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Luc Sante is a visiting professor of writing and photography at Bard, teaching in both the Art History and Written Arts programs since 1999. Sante was born in Belgium and emigrated to the United States as a child, living in New York City for many years and attending Columbia University.

He is the author of Folk Photography (2009), Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990–2005 (2007), Walker Evans (2001), The Factory of Facts (1998), Evidence (1992), and Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991). Sante is the coeditor of O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (1999) and the editor and translator of Novels in Three Lines, by Félix Fénéon (2007). Sante has written introductions to books by Georges Simenon, Emile Zola, A. J. Liebling, Paul Auster, Weegee, Stephen Crane, and Vik Muniz, among others. His essays appear in many publications, including the New York Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the recipient of the Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Grammy Award (for album notes).

Gallerist NY offers a recap of the CCS Bard 20th anniversary celebration.

"Throughout history, humankind has made things—for survival and daily life, for celebration and ritual. Things of beauty, and things of power. These objects speak to us of creativity and ingenuity, needs and concerns, values and tastes. At the Bard Graduate Center, this evidence of human effort to give shape and meaning to the world provides a lens through which we can view larger cultural and historical questions, to better understand and appreciate our shared heritage."

Opus 40, the six-acre environmental sculpture park of the late Bard professor and alum Harvey Fite '30, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the central monolith sculpture tomorrow.

Professor Julia Rosenbaum has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship to study the visual culture of the American Civil War. The NEH Institute takes place this summer in New York City and involves work with a team of scholars, study of materials at significant museum and archival collections, and new media lab workshops.

Photography professor Stephen Shore on five formative events in his life and career.

Congratulations to Sculpture cochair Kenji Fujita, recipient of a 2012 Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation!

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.