Landscapes for the Public Good: 200 Years Celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted
Thursday, May 26, 2022 – Friday, August 19, 2022
Campus Center, Gallery Happy 200th Birthday Frederick Law Olmsted!
The exhibit features 23 panels of vivid photos and drawings, exploring the many facets of Olmsted’s life and legacy. Curated by Dr. Caroline Mesrobian Hickman of the University of Maryland and in conjunction with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Sponsored by the Bard Arboretum.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Please join us to celebrate the Bard Music Festival! Mingle with friends, old and new, and enjoy cocktails and chef-inspired tasting stations at the magical Spiegeltent.
Harnessing Bard’s unusual ability to integrate orchestral, vocal, piano and chamber works within a single event, Program One offers an overview of Rachmaninoff’s long career, from two masterful teenage works—his little-known Second String Quartet and perennially popular C-sharp minor Prelude—to his hugely successful Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, written at the height of his powers.
Together with Isleof the Dead, a symphonic poem inspired by Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, the program also features examples of the 100-plus songs Rachmaninoff wrote for his close friend Feodor Chaliapin, the legendary Russian bass, and of the composer’s numerous piano transcriptions, including, by way of a tribute to his adopted home, The Star-Spangled Banner.
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Andrey Gugnin, Kirill Kuzmin, Anna Polonsky & Artem Yasynskyy, piano; Brandon Cedel, bass-baritone; Mané Galoyan, soprano; Viano String Quartet; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Songs and piano works, including selections from Op. 11 Morceaux
String Quartet No. 2 (1896) Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1908) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (1934)
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Program Two helps contextualize Rachmaninoff within the Russia of his youth, pairing selections from his evocative Six moments musicaux with chamber works by members of his early acquaintance.
These include his model and mentor Tchaikovsky, whose Pezzo capriccioso was written for Anatoliy Brandukov, the dedicatee of Rachmaninoff’s own Cello Sonata; his teachers Anatoly Liadov, Arensky, and Taneyev, whose profile Botstein, Bard, and the ASO have already done so much to raise; Aleksandr Glazunov, who led the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony; and César Cui, whose scathing review of that disastrous premiere would haunt Rachmaninoff for the rest of his life.
Also featured are works by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, a major influence on Cui and other members of “The Five,” and Mykola Lysenko, widely considered the father of Ukrainian music.
It was the runaway success of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto that helped restore his confidence after the depression and writer’s block triggered by his First Symphony’s failure.
Marking the ASO’s first concert of the 2022 festival, Program Three juxtaposes the concerto—arguably the best-loved in the classical canon—with closely contemporaneous orchestral works by two of Rachmaninoff’s fellow pianist-composers.
Famed Polish virtuoso and statesman Paderewski is represented by the prelude to Act III of his opera Manru, the only work by a Pole ever staged at the Metropolitan Opera, and Busoni by his Piano Concerto.
A monumental rarity that draws on vast forces, including a choir, this was previously championed to acclaim by Botstein and the ASO at Carnegie Hall, where, as now, their soloist was Piers Lane, who brought “drive, athleticism and muscularity, certainly, but also lyricism and shapeliness” (New York Times) to Busoni’s fiendishly challenging score.
7 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Danny Driver, Piers Lane, piano; Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (1900–1901)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) Prelude to Act 3 of Manru, Op.20 (1892–1901)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 39 (1901–04)
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
As Bard’s Scholar-in-Residence, Philip Ross Bullock, discovers in a concert with commentary many of the composer’s songs were inspired by women. He dedicated them variously to Vera Skalon, his teenage sweetheart; Anna Ladyzhenskaya, with whom he became infatuated; Natalya Satina, the cousin he would defy the church to marry; Mariya Olferyeva, his brother’s common-law wife; and Antonina Nezhdanova, the great soprano who not only premiered his famous Vocalise, but collaborated closely on its creation.
Rachmaninoff also set songs to texts by distinguished Russian female poets, including Marietta Shaginyan, who likewise inspired songs by the composer’s lifelong friend and correspondent Nikolai Medtner.
10 am Performance with commentary by Philip Ross Bullock; with Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Erika Switzer, piano; and others
Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943); Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951); and others
Program Five • Rachmaninoff’s Russian Contemporaries
Sunday, August 7, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Olin Hall
Rachmaninoff considered Medtner “the greatest composer of our time,” and the latter’s little-known Piano Quintet features in Program Five, “Rachmaninoff’s Russian Contemporaries.”
A collection of piano, vocal and chamber music from the early 1900s, this program also presents Rachmaninoff’s superlative Cello Sonata and selections from his Thirteen Preludes and Études-tableaux; further piano selections by his brilliant friend and classmate Scriabin, their mutual friend Felix Blumenfeld and the short-lived Vasily Kalinnikov; and works by two Russians better known for their subsequent innovations: Stravinsky, represented by his settings of Two Poems of Paul Verlaine, and Prokofiev, whose single-movement Third Piano Sonata is perhaps the most carefully crafted of his early contributions to the genre.
1 pm Preconcert Talk 1:30 pm Performance: Fei-Fei, Anna Polonsky, Brian Zeger, and Artem Yasynskyy, piano; Gabriel Martins, cello; Viano String Quartet
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) From Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32 (1910); from Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 (1911); Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 (1901)
Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951) Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. posth. (1949)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) From Five Preludes, Op. 16 (1895)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Two Poems of Paul Verlaine (1909)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Piano Sonata No. 3, Op 28 (1907, rev. 1917)
Anchored by the ASO, this all-Rachmaninoff evening features a semi-staged production of Rachmaninoff’s one-act opera The Miserly Knight, directed by Jordan Fein (who helmed Bard Music Festival’s striking 2019 production of Die tote Stadt). One of the composer’s three operas, this Pushkin adaptation features a superb all-male cast, including bass-baritone Nathan Berg and tenors Limmie Pulliam and Rodell Rosel. This coolly elegant production of Rachmaninoff’s last opera features production design by Terese Wadden, video by Joshua Thorson, and lighting by Alejandro Fajardo.
The program opens with the First Symphony, which the composer abandoned after a complicated premiere and died without hearing a second time. Nevertheless, the work remained important to him—45 years later, he quoted from it in the Symphonic Dances, his last major composition—and since its posthumous rediscovery, the symphony has been restored to the repertoire, celebrated for its melodic invention, thematic cohesion and rich orchestral color.
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk 5:30 pm Performance: Limmie Pulliam & Rodell Rosel, tenors; Ethan Vincent, baritone; Matthew Anchel, bass-baritone; Nathan Berg, bass-baritone; Jordan Fein, director; Joshua Thorson, video design; Alejandro Fajardo, lighting design; Terese Wadden, production design, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1895) The Miserly Knight, Op. 24 (1905)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
Whether as a pianist, composer, improviser, soloist, or bandleader, Ukrainian-born Vadim Neselovskyi creates inspired and unique music. His work has been played by jazz greats like Randy Brecker, Antonio Sanchez, Julian Lage, and Gary Burton, as well as classical artists (Daniel Gauthier, whose recording of Neselovskyi’s San Felio won an ECHO Classical Award) and symphony orchestras in the United States and Europe.
Other collaborations include vibraphonist Gary Burton and the Generations Quintet; the Graz Philharmoniker, who performed his Prelude for Vibes on their New Year’s program; composer/saxophonist John Zorn who invited him to contribute to The Book Beriah, the final installment of his Masada project; and French horn/alphorn pioneer Arkady Shilkloper.
Recordings include Get Up and Go, Bez Mezh ( “no limits” in Ukrainian) by the International Symphony Orchestra (INSO) from Lviv, Ukraine, and his Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City, released this June.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and suburban housewife begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances. this film deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance.
Based on the life of David Helfgott, this haunting film follows the pianist after suffering a mental breakdown and receiving electric shock therapy. After entering a piano competition and deciding to play Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Helfgott becomes increasingly manic as he practices—eventually resulting in his admission to a psychiatric hospital.
Program Seven • From Bolshoi to Broadway: Rachmaninoff in America
Friday, August 12, 2022 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Once in America, Rachmaninoff soon established himself as a leading virtuoso, devoting so much time to touring and recording that his compositional output dramatically declined. However, as Program Seven reveals, he took great interest in the nation’s music, not least its lighter side.
He drew inspiration from both Ellington and Gershwin, attending the famous world premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, as orchestrated by Ferde Grofé, and enjoyed the work of such fellow émigrés as songwriter Vernon Duke, who arranged the Vocalise, and violin legend Jascha Heifetz, with whom Rachmaninoff gave a hugely successful benefit concert at the Metropolitan Opera.
Program Seven concludes with the composer’s own little-known two-piano arrangement of his Symphonic Dances, which synthesizes nostalgia for his Russian roots with contemporary American rhythms, sonorities and styles.
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Charlie Albright, Allegra Chapman, Danny Driver, and Piers Lane, piano; Luosha Fang, violin; Narek Arutyunian, clarinet; Kristen Lee Sergeant, vocals; and the Bard Festival Ensemble
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, arr. for two pianos (1940)
George Gershwin (1898–1937) Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
Ferde Grofé (1892–1972) Russian Rose (Fox Trot) (1922)
Works by Duke Ellington (1899–1974); Jascha Heifetz (1901–87); Vernon Duke (1903–69); Marc Blitzstein (1905–64); and others
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Program Eight shines a light on the grueling touring careers of Rachmaninoff and other virtuoso pianists. Examples of the pieces he transcribed and recorded by past masters Bach and Handel rub shoulders with other of the works he continually felt compelled to learn and arrange to keep expanding his repertoire.
These include selections by his teachers Taneyev and Alexander Siloti, as well as by German composer-pianist Adolf von Henselt, another key influence. Also featured are works from the performing repertoires of such prominent pianist-composers as Paderewski, Rubinstein and Godowsky, as well as Rachmaninoff’s own Variations on a Theme of Chopin, which honors the pianist-composer who inspired them all.
1 pm Preconcert Talk 1:30 pm Performance: Michael Brown, Piers Lane & Artem Yasynskyy, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 (1902–3)
Piano Works by George Frederic Handel (1685–1759); J. S. Bach (1685–1750); Adolf von Henselt (1814–89); Anton Rubinstein (1829–94); Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915); Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941); Alexander Siloti (1863–1945); Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938); and Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
In Program Nine, Bard presents a sampling of the extraordinarily diverse array of musical styles and approaches on offer in 1930.
These range from the experimentalism of Henry Cowell’s avant-garde theater piece Atlantis, which only received its New York premiere under Botstein’s leadership in 2010, to Grofé’s more accessible tone poem Grand Canyon Suite, a one-time audience favorite; the Suite from Shostakovich’s satirical, politically charged ballet, The Golden Age; Respighi’s orchestral transcriptions of Rachmaninoff’s Études-tableaux; and the Russian composer’s own accomplished but seldom-performed Fourth Piano Concerto, with celebrated Rachmaninoff interpreter Zlata Chochieva as soloist.
7 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Zlata Chochieva, piano; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director; and others
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Piano Concerto No. 4in G Minor, Op. 40 (1927)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) From Five Ètudes-tableaux (orchestral transcriptions; 1930)
Ferde Grofé (1892–1972) Grand Canyon Suite (1931)
Dimtri Shostakovich (1906–75) From Suite from The Golden Age, Op. 22b (1929–30)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The choral traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church remained a profound musical influence on Rachmaninoff throughout his life and he wrote two major sacred works for unaccompanied choir. Program Ten showcases the Bard Festival Chorale’s interpretation of the second: the Vespers (All-Night Vigil).
A spiritual work whose resonant a capella sonorities use the full range of the human voice, this comprises 15 movements, nine based on traditional Eastern Orthodox chants from Greece, Kyiv, and Russia, and six on chant-like motifs of Rachmaninoff’s own invention.
Considering the Vespers one of his two finest achievements, the composer requested that its fifth movement, the “Nunc dimittis,” be sung at his funeral.
10 am performance: Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 (1915)
Alongside the Variations on a Theme of Corelli (La folia), the sole solo piano piece of Rachmaninoff’s years in Western exile, Program Eleven considers his legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Russia, his influence could be heard in the work of both Nikolay Myaskovsky, the five-time Stalin Prize-winner dubbed the “Father of the Soviet Symphony,” and Dmitry Kabalevsky, who helped establish the Union of Soviet Composers.
Similarly, elements of Rachmaninoff’s aesthetic were shared by the barrier-breaking Florence Price, several of whose songs are reminiscent of Rachmaninoff’s own, and by little-remembered polymath Abram Chasins, a friend whose work he much admired, as well as by such architects of the American sound as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
Program Twelve • Symphonic Poetry and Spirituality in the Silver Age
Sunday, August 14, 2022 5–6 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The decades before the Revolution saw a cultural flourishing in Russia, notable for its spiritual and intellectual currents in poetry, painting and music.
Program 12 revisits this fruitful period with grand-scale choral symphonies by two of its leading lights: former classmates Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. A visionary mystic who died at just 43, Scriabin believed in the transformative power of art, as expressed in his original text for his Wagnerian, six-movement First Symphony.
By contrast, Rachmaninoff was notoriously satirized by Stravinsky as “six foot two inches of Russian gloom,” and The Bells offers a more apocalyptic vision. However, the work— Rachmaninoff’s favorite of his own compositions—concludes in the major mode, its warm string melody suggesting serenity and hope.
4 pm Preconcert Talk 5 pm Performance: Mané Galoyan, soprano; Maya Lahyani, mezzo-soprano; Viktor Antipenko, tenor; Ethan Vincent, baritone; Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director
Aleksandr Scriabin (1872–1915) Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 26 (1900)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) The Bells, Op. 35 (1913)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Featuring Bard Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts, Benjamin Boretz
Friday, August 19, 2022 7:30–9:30 pm
Maverick Concert Hall. Woodstock, NY Curated by poet Dorota Czerner and composer Jon Forshee, Encounters: Music from the Time of Renewal is an evening-length concert featuring recent collaborations between Czerner and the composers Benjamin Boretz, Jon Forshee, and Augustus Arnone.
The works presented in this concert each engage state-of-the-art sound and video technologies within the modern classical stage tradition, weaving a narrative of sonic and poetic encounter, exchange and discovery. The program also includes compositions by Adam Greene and Christopher Bailey, with special guests classical guitarist Colin McAllister and pianist Joshua Charney.
Composers Augustus Arnone Augustus Arnone is an adventurous pianist and composer, who has made a home at the edge of transcendental extremes in the modern repertory. His repertoire includes the complete solo piano works of Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy’s complete “The History Of Photography In Sound,” as well as works by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Roberto Sierra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others.
Christopher Bailey Christopher Bailey’s composition explores a variety of musical threads, including microtonality, acousmatic and concrète sounds, serialist junk sculpture, ornate musical details laid out in flat forms, and constrained improvisation. His awards include prizes from BMI, ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize.
Benjamin Boretz Ben Boretz is the founder and director of Open Space Music. He is currently working on composing a new piano piece for Augustus Arnone. His “Downtime for piano and percussion ensemble” was released on Open Space CD 48 alongside Jon Forshee’s “Apokotastasis.”
Dorota Czerner Dorota Czerner is a poet who entangled her European roots with the Hudson River light. Her live performances, created in collaboration with composers and video artists, embrace the discovery of ecosystems built around and inside the poetics of the spoken word. Her work has been exhibited and performed in North America and Europe.
Jon Forshee Composer and sonic explorer Jon Forshee creates for a diversity of musical forces and ensembles, with many current works focused on and around collaborations and new media. Recent premieres include “Vivarium – Thirteen Images of Danielle Rae Miller” (2022), and “Apokatastasis” (2021), for chamber ensemble and computer. Jon lives in Colorado, where he teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Adam Greene Adam Greene is a composer and writer whose work references interests in literature, linguistics, and cognitive science in music that explores multiplicity, fragility, and instability. He has received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, ASCAP, NACUSA and The American Composers’ Forum.
Guest Performers Colin McAllister Colin McAllister is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interests include contemporary music performance and pedagogy, musical modernism, and the apocalyptic paradigm as manifested in various phenomena—literature, music, and art.
Joshua Charney Josh Charney is a pianist, composer, and musicologist based in Northern California. As a performer-composer, he is interested in contemporary music that incorporates improvisation, theatricality, and other experimental practices. He is also an active participant with the Sibarg Ensemble, a group that creates a unique blend between traditional Iranian music and jazz.
Russell Craig Richardson Russell Craig Richardson is an award-winning video and film maker who specializes in musical and poetic collaboration. His works and installations have screened in Europe and the Americas.
Paloma Kop Paloma Kop is an experimental multimedia artist and performer. In this collaboration, she will misuse 1990s television broadcast equipment to create moving images which flow in parallel with the sound and spoken word performance.
Open Space Music Association is a community for people who need to explore or expand the limits of their expressive worlds, to extend or dissolve the boundaries among their expressive-language practices, to experiment with the forms or subjects of thinking or making or performing in the context of creative phenomena.Sponsored by: Maverick Concerts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Landscapes for the Public Good: 200 Years Celebrating Frederick Law Olmsted
Thursday, May 26, 2022 – Friday, August 19, 2022
Campus Center, Gallery Happy 200th Birthday Frederick Law Olmsted!
The exhibit features 23 panels of vivid photos and drawings, exploring the many facets of Olmsted’s life and legacy. Curated by Dr. Caroline Mesrobian Hickman of the University of Maryland and in conjunction with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Sponsored by the Bard Arboretum.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Please join us to celebrate the Bard Music Festival! Mingle with friends, old and new, and enjoy cocktails and chef-inspired tasting stations at the magical Spiegeltent.
Harnessing Bard’s unusual ability to integrate orchestral, vocal, piano and chamber works within a single event, Program One offers an overview of Rachmaninoff’s long career, from two masterful teenage works—his little-known Second String Quartet and perennially popular C-sharp minor Prelude—to his hugely successful Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, written at the height of his powers.
Together with Isleof the Dead, a symphonic poem inspired by Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, the program also features examples of the 100-plus songs Rachmaninoff wrote for his close friend Feodor Chaliapin, the legendary Russian bass, and of the composer’s numerous piano transcriptions, including, by way of a tribute to his adopted home, The Star-Spangled Banner.
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Andrey Gugnin, Kirill Kuzmin, Anna Polonsky & Artem Yasynskyy, piano; Brandon Cedel, bass-baritone; Mané Galoyan, soprano; Viano String Quartet; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Songs and piano works, including selections from Op. 11 Morceaux
String Quartet No. 2 (1896) Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1908) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (1934)
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Program Two helps contextualize Rachmaninoff within the Russia of his youth, pairing selections from his evocative Six moments musicaux with chamber works by members of his early acquaintance.
These include his model and mentor Tchaikovsky, whose Pezzo capriccioso was written for Anatoliy Brandukov, the dedicatee of Rachmaninoff’s own Cello Sonata; his teachers Anatoly Liadov, Arensky, and Taneyev, whose profile Botstein, Bard, and the ASO have already done so much to raise; Aleksandr Glazunov, who led the first performance of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony; and César Cui, whose scathing review of that disastrous premiere would haunt Rachmaninoff for the rest of his life.
Also featured are works by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, a major influence on Cui and other members of “The Five,” and Mykola Lysenko, widely considered the father of Ukrainian music.
It was the runaway success of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto that helped restore his confidence after the depression and writer’s block triggered by his First Symphony’s failure.
Marking the ASO’s first concert of the 2022 festival, Program Three juxtaposes the concerto—arguably the best-loved in the classical canon—with closely contemporaneous orchestral works by two of Rachmaninoff’s fellow pianist-composers.
Famed Polish virtuoso and statesman Paderewski is represented by the prelude to Act III of his opera Manru, the only work by a Pole ever staged at the Metropolitan Opera, and Busoni by his Piano Concerto.
A monumental rarity that draws on vast forces, including a choir, this was previously championed to acclaim by Botstein and the ASO at Carnegie Hall, where, as now, their soloist was Piers Lane, who brought “drive, athleticism and muscularity, certainly, but also lyricism and shapeliness” (New York Times) to Busoni’s fiendishly challenging score.
7 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Danny Driver, Piers Lane, piano; Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director; American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 (1900–1901)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941) Prelude to Act 3 of Manru, Op.20 (1892–1901)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 39 (1901–04)
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
To celebrate the end of another fabulous Spiegeltent season, Mx Viveca La Rue Hootchie Cootchie Bond and Band conjure a brand new performance of glamourous virtuosity. Join the “immortal angel of cabaret” (Time Out New York) as they take you on a journey from the mystical, mythical mists of Maryland through the sultry, sassy spectrums of stardom.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
As Bard’s Scholar-in-Residence, Philip Ross Bullock, discovers in a concert with commentary many of the composer’s songs were inspired by women. He dedicated them variously to Vera Skalon, his teenage sweetheart; Anna Ladyzhenskaya, with whom he became infatuated; Natalya Satina, the cousin he would defy the church to marry; Mariya Olferyeva, his brother’s common-law wife; and Antonina Nezhdanova, the great soprano who not only premiered his famous Vocalise, but collaborated closely on its creation.
Rachmaninoff also set songs to texts by distinguished Russian female poets, including Marietta Shaginyan, who likewise inspired songs by the composer’s lifelong friend and correspondent Nikolai Medtner.
10 am Performance with commentary by Philip Ross Bullock; with Rebecca Ringle Kamarei, mezzo-soprano; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Erika Switzer, piano; and others
Songs by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943); Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951); and others
Program Five • Rachmaninoff’s Russian Contemporaries
Sunday, August 7, 2022 1:30–2:30 pm
Olin Hall
Rachmaninoff considered Medtner “the greatest composer of our time,” and the latter’s little-known Piano Quintet features in Program Five, “Rachmaninoff’s Russian Contemporaries.”
A collection of piano, vocal and chamber music from the early 1900s, this program also presents Rachmaninoff’s superlative Cello Sonata and selections from his Thirteen Preludes and Études-tableaux; further piano selections by his brilliant friend and classmate Scriabin, their mutual friend Felix Blumenfeld and the short-lived Vasily Kalinnikov; and works by two Russians better known for their subsequent innovations: Stravinsky, represented by his settings of Two Poems of Paul Verlaine, and Prokofiev, whose single-movement Third Piano Sonata is perhaps the most carefully crafted of his early contributions to the genre.
1 pm Preconcert Talk 1:30 pm Performance: Fei-Fei, Anna Polonsky, Brian Zeger, and Artem Yasynskyy, piano; Gabriel Martins, cello; Viano String Quartet
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) From Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32 (1910); from Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 (1911); Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19 (1901)
Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951) Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. posth. (1949)
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) From Five Preludes, Op. 16 (1895)
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971) Two Poems of Paul Verlaine (1909)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Piano Sonata No. 3, Op 28 (1907, rev. 1917)
Anchored by the ASO, this all-Rachmaninoff evening features a semi-staged production of Rachmaninoff’s one-act opera The Miserly Knight, directed by Jordan Fein (who helmed Bard Music Festival’s striking 2019 production of Die tote Stadt). One of the composer’s three operas, this Pushkin adaptation features a superb all-male cast, including bass-baritone Nathan Berg and tenors Limmie Pulliam and Rodell Rosel. This coolly elegant production of Rachmaninoff’s last opera features production design by Terese Wadden, video by Joshua Thorson, and lighting by Alejandro Fajardo.
The program opens with the First Symphony, which the composer abandoned after a complicated premiere and died without hearing a second time. Nevertheless, the work remained important to him—45 years later, he quoted from it in the Symphonic Dances, his last major composition—and since its posthumous rediscovery, the symphony has been restored to the repertoire, celebrated for its melodic invention, thematic cohesion and rich orchestral color.
4:30 pm Preconcert Talk 5:30 pm Performance: Limmie Pulliam & Rodell Rosel, tenors; Ethan Vincent, baritone; Matthew Anchel, bass-baritone; Nathan Berg, bass-baritone; Jordan Fein, director; Joshua Thorson, video design; Alejandro Fajardo, lighting design; Terese Wadden, production design, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein, music director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (1895) The Miserly Knight, Op. 24 (1905)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
Whether as a pianist, composer, improviser, soloist, or bandleader, Ukrainian-born Vadim Neselovskyi creates inspired and unique music. His work has been played by jazz greats like Randy Brecker, Antonio Sanchez, Julian Lage, and Gary Burton, as well as classical artists (Daniel Gauthier, whose recording of Neselovskyi’s San Felio won an ECHO Classical Award) and symphony orchestras in the United States and Europe.
Other collaborations include vibraphonist Gary Burton and the Generations Quintet; the Graz Philharmoniker, who performed his Prelude for Vibes on their New Year’s program; composer/saxophonist John Zorn who invited him to contribute to The Book Beriah, the final installment of his Masada project; and French horn/alphorn pioneer Arkady Shilkloper.
Recordings include Get Up and Go, Bez Mezh ( “no limits” in Ukrainian) by the International Symphony Orchestra (INSO) from Lviv, Ukraine, and his Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City, released this June.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor and suburban housewife begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
With its evocatively fog-enshrouded setting, swooning Rachmaninoff score, and pair of remarkable performances. this film deftly explores the thrill, pain, and tenderness of an illicit romance.
Based on the life of David Helfgott, this haunting film follows the pianist after suffering a mental breakdown and receiving electric shock therapy. After entering a piano competition and deciding to play Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Helfgott becomes increasingly manic as he practices—eventually resulting in his admission to a psychiatric hospital.
Program Seven • From Bolshoi to Broadway: Rachmaninoff in America
Friday, August 12, 2022 8–9 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
Once in America, Rachmaninoff soon established himself as a leading virtuoso, devoting so much time to touring and recording that his compositional output dramatically declined. However, as Program Seven reveals, he took great interest in the nation’s music, not least its lighter side.
He drew inspiration from both Ellington and Gershwin, attending the famous world premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, as orchestrated by Ferde Grofé, and enjoyed the work of such fellow émigrés as songwriter Vernon Duke, who arranged the Vocalise, and violin legend Jascha Heifetz, with whom Rachmaninoff gave a hugely successful benefit concert at the Metropolitan Opera.
Program Seven concludes with the composer’s own little-known two-piano arrangement of his Symphonic Dances, which synthesizes nostalgia for his Russian roots with contemporary American rhythms, sonorities and styles.
7:30 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Charlie Albright, Allegra Chapman, Danny Driver, and Piers Lane, piano; Luosha Fang, violin; Narek Arutyunian, clarinet; Kristen Lee Sergeant, vocals; and the Bard Festival Ensemble
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Symphonic Dances, Op. 45, arr. for two pianos (1940)
George Gershwin (1898–1937) Rhapsody in Blue (1924)
Ferde Grofé (1892–1972) Russian Rose (Fox Trot) (1922)
Works by Duke Ellington (1899–1974); Jascha Heifetz (1901–87); Vernon Duke (1903–69); Marc Blitzstein (1905–64); and others
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
Program Eight shines a light on the grueling touring careers of Rachmaninoff and other virtuoso pianists. Examples of the pieces he transcribed and recorded by past masters Bach and Handel rub shoulders with other of the works he continually felt compelled to learn and arrange to keep expanding his repertoire.
These include selections by his teachers Taneyev and Alexander Siloti, as well as by German composer-pianist Adolf von Henselt, another key influence. Also featured are works from the performing repertoires of such prominent pianist-composers as Paderewski, Rubinstein and Godowsky, as well as Rachmaninoff’s own Variations on a Theme of Chopin, which honors the pianist-composer who inspired them all.
1 pm Preconcert Talk 1:30 pm Performance: Michael Brown, Piers Lane & Artem Yasynskyy, piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op. 22 (1902–3)
Piano Works by George Frederic Handel (1685–1759); J. S. Bach (1685–1750); Adolf von Henselt (1814–89); Anton Rubinstein (1829–94); Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915); Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941); Alexander Siloti (1863–1945); Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938); and Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951)
In Program Nine, Bard presents a sampling of the extraordinarily diverse array of musical styles and approaches on offer in 1930.
These range from the experimentalism of Henry Cowell’s avant-garde theater piece Atlantis, which only received its New York premiere under Botstein’s leadership in 2010, to Grofé’s more accessible tone poem Grand Canyon Suite, a one-time audience favorite; the Suite from Shostakovich’s satirical, politically charged ballet, The Golden Age; Respighi’s orchestral transcriptions of Rachmaninoff’s Études-tableaux; and the Russian composer’s own accomplished but seldom-performed Fourth Piano Concerto, with celebrated Rachmaninoff interpreter Zlata Chochieva as soloist.
7 pm Preconcert Talk 8 pm Performance: Zlata Chochieva, piano; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director; and others
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Piano Concerto No. 4in G Minor, Op. 40 (1927)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) From Five Ètudes-tableaux (orchestral transcriptions; 1930)
Ferde Grofé (1892–1972) Grand Canyon Suite (1931)
Dimtri Shostakovich (1906–75) From Suite from The Golden Age, Op. 22b (1929–30)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
The choral traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church remained a profound musical influence on Rachmaninoff throughout his life and he wrote two major sacred works for unaccompanied choir. Program Ten showcases the Bard Festival Chorale’s interpretation of the second: the Vespers (All-Night Vigil).
A spiritual work whose resonant a capella sonorities use the full range of the human voice, this comprises 15 movements, nine based on traditional Eastern Orthodox chants from Greece, Kyiv, and Russia, and six on chant-like motifs of Rachmaninoff’s own invention.
Considering the Vespers one of his two finest achievements, the composer requested that its fifth movement, the “Nunc dimittis,” be sung at his funeral.
10 am performance: Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 (1915)
Alongside the Variations on a Theme of Corelli (La folia), the sole solo piano piece of Rachmaninoff’s years in Western exile, Program Eleven considers his legacy on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Russia, his influence could be heard in the work of both Nikolay Myaskovsky, the five-time Stalin Prize-winner dubbed the “Father of the Soviet Symphony,” and Dmitry Kabalevsky, who helped establish the Union of Soviet Composers.
Similarly, elements of Rachmaninoff’s aesthetic were shared by the barrier-breaking Florence Price, several of whose songs are reminiscent of Rachmaninoff’s own, and by little-remembered polymath Abram Chasins, a friend whose work he much admired, as well as by such architects of the American sound as Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
Program Twelve • Symphonic Poetry and Spirituality in the Silver Age
Sunday, August 14, 2022 5–6 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The decades before the Revolution saw a cultural flourishing in Russia, notable for its spiritual and intellectual currents in poetry, painting and music.
Program 12 revisits this fruitful period with grand-scale choral symphonies by two of its leading lights: former classmates Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. A visionary mystic who died at just 43, Scriabin believed in the transformative power of art, as expressed in his original text for his Wagnerian, six-movement First Symphony.
By contrast, Rachmaninoff was notoriously satirized by Stravinsky as “six foot two inches of Russian gloom,” and The Bells offers a more apocalyptic vision. However, the work— Rachmaninoff’s favorite of his own compositions—concludes in the major mode, its warm string melody suggesting serenity and hope.
4 pm Preconcert Talk 5 pm Performance: Mané Galoyan, soprano; Maya Lahyani, mezzo-soprano; Viktor Antipenko, tenor; Ethan Vincent, baritone; Bard Festival Chorale / James Bagwell, choral director; The Orchestra Now / Leon Botstein, music director
Aleksandr Scriabin (1872–1915) Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 26 (1900)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) The Bells, Op. 35 (1913)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
In front of Gilson Place on Library Rd. Bard College Farm’s weekly farm stand is located in front of Gilson Place and Kappa House on Library Road and is open from 1:00-5:00 pm every Thursday. Pick up student-grown herbs, veggies, mushrooms, flowers, plant starts, maple syrup, and more.Sponsored by: Bard Farm; Office of Sustainability.
For more information, call 518-653-6118, or e-mail [email protected].
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
Featuring Bard Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts, Benjamin Boretz
Friday, August 19, 2022 7:30–9:30 pm
Maverick Concert Hall. Woodstock, NY Curated by poet Dorota Czerner and composer Jon Forshee, Encounters: Music from the Time of Renewal is an evening-length concert featuring recent collaborations between Czerner and the composers Benjamin Boretz, Jon Forshee, and Augustus Arnone.
The works presented in this concert each engage state-of-the-art sound and video technologies within the modern classical stage tradition, weaving a narrative of sonic and poetic encounter, exchange and discovery. The program also includes compositions by Adam Greene and Christopher Bailey, with special guests classical guitarist Colin McAllister and pianist Joshua Charney.
Composers Augustus Arnone Augustus Arnone is an adventurous pianist and composer, who has made a home at the edge of transcendental extremes in the modern repertory. His repertoire includes the complete solo piano works of Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy’s complete “The History Of Photography In Sound,” as well as works by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Roberto Sierra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others.
Christopher Bailey Christopher Bailey’s composition explores a variety of musical threads, including microtonality, acousmatic and concrète sounds, serialist junk sculpture, ornate musical details laid out in flat forms, and constrained improvisation. His awards include prizes from BMI, ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize.
Benjamin Boretz Ben Boretz is the founder and director of Open Space Music. He is currently working on composing a new piano piece for Augustus Arnone. His “Downtime for piano and percussion ensemble” was released on Open Space CD 48 alongside Jon Forshee’s “Apokotastasis.”
Dorota Czerner Dorota Czerner is a poet who entangled her European roots with the Hudson River light. Her live performances, created in collaboration with composers and video artists, embrace the discovery of ecosystems built around and inside the poetics of the spoken word. Her work has been exhibited and performed in North America and Europe.
Jon Forshee Composer and sonic explorer Jon Forshee creates for a diversity of musical forces and ensembles, with many current works focused on and around collaborations and new media. Recent premieres include “Vivarium – Thirteen Images of Danielle Rae Miller” (2022), and “Apokatastasis” (2021), for chamber ensemble and computer. Jon lives in Colorado, where he teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Adam Greene Adam Greene is a composer and writer whose work references interests in literature, linguistics, and cognitive science in music that explores multiplicity, fragility, and instability. He has received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, ASCAP, NACUSA and The American Composers’ Forum.
Guest Performers Colin McAllister Colin McAllister is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interests include contemporary music performance and pedagogy, musical modernism, and the apocalyptic paradigm as manifested in various phenomena—literature, music, and art.
Joshua Charney Josh Charney is a pianist, composer, and musicologist based in Northern California. As a performer-composer, he is interested in contemporary music that incorporates improvisation, theatricality, and other experimental practices. He is also an active participant with the Sibarg Ensemble, a group that creates a unique blend between traditional Iranian music and jazz.
Russell Craig Richardson Russell Craig Richardson is an award-winning video and film maker who specializes in musical and poetic collaboration. His works and installations have screened in Europe and the Americas.
Paloma Kop Paloma Kop is an experimental multimedia artist and performer. In this collaboration, she will misuse 1990s television broadcast equipment to create moving images which flow in parallel with the sound and spoken word performance.
Open Space Music Association is a community for people who need to explore or expand the limits of their expressive worlds, to extend or dissolve the boundaries among their expressive-language practices, to experiment with the forms or subjects of thinking or making or performing in the context of creative phenomena.Sponsored by: Maverick Concerts.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Bringing together the work of twenty-eight artists of African descent, Black Melancholia expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures. Including new commissions as well as painting, sculpture, film, photography, works on paper, and sound, from the late 19th century to the present day, the exhibition opens a dialogue with traditional art historical discourses around the representation of melancholia.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art The practice of Martine Syms is distinguished by its boundlessness: her subjects move across media—print and web publishing, photography, moving image, installation, AI, software—dissolving the lines between these forms. One of the most insightful and important artists to show how digital media shapes our culture, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. Martine Syms: Grio College presents an expansive selection of Syms’ work, featuring major new and recent works and emphasizing the artist’s versatile approach to photography, highlighting the many scales and methods through which she approaches image-making. The exhibition is accompanied by a screening of Syms’ feature film The African Desperate (2022), and premieres related photographic works, drawings, and installation. The script of The African Desperate, co-written by Syms and Rocket Caleshu, will be published by Nightboat Books and available in conjunction with the exhibition. For more information, call 845-758-7598, e-mail [email protected], or visit https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/696-martine-syms-grio-college.
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art Reaction charts a wide and in-depth view of Dara Birnbaum’s extraordinary and influential practice, marking the indelible contribution she has made not only to American art but to the global histories of video, Conceptual, performance, and appropriation art. Organized chronologically, and marking the first U.S. retrospective of the artist’s work to date, the exhibition surveys works from 1975 to 2011 with a focus on key single-channel videos and major installations, many not seen in the United States for years. An accompanying presentation of archival material will illustrate her rigorous and interdisciplinary method, while illuminating the varied contexts of her work in art, music, and politics.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.
YMCA Kingston For a second year, the YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County is partnering with the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) to offer this groundbreaking program. Girls Write Kingston is a free, 15-week program that offers girls and female identifying youth ages 13–18 years oldthe opportunity to experiment, experience, and explore the writing process through a range of fun creative activities, in a supportive learning community.
Girls Write Kingston classes will be offered in-person at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Youth may enroll in either the Wednesday afternoon 4:30–6:30 pm section or Saturday morning 10:00 am–12:00 pm section. Each registered participant will receive a free Girls Write Kingston journal and pen set. Additionally, the program will feature a panel of local women writers and journalists and will conclude with a celebratory reading event.
Wednesday classes will be taught by author, storyteller, and educator Onnesha Roychoudhuri. Saturday classes will be taught by Dr. Kristy McMorris, dean of studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and an associate for the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Dr. McMorris was the founding director of the Bard Early College at Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy and was a Bard Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock from 2016–18. Program Coordinator and class mentor will be Skylar Walker, cofounder of Sister2Sister, a mentorship program dedicated to the growth and development of young women of color.
Wednesday classes begin June 8 at 4:30 pm and Saturday classes will start June 11 at 10:00 am at the YMCA at 507 Broadway in Kingston. Girls Write Kingston is made possible by a grant from the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation.
Register HERESponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.
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