Community Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center Marks Its 20th Anniversary With a Three-Day Forum on Solidarity The Arendt Forum brings George Packer, Rowan Williams, Patrick Deneen, Carol Gilligan, and Zephyr Teachout, among others, to Annandale-on-Hudson to ask “What Are We Fighting For?” By Jamie Larson •
Arts China Now Music Festival at Bard to Honor American Transcontinental Railroad Workers The Orchestra Now, a 120-voice chorus, and vocal soloists perform the Pulitzer winner's tribute to the Chinese laborers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, alongside a U.S. premiere. By Jamie Larson •
Arts This Weekend, Bard Holds Festival for a Composer the Nazis Tried to Erase The Gernsheim Rediscovery Initiative opens with a festival running Friday through Sunday, September 18–20, on Bard's Annandale-on-Hudson campus—the first public move in a multi-year effort to bring a forgotten peer of Brahms back into the classical repertoire. By Jamie Larson •
Arts MacArthur Genius of Cabaret, Justin Vivian Bond at Spiegeltent "Heated Revelry" pairs songs from the Heated Rivalry soundtrack with Broadway, punk cabaret, and the Vienna Staatsoper. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Al Olender Brings "The Worrier" to the Bard Spiegeltent The Kingston-based songwriter makes her Spiegeltent debut with songs about grief, change, and the anxieties of an ever-moving world. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Bard SummerScape Opens "The Egyptian Helen" — One of Strauss's Rarest Operas A lavish new production of the least-known Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaboration. By Jamie Larson •
Arts Last Chance to see “Suddenly Last Summer”: The Avant-Garde Is Alive and Well at Bard Closing July 19, the new opera's visuals captivated reviewer (and RI co-founder) Dan Shaw. By Dan Shaw •
Arts Navajo Weaving Meets Computer Chip design at Bard The first full survey of Marilou Schultz traces the unexpected territory between Diné weaving tradition and computer chip design, now on view at CCS Bard's Hessel Museum. By Jamie Larson •
Arts “Cagecircle: Composition for an Exhibition” Celebrates Cage’s Method of Chance Running through July 12 at the Bard College Stevenson Library, the exhibition organized by Jeffery Lependorf displays art from collections across the Bard community. By Sparrow •
Branden Lindsay, Mikaela Bennett, Tina Benko, and Courtney Bryan star in 'Suddenly Last Summer" at Bard SummeScape. Arts Tennessee William’s “Suddenly Last Summer” Reimagined at Bard SummerScape “Suddenly Last Summer” will be performed at Bard SummerScape from June 25-July 19. By Bill Arning •
Community Leon Botstein Out as Bard President After Internal Epstein Review, But Will Still Teach, Conduct, and Live at College Independent review finds he misled the Bard community about his relationship with the convicted sex trafficker. By Jamie Larson •
Community Independent Review into Bard President Leon Botstein’s Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein Launched by College Board of Trustees In a February 19 email to the Bard community, The Board announced it has hired a law firm to review Botstein’s ties to the notorious pedophile and the institution’s fundraising norms. By Jamie Larson •
