Sheva Fruitman: Evidence - Blue

Friday, April 26, 2013 – Friday, June 7, 2013

Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library Vitrines
Sheva Fruitman is a multi-faceted talent. A former photography major at Bard, she has worked, and exhibited frequently, as an artist, photographer, and designer. For the display cases in the Stevenson Library she has designed an installation that features some examples of her creations, organized around the theme of blue. The exhibition includes photographs, found objects, collages made from an old issue of Vogue magazine, and examples of her jewelry. She likes a recent quotation by Pico Iyer as a statement of her views about art making and living a creative life:

“it’s only by remaining constantly mobile, keeping your voice as fluid and versatile as the world around you, that you can begin to be true to who you really are.”

Opening reception on April 26, 4:30–7:00 p.m.

Sponsored by: Art History Program; Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library.

For more information, call 845-758-7158, or e-mail mcdonald@bard.edu.

Shelter

Natalie Merchant & the Kalmia String Quartet

Sunday, June 2, 2013
7 pm

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $40, 65, 80, 250*
*Special benefit ticket includes post-performance reception with the artists.

Singer Natalie Merchant and the Kalmia String Quartet share the stage with local women singers Amy Helm, Simi Stone, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Yungchen Lhamo, to draw attention to the grave problem of domestic violence in the Hudson Valley. This benefit concert will raise funds for for the Washbourne House of Ulster County and Grace Smith House of Dutchess County.

Sponsored by Chronogram, WDST, WKZE, Hale Advisors, and the Firehouse Productions.

Please note: this concert is not suitable for young children.


Sponsored by: Fisher Center.

For more information, call 845-758-7900, or e-mail fishercenter@bard.edu.

Bard Summer Research Institute

Monday, June 3, 2013 – Friday, July 26, 2013

Bard College Campus
Sponsored by: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail karcher@bard.edu.

Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Series Concert One

Daedalus Quartet

Saturday, June 8, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall

Daedalus Quartet

Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet, Op. 1, No.3

Joan Tower, String Quartet No. 5, WHITE WATER

Antonin Dvořák, String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105

Presented by The Bard Center, all concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. in Bard College’s Olin Hall. Admission charged. For ticket information, call 845-339-7907 or e-mail hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com.

Concert Two: June 22, Miami String Quartet
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80

Concert Three: June 29, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio, Op. 1, No. 2
André Previn, Trio No. 2
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, with violist Steven Tenenbom

Sponsored by: Bard Center.

For more information, call 845-399-7907, or e-mail hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com.

A Flute is Not a Bird

Recital by Patricia Spencer

Thursday, June 13, 2013
8 pm

Bito Hall

No birds allowed: the vocal and dramatic voice of the flute is given full play in this recital by Patricia Spencer, flutist with the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players. “A Flute is Not a Bird” will be performed on Thursday, June 13, at 8 p.m. at the Bitó Conservatory Performance Hall of Bard College. Admission is free and no reservations are necessary. For more information go to www.patriciaspencerflute.com, or send an e-mail to newflute@earthlink.net.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.

Aston Magna Concert Series

The Art of the Chalumeau (early clarinet)

Friday, June 14, 2013
8 pm

The hauntingly beautiful chalumeau – the ethereal early clarinet – is brought vividly to life by Aston Magna’s star clarinetist, Eric Hoeprich, whose musical achievements are well known to our audiences.  He introduces the chalumeau, one of his favorite instruments, in a return collaboration with oboist Stephen Hammer, in music by Baroque and Classical masters. They are joined this year by the exciting soprano Kristen Watson and a band of string players.

*Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., and “Meet the Artists” following the concert at all venues. 

Ticket purchases ONLY at: 845-758-7887

Five-concert series: $130 (a more than 25% savings); Three- or four-concert "mini series": $28 per ticket (a 20% savings); Single tickets: $35; senior citizens: $30. Students with valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 student rush tickets on the day of the performance. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

The series runs Fridays June 14, 21, 28, July 5 & 12

For more information, call 845-758-7887, or e-mail ccamp@bard.edu.

Now and Present Flute Seminar Performance

Tuesday, June 18, 2013
8 pm

Conservatory Bito Hall

A recital by five flutists of the Now and Present Flute Seminar  will include Gerald Busby, Five Interludes, for flute and piano, with Adam Tendler, guest pianist; George Crumb, Idyll for the Misbegotten, for flute and three percussionists, Mika Godbole, Yumi Tamashiro, and Frank Tyl, guest percussionists; G. Wiley Smith, Whisper on the Land, for flute and piano; Heinz Holliger, Schlafgewölk, for solo alto flute; and Luciano Berio, Sequenza I, for solo flute. Admission is free and no reservations are required.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail newflute@earthlink.net.

Aston Magna Concert Series

J. S. Bach: The Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

Friday, June 21, 2013
8 pm

The combined artistry of Daniel Stepner, violin, and Peter Sykes, harpsichord, will conjure up an exceptional evening of music making with Bach’s timeless music.

*Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., and “Meet the Artists” following the concert at all venues.

Ticket purchases ONLY at: 845-758-7887
Five-concert series: $130 (a more than 25% savings); Three- or four-concert "mini series": $28 per ticket (a 20% savings); Single tickets: $35; senior citizens: $30. Students with valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 student rush tickets on the day of the performance. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

The series runs Fridays June 14, 21, 28, July 5 & 12




For more information, call 845-758-7887, or e-mail ccamp@bard.edu.

CCS Bard Exhibition - Haim Steinbach : once again the world is flat.

Public Opening Reception

Saturday, June 22, 2013
1–4 pm

CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art
This summer the Hessel Museum of Art will present an expansive exhibition of works by Haim Steinbach. Comprising a number of the artist’s grid-based paintings from the early 1970s, as well as a series of reconfigured historical installations and major new works created in relation to a selection of works drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, the artworks in the exhibition span Steinbach’s forty-year career.

Haim Steinbach was born in 1944 in Rehovot, Israel. He has lived in New York since 1957. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 1968 and his MFA from Yale University in 1973. Until the mid-1970s he produced paintings that, responding to minimalism’s limitations, examined the codes of visual language through a calculated placement of colored bars around monochrome squares. He abandoned painting for a series entitled Linopanel, using linoleum as a material that mirrored cultural traditions of flooring (Rococo patterns, Colonial wood, generic tiling, etc.). In the late 1970s his practice delved into spatial questions of visual syntax, honing in on the quotidian rituals of collecting and arranging objects through a continued engagement with the Display works. His presentation of found, bought or gifted objects alters the lens of cultural histories, mapping otherwise concealed bonds of attachment and desire between object, place and viewer.

Following his historic exhibition at Artists Space in 1979, Steinbach has had several international solo exhibitions at institutions such as Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux and Haus der Kunst, Munich. His work was included in Documenta IX and the Sidney Biennial in 1992, the 1993 and 1997 Venice Biennales, the 2000 Biennale de Lyon, and La Triennale, Paris 2012. Steinbach’s work can be found in numerous international public collections such as the CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York; Sigmund-Freud Museum, Vienna; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Tate Modern, London.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.

CCS Bard Exhibition - Helen Marten : No borders in a wok that can't be crossed

Public Opening Reception

Saturday, June 22, 2013
1–4 pm

CCS Galleries
CCS Bard presents the first U.S. museum exhibition of British artist, Helen Marten. Titled No borders in a wok that can’t be crossed, Marten’s exhibition is curated by Beatrix Ruf and is the first major collaboration between CCS Bard and the Kunsthalle Zürich and was presented as part of the inaugural program of the Kunsthalle’s newly expanded Löwenbräukunst complex in 2012.

For No borders in a wok that can’t be crossed, Marten has created a group of works which interweave the diversity of her work in terms of media – from sculptures to wall pieces and floor works – in a comprehensive installation including many new works created specifically for the CCS Bard exhibition.
This exhibition is the third and final iteration of a joint project with the Kunsthalle Zürich (September-November 2012), the Chisenhale Gallery, London and CCS Bard. In Zürich the exhibition was titled Almost the exact shape of Florida and at the Chisenhale, Plank Salad (November 2012-January 2013).

Helen Marten (born 1985, Macclesfield) lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include Evian Disease, Palais de Tokyo,
Paris (2012); Dust and Piranhas, ‘Park Nights’, Serpentine Gallery (2011); Take a stick and make it sharp, Johann König, Berlin (2011) and Wicked Patterns, T293, Naples (2010). Marten will participate in the 2013 Venice Biennale. Recent group exhibitions include New pictures of common objects, MoMA PS1, New York (2012); March, Sadie Coles, London (2012); The New Public, Museion, Bolzano (2012); Standard operating procedures, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles (2012) and Hasta Mañana, Greene Naftali, New York (2011). Marten received the Lafayette Prize 2011 and the LUMA Award 2012.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail ccs@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/ccs.

Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Concert Two

Miami String Quartet

Saturday, June 22, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, “Serioso”
Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80

Presented by The Bard Center, all concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. in Bard College’s Olin Hall. Admission charged. For ticket information, call 845-339-7907 or e-mail hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com.

Concert Three: June 29, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio, Op. 1, No. 2
André Previn, Trio No. 2
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, with violist Steven Tenenbom

For more information, call 845-399-7907, or e-mail hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com.

Academic Exchange Program on Foreign Policy with U.S. State Department

Sunday, June 23, 2013 – Monday, August 5, 2013

Bard College Campus
Bard College is hosting a multinational group of 16 university-level scholars and educators for a six-week academic exchange program from June 23 to August 5, 2013. Entitled “Grand Strategy in Context: Institutions, People, and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy,” this Study of the U.S. Institute is designed to foster a better understanding in academic institutions overseas of how U.S. foreign policy is formulated, implemented, and taught.
Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

For more information, call 845-758-7453, e-mail jmcmanig@bard.edu, or visit http://www.bard.edu/civicengagement/usfp/.

Jasmine Crumsey Lecture Canceled

Exotic earthworm invasions across north temperate forests:  A case for engaging non-science majors through interdisciplinary research

Tuesday, June 25, 2013
4 pm

RKC 111

For more information, call 845-752-2331, or e-mail keesing@bard.edu.

Aston Magna Concert Series

Masterworks by J.S. Bach and Marin Marais

Friday, June 28, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall

Our third Festival weekend will include a special appearance at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington.  Soprano extraordinaire, Dominique Labelle, returns for this dynamic concert, with the combined forces of Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba, Catherine Liddell, theorbo, baroque trumpeter, Josh Cohen, and an orchestra led by Daniel Stepner. Two grand works of J.S. Bach – the second Brandenburg concerto and the cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen – will be paired with the gamba music of Marin Marais, featured in the award winning film, Tous les matins du monde.

*Pre-concert lecture at 7 p.m., and “Meet the Artists” following the concert at all venues.

Ticket purchases ONLY at: 845-758-7887

Five-concert series: $130 (a more than 25% savings); Three- or four-concert "mini series": $28 per ticket (a 20% savings); Single tickets: $35; senior citizens: $30. Students with valid full-time student ID, or under the age of 25, may purchase up to two $5 student rush tickets on the day of the performance. Student rush tickets are subject to availability.

The series runs Fridays June 14, 21, 28, July 5 & 12

 

For more information, call 845-758-7887, or e-mail ccamp@bard.edu.

Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Concert Three

Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

Saturday, June 29, 2013
8 pm

Olin Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio, Op. 1, No. 2

André Previn, Trio No. 2

Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25, with violist Steven Tenenbom

Presented by The Bard Center, all concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. in Bard College’s Olin Hall. Admission charged.

For more information, call 845-399-7907, or e-mail hvcmc.bardcenter@gmail.com.