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Artist Anna Sew Hoy will be the first Martha Longenecker Roth Distinguished Artist in Residence, noted for "expanding the field of art, celebrating material and craft, and engaging with students and the public."

Duane Linklater's Wood Land School creates site-specific exhibitions of works by indigenous artists—most recently an ambitious, yearlong project at Montreal’s SBC Gallery.

Unspecified Promise, a sculpture and performance art piece by Guillermo Calzadilla MFA '02 and Jennifer Allora, speaks to the personal aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

The Hunter College MFA in Studio Art announces the appointment of painter and writer Carrie Moyer MFA '02 as the new director of Hunter’s nationally ranked graduate studio art program.

Adriana Farmiga, a Bard MFA alumna who has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art since 2011, has been appointed assistant dean at the school.

Bard MFA alumna Colleen Brown '11 and nine other selected artists explore art and civic life in Vancouver through events, installations, and residencies.

Professor Emeritus John Ashbery passed away last month. Here, Ann Lauterbach shares her 2011 introduction of the poet upon receipt of his National Book Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

A. L. Steiner is among the 21 scholars, writers, and artists awarded Berlin Prizes—semester-long fellowships in Berlin—by the American Academy in Berlin for 2017–18.

The Stedeliik Museum features Carlos Motta’s video portraits of LGBTQI refugees seeking asylum to escape repression.

Bard is credited with starting the first low-residency MFA program, with students gathering for eight-week summer sessions that split up their independent study.

The multi-part exhibition links two projects "Plot" and "Cadere/Rose" which explore the condition of invisibility in Premnath's experience as an Indian immigrant.

On October 20, ISSUE will celebrate the work of pioneering French composer Éliane Radigue, where MFA Professor Laetitia Sonami will perform Radigue’s 2013 piece OCCAM IX.

“We need art to give us as much knowledge of the larger world...as possible.” The 40 works in No to the Invasion bring the modern Arab world into vivid focus.

The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Bard MFA) presents the Class of 2018 Thesis Exhibition July 22–30 at the Bard College Exhibition Center/UBS Gallery at 29 O’Callaghan Lane in Red Hook, New York, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 4 p.m. The exhibition brings together candidates’ culminating work in film/video, music/sound, painting, photography, sculpture, and writing. Performances, readings, and screenings of time-based works will take place on the Bard College campus during the evenings of July 24–28.

Swartz is attempting to reveal something that is inside all of us—a dynamic, expressive, intimate feeling felt through the shape of sound.

Bard's MFA Program is named among the 25 Best MFA Programs by College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, in its recently published 2017 rankings.

Bard alumnus Duane Linklater's show at NYU's 80WSE gallery engages with questions about the under- and misrepresentation of indigenous artists in galleries and museums.