the world to capture the beauty of everyday life.